skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Qualcomm’s Bid to Settle U.S. Monopoly Case Hits Roadblock
> Shit got progressively more fucked up along the way.

Okay, but the biggest reason for that is because Holmes and Balwani are sociopaths[1]. I wanted to point this out because I feel like your comment is defending her somehow by way of naiveté. Their actions are indefensible on so many levels, from very early in the company's history.

To the grandparent's point, there were people working there in earnest on research. They often did not last long, or, in the case of Ian Gibbons, was driven to suicide by the stress of potentially revealing Theranos's faulty technology in a court case, or lying and hurting patients [2].

Be sure to read "Bad Blood". It was a very good read about this company and Holmes.

[1] - Yes, this label is overused, but not in this particular case.

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Gibbons_(biochemist)
I’ve been on this site forever and I remember the early Theranos articles were highly skeptical or had as little information about what they were actually doing as this site has primarily programmers and software people, not as much people in bio.

Regardless faking state-funded health experiments in a heavily regulated industry has nothing to do with fail fast mentality of the software world either (just like how everyone here criticized that personal banking startup who tried that in the heavily regulated finance industry). We have nothing to defend here.
I was vaccine injured. It destroyed my life. This is not rare. I'm not anti-vax. I'm pro safer vaccination practices. But of course, I'm not allowed to talk about this despite overwhelming scientific evidence that vaccines are not 100% safe.
There was an article some time back about fire ladders and how wooden ones will still be structurally sound after getting quite burnt, while metal ones can lose their integrity well below temperatures where the metal would actually melt.

I think it was in relation to the San Francisco fire department.
> for being close to the 8 inch limit on grass.

What the hell?

I assume simply concreting over it for more parking space would be fine though.

Most UK streets will have a property or two where the garden does whatever it is that gardens do when completely ignored for a decade. Or with meadow or wildlife friendly planting, maybe intentionally including weeds.

I love this. All over HN American folks talk now and then about how govt should keep out of things, and how that works so much better than in that terrible interfering socialist place, Europe. You regulate your front lawns and grass height. There's probably an ANSI standard for them. Sorry. ;)
You're claiming that is the majority of your use?

If it's an HOA or small mailing list (obviously without DOI), then what is your click tracking functionality for? (I mean, the question answers itself...)
I can't speak for this project, but my own for CSV files ( https://github.com/dw/csvmonkey ) provides a high level interface that allows the tokenized data to be manipulated in-place without full decoding. The interface exported in Python is that of a plain old dictionary with one added magical semantic (lazy decode on element access). The internal representation of the parse result is a simple fixed array of (ptr, size) pairs

Methods like this are used for batch search / summation where only a fraction of the parsed data is actually relevant during any particular run. You'll find similar approaches used in e.g. the row format parser of a database like MongoDB or Postgres
I fourth Heroku.
FYI, the term "U.S. persons" == U.S. citizens and permanent residents.

The only rights that permanent residents don't have are: a) the right to vote, b) the right to have their permanent residency not revoked for cause (e.g., committing a serious crime). Permanent residents get to become citizens after some time.

Non-permanent residents have fewer rights, and which rights they don't have is generally a matter of law, not Constitution, except that they have all the rights of Due Process guaranteed by the Constitution (i.e., by far the most important ones for them to have), at least as to criminal prosecutions, and often as to civil suits. A typical example would be the right to keep and bear arms, which non-residents generally do not have in most States. I suppose even First Amendment rights might be curtailed for non-residents, though I suspect at most only freedom of association would be, and only indirectly.

But most of the Bill of Rights (the 4th through the 8th Amendments) deals in Due Process, and these rights are available to all persons in the U.S., except perhaps as to immigrant law itself (e.g., a non-resident alien may have much less recourse to fight deportation than they and anyone else might have to fight a conviction).
"Modeling stock return distributions with a quantum harmonic oscillator" (2018)
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1209/0295-5075/120/380...

> We propose a quantum harmonic oscillator as a model for the market force which draws a stock return from short-run fluctuations to the long-run equilibrium. The stochastic equation governing our model is transformed into a Schrödinger equation, the solution of which features "quantized" eigenfunctions. Consequently, stock returns follow a mixed χ distribution, which describes Gaussian and non-Gaussian features. Analyzing the Financial Times Stock Exchange (FTSE) All Share Index, we demonstrate that our model outperforms traditional stochastic process models, e.g., the geometric Brownian motion and the Heston model, with smaller fitting errors and better goodness-of-fit statistics. In addition, making use of analogy, we provide an economic rationale of the physics concepts such as the eigenstate, eigenenergy, and angular frequency, which sheds light on the relationship between finance and econophysics literature.

"Quantum harmonic oscillator"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_harmonic_oscillator
Housing Dream Turned Nightmare Spurs a Backlash in Australia
“correct moral stance?”

What if the gov puts in place a simple regulation, like “X% of all harvested blood must be donated to local blood banks”. Now you have a market for rejuvenating blood, AND more blood available to hospitals. Only downside is an increase in price for Peter Thiel.

I’ve noticed taking such a moral stance tends to limit creative thinking around such topics (why spend time thinking about it when you’ve already dismissed it as immoral?). A bit of creative problem solving can sometimes turn a potentially problematic situation into a net positive for everyone.
I'm not sure I'm grasping the significance of this, is there an article or video you'd recommend?
I would have said Heroku. But it doesn't appear its as straight forward for your stack as it is for others. However this looks promising: https://github.com/emk/heroku-buildpack-rust

I would have also suggested https://nanobox.io/ - but their pricing is no longer transparent (used to be pretty cheap). It would also involve dockerizing your app.

As for clever cloud, their Rust support is in beta...

I'd spend a short amount of time on Heroku though, if all goes well that's the best option for an MVP IMO
Aren't the estimates a bit on the higher side? Moreso in terms of time than costs. A barebones mobile app shouldn't take 6-9 months to develop.
They are people associating freely, however, which is protected under the First Amendment.
The data is put into a "ParsedJson" object: https://github.com/lemire/simdjson/blob/master/include/simdj...
Systemd is pretty good at hiding error messages. Even if you run the commands it claims will show you error message it makes stupid assumption that your window is infinitely wide or that you want lines truncated instead of wrapped. Even with an infinitely wide window you still don't get nearly as much debugging info as previous systems. For anything complex I end up reverse engineering the startup script and running it from the command line. Then if I update the service systemd notices the file changed, but instead of loading it it runs the old version and complains.

It really seems rather sysadmin hostile and replaces tried and true daemons like ISC's named or unbound with a rather poor systemd replacement.
I fifth Heroku.
I’m honestly not sure what there is to disagree with. There has been no quantitative evidence supporting it. “Things should cost based on labor” is a nice thought for laborers, but it’s completely unrealistic. Nobody is going to pay twice as much for something because one manufacturer used a really shitty process that took twice as many man hours.

There’s a reason the “criticisms” section of the wiki is one of the largest and links to a full article on it. It’s a religion, not an evidence-driven theory. Prescriptive, not descriptive.

I suppose we would agree to disagree if you believe in ideas not grounded in reality (a.k.a. backed by empirical evidence).
If you're working with json objects with sizes on the higher end quite often you're not going to need the entirety of them, just a small part of them. If that is the workload what then to do is simply parse as little data as possible: skip the validation, locate the relevant bits, and then start parsing, validation and all the stuff. In this optimizing the json scanner/lexer gives much greater improvement than optimizing the parser.

Though this job is trickier than it may look. The logic to extract the "relevant" bits is often dynamic or tied to user input but for the scanner/lexer to be ultrafast it has to be tightly compiled. You can try jitting but libllvm is probably too heavyweight for parsing json.
So there are good and bad movies, and orthogonally, boring and interesting movies. :)
How would you like it if I called "gender dysphoria" a conspiracy theory? Despite me not being an expert in the issue?

That's what your saying to people with vaccine injuries.
It could be that Akamai and CloudFlare are working together on something, or any number of things including CloudFlare coincidentally renting space in the same buildings where Akamai already has operations.

Without more data, such as when they changed the address, what their job roles are, what are the address in question? It’s hard to do anything but generate idle speculation.
The JSON spec [1] never had any updates, so it couldn't have diverged.

Kudos to Douglas Crockford for keeping it simple. I wish more standards committees would take a cue from him. (Looking at ECMAScript [2] and C++.)

There's been a tremendous amount of growth and value around JSON precisely because it's so simple and easy to implement.

People complain about the lack of comments and trailing commas, but I think those are really expanding on the initial use case of JSON, and the benefit isn't worth cost of change. JSON does some things super well, other things marginally well, and some not at all, and that's working as intended.

You can always make something separate to cover those use cases, and that seems to have happened with TOML and so forth.

(I recall there was an RFC that cleaned up ambiguities in Crockford's web page, but it just clarified things. No new features were added. So JSON is still as much of a subset of JavaScript as it ever was. On the other hand, JavaScript itself has grown wildly out of control.)

[1] http://json.org/

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18766361
There are things that are a public necessity and indeed collectively-enforced rules simply because they won't work if too few people agree to it.

Another example of this process is vaccines. If herd immunity is too low, then vaccination cannot work, although it is a perfectly good solution if everyone is on board.

A second point is that you probably are no expert on the topic of human plasma. This could motivate the enforcement of rules under certain circumstances, given that you are unable to personally judge if the use of such precious material is a waste or not.

I personally, think that your opinion is the epitome of selfishness.
Thanks for the detailed write up, raquo. I truly appreciate it.
> In Argentina, to dial a mobile number domestically, the digits "15" need to be inserted after the area code but before the local number, and the "9" after the country code (54) needs to be removed. This transforms +54 9 2982 123456 into 02982 15 123456.

I used to work in telco, so I've seen some pretty wacky format formatting schemes, but this takes the cake. Who thought this was a good idea!?
Wasn't the pool closed due to aids?

Memes aside, it certainly shows how it's easy to draw an incorrect conclusion. It really makes me second guess how healthy swimming in a pool really is. Lots of people jumping in and out of the same water is an problem waiting to happen.

As children we used to swim and kayak in the sea (to the point where we could no longer see the coast, which in hindsight was very dangerous). I wonder how being in the sea compares to a pool?
Unethical people can hide it well. They probably also had people at all stages of their careers, eg. imagine a very junior person being impressed with the position, with very little work experience to be able to see through office sociopathy. I am sorry for anyone who now has such a stain on their record after being exploited like that.
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Mobile web feedback: something on that page is breaking vertical scrolling on iOS (there is no scroll momentum — the page stops dead the instant you lift your finger, and it appears to be scrolling at maybe 10fps)
> Requirements: […] A processor with AVX2 (i.e., Intel processors starting with the Haswell microarchitecture released 2013, and processors from AMD starting with the Rizen)
The difference between me and this guy is I would never have gone to market with a product that locked up the UI when trying to send 1000 emails. And I’ve never made $130k/month.
People naturally chime in with "here's why you might wanna rethink that" comments all the time. I think the system works without mandating negativity even though I share your frustration sometimes.
My point is Montreal could be as theft free as Tokyo but it never will be as long as the people that live their keep accepting the existence of so much theft as the norm. It's not the norm. It's the way they continue to let it be. But they can't see it's not the norm because they've never experience a place where it's not the norm.
Due Process mostly applies to persons, not just citizens.

In some cases the possessor of a right is not identified. E.g., the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd amendments do not specify whether they apply to all persons in U.S. jurisdictions or just citizens. These are the ones that are most likely to be unavailable to non-U.S. persons. E.g., non-U.S. persons are generally not permitted to keep and bear arms within the U.S.
1998, though unfortunately the archive didn't get the pictures/videos:
https://web.archive.org/web/20100118003800/http://homepage.m...

This has pictures:
http://www.mindspring.com/~sportrocketry/ggsg/sequence.html

Last time I looked into this, legally speaking it is payload that matters, not guidance, at least until you try to export. Though there is a general bias in the hobby against doing things that attract negative attention, even if it is, strictly speaking, legal.

There have been other sun-seekers as well.
Cool Automotive Sessions at GTC 2019
As the old saying goes, "smoking is the leading cause of statistics."
I agree that's a good strategy for big JSON. Do you know of any such "lazy" parsers?

I think the problem is that to extract arbitrary keys, you really need to parse the whole thing, although you don't need to materialize nodes for the whole thing.

But if you have big JSON with a given schema, you may be able to skip things lexically. You basically need to count {} and [], while taking into account " and \ within quoted strings.

That doesn't seem too hard. I think a tiny bit of http://re2c.org/ could do a good job of it.
These things never work out well. Picking out options for an app the same way you'd pick options for an automobile implies the work is fairly well siloed and commoditized. So it should be cheap and fast, but then the price and timeline at the end is not what you expect, so you take your newly created list of requirements and go elsewhere. People going through these things want instant gratification.

It also implies that if you want something that does not fall neatly into the categories given then you're going to pay even more.

Giving estimates is just part of sales. If you're tired of it, then don't work sales.

Edit: Ok I decided I should probably give some constructive advice with every teardown I do, so here's a tip: If you really want to do things this way, instead of instantly giving a price at the end, create the illusion that the info will be sent to a human and you'll send a quote by email after they've had a chance to review. Then just set up a cron job to go through your list of emails at certain strategic times of the day and send personalized messages with the quoted price and time frame. This way you start a conversation with the potential client and keep them on the hook.
get this garbage out of here.

> Now, in practice, the scenario I’ve outlined is near impossible.

shocking. sensationalized title with nothing to back it up. its a shame too, because understanding cash flow is very important in business and its a worthy topic for startup founders.

This author, while I've never seen of or met her before, seems to be otherwise reputable but this is a garbage content on a level of which I usually see relegated to indiehackers.

Going from $0 to $1MM in one month for a brand new product from a brand new startup isn't near impossible, its FUCKING impossible.

Lets break this down a little bit more:

25k a day in adspend: okay great. Except that most ad platforms don't let you just immediately ramp to 25k per day. So unless you have a) a team of people who have been researching and building ads and keywords for some time before, b) an outsourced digital ad agency to ramp for you, or c) you're Google or Facebook, spending 25k a day isn't going to happen.

Immediate ROI: Sure, you spend $25k on ads, those ads net you a bunch of money on sales, then you can immediately transfer that revenue right back to ads right? wrong. Its going to take days or even up to a week to move that money back into ads. From your credit card process, to your bank, to your ad platform. So unless you have closer to $125k-$175k in cash or credit set aside for a weeks worth of ads, you can't turn cash that fast. Even if you ignore the fact that your card processor is going to freak the fuck out at the rapid increase in processing and is going to keep a substantial part of your revenue as a rolling reserve.

You have a company, product, and team that can deal with $1m in sales: The author just neglects this, which means shes either minimizing the work that goes to getting a company to this point or.... or i dont know what shes trying to say. You aren't going to be able to build a company that can deal with $1m in revenue in 30 days and live to tell about it. You probably spent months or even years building a team, that built your product, that cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars.

No, the tried and true, Product Owner (not investor) endorsed method for getting your first customers is to not use ads, but to do it with good old fashioned word of mouth and sales.

This type of content is awful because it works to perpetuate the flawed notion of instant startup success. All you have to do is spend a bunch of money and you too can be a unicorn. Its completely contrary to how it actually works and its frustrating seeing founders become demoralized because their startups don't work like this.

The truth is, it takes time and effort to build your company. Your fist $10k in revenue is just as hard and just as important as your first $1m in revenue. Its going to take time, maybe years, before you can get it done. Its definitely not going to happen in one month.
The fight happened on multiple fronts. Yes, it was lost on cnn.com, but it wasn’t lost in the comment section of HN.
They're claiming to be able to cut the displayed time and cost by up to 70%.
Oh, and how exactly does that provide more blood to hospitals?

Edit:
Ok, now I see what you mean. I do not agree with you, although it is a matter of opinion. My opinion is that there are more important social priorities than making rich old geezers live longer and that your plan depends on numbers that could go one way or the other. You could easily build a scenario where your plan decreases hospital blood availability, and this seems likely to me given the financial incentive.
You're an engineer and you've built your own product (no dev costs except your own time). Its serverless and hosting costs are minimal, < $1 per million requests (source: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/pricing/).

Assuming you convert $1 in ad spend to $1.15 in revenue, would this be possible?
I can believe that wooden construction techniques have improved over the past however so thousands of years. But I can't bring myself to believe that it is environmentally sustainable.
The 1960 film Ocean's 11 does have a remake.
Blatant affiliate link is blatant.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#Data_portability_issues :

> Although Douglas Crockford originally asserted that JSON is a strict subset of JavaScript, his specification actually allows valid JSON documents that are invalid JavaScript. Specifically, JSON allows the Unicode line terminators U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR and U+2029 PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR to appear unescaped in quoted strings, while ECMAScript 2018 and older does not.
This is such a good question. Thinking about it reminds me of a quantum mechanics prof who once explained the way a physicist would model a person skiing through the forest. The person would be either a sphere or a box, depending on what's most convenient. The trees in the forest would be cylinders or boxes. The person skiing would then be something like a sphere bouncing around through all these cylinders.

And then another time my statistical mechanics prof informed me that "physics is just drawing cartoons of reality with math." That came as a huge existential relief by the way.

Popular science holds that physics is the study of "fundamental laws", but really it's just a special practice of articulating these very stable, ubiquitous patterns.

When you look at things holistically, you will notice that they are often irreducably dynamic, complex and full of potential surprises, along with fully actualized surprises.

So I'd imagine that all these relationships of atmospheric gases with things like the earth's magnetic field, weather patterns, chemical reactions in the atmosphere, interactions with extraterrestrial particles, the dynamics of other magnetic fields, etc. would all make this very difficult to model accurately.

First principles apply very well to our nice toy models, but the sheer vastness of existence usually out-scales our toy models very quickly.
Any knowledge capable of self-replication is a meme.
Why doesn't the gravity of the moon cause atmosphere to collect around it?
It's a perfect story! Hard to believe that the story was written in 1966, it resembles a common argument with your ISP. ;-) And we also have government employees who cannot pass the Turing test...

(to other readers: click "next page" to read the rest of the story)

The most absurd aspect of my Facebook verification problem is, despite my account has been frozen due to "suspicious activities", their system is still sending those automated mail notices to remind me returning to Facebook for those activities I've been missed on my timeline!

WTF.
Oh nice, this is my post. Feel free to ask questions. I'm hoping to help make Rust more portable through my adventures.
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