skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can understand the redshirts thing in TOS when that bit of technobabble hadn't been worked out, but by TNG it should have been standard operating procedure to spin up new ones when the old ones got vaporized by the monster of the week.

In the Culture, they actually do that. Few people are in danger of unexpected death in the first place, but you can be restored from a pattern backup if you do suffer an unexpected death. It's extraordinarily rare for a citizen of the Culture to suffer involuntary permanent death.

I personally think of the Culture as "Star Trek done right." They have the same basic toolkit of fictional technologies: strong AI, FTL communications and travel, replicators, abundant energy, artificial gravity, force fields, and teleportation. But instead of being stodgily conservative like the Federation they're making full use of the possibilities offered by these technologies.
Thoughts on graphics APIs and libraries
It can take AT&T 90 days to turn up a fiber circuit. With this volume of customers (assuming there are 10,000 Google fiber customers in Louisville) who knows how much longer that will be
There's a difference between a relocation bonus paid to a mid-career professional for recouping relocation expenses and an educational debt owed by somebody entering an entry-level position. A mid-career professional can pay back a relocation bonus from savings if necessary, but an educational debt would generally result in debt bondage until the debt was cancelled.

Remember, a non-compete doesn't prevent people from leaving, it just prevents people from leaving and taking a job in the same field. Most people won't want to leave their field, which is why the non-compete is effective, but in the case of exploitation, people still have an out. An educational debt would follow somebody if they decided to leave, and that's therefore much more coercive and prone to exploitation.
> Haiku is pretty rad but not so useful without hardware acceleration. I'd contribute code but I'm a hack who only knows higher level languages.

It can be hard to find the time to get productive in a new programming language. But if you have some spare time, this project could provide the motivation!
That's not completely true: the A380 is using composite extensively, more so than any aircraft built before (A330/340 or Boeing 777), although less than either Boeing 787 or A350. The problem of the A380 really boils down to one thing: it's too big.

Other than its size, the A380 is still surprisingly efficient despite engines that are largely outdated (compared to 787/A350 engines). But double deckers are very efficient by design, so maybe it's not that surprising. I think the only airliners more efficient currently flying (in terms of fuel per passenger, with normalized density/layout) are the A350-1000 and 787-10 (though one could argue the latter is more of a mid-range aircraft, so not directly comparable). The 777-9 will also beat it. Even more surprising when realizing that the A380 is in fact a shrink: there was supposed to be an even bigger (longer) version, so it's overbuilt (read: overweight) for its size.

But empty seats (or seats sold at very high discount, or a low seat count because the airline knows it's not going to sell that many tickets to begin with) don't make it economically viable on most routes out there. Besides Emirates only British Airways seems very happy with them. Even the 777-9 is starting to feel like it's too big, with very few airlines ordering it. Even the smaller A350-1000 is not raking in orders...
Parking lot suicides at veterans hospitals
Suicide is psychologically difficult, often even in spite of great suffering.
You’re getting this backwards. Inflation helps the poor because the rich are much more likely to invest in job creation (by spending money and hiring people), when we have inflation. deflation is terrible for the poor, unemployment goes up and job creation goes down. If you look at historical data of inflation vs unemployment I’m sure you’ll come to the same conclusion.

If the money supply doesn’t increase, it’s actually deflationary, due to population growth. If inflation is 0, it means that the money supply is increasing at the same rate as production. To provide good incentives, you want the money supply to slightly outpace the growth in production. Which is what 1-2% inflation precisely does.

Clearly, super inflation is distinctly bad for the poor, but that’s different from inflation that slightly out paces population growth.

Almost all economists are of the same opinion.
The lesson.

Don't take VC money before you've built something (anything) and tested it out. You don't want to give away equity to invent your product.

I am aware it was way harder to build something in the payment space back then but still.

Great story and while I definitely am happy Gumroad is doing well it's also great to know that good things can end well with a fizzle rather than a big bang.
An oral response to such a question from a non-technical person may or may not make sense or every accurately reflect what they did. People behave differently when they're being watched, so they may not even be able to show you what they did if you sit down with them at the computer.

I've observed this with a number of older people who didn't grow up with computers.
The author seems to be resigned to the fact that HTML/CSS are skills that you should use as an introductory tool, and that just this is not enough to be "employable". I maintain that this is not true: many websites would do just fine with just those two (as in, they don't need JavaScript at all!), and I'm sure a very large fraction could get by with some small amount of hand-written frontend code hooked up to a database.
Hang on, how does that work?
I read this article at work this lunchtime and had to empty my glasses out. I don't recall crying while reading a news article before, so no idea what was going on there.
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To be honest, ditching IE support is hardly "cutting edge".
We didn't need bootcamps when companies just wanted html and css. Now that there are companies that want a lot more, we need bootcamps that teach that.

The bootcamps don't teach the things that you think you can teach someone in a single day? Perhaps it's because those things are so easy they don't waste their time on them. They expect the students to study that stuff on their own.

But in the end, none of that matters. "industry entry points" aren't "vanishing". There are still tons of companies that need entry-level html, css, and javascript. We love to talk about all the companies that want more, and those companies pay more, but the other companies haven't dried up.
Yeah, it's definitely designed to create a specific sort of world. Another example is the shields; they make projectile weapons impractical (and, on Arrakis, annoy the sandworms), so that Frank Herbert can write about hand to hand combat.
Oh, and he has perfect pitch. Can tune stringed instruments without a reference, was employed to do so for some summers.

It was something he could do, from a very young age. Not apparently learned. Not learned by most of his cohort at music school, so I'm guessing most likely something born with.

If there is a distribution, then we have to task to explain that. Reasonable to call it genetic? Why not?
Here is the deal with that though. Spectrum is finite. There is only so much to go around. There absolutely needs to be regulation, as it cannot be a free for all. Just look at wifi in large hotels or apparment/office complex to see what happens if there are too many devices talking over the air at once.
They're not leaving much fiber under the streets in Louisville, which is the whole reason they're pulling out - they attempted a low cost "microtrenching" strategy where they cut a small groove in the street pavement itself and tried to run the fiber through that. It was pretty much an abject failure and I doubt anyone will want the infrastructure as it's unlikely to function in even a few months.

They're still "microtrenching" in other markets but at a much greater depth (6in rather than <3in) and with a different cover strategy (asphalt replacement over sealant rather than sealant only)
I don't see the bridge mentioned. But thanks a lot for clearing that up. There's so little data out there on companies' term sheets so it's always good to get a dose of real world.
My parents have been using Xubuntu for about the last 8 years or so. Once I told them that it looks and works like Windows (at least from the UI perspective), and here's Firefox, Thunderbird, solitaire, and how to turn it off, they were good. No huge problems since.
> A lot of dial-up ISPs (at all levels) went bankrupt and disappeared back around the turn of the millennium.

This strikes me as a particularly poor counterexample, as those businesses were effectively fungible: outside of your local ISPs email address, there was nothing keeping you from stopping your service at 718-867-5309 and switching to 718-387-6962. The underlying infrastructure for either of those ISPs was handled by someone else.
Perfect markets are efficient. There are no perfect markets because the participants are not all perfectly rational or in possession of all relevant, complete and correct information.

Imperfect markets (real ones) are not efficient.
For spying France has the emergency powers and Germany had scandals of spying on other states. And then the kinda-sorta-probably-maybe Brexiting of the UK which has been allowed for a while. The point is they aren't spotless in it.

The airbus illegal subsidization and agriculture were to point to incidents of protectionist tendencies. Notably I avoided their actual sincerity - such a thing would in fact vary by the individuals just like there may be some people legitimately annoyed by long commute times complaining about "forced busing" in with the dog-whistling racists. I am pointing out how they can appear untrustworthy.

It doesn't matter if either party is pure as driven snow or mustache twirlingly corrupt - given their history there are reasons not to trust their intentions. The suspicions may be wrong in this case but there /is/ a reason to be suspicious.

It also doesn't change that intention and results may differ. Public school funding was fueled by paranoid xenophobic fear that immigrant Catholics would take over as covert servants of the Pope but it was a great influence. Similarly the initial "Five Pests Elimination" program was well intentioned but killing sparrows lead to major locust problems such that paying the "bird tax" in letting the locust eaters also eat some seeds was preferable to swarms devouring farm fields wholesale. (Refusing to change after it was revealed to cause problems made it the vast disaster but that is another topic.)

The best way to prove sincerity is an expensive signal in itself - acting against your own immediate interests repeatably in the favor of integrity consistently when it comes up. That may benefit you long term.

For example: a serial con artist may be sincerely reformed and telling the truth about his new plan to fight acquifer depletion but people would rightly be skeptical. If he gave away the scheme with absolutely no monetization potential or benefits to special interests it would show it isn't a scam. It still might not work but not a scam.
I was talking about FP64 ofc.
If you want to talk about 36 bits PDPs, join us on #pdp-10 on freenode :) Other PDPs and lispms are also welcome topics.
Rust without the use of unsafe code is considered by most to be a safe language but nonetheless, it's still useful to fuzz it to find logic bugs (like assert failures) or anything that triggers a panic (like out of bound array access or integer overflow).

More info: https://github.com/rust-fuzz

Disclaimer: I am the author of the rust fuzzer honggfuzz-rs.
Whiskey – WSGI Server Written in Go
Working in a corporate environment, the contribution is forced if you need to extend the product for your enterprise benefit.
YC blog's wispy-dark-grey text on a light-grey background is a bit hard to read. I don't recall noticing this earlier. Is it a recent change?
-4 downvotes "clearly signal" something? It's meaningless noise in the grand scheme of things. Also, I wasn't using the fact that I prefer standing desks and open-plan spaces as "data," I was providing a single example of an engineer that prefers these things because the OP said he had never heard of a "single" engineer who liked this, which is clearly wrong.

Also, you don't seem to understand data or statistics yourself. The amount of people who would A) Be using HS, and B) Choose to comment on a post like this:

Is clearly not representative of engineers/programmers across the world. Most engineers at my company don't use HN period, and out of those that do, most won't comment.

I work at a company where standing desks were greeted with excitement across 90% of the engineering population and there was even friction between engineers because some people got them first and others had to wait. Again, just because you think HN represents the whole engineering world, doesn't make it the case, it's a bubble here.

Again, if you actually read my comment again I never said I was stating a fact. I'd love for you to show me where I said that! My point was that there are clearly engineers who prefer standing desks and open plan spaces, unless you're somehow asserting that I'm the only guy in the world that likes this...
I don't think they take cheques anymore. At least not in Canada?

When I took out a payday loan they made me sign a PAD authorization (pre-authorized debit) that was timed to hit my account the same day as my next payroll.

They also needed my last bank statement so they could 1.) verify my payroll was through direct deposit, and 2.) help them estimate the right date for their PAD.

In other words: yup! You must be banked!
He explains this in the article. For the most popular musical acts streaming isn’t how they make money. It’s simply a means to advertise their music so they can make money by touring. If that’s the case no popular musical act is going to lock their music down to a single provider because the goal is maximum possible distribution. The bet Spotify is making with podcasts is that podcast creators will trade maximum distribution for ease of publication and a “large enough” base and Spotify will capture the long tail of podcasts.

Personally I’m highly skeptical this is going to move the needle on revenue for them in the long run and more than anything feels more like a desperation play than a smart business strategy.

Going back just one year the main bull case made by Scott Galloway was that Spotify would eventually own video on mobile. Clearly that’s not going to happen now that it’s apparent that space is going to be carved up between YouTube and Facebook. I think Spotify is eventually going to be acquired by a much larger company making a push into services after its market cap has been cut significantly.
It doesn't have more data to mine than your ISP. It's not harder to figure out who to trust than with any other company. But unlike with any other company there is so much competition across the globe, that you can strategically pick specific jurisdictions and providers known to fight for your interests.
I have OCD and Schizoaffective Disorder. I have been on anti-psychotics for awhile as well as other medications to manage the obsessive thoughts. It has been pretty brutal to be honest. I have been prescribed Adderall to counteract the sedation from the anti-psychotics. I typically yo-yo (go on the meds when needed then stop when I feel like I can) on many of my meds because the side effects are terrible. It can get hard to be productive sometimes but I just deal with it knowing that eventually I will be productive again.

That being said, if you know you are having issues or are even a bit concerned about it I would recommend you stay away from the stress of a startup. Try getting a job at a larger company that moves at a lot slower pace. Also, if you are in the US, I would recommend disclosing any mental illnesses you may be diagnosed with to HR as it can help protect you with the American with Disabilities Act. If you don't disclose and end up having issues with performance due to the mental illnesses there isn't much you could do to protect yourself in that situation.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and conjecture that this isn't a typical Google pullback like with todo list apps. There are significant financial/intellectual capital outlays required for nationwide-scale ISPs, in addition to operations and maintenance expenditures over time. Pulling back is a significant sign Google Fiber has already reached its high-water mark.

Sadly, I think Google's pulling back because it more or less got what it wanted out of the telecoms in terms of network service, repealing net neutrality and regulatory capture increases Google's competitive moats, and because corporate lobbying may be cheaper, more flexible, and have greater returns: https://gizmodo.com/googles-parent-company-spent-more-on-lob...

On that note, here's a how-to on starting your own ISP: https://startyourownisp.com/
Re: the wording: I would be perfectly fine with "if you answered b we disagree". But that extremely gratuitous and overly complicated way of saying it really feels manipulative. Who talks that way, ever?
Came to ask similarly... it seems the functionality that Patreon offers would be a good start for parallel expansion/features.
What is trend following?
DeepMind wants to teach AI to play a card game that’s harder than Go
I think Google is one step ahead of others in terms of unreliability. GE won't pull out of aircraft engines with 2 months notice.
> Instead, feel some solidarity, even rage, for the opportunities denied to this person.

By whom? His parents or the disease? we don't know enough about how his parents treated him, or how much effort they put in to supporting a full life, to suggest they denied him anything. All we do know is they deeply regret a regimented bed-time regime.
there is well forgotten middle ground - large and relatively slow (say 200-300mph using today's tech) plane, something like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dornier_Do_X
IMF Staff Floats Dual Money to Allow Much Deeper Negative Rates
Even price increases can take some time to do, as you have people in 1-2 year contracts. I just hope that’s enough time for competition, or that it doesn’t happen.
The poster is likely referring to how Pinterest links now dominate Google image search results. Clicking on the Pinterest link takes you to the Pinterest website, and not the actual image source. Pinterest will often block you from viewing the page unless you sign in or create an account.
Ask HN: What are some exploding markets that you know of?
Reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19105733 made me think that you almost always need a rapidly growing market.

If you've some unique insights in a market that you're willing to share with the HN community, please do it here.
I would pay real money for an Rpi with Lucas components. Extra if it could somehow be convinced to leak oil and not boot when the outside temp is below 10C.
What about the case of multiple outputs? It's traditional to have functions that take other mutable arguments to store different auxiliary return values in. So, with this proposal, you couldn't do that and would have to construct random blobs to store all return values and then unpack them.
Lots of great restored early footage on youtube too. I'm addicted to this Guy Jones channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpUBuSn_Io93AMpOSw88afQ
Not a huge fan of colorization, I prefer to see the footage as it was originally shot but sharpened up and speed corrected.
I saw the Jackson WW1 They Shall Not Grow Old material on a TV, thought it was very cleverly done.
The problem is wingspan; those planes are difficult in the terminal area, the wingspan on a 380 is at the maximum limit for many airports. So unless airports get rebuilt, those large wingspan airplanes are going to be limited compared to the smaller options. It’s a 262 ft wingspan. The C5 Galaxy is 223 ft; a Galaxy would “fit” fine at most airports, but the 380 is cutting it very close. An Antonov has a 290ft wingspan which would make it impossible to use as a normal passenger plane (although they’re very popular in Houston for shipping oilfield equipment.) The 380 is a fun plane, but it’s of limited usefulness beyond passenger load.
>Of course, not trapping women in domestic servitude is a good thing

Alternative is 'trapping them' (horrible choice of words btw) into corporate servitude. Which of the two is better? Which of the two is better for children?
What open source did you mean? I'd like to run such tests on the intranet, without access to any SaaS.
Hi, OP here. The link I mentioned in the description doesn't seem to hyperlink. So here it is again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19105733
Instagram vows to remove all graphic self-harm images from site
One thing missing from this post: why?

After "Advancing our Amazing Bet", it became clear that the level of regulatory obstacles Google needed to overcome made it too cost-prohibitive to continue their rollouts. But what factors are forcing them to pull out of an already established market?

Is the ISP environment so hostile as to squeeze even the biggest players out of town? Is Google slowly ramping down even existing Fiber operations? What's going on behind the scenes here? If the microtrenching issue is driving this, why can't Google of all companies put up the investment to re-do it right?

There's failing an experiment, and then there's realizing something is sub-par and putting in the work and money to make it right for your customers. I feel like Google has misconstrued the two here.
That page uses very simple HTML. Just paragraphs of text divided into sections with headings. Some code examples laid out side-by-side with a table. Tiny stylesheet. No JS. Loads quickly, easy to read. Warms the cockles of my heart.
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I hadn't heard of them, but I like assignment expressions.

"Walrus operator", though? Sounds very silly indeed.

"...on second thought, let's not go to assignment expressions. 'Tis a silly place!"
The thing with the reproducibility crisis is that a lot of psychology theories have the "looking under light post effect" (a drunk looses his glasses in a river and a police officer finds looking under a light post, "because at least I can see here). It's been well known for centuries that human motivations are complex, socially layered and contextual. But most psychology theories wind-up fairly simplistic and not framed by multiple contexts because ... these can be easily tested (except apparently they can't be easily reproduced, uh..).

I don't know any easy way out here. Just because "folk psychology" can say formal psychology is too simple doesn't mean folk psychology and anecdote are more useful.
I think that's the point the author is making. The benchmarks for "success" are different if you're in the SV VC-funded startup world. What may be a sustainable 10-person staff e-commerce business would be seen as a failure in some circles because it didn't grow fast enough to IPO, which is all VCs care about.
The usual way is simply with an else statement, so the reader can follow the logic:

if (cnt > 100)
cnt <= 0;
else
cnt <= cnt + 1;
At that point the A380 will be a 30-40 year old design, and won't be competitive anymore.