skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wondered that as well but approach the subject with much more apprehension. With programming languages I just get it set up and blow things up until I get something to work, and carry on. Largely out of impatience and moxy. No fear! Then again I don't just hop into writing memory allocators. Similarly I suppose her first experience with a language isn't to attempt to translate at the UN. It's also more fun that way.

It sounds like she had a similar attitude with written languages.
It was moved from January 2019 (in the original kickstarter), to April, to Q2, and now finally to Q3.

That's a quite significant delay, but I personally don't mind as long as the final product arrives by the end of the year.
I've read this cows/seaweed story now often enough that I looked into it. It seems it's all based on a study on 12 cows performed by UC Davis [1].

That is... not exactly confidence inspiring. It may very well be a statistical fluke and the reality is much less reassuring.

Not saying we shouldn't research in that direction, but this looks way too early to be confident in it.

[1] https://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/news/research-led-ermias-k...
Assumedly it can be used to inform which features are most used by customers, and thus most worth investing additional development effort in.
Really? It felt like the golden age of podcast was a decade ago. I haven't listened to podcasts in a while. With YouTube premium, you can just listen or watch YT videos instead, so maybe it's golden age for videocasts?
This is a bait-and-switch for most of us who are used to free Travis service, as your offering is not free.
Android is a bad operating system, for one. Second, it isn't, by any measure, a free one. Google has an iron grip over Android, OEMs are forbidden to produce phones that fork it, and most apps for Android won't run without Google's proprietary components.

Trying to build on Android is constantly following and fighting Google's changes. Purism is building on Linux, which is truly free from top to bottom.
> Naming the Config parameter config is redundant. We know its a Config, it says so right there.

> In this case consider conf or maybe c will do if the lifetime of the variable is short enough.

This seems petty. Is it really that problematic to type out a few extra characters?
I'm not saying that everyone trading has idealistic, altruistic reasons for doing so, but products are built on the back of capital markets.

At least ideally, successful trading makes markets more efficient, and making markets more efficient ripples out making it easier for many people to make many products that create value for their users.

Even if all of that is true though, it's an unnatural framing for people to work with and is much harder to find existential meaning in abstract changes to the system that make people's lives better in complex and hard to trace ways than it is to find meaning in a direct value proposition to your users.
With doubles in Python, it's correct for the first 72 values.

fib = lambda n: int(((((1+5**.5)/2)**n)-(((1-5**.5)/2)**n))/5**.5)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rounding#Table-maker's_dilemma
Google Admits It Messed Up by Not Disclosing Built-In Mic on Nest Secure
> If you could generate a "private key" from the public key,

That's not what I wrote at all. I'm just talking about downgrading the onion addy generation to become a simple password authentication scheme. It's bad but no worse than logging into webmail without any 2FA.

If you really don't understand what I'm talking about I can put together a PoC. But it's extremely straightforward so I'd rather not if you can just re-read what I wrote and grok the idea.
"hat's the justification for 30% of netflix or youtube subscriptions or digital goods in general? "

I believe they've been able to negotiate that down to 15%.
Just added them in for you :)
I didn't need to look it up to know what it meant. Although I can easily see the author didn't mean to insult, it's offensive.
>I wager that if we built forest like structures out of steel and concrete they'd be far more fire resistant than natural, wooden, forests even if the amount of fuel at ground and canopy level was kept constant.

Depends on the type of wood. There are some trees like Aspen that are natural fire barriers because they don't burn well. Unfortunately they're not worth much, so in places like BC that have a big logging industry they spray them with Round Up after the major forest fires. It's one of the real reasons that fires here have become so massive lately.
There are days when I am glad when most of my things are old and stupid.
Try meditation, it's the best way I've found to be truly present in the current moment. Without focusing on any external stimuli or content, you're left with the sensations of being, as well as the thoughts/feelings of your mind. You then establish this "baseline" signal upon which all the other noise of modern life is added.
> Spent 18 months trying to negotiate a withdrawal agreement, where the “Irish backstop” was their own solution to the RoI/NI border

The Irish backstop was the EU's solution, not the UK's. The talking point you're probably thinking of is that the UK-wide backstop was the UK's doing, which is technically true because the EU wanted the backstop to apply only to Northern Ireland - the UK negotiators objected because this would make a huge mess of the Good Friday Agreement (not to mention pissing off the DUP). I can't say I blame you for getting this wrong, since the whole point of this talking point was to leave people with the false impression that the backstop was the UK's doing.
I don't know is it really better? Obviously you'd prefer, and I think I would too, but the sort of thing you're complaining about might actually work. Apart from your personal feelings, is there anything else you are basing your claims on?
And if you fold a paper in half 104 times it'll get as thick as your skull. muahaha
Joe Rogan said that roughly half of his audience is watching his videocasts rather than listening to his podcasts
If you can send and receive email, then I guess you have been bitten at least once by its store-and-forward, best-effort nature. In other words, no guarantees on message delivery time (two days delayed? Working as designed!), message ordering, or even whether it's delivered at all. I literally know of no worse medium for chat than email, even considering raw ethernet frames and pigeon post.

"It is sort of available everywhere" is email's only selling point - that's not enough to justify "let's build everything on top of it".
Correct, you get to decide what the author meant and what his motivations were. It's not that he pulled an ambiguous, five word, phrase out of the back of his head. One which we've all heard and are all only vaguely familiar with. No, the author is actually a closeted racist. He chooses to push his racist agenda, not through directly communicating his ideas, but by using banal, dated, phrases which have a racist context which most people are not familiar with. It's really not possible to use these five, every-day, words in that sequence without summoning all of the racist intensity and hatred which some people attached to this sequence of words some time ago when most of us weren't alive.
Ah ok - I'm thinking private shares
The Illusions Index: Investigate Your Senses
+1 and arguably the concurrent clients + multiuser thing is something which XMPP did never get around really. There are at least a dozen or so XEPs which noone is implementing (except for Conversations) which make basic functionality a mess. You download any client and get basic 1on1-chat with no missed messages when both parties are online. Everything else depends on, .... whatever. Even major providers needed some years to get around this (look at Whatsapp). So I think it's really not reinventing the wheel if one tries to implement something anew learning from the pasts mistakes

(if you are affiliated with riot/matrix: keep up the good work!)
I'm 33 and didn't grow up in a radio culture either. I first heard of podcasts around 2006 in college when Apple came out with a mic dongle for the iPod. Never bothered checking any out. It was only when I came across a lengthy interview with an athlete I like that I started listening. Podcasts can be good for that, since TV usually focuses on short segments to fit in all the commercials.

For me, podcasts aren't like TV shows where I feel connected to the cast members. I'll listen only if the guest is interesting. In rare cases, I'll subscribe if the format is interesting, e.g. bad movies reviewed by comedic actors.
Don't think of it as a large nest egg; think of it as a modest fixed income. You can easily make 2.5MM last for the rest of your life if you're able to live on 100k. That might require downsizing a bit and moving somewhere with a lower COL, but it's certainly doable.
Why not just ask people for $1 per year to use FB, and then have non-targeted ads to cover the rest of the loss in revenue?
Naval Ravikant's Guide to Choosing Your First Job in Tech
I don't believe you've understood the initial suggestion, so let's go back. Many people would prefer to make their contently freely available to as many people as possible. In practice this is a copyleft license. Such licenses are of the form that the licensee, such as YouTube, is granted a license allowing them to use and do anything with this content - so long as the same rights are extended to any others who are provided access to this content.

Unfortunately most sites, including e.g. YouTube, do not allow this. They require uses to agree to non-free licenses. One of the primary reasons they do this is to help prevent and obstruct competition. YouTube goes a step further by making it against their terms to contact users for licensing inquiries. This is all extremely anti-competitive.

So what can be done?

Well that's pretty easy. Free licensing would in no way meaningfully burden or, in itself, harm YouTube or other such publishers. If a site primarily generates revenue by providing free access to user generated material, then require that the users be allowed to enter into free licensing agreements with that site, if they so wish. While creators could be incentivized to agree to non-free licenses, such as by payment, the content itself would be treated identical whether a user chose to enter into a free licensing agreement, or a non-free licensing agreement.

The goal is to turn "free" into free. And in the process help spur more competition and a wider spread of information and knowledge.
Most people don't have the luxury of being their own bosses. For these people, financial independence will enable them to leave their unfulfilling jobs and pursue their own passions, whether it be starting a small business like you or getting a job that pays less but is more fulfilling. Most people are living paycheck to paycheck with little savings, and thus don't have the freedom to walk away from their jobs.
You mean something like the Light Phone?
Contained in that question is a really interesting bit of learning.

There are many ways to go through your career and your 'wealth' cycle. What worked for me was that when ever I got a raise or "extra" money (bonus, stock vesting, etc) I always adjusted my savings rate so that my take home pay was unchanged relative to inflation. The company gave me a 10% raise and inflation was 3%? I added 7% of that raise to my savings rate. As a result, my savings grew and my lifestyle didn't change, I could always "live on" a much more modest salary than I was being paid. That gave me tremendous flexibility in being able to take jobs that had a 'pay cut' but had other aspects that made them desirable (learning something new, opportunities to develop a new skill, more fun, Etc.) And after a while the amount of money your "savings" is kicking off gets to be more and more significant. If you're lucky, then one day the number your savings is kicking off is the same amount you're paying yourself out of your own paycheck and then you can walk away at anytime, keep your life style, and never have to work again. That gives you a tremendous amount of flexibility in how you spend your time.
There's already Replicant, Lineage, Copperhead, etc. The thing you're asking for has existed for a long time.
Hard to want to keep updating your working CI solution for your open source stuff while holding down a job and life and everything else. :)
I agree wholeheartedly! With my podcasts I feel I know the hosts, I look forward to the content, they may have ads but they pick them to match the content and they are still honest about the products they present in those ads. I don't know what it is, but it feels much more personal (I mainly listen to Jupiter Broadcasting podcasts (no more ads since recently) and some related ones but also Twit and NoAgenda (no ads at all) from time to time. Looking very much forward to the continuation of Stephen Fry's Great Leap Years...

I even feel personal interest in the lives of the hosts. Some I've been listening to for over a decade.
My biggest problem with the advice from YC and Startup school notes like this is that they pretend they're the first to ever discover these ideas or principles. They have experience with many start-ups over the last decade, which is true, but the concepts and ideas here are very old. They're rediscovering the Polio vaccine.

Furthermore, they are extremely biased towards start-ups, which is understandable. You could not easily make a worse financial decision, statistically speaking. But they need most of us to do it for them to stay in business.
I picked it up in 15 minutes with a DMT trip, but results may vary.

Stoic philosophy can also float in a nice pantheist grey area. I always keep in mind that the most insightful and present religious people I’ve ever met are by no men’s dogmatic and their spiritual exploration is part of their spirituality. The journey, the acceptance of your own fallibility, mindfulness, these are all parts of faith. The word faith works better for me than religion.
The issue w/ calling it "config" is that you end up with the confusing scenario where "config" is the object and "Config" is the type, differing only in casing.
Yep. And if you get windfall and are really itching to spend it do yourself a favour and research what stuff is expensive but lasts. In NPV terms you'll be saving money, but you won't be pulling on hard-to-escape expenses.

Source: I sold a company and quadrupled my spend on housing. Something stupid that I regret. But I also spent money on high quality stuff that is still lasting almost a decade later.
You are confusing "there is no debate taking place" with "I am not involved in the debate".

It is happening, it is just happening among people with a different worldview, using different language than you prefer.
So I want:
- multiuser chat (persistent)
- voice-calls (let's have them 1on1)
- file-transfer
- concurrent clients

Which mature clients and servers should I choose from, implementing all this (basic) stuff?
> makes it horribly expensive to compete with Google and Facebook

there is no serious competition to Google or Facebook, in Europe. (or really the US either for that matter). How is this a shot in the foot if the industry is absent anyway?

In fact if Europe wanted to compete they would need to go the Chinese route. Double/Triple down on the regulation to the point where you make operation impossible and rebuild a national IT sector.
Pretty interesting. I've joined Hacker News because of this article, and it's been a great entry point into all sorts of good stuff.
I cringe when I see so much goes to building the IT infrastructure and so little to modeling and validating algorithms. Someone points out that most quant funds fail. Key reason is their ML models are badly overfitted. By fitting enough models, you'd always find one with a good looking Sharpe Ratio. This is the classic multiple hypothesis testing problem.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3274354
The argument is that it is not fundamentally better to use the longer name in the given context, so why make it longer? I'd say it isn't about how long the variable takes to type either, but how long the code takes to read and parse.
An AI generates millions of random images. One of those images is artistically interesting. Is the person who points out that one image the artist?
5G Explained: How It Works, Who It Will Impact, and When We’ll Have It
How come ads are allowed to evade public scrutiny when they're shown online?
Variety is a good thing. Even if the alternative created isn't strictly better, it can brings new ideas to table and push innovation forward with alternative approaches.

I'm happy they're creating an alternative OS to Android and hope that it really takes off. Even if it is never strictly better than Android, it at least gives us options.

This is almost an exact parallel to the browser industry. I think most of us techies are in the boat that the existence of Firefox as a separate browser rendering engine from Chrome is a good thing for similar reasons, regardless of which can be argued to be functionally better.
I'm surprised no one here has yet name-checked Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities. There is a famous comedic passage in which Sherman McCoy discusses his expenditures relative to his (vast) income.

EDIT:

One breath of scandal—

—his spirits plunged even lower. One breath of scandal, and not only would the Giscard scheme collapse but his very career would be finished! And what would he do then? I'm already going broke on a million dollars a year! The appalling figures came popping up into his brain. Last year his income had been $980,000. But he had to pay $21,000 a month for the $1.8 million loan he had taken out to buy the apartment. What was $21,000 a month to someone making a million a year? That was the way he had thought of it at the same—and in fact, it was merely a crushing, grinding burden—that was all! It came to $252,000 a year, none of it deductible, because it was a personal loan, not a mortgage. (The cooperative boards in Good Park Avenue Buildings like his didn't allow you to take out a mortgage on your apartment.) So, considering the taxes, it required $420,000 in income to pay the $252,000. Of the $560,000 remaining of his income last year, $44,400 was required for the apartment's monthly maintenance fees; $116,000 for the house on Old Drover's Mooring Lane in Southampton ($84,000 for mortgage payment and interest, $18,000 for heat, utilities, insurance, and repairs, $6,000 for lawn and hedge cutting, $8,000 for taxes). Entertaining at home and in restaurants had come to $18,000.

-------------

It goes on. The guy needs Mr. Money Mustache.
Addendum:

"This bug must come from backend"
"This bug must come from frontend"
For things like sewing equipment or knives, what you describe is true, but for things like custom keyboards, it is not.

For instance, I purchased an Ergodox on Massdrop for less than $300 at a time where sourcing the pieces yourself would have cost well over $1000.
And this is worse advice:

> Functions should do one thing only. ... In addition to be easier to comprehend, smaller functions are easier to test in isolation, and now you’ve isolated the orthogonal code into its own function, its name may be all the documentation required.

Using single-caller functions as a substitute for comments makes the workings of a specific operation much harder to follow, as you have to jump around the source to understand its effects.

A long function is easier to understand than an exploded one.

Also tests should target specific operations (aka functional tests), not every single function in the program.

EDIT: Every function you add becomes part of your internal API. Any API, exported or not, should comprise a cohesive collection.
Fair! :)
The Weird History of the MBTI
> Unlike other platforms (HN for example) your reputation on SO still increases over time if you stop engaging or only engage lightly with the community. Given the rules stay the same as they are today I don't think it is possible for any new user to ever surpass any of the high rep early SO users

Yeah, something like 80% of my SO karma is from a single evergreen question I asked 10 years ago.

You bring up a very interesting community design point: SO's desire to be a curated list of questions makes it increasingly hard to engage with the platform, which may eventually end up killing the community. Knowledgable people may not want to stick around patrolling new questions, if it's rare that they can actually contribute.
You don't want to rely on it for means because the high incomes are capped at a relatively low level so that they don't out high-earners in sparse areas. But that shouldn't affect medians.
I've used both and there isn't really a reason to pick one over the other.
Because an insanely high percentage of people will refuse to pay $1/year. Also, because $1 does not come close to covering the cost difference; targeted ads typically bring in 2x or more revenue per impression and the average revenue per user per year in the US is around $25.
> But unlike text-based news and blogs, which have gone through waves of centralization and disruption thanks to Facebook and Google, the podcast industry has remained stubbornly decentralized.

Anyone know why podcasting has remained stubbornly decentralized? What are the market forces that lead this to happen?
So... sell your expensive shit and buy less expensive shit. That's what us plebs are expected to do. No one's locked into anything.
Don't RSUs show up on the W-2 as income though (even if you don't sell them)?
Wow... your answer makes my question sound like it was sponsored.

But you are awesome. I will be making an order.

I've been looking for a way to turn all the lights off in the house and shut off my kids iPad. I can do these things by going into apps on my phone, but when I'm wanting to do it I'm often REALLY exhausted and would kill for a 1 button solution.

I don't quite see how I can use this to shut off the iPad easily. But it definitely helps with the lights. And I think if I hook the house Wifi up to a smart switch I can basically turn the iPad off.
I'm not a Go user myself, but I skimmed through the document. What I found was a lot of good programming advice that is generally applicable, rather than being limited to the Go language. (It seems most of the Go-specific stuff is in section 5.) It's always good to see robust coding practices being promoted, regardless of language.
This is interesting. I graduated in Law and did an MBA, master degree and PhD in IT, using ML (and then deep learning) to extract meaningful context of legal documents. Our documents are structured more or less like the French ones, and the main difficulty is the use of synonyms and expressions instead of objective, direct words.

In our case using Doc2Vec achieve better results, will try the wang2vec to see if it improves something.
I never though about using a separate machine, definitely going to take a look at it!
The spread between purchase and grant price for Incentive Stock Options actually is counted towards income for Alternative Minimum Tax.
Will I be able to, with this law
1) Go to linode and buy a VPS
2) Upload my own reviews of a movie (including scenes from the movie as appropiate) which are allowed under existing copyright law
3) Make those reviews available to everyone?

My understanding is yes

Will I be able to, with this law
1) Go to linode and buy a VPS
2) Allow others to upload their own reviews of a movie (including scenes from the movie as appropiate)
3) Allow me to review them to ensure that they are allowed under existing copyright law
4) Make those reviews available to everyone?

My understanding is yes

So I don't understand how "This law makes it illegal to use clips of a movie in critiquing it". It simply ensures that those breaking copyright law have the weight of the law upon them.
Ads can (and already are) stitched into podcasts based on download location. GeoIP isn't perfect, but it's enough to do location aware advertising in the same vein as terrestrial radio..
I think you meant "not necessary".