skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow you have shown a lot of resilience. Good for you!

> In my world view you either act to create the change you want or accept that you don't care enough to act.

This aligns nicely with a stoic principle I read somewhere, that said something like: "The proper use of thought is inform action."
Quite a few language have this feature, and it is a Stage 1 proposal to become a part of the JS spec
Yes! I love my previous generation tapered conical Philips hue. Don't like the look of the new ones though, so I'm not sure what I'll do if mine bites the dust.
> crony capitalism

It's just capitalism.
This has a click-baity title. A mostly math/calculation heavy C++ program is translated into a mostly math/calculation heavy C# program. You could replace either side with any language and get the same outcome. At best, the end of the article lists some hacks you _could_ write in C# to get what you consider "low-level", but ultimately defeat the purpose of using a "high-level" language in the first place. If you're using unsafe calls and platform intrinsics, it's more than a one off situation, and the language doesn't encourage it, then maybe you're trying to hammer a nail with a shoe.
You're paying SV prices because you're getting paid more than you could otherwise anywhere else.

Yes, for the average rank-and-file it's probably a worse deal than elsewhere, but if you are mid-level and have a chance at upper mgmt role then what you make is wayyy more than what you could elsewhere, even with the CoL.
I am not a big fan of C, but those Python/JavaScript based GUIs that fade to black at every button click really make me miss the days when all GUI tooling in UNIX was written in C.
As I mentioned elsewhere:

> Using fake depth and shadows on a design element to give it a 3D look like a real-world button is a form of skeuomorphism, because it relies on an understanding of real-world buttons that can be pushed.

Note that these effects are always on objects that have interactive behavior with real-life analogies. Windows for example can be "picked up" and "moved". It casts shadows to mimic the idea of one window being in front of another. The mock-up tabs in the Win95 interface can be clicked on and also mimic real-life tabbed file folders.

Yet at the same time, a table does not feature any drop shadow or fake depth effects. A table cell doesn't have a real-life analogy of an object that can be picked up and moved around. It does feature a visible grid to help eye saccades.

Look up the history of the desktop metaphor. It's based on actual physical desktops. You know, the ones in administration with paper folders which contain files. For most modern people it is skeuomorphism hiding in plain sight.
It seems that progressives tend to be much more willing to turn their group members into celebrities than the other political factions. (Obviously I have no data to back this up, and can be convinced otherwise if someone more knowledgeable than me can produce that data.)
If you use emacs or bum, you are part of the cool kids club. If you use an IDE, you might as well be a heretic.
$10/month is a great price for "I'm not sure this is going to provide me with value yet".

"As of now, we've now found you deductions that'll save you more than $3000 in taxes this year alone. To get more deduction information this year, please upgrade..."
It's not an implication. It's a reality. We've been propped up by credit. We've borrowed. We have to start paying it back at some point.

And with debt now is better than later.
Sure but if the company forces you to use a particular OS then they're the ones who are liable for the results of that decision.
except i don't need to wait for blockchain confirmations on apple pay, it's instant.
https://github.com/hashbang/os
This is a very good point. I've fixed it. https://github.com/pugwonk/gif2xlsx/commit/74867500ee9c43303...
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Thanks for the post. I currently don't have a way of directly contacting you, so would you mind giving an email address? I see that some people put it in their profiles.
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Thinking out loud here... for real wages to go up, real prices for services and goods must go up, else companies go out of business. Rising interest rates discourage companies from making capital purchases on credit (which they all do). To service higher debt, companies need to raise prices for services and goods. Which reduces purchasing power... And people who miss basic economic understanding scream for higher real wages and increases in purchasing power. On another note, are student loans typically fixed or variable interest rates?
or just take an appropriate dose of mushrooms with good friends every couple of weeks.
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A large majority of enterprise shops won't steer away from Ubuntu, Arch, SuSE or Red-Hat, so...
I don't know about TW's borderless account, but it's not costless to move USD to revolut/monzo with TW (as opposed as moving money from a European account to a revolut account)
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A while back I developed an approach to this in haskell; the idea is to use a logic monad transformer ("Backtracking, Interleaving, and Terminating Monad Transformers" 2005), working at a monad which implements a type class 'Costly' with a single method 'cost'. The implementation of 'cost' can terminate branches of the logic program or transform it in other ways. Then polymorphism over this monad accomplishes the generalization of the logic program over different search strategies.
It's a hashchain. They predate blockchains. I used them a long time as just signed, text files full of hashes. Trusted Timestamping used them. Blockchains were a highly-wasteful modification of hashchains for a different purpose. Databases, logs, and hashchains are still better for most things. Centralized services with decentralized checking of a signed log is still more efficient since centralized tech is itself more efficient.
I used to do that. I eventually learned that having good ideas is not hard or valuable. The hard, valuable part is how to design the implementation of a good idea so that it can actually come into existence without breaking everything.
VLC for sure.

>The VideoLan software originated as an academic project in 1996
Agreed. Ask RAX how hard it is to compete in commodity cloud infrastructure.
Monzo does that.
> "I have quite literally never heard this thought before"

I don't mean this to sound harsh, but then you haven't been listening.

Its a well known established fact that technology causes 'good' deflation. The number one cited example of this is the printing press, but honestly the internet has probably been a bigger effect.

globalization has also been very commonly cited as a source of lower inflation / deflation. you may disagree with it, but you should have heard about it.
https://www.zotero.org/support/getting_stuff_into_your_libra...

Seems like you can import by doi.
Zotero allows auto import from df, but suggest that pdf metadata tends to be less accurate than importing from the web directly using the Firefox web extension
When you read on the internet, you need to be aware that the meaning of "guys" is the least of the cultural barriers to understanding you'll encounter, and further that it's important to carefully pick your fights to avoid sparking useless flame wars. Can we please just lean toward charitable interpretations of our fellow humans' words, and debate substance instead?
>...When the government sells bonds or lowers rates or prints money,

I think you have that backwards. The common consensus is that the Fed selling bonds has the opposite effect:

>...f the Fed buys bonds in the open market, it increases the money supply in the economy by swapping out bonds in exchange for cash to the general public. Conversely, if the Fed sells bonds, it decreases the money supply by removing cash from the economy in exchange for bonds. Therefore, OMO has a direct effect on money supply. OMO also affects interest rates because if the Fed buys bonds, prices are pushed higher and interest rates decrease; if the Fed sells bonds, it pushes prices down and rates increase.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/08/monetary-...
I have Monzo, it's the rate you get when you use Google. Not a made up one to hide fees.
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Matterport suing GeoCV for infringing 3D scene understanding patents
Why not allow people to vote themselves on each issue? The purpose of a single person representing an area is less desirable than ever. Direct democracy would solve a lot and create different issues.
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I've seen parents schlep <1 year old babies up some of the White Mountains in mild winter conditions (snow on the ground, below 32F, etc). I think you are doing something wrong.
Wow! That's so interesting :)
Uber is kicking their teeth in. I would be very surprised if Lyft is still around in 5 years.
People are conflating anger at the whole HQ2 search process with New Yorkers wanting Amazon in their city.

Most want Amazon in NYC, but (locally and nationally) most are also angry at how the HQ2 shit show went down. Amazon was never going to open an HQ2 in the Midwest or the South. No, Northern Virginia is not the South. The tax breaks are a red herring.
What? That makes literally no sense at all. The author is comparing a world with the internet to one without. Attention is nowhere near concentrated on a small number of products. Google, facebook, and amazon are ALL networks that connect users to info. Not a single one of those is a product or is even capable of 'herding' attention.
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Why I said "at some level": what are governments backed by?
I work for one of said teams, doing datacenter cyber-security. You could say "trying" is my day job.

Since we're internal and we manage a lot of capacity, we do often provision and roll our own equivalents of things that cloud providers will sell you, rather than just buying a cloud solution. It's often ambiguous whether it was a good use of time/money. If it weren't for the economies of scale that kick in at the sheer size of this operation, it would definitely not be worth it.
Thanks Maslam! We've been trying to figure out how much to charge, and I do think certain folks are willing to pay a lot more.
I have a feeling that all developers working on product would become full-stack developers eventually. Probably the dichtomy of backend v.s. frontend would become product v.s. infrastructure. Product developers support business units while infrastructure developers support product developers.
"but eventually want to move to a model where we charge a small percent of the tax write offs we find for you."

Make it that or $10 a month where $10 is minimum. ;)

Edit: You might want to make pricing closer to what H&R Block does online. They've set some market expectations. I think they tried to charge me $30.
If this is true, why do startups run in stealth mode and corporations have super secret labs?

The "idea of" hotmail was amazing and easily communicated. The value immediate. There are clearly ideas that are not a dime a dozen.

I have also solved seemingly intractable problems that groups had worked on for weeks with a single sentence. Every good idea has first thinker. I understand the stance that execution trumps the brilliance of the idea, but it overly devalues ideas themselves and encourages toil over elegance.

Could you explain?
According to the filing, these are the patents that Matterport is claiming that GeoCV is in violation of:

8,861,840 B2
Identifying and filling holes across multiple aligned three-dimensional scenes
Filed: Oct 14, 2013
Granted: Oct 14, 2014

9,165,410 Bl
Building a three-dimensional composite scene
Filed: Step 17, 2014
Granted: Oct 20, 2015

9,171,405 Bl
Identifying and filling holes across multiple aligned three-dimensional scenes
Application: 09/17/14
Granted: 10/27/15

8,879,828 B2
Capturing and aligning multiple 3-dimensional scenes
Application: 01/03/13
Granted: 11/04/14

9,953,111 B2
Semantic understanding of 3D data
Application: 06/02/25
Granted: 04/24/18

10,030,979 B2
Determining and/or generating a navigation path through a captured three-dimensional model rendered on a device
Application: 05/24/18
Granted: 07/24/18
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> We do this by monitoring their purchases for tax deductible expenses -- like phone expenses, insurance payments, and home office expenses -- using a team of accountants aided by fancy computer stuff.

Are you storing or otherwise processing the transaction records for any other purposes or data mining? Alternatively, do your terms allow that in the future?

Knowing every purchase a person makes is going to be a tantalizing data set.

> We’re currently piloting the service with +100 paying users. We charge $10 per month because it’s simple, but eventually want to move to a model where we charge a small percent of the tax write offs we find for you. Aligned incentives :)

Maybe not totally aligned though as it’d be in your interests to be as aggressive as possible with write off claims while the customer would presumably be on the hook for any rejections or audits.
all the things you mentioned Monzo does as well. Except it's not available everywhere in the world, which sucks honestly as I moved to the US :/
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I am in the USA, specifically Seattle, so I'd assume I have better than average coverage. 4G is spec'd at 100Mbps. If you're lucky, you'll get 40-70Mbps download, and <10Mbps upload. If you're not fortunate enough to have city-tier coverage, then you're probably at the national average at <20Mbps. 5G is spec'd at 1000Mbps.
Method calls are syntax sugar in Rust; it compiles to the same code as atan2(y, x). The only difference is it will auto ref for you in the method style. You can call it either way if you prefer. Those are just regular floats, not objects.

Some is an enum constructor that’s in the prelude, so it’s just automatically imported. It’s a library type, nothing specially built into the language.
Could jeff bezos really be a million times more productive than an average american if he was alone by himself in an alternative universe?
From this article [1] posted a few days ago, TC says 34% (Uber is at 66%) and that's due to running at a larger loss by offering discounts to riders. Gaining 4% market share is no small feat but doing it by giving discounts isn't exactly a long-term vision.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/26/heres-why-youre-getting-al...
the patents in question:

8,861,840 B2
Identifying and filling holes across multiple aligned three-dimensional scenes
Filed: Oct 14, 2013
Granted: Oct 14, 2014

9,165,410 Bl
Building a three-dimensional composite scene
Filed: Step 17, 2014
Granted: Oct 20, 2015

9,171,405 Bl
Identifying and filling holes across multiple aligned three-dimensional scenes
Application: 09/17/14
Granted: 10/27/15

8,879,828 B2
Capturing and aligning multiple 3-dimensional scenes
Application: 01/03/13
Granted: 11/04/14

9,953,111 B2
Semantic understanding of 3D data
Application: 06/02/25
Granted: 04/24/18

10,030,979 B2
Determining and/or generating a navigation path through a captured three-dimensional model rendered on a device
Application: 05/24/18
Granted: 07/24/18

IMO if this goes to jury trial several of these are going to be invalidated, so they are taking this to court at their own peril. Also an extremely bad look for any tech company.
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If you are only talking jQuery when referring to frameworks my bloat and build tools arguments don't apply, that was for real frameworks like react. jQuery is fine in that regard, it's just not the modern choice anymore, without being vanilla js. It would be strange to boost a legacy solution like that.
>The market protects those who produce value.

This is a ridiculously juvenile view of how the world works. You need not look further than insert fortune 500 company who lays off highly paid sr. technical staff and replace them with jr. Claiming they provide no value to the company is asinine.
I agree they don't share today, but we don't know about the future. May be th get bought by someone who has different ideas.!
Yes! I think part of the reason we were afraid of charging more is exactly what you're quoting "I'm not sure this is going to provide me with value yet"
The core code base dates back to the System/38, which was released in 1979. You might expect to find a whole series of older to newer dates in copyright notices for the AS/400 (which is not its correct name now, and hasn't been for ages) code base, but the copyright laws have changed a few times over recent decades and I don't know what the current requirements are.
Pseudoscientific claptrap about aliens and other-dimensional passages.

I grew up in Pendeli mountain, on the other side of where the cave is. The area used to be very sparsely inhabited and covered in dense forest (before a great fire burned it all). It is natural that people would discuss all sorts of superstitious nonsense about it. A bit further off on the eastern side of Pendeli there was a road where cars were rumoured to roll upwards. Like, up the slope. Against gravity.

So people will make up all sorts of stupid stories. Do we really need to post stuff like that on HN?
> Amazon doesn't owe you jobs, tax revenue, or anything else.

They don't owe anyone jobs. They hire people to do work, they make money off that work. That is how this works. Job creators are not noble or good or generous merely because they create jobs. It is a self-serving act.

They owe tax revenue on profits earned.

> that we should be able to beat and shame billionaires into giving us their money and providing these opportunities

We should be able to do that. Exterminating the billionaire class (by taking their money) would be a great thing for society.
> All banks are better than both Monzo and Revolut in almost all aspects

You probably have never used Monzo or Revolut then XD or perhaps you work for one of these banks. Hilarious comment though.
Also, perhaps crucially depending what you own and whether you're willing to change it, OpenBSD does not support Nvidia cards. So if you want a desktop with GPU acceleration, you'll need to be using Intel or AMD graphics.
There is a small prolog implementation in the book "On Lisp" done in 200 lines of code or so.
Thanks. I totally agree about that deathbed wish thing!
> It might be that bitcoin is similar to linux - used as a backbone, but not customer friendly enough to ever be used directly by customers.

That's my point; I think this is a possible and not unreasonable outcome for Bitcoin.
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