skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With fast trains, even >500km is better than airplanes, since you go from city center to city center and don't have to be at the airport in advance.

In Italy, the Milan-Rome (570km, 2.5/3 hours) fast trains have been making a killing for years.
Here’s a first step: https://www.environmentalleader.com/2019/01/terracycle-circu...
Lovely. Can’t wait to be able to review it on yelp
Or, Germany's welfare system and mental health laws mean their citizens are satisfied or at least kept somewhere warm and clean.
Hmm? I just spent the evening in Ballard (tons of homeless people sleeping on the street! Really surprising, Market Street wasn't like this 3 years ago), yet none of the businesses I visited had locked or door coded bathrooms.

Same in Fremont, the coffee shops & restaraunts don't generally restrict access to the bathrooms in any noteworthy way, though some have a sign stating use should be limited to a few minutes.

Georgetown, Central District & Madison Park were also pretty similar last I checked, you'd be hard pressed to find bathrooms with codes on them.
If you continue to do nationalistic flamewar on HN we will ban you. No more of this, please.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>> A $10M acquihire brings $3M to the founders, so they are likely to accept the offer, leaving them significantly richer, and you with $100K that are unlikely to cover what you would have made if you joined Google instead.

This doesn't sound like a very bad scenario at all. 100K is a lot of money. Also, back then there was a risk that maybe Google would not have grown as much as it did.

>> But if you join as employee #10, and are offered 0.1% of shares, the story is completely different. If the company exits for $100M, you only get $60K, which is a completely meaningless number if you invested few years of your life into the company.

That's almost one year of an average person's salary in the US. It could pay for someone one year to work on their own project.
GraphQL in a Microservices Architecture
> Coming from a mathematics background, I personally do not care so much for the 'beauty' of mathematics, and am moreso interested in clarity and insight.

Beauty is a subjective emotion, it's not so easy to quantify. You may not find mathamatics beautiful due to it's clarity and insight, but many others would precisely because of that.

And it's not just math. Beautiful paintings, architecture, legal arguments, religions, etc., are often believed to be beautiful because of the clarity and insight they provide as well.
Exactly. There may be some overgeneralization or maybe exageration sometimes about the first employee doing all the work while the founders get to enjoy the fame and the money.

Let me add my case: 3 founders, I am one of them, we all worked for more than 1 year, not being paid, not taking a single day of vacation, not even weekends, to understand our market, build our product, and launch.
Our first employee came after that, and while we started paying ourselves, on minimum wages, our first employee (developper) was paid slightly above market level and working normal hours.
We have 5 employees today, they all get paid at market level or above, we recently raised funds (at seed level), less than 1M, and we (founders) still work 7/7 most of the time.

I understand how first employees may have the feeling they do not have what they deserve, and in some startups that may be true, but can we say this feeling is _sometimes_ a cognitive bias due to the employee not perceiving the financial risks involved in creating a company, and the amount of work done by founders?
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I don't know what you're asking. It says "sublicensable" in there, yes.
> Half an hour passing security and waiting for boarding

Only 30 minutes sounds optimistic. You also didn't count the time to recover luggage. I've seen people bringing huge suitcases on high speed trains. They couldn't take them in cabin on a flight. Planes are good past the 2 hours flight time IMHO, or across countries where there are no interconnected high speed networks (I'm writing this with Europe in mind.)
Nationalistic flamewar is not welcome here. Please do not post any more of it to this site.

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Reading a Computer Science Research Paper [pdf]
I see it as if it was any other investment and makes total sense.
A Toolkit to Harness the Full Power of JavaScript Functions
Do not be too quick to believe diagnosis of dementia. Doctors will diagnose it while patients are on medication like opiods. Then incompetence can be declared and the looting begun.

There is evil afoot you would not believe.

Dont argue. I am merely informing you, not convincing you.
They would. Then the German government would do the same for Siemens trains. Then the only thing both sides have gained are more expensive trains. That's why EU rules forbid this.
With the CC26xx parts you can use a 32kHz RCOSC and get accurate enough timing for BTLE connections, so with the CC2652RB you should be able to have true "crystal-less" Bluetooth LE.
Xiaomi is gearing up to become an Internet giant in India
> Public rail is a money-losing venture, in every country (except Hong Kong).

Not in Russia. They had a $2 billion profit in 2017. It's also the third-largest rail company in the world, so yes, it can be done.
Ha, an old friend of mine is behind that.

He's now started a tongue-in-cheek certification program at conferences he attends.
Just read all of the cancer posts on his blog. Very sad.
To store such a firehose stream of data, you will need approximately 0.3gb of storage per one second of data.

This is if you only collect username, timestamp and tweet, excluding any additional metadata such as data center, likes and retweets, not to mention images and videos.

Full calculation here:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BIAguT9Qvy0GK-dalpQf...
Technology for Fighting Climate Change Isn't a Technology
From the article: "Many engineers drop out of college or leave comfortable jobs at Google to join startups as early employees dreaming about huge upsides, fame, and romance of working for a startup."

I don't know many folks that drop out of college to work at a startup, that could be a sacrifice. But I do know plenty who dropped out of Big-Tech. If the startup fails, they can almost certainly get their cosy big-tech job back. So all their are giving up is a year or two salary differential for a few years in exchange for a lotto ticket. That isn't much of a sacrifice, it's more of a trade.
Afaik the savonius turbine is known to be good for torque, bad for speed. And because it's vertical, you don't need a sjaft or gear box at the top.

Dunno how to stop it at strong winds though.
Yeah, I groaned (and immediately went to talk to someone) when I spotted the org I'm currently consulting with was advertising for a Phyton developer.
This is not garbage. It's just a fact of life that some people are better than others in a professional environment, often in multiple ways, taking everything you say into account.

As everything else in life its priority and effort mixed in with a bit of affinity. Not everyone want to put in the effort and time to become top tier in their profession: those who do obviously become better than those who don't.
Sounds like a solid reason to not build around a platform that can arbitrarily kill your project or business. ActivityPub seems to be gaining traction, w/o the beholden to a single entity issue.
The stuck issue is not a limitation of Swarm, but was a bug that has gotten fixed in 18.06 - https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/37493

Rollback has existed for a while now - https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/commandline/service... . you can actually tune the parallelism and the delay
By joining the startup with its startup salary, you've already thrown away tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars of hard cash you could have earned by taking that Google offer instead. So if you feel that this is a rational decision, spending another $10k to minimize a lot of tax pain down the road is also entirely rational.

It's also an interesting quirk of human psychology that we value the loss of something we have (here $10k in cash) so much more than the cost of not having something in the first place.
How would that work, I couldn't find much on the web?
Not in Amtrak's Northeast corridor either. If Amtrak was run like a business, it could shut down a number of lines and become a cash-cow. But it decisively not run like a business.
Steam is, despite there being a lot of competition, the de facto one stop shop for digitally distributed PC video games (and is in itself a kind of DRM protection). I think that a large proportion of gamers would be happy for almost all of the competition to disappear in favor of getting everything on the Steam platform.
Backups. Why commit to reliable destruction of data when you don't have to?

Google has a guarantee on when your deleted data disappears from tapes in vaults, and it was something that every engineer at the company had to think about (not to mention a ton of work in actually implementing it). You may wish for Some New Startup with 2 engineers to do it for you, but it's hard, takes time, and nobody actually cares. Look at how many people use Patreon despite that policy. Why spend years of engineering work when your lawyer can get the problem fixed in 5 minutes? It's just economics.
"unlikely to cover what you would have made if you joined Google instead." refers to what you would have made if you joined Google few years ago, not at its early days
eBay takes 15% plus some listing fees and that doesn't include the PayPal fees.
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Nobody. The B players are the founders.
> And if the axioms do not hold, the theory is bunk.

You assume the axioms hold. That is what an axiom is: an assumption.

> Mathematics is precise and sound; it's not gospel.

We do think that mathematics is precise. We don't really know if it is sound (unless I am missing something). For example, what is a set? It is not a "collection of things". Rather, it is an object in some mathematical setting.

The topic of whether mathematics is "correct" is something else. We can all go out and build a DIY logical machine from scratch and see for ourselves that the mathematics we use give the results that we expect. Applied mathematics in this sense concerns itself with mathematics that suitably describe real situations.
This is pretty cool. I don't know its practical applications. Honestly I don't even care. It's just very nice to see such tinkering. Great job.
The alternative is always to offer your content from your own website, and take 100%.

The game developers who were around before Steam, know how much that costs (promotion wise), and know they get a lot for that 30% cut. The same is true for those other platforms.

You seem to be a person that expects all internet platforms offer their stuff for free.

And another thing: all of those platforms mentioned have competitors, so calling them monopolies is quite strange. It's not because they are market leaders that there is no alternative (which monopolies don't offer)
I'd been using Visual Studio for quite a while before I discovered it supported something like Vim's visual block mode - you can use alt-shift to select (and then edit) blocks of text.
Getting downvoted for metric advocacy.

Sad.
> Public rail is a money-losing venture, ... But it's important to have. Just how much money-losing depends on the political environment and skill of the management.

Arguably, all public rail should lose money. Quality transportation is a huge economic driver of regional economies. If a rail service is making money, it likely means governments are underinvesting in their own economies.
Prolog is Turing-complete, you can have non-terminating programs in it (and thus there are problems that can be expressed in Prolog that you can never get an answer to), does the same hold true for Alloy? If not I think that it would make more sense to compare Datalog (which I think forces all of its programs to provably terminate) with Alloy rather than Prolog with Alloy.
I'm a fan of formal methods in general, but I'm not sure they're a good fit for UI specification. Building user interfaces is all about flexibility—you need to be able to change the UI as you discover what works and what doesn't. A rigid, pre-specified UI is almost always a bad UI.
Absolutely correct and the best comment here imo. It’s very different to provide an audience vs. providing a service.
I reckon not very neatly.
I agree totally. A lot of people tried to bury the 2008/2009 crisis in philosophy, whereas there is a simple "model" to described what happened: bad debt.
Ways to improve poor office air quality
I think all land within city limits should be publicly acquired with eminent domain before zoning and building of utilities. No reason to let the land value increase fall to private landowners when it's all due to build-up of public services. Better use the profits for maintaining the services.
I saw the word hypertextbook somewhere online once and it just stuck in my head. For me, it has come to mean a textbook (so, beautifully typeset, well organised and written, easy to tell where I am, distraction-free) enhanced with code (keep track of learning, tasteful interactives, maybe video, a smattering of ai perhaps). A webpage/app lends itself to this nicely. If I'm honest, the idea is a little inchoate but my instincts tell me there's something to it.

Primer looks like an interesting system - I'm on the mailing list, good luck!
That sounds terrible! I can only imagine how inconvenient and messy it is to deal with.

With that said, there might be a minor distinction to be drawn between a solution that solves every use-case including yours and a solution that solves the most common use case of greatest policy concern. It is, of course, very possible and in fact very likely that I'm incredibly mistaken! In which case I welcome enlightenment.
Rust has a bunch of fuzzing tools, see https://github.com/rust-fuzz
Valve cut their fees to 15% recently for games that sell well, and reduced the normal fee from 30% iirc. Epic Games has brought serious competition to the industry, offering a broadly used game distribution channel for a low price.
This is treading a fine line here, since you don’t mention Numba, which applies the same approach as Julia, namely translating the language to LLVM IR for generating PTX.

The same applies to those OpenACC pragmas that can offload a butt ugly Fortran loop to GPU: no one says Fortran is running on the GPU, rather the compiler is doing code gen and RT calls to make user life easy.

It thus smells like marketing rhetoric.
Not to be confused with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Lang
Rule #1 use the boyscout approach: clean where other left dirty stuff.

Sure, many here would argue that "never touch a running system" is a gold rule, but what if the running system is running in the wrong way?

If everyone attain her/himself to this rule, there wouldn't be what we call innovation.

Clear example: why develop Windows 7, 8, 10 / Mac 10.10,.11,.12.. if their predecessors were working fine?
Your Intel chips were probably specced out in mils (milli-inches). All the screws are various fractions of an inch. A surprising amount of "modern engineering" uses imperial still.

Science at least is all metric.
How much of that is profit from industrial logistics (read moving oil), and which part of that are revenues from passengers?
Can someone please sell these to San Francisco? PLEASE?!?!?
My understanding is that COBOL is paying a lot right now.
Their billion users seem pretty content to use them in spite of the numerous alternatives.
Since a couple of years ago the tweet limit was bumped to 280 characters, so I assume the amount is double of what you calculated.
Status as a Service (StaaS)
> “PHP Contractor - 2 Months”

While 2 months is short, if you don't want short(ish) term contracts of six to twelve months, awesome. Leaves more for me.

I've got around 18 years experience in a variety of tech stacks, being a contractor/consultant is great. Come on board, either create a brand new piece for the client or help them with an existing problem, deliver, move on.

God save me from rotting away in a corner at some huge corporate for years, pretending to care about the company vision. I've done my time at that.

It helps me that here in the UK the market seems to be upside-down, compared to the US - Contractors are usually more highly skilled and almost always better paid than staff.

That all said, that two month estimate had better be a well understood problem domain, with well defined requirements and a realistic amount of work, because most contracts that small are not, and you'll end up two months down the line with the client wanting to extend a month at a time and all sorts of pressure.
This is good advice.

I'd add that producing something as part of your process of understanding the code base would be helpful to your colleagues.

If there is hard to understand code, figure it out and capture it in some documentation. If some code doesn't look robust, add tests. If you find bugs, log them and write tests. That way, your colleagues also understand the process you're taking during your "grok the code" period, see progress and can jump in to help. Having a top level understanding of the system and its business functions is important so you can evaluate code your read relative to them.

Adding type annotations can be useful, so try FB's "flow" which gives useful results without having to do any annotations yourself for starters.
What are people even doing that they need more than 100MB/s? I can't see myself ever needing more than that for personal use. Even if you need to read or write the whole thing (which I've essentially never had to do for any storage device), it'd take less than 3 hours to do, which isn't very long
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"First" is incorrect. Autonomous aircraft go back to WW2; JFK's older brother died in one.
Good point! Fixing my calculation. So it's between 0.3gb (typical tweet is ~30 chars) and 6.8gb per second
Creator of Sketch.systems Kevin Lynagh was interviewed in Future of Coding podcast while ago:
https://futureofcoding.org/episodes/025.html

Great podcast overall.
Similar experience here roughly, albeit mine is at a smaller scale.

The key phrase in your post is 'doing this 25+ years'.

What you're providing is the /confidence/ that you can do it. Most outfits nowadays probably have no one who has that.
> By posting content to Patreon you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, sublicensable, worldwide license to use, reproduce, distribute, perform, publicly display or prepare derivative works of your content.

"Perpetual and irrevocable" means that it continues even after you stop using their service.
I think he means that's the most unacceptable from the bunch
I only use VSC for TypeScript and Rust related stuff.

As someone that works mostly in a .NET full stack context across native and Web, VSC still has a lot of catchup regarding VS capabilities.
The issue with facebook is not that they simply hold a copy of your data after your relationship ends, but that they have permission to continue using it. Few content creators would object to Facebook keeping a random copy of their content on a tape drive. It's like a book publisher keeping your a copy of a rejected manuscript in a warehouse somewhere.

The real problem is when Facebook uses that content to further their business interests. Likewise, the publisher shouldn't be sending that rejected manuscript around for others to mine for ideas.

(that said, to avoid the temptation that gives rise to this precise problem, it's common practice for publishers to return rejected manuscripts)
It is garbage. It's an arrogant mental shortcut that has little predictive value and encourages a dismissive attitude towards people in general. The fact that people are better and worse at certain things is beside the point. If you're going to categorize people, there are better ways to do it.
same on my gentoo with FF and nvidia proprietary drivers. A simple reboot was enough though
Sounds like an interesting book. Some good counterbalance to excessive critique culture.
> 1 pb of data

Since you mention your real name-would you mind telling who you are?

Thank you!
This sounds pretty cool. I do backend development and if I wanted to learn modern web development or functional programming I could see myself potentially using a service like this. (Of course someone saying they would be interested and having a paying customer is very different!)

The pricing seems unsustainably low. If each person spends 1 hour with a mentor per week, it seems like the price would have to be at least 5x more to make any profit given that your mentors are expensive skilled developers.

For "Co-coding Evenings", when you request help, is it through a chat room? Or screen sharing?

You may want to look into https://www.bloc.io. It's more of an online coding bootcamp, but a big part of it is having a personal mentor who can answer your questions.
I have a mac app which is exclusively available on the App Store, so I pay 30% of my revenue to Apple. I could spin up my own system but then I have to build out payments (credit card processing fees), distribution, updates, beta testing, and figure out discoverability. In the end, my app isn't big enough to build these things out myself, but at least if I wanted to I could. Different story on iOS.
It is only experimental, but it has basic support from most browsers which is probably enough for the exploit (the note might be a little outdated or at the least a bit misleading.) Just check the browser compatibility section on the mdn page you linked it lists the browsers that have basic support that feature.
Generating performant code from Scheme, Forth or SML is far more difficult compared to the C family of languages.
Illegal in France. Even for the general census the govt can't collect ethnicity or religion.
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You can prefix the uuid with a timestamp for the same effect without leakage. There are chronological uuid projects: https://github.com/uucid-project/spec
Why would it be laughed out of the room?

FYI, here's the current top comment in this very thread:

> 30% is the same cut that Apple and Google take for everything that goes through their app stores, including all in-app purchases. It's the same cut that Steam takes. It's the same cut that YouTube takes for channel membership. Twitch takes an even larger cut: 50% from subscriptions. It's extremely well-established that people are comfortable with platforms taking that large of a portion.
Women, Business and the Law (2019) [pdf]
> the theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder asserts that mathematical elegance led physics astray

I feel the other way around: Applied mathematicians and physicists led the pure mathematicians astray. But I say this for a different reason. I feel that physics has become convoluted with a plethora of theories where this same beauty is interpreted wildly differently by different people. In other words, people all have different ways of thinking, different notions of beauty, and ultimately, this manifests into different (competing) notions in physics. These may even be equivalent notions and they may embody the desired perspective on beauty, but instead of consolidation there is extended differentiation.

My point is that physics has become ugly exactly because of physicists' ignorance towards mathematical elegance in favour of personal beauty. I don't think physics can become consolidated without exactly a stark appreciation for elegance.

IMO this is why category theory took so long to start appearing in physics: The physicists are caught up in their own idea of beauty rather than the mathematical tradition of finding the minimal sufficient proofs and theories (which I call elegance).