skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some other stories on this:

https://nypost.com/2019/04/05/lyft-threatens-morgan-stanley-...
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/05/morgan-stanley-which-is-un...
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/lyft-threatened-morg...

The NYPost story includes the detail "We bought stock in a special acquisition vehicle and then the individual investors in the special acquisition vehicle shorted shares through Morgan Stanley ... Pre-IPO investors are contractually barred from reducing their “economic interest” in Lyft for six months, which includes shorting the stock. But sources say Lyft investors worked around the lock-up language by positioning the bets so that they won’t benefit from a decline or a rise in the stock. Instead, they simply lock in their IPO gains, which were significant."
Thank you for making your CLI a first class citizen. I have been growing tired of typical web app interfaces and am glad to see something that just gets straight to the point instead of trying to “Wow” me with graphical UX.
It's actually even worse than that. If you're cleared highly enough, "competing states" will actively try to entangle you in these kinds of compromising scenarios, expressly for the purpose of maneuvering you into a position where you can be blackmailed.

One age-old example is the classic espionage "honey trap": https://foreignpolicy.com/2010/03/12/the-history-of-the-hone...
Go expects to have all dependencies available at any time, downloading them from Internet if necessary. Cyclic dependencies are not a problem in that case because all dependencies are built together.

Packaging for a distro requires building Go packages isolated from the network in a chroot and having all the dependencies previously built in the same manner. So it is an iterative process, building blocks by building blocks. If you have a cyclic dependencies, you can't build iteratively, and you'll have to excise certain part of the code to eliminate the cycle.
Good points. Thanks for writing.
There is, Aether. (https://getaether.net)

Funnily enough, it also implements some of the stuff mentioned here, like public visibility of moderation log so the users can see what mods are doing, and with which justification.

(Disclosure: I’m the creator - prior HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18370208 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19161171)
Every time I see this posted somewhere, I'm delighted to have sent Nir Sofer a few bucks through his Donate page.

I haven't actually used these tools in years -- I'm mostly off the Windows bandwagon now -- but back when I was referring to them constantly, it was wonderful to be able to say "thanks" for all the time he saved me.
Why do wealthy people need to even buy admission for their children into elite schools? Don't they have enough independent wealth to support not only themselves, but their children, as well?

With that kind of money, their children really don't need to cultivate careers... and even if they wanted to, surely they could do it the old fashioned way? And if they fail, parents can bail them out?

Or is it primarily driven by greed, and the parents want the kids to make a lot of money, so the family has even greater wealth?
RedMonk Q119 Programming Language Rankings: JavaScript Is #1
How do you strengthen your eyes?
if the verbosity of javabeans bothers you, you can just use the lombok compiler extension to get similar concepts to what Go provides.
IIRC: while it's not explicitly documented, x86_64 was late enough in the game that both windows and Unix systems have the same calling convention. Saves a lot of hassle :)
I think they do it for the prestige/status. This is generally what people want wealth for anyway, above a certain life-sustaining amount.
Why wait for a $150 phone or preorder a $649 phone while more or less the same thing is available on a $7 phone in India? I think that $7 phone should go on sale in other countries as well, either in its current guise or - probably at a higher price - without the Google bits. It would certainly be an interesting device to use in circumstances where pricey and vulnerable smart phones don't make sense - e.g. when crossing unfriendly borders, when working outside in the dirt where that smart phone always runs the risk of being damaged or lost, etc.
>positioning the bets so that they won’t benefit from a decline or a rise in the stock. Instead, they simply lock in their IPO gains

Sounds like they were reducing their economic interest.
I'd like to do my notes in markdown, but as a maths/cs student there's a lot of structure in the data (proofs, lemmas, intermezzos, sidenotes) that would be lost should I go down (eheh) the markdown route. I've been using Pollen [1] (you can think of it as LaTeX for web programmable in Racket and without cool typesetting, so yeah, not like LaTeX at all), but I wouldn't mind something more elegant and readable in plain text.

How do you (would you, did you) take your notes in college?

[1] http://pollenpub.com
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/x64-calling-conve...

After you read that, you might want to look at the LLVM source

https://github.com/llvm-mirror/llvm/blob/master/lib/Target/X...

/// The C convention as implemented on Windows/x86-64 and
/// AArch64. This convention differs from the more common
/// \c X86_64_SysV convention in a number of ways, most notably in
/// that XMM registers used to pass arguments are shadowed by GPRs,
/// and vice versa.
/// On AArch64, this is identical to the normal C (AAPCS) calling
/// convention for normal functions, but floats are passed in integer
/// registers to variadic functions.
No, WASM is slow. As a developer of TeaVM I can claim this. First of all, JS engines been developed for many years, while WASM is a new technology and browser engines don't optimize it well. Another reason is WASM was not designed to run languages like Java, at least in version 1.0. Here are the reasons:

* To make GC work properly you have to maintain GC roots. GC roots are static fields + variables in stack. There's no way in WASM to walk the stack! You have to maintain your own shadow stack, losing performance. In case of generating native code (e.g. x86/64) you can access native stack freely and finding GC roots produces no overhead (which is already done by JS engines).

* To make exceptions work properly, you need to walk the stack, and not only read it, but also write to it (in case of x86, update RSP direcly). This is not supported by WASM. But JS engines already do it natively, with no overhead for exceptions, until you throw then. With WASM you have to check after each call whether the exception was thrown or not, and that affects performance.

* In native environment you can do memory protection magic for different runtime things, e.g. to detect null pointer access, and that's not possible with WASM.

* In WASM you can't mutate code, so it makes impossible to implement lazy initialization logic without some overhead. JavaScript engines can detect that certain function got changed and de-optimize calling function, then optimize it again.

So, according to my experience and my benchmarks, compiling Java to JavaScript is a better option, both from performance and code size standpoint. WASM team is working on GC and exception handling, but they do it slowly and current design is far from perfect. I failed to convince them to just give access to stack, perhaps in some limited way (for security reasons).

And yes, the lack of access to stack even affects C code. For example:

int i = 23;
foo(&i);
Methamphetamine by itself isn't neurotoxic, but the additives it is commonly cut with usually are.
I mean, our axioms are pretty solid. They are axioms, though.

I like the gradations of “understanding” given here: https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.13...
As mechanically inclined person:

"Designed to narrower tolerance" usually just means it's more expensive and accurate. For bearings it's great idea if you want longevity.

Allowance on the other hand is completely different matter.
> Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

> — Adi Shamir

Source/context for this quote? I do find myself agreeing, but as this seems somewhat more atypical view I'd love to read more about it. Best source I found was this short article about RSA2007 conference, but I couldn't find the referenced panel discussion recorded or transcribed anywhere.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/rsa-2007-keynotes-notable-quot...

Overall I think these sorts of quote collections would be massively more useful if they'd contain verifiable sources.
College admissions scandal: They had it coming
Deep dive - https://yurichev.com/writings/UAL-EN.pdf
There’s patches floating around to change the limit on Masto, too. My instance limits you to 7777, and requires you to put it behind a CW if it’s more than 777. I know of an instance that gives you unlimited text if it’s behind a CW.
Free Will and the Law
> When we ran the tool through Virus Total we had a considerable amount of warnings and these were not only from the heuristic checkers.

To be fair most anti-virus has a massive false-positive rate.

I’ve had my own software, built from clean source with no fishy dependencies, flagged for whatever reason.

My trust in AV-tech is about zero.
> I checked the official register

Sorry for the stupid question, but what does this mean? How does one check this?
But legally that's a huge can of worms. Reddit would shut them down instantly.

And not necessarily by suing, Reddit could save itself some trouble and simply delete the subreddit.
Only read part of the article because I got sucked into reading about Mike Myers and his comeback...
By consensus of the Joneses.
How's that work? In every situation I've been in, the landlord opens the place for me, gives a tour, and eventually gives me a key.
I'm being somewhat vague about it now but hope to have news in the next 90 days.
When I first saw the subreddit, I thought it was a neat idea. I like the idea of digging into a tough subject and challenging our beliefs.

I couldn't put my finger on it for the longest time, but what I eventually realized was that I didn't like how inauthentic the whole thing felt. Changing a deeply held belief just isn't that easy, yet almost every thread has the OP giving a delta.

How it appears to me is that people have beliefs that they realize are either unpopular or controversial, and so they use the subreddit to learn what they "should" believe or at least a rationalization for ignoring their true beliefs.
Yes, it's called the web. Reddit's source is free [0], and you can host your own (sub)reddit, which no one will be able to take away from you easily.

[0] https://github.com/reddit
A friend built https://arguman.org/ a few years ago. It's a platform for structured discussions ("argument analysis") which uses a different (IMHO better) approach to discussions than unstructured text.
The fact that you keep encountering it suggests that it's probably something in human nature to associate words, that ultimately don't matter, with how we've encountered them in languages in the past.

As for associating the name of the language, the only one I can't get past on that is 'Pony', it just has too much MLP fandom association for me to take it seriously.
AOSP and its derivatives may be maintained by Google but they don't call home without the proprietary Google apps. Just leave those off and use something like F-Droid to get apps and you're Google-free. None of the Android devices I use (phones and tablets) has any Google-proprietary code installed, all of them work fine without such.
Does that mean pre-ipo investors can sell call options (when available) at the strike price = ipo stock price of $72 ?
I think maybe you missed the point of the article, which is the scientific breakthroughs alone aren't enough. Even if you create a battery technology that is, on paper, cheaper and better performing than li-ion, the advantages inferred by incumbency mean the odds are stacked against the newcomer.

I do think li-ion will be disrupted eventually, but it will be more like the process of solid-state drives replacing hard-disk drives. Only a combination of diminishing returns on incremental improvement of li-ion tech, and a competitor technology that is fundamentally superior, battle-tested in high-performance niche applications, and mostly a drop-in replacement, will create the conditions necessary for an industry switch. And even then the process will likely take many years to complete.
PureScript.

Almost like Haskell but without pragmas and generally less magic, as it is eagerly evaluated. It compiles to JS and has easy interop with any JS package. Also, PureScript by Example is a really fun book to follow in order to dip your toes in this language.
Yeah, one of my clients ran on OSS Parse for a while too but at the time of Parse.com shutting down OSS parse was not stable at all.

In the end we decided to rewrite the whole thing as a Java/Spring/Postgres monolith on Kubernetes. The rewrite took 3 months from decision to production and has been running fine for two years now. Initially on AWS and more recently the staging/dev environments have been moved to DigitalOcean in a couple of hours.

After the pending acquisition we’ll probably move the whole thing to Azure and I expect that to take a couple of days.
It seems like I got two stories mixed up. Here is one showing they started selling smaller bottles:
https://www.fiercepharma.com/financials/turing-offers-discou...

Here is another one where they charge $1 for uninsured patients that make less than 5x the poverty line (most Americans):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/for-s...

While not my original claim, my point remains, the 5000% number is incredibly misleading.
Do you know of any example of societies that were based on love, kindness, empathy and so on, and were stable for a prolonged time?
No. It is just that managers “sold” what’s beyond physical limits.

Selling what's beyond physical limits is pretty much what I'm talking about. The pressure to do this selling came because Airbus was selling nearly equivalent claims - but with planes that required some retraining. So you had both push and pull. Moreover, the pressure for selling what's beyond physical limits comes as you previously had a steady stream of progress pushing physical limits. Not exactly analogous to the end of Moore's law but it seems like there are some similarities.
The “Light Triad”: The Saintlier Side of Human Personality
Is it temporary safety though? A large enough DNA database might nearly eliminate serial rapists. That's one hell of an immediate (and permanent) benefit to trade off against some theoretical downside.

I'm not so sure Franklin would be upset.
My favourite quote is from cperciva:

"The purpose of cryptography is to force the US government to torture you."
In my country (Austria) there is a registry (called the "Grundbuch") where the owner of every parcel of land (and buildings, appartements, etc) is formally recorded. It costs about 10€ to get a record online. You type an address, pay 10€, and the website tells you who are the owners of the land and buildings at that address.
And if you type "Mail" in the search field in settings, "Add Mail Account" is the 5th search result. It's not that hard.
It's not novel, it's been used for centuries. The industry is a lot smarter than you think. But people don't value news and can't pay anywhere near enough compared to what they consume.

Ads allow people to read what they want, when they want, for how much they want, regardless of publisher name or how much wealth they personally have.
Setting up the factory, R&D for the drug itself, etc.
Joke Theft
Do you think the fedex founder should be in jail when he gambled company money at a casino and used the profits to save the company. He committed financial fraud, I am sure his credit lines don’t allow for the money to be gambled at a casino.

I am willing to bet most startups’ financial decks have material mistatements.
No it's the stuff they take when they are falling all over the indoor carnival ride.
Perhaps poorly phrased. I'd agree with the gravitational effects of unknown sources (aka dark matter) those of matter that we know of.
Hmm, fire engine trains, garbage trains, cargo trains... I like it!
Thanks for the links! One note about the last one is that it looks like it only supports WCDMA: 2100MHz so Verizon is your only option for 4G coverage but they don't support LTE B1/B3 according to this chart (could be outdated)

https://www.droid-life.com/2015/02/05/us-wireless-carrier-ba...
Very cool. We need things like this. Maybe to help with on boarding you could make a part of it be a reddit interface so I can just use Aether like a superset of reddit. Just a thought. Good luck with the project!
Most popular ≠ most important. When it comes to web development, JS is all we have right now. Of course it's going to be widely used but that's not necessarily by choice.
To that point, I'm linking here are a couple of images I took with my Pixel 2 phone while I was on vacation last year. The post-processing technology in the modern cell phone effectively compensates for intrinsic shortcomings in things like the tiny and shallow lens.

It takes multiple images at different exposures, detects edges/objects, and automatically composes the images to deal with backlight: https://i.imgur.com/01kVB3O.jpg

It simulates portrait photography by detecting which objects are close and which are further away, applying various levels of blur to several composed layers: https://i.imgur.com/M5h2q3r.jpg

In hindsight, I have no regrets using my phone rather than dragging along my DSLR on my vacation, particularly because I'm one of those ultralight "take only a 19-liter backpack" types. I just don't see the marginal benefit of whatever that bulky 15-year-old technology has over today's ML-enhanced technology.

But I guess your point was about longevity. For me, my phone serves many more functions than just photography, and so I feel that I get so much more out of it than just that one thing. In that sense, it's hard for me to tease apart the camera from the rest of what the phone does when I make the decision to upgrade it. I suppose I can give some signal there, in that I haven't found any reason to replace my Pixel 2 yet.
Beliefs usually aren't changed by one conversation, but that doesn't mean that a single conversation can't contribute to a person changing their view. If it's part a gradual process it can still have value.
Generally speaking in the context of meth as a street drug “crystal” meth is the purer form of meth, compared to other illicit preparations. It is called “crystal” because of the formation of large Meth HCl crystals, which only form when the concentration of meth in the solution being precipitated is high. Otherwise you get a powder of the same substance, generally at a lower purity. Crystal is still likely to be a racemic mixture of L/D-meth with various impurities, but fewer impurities than other forms made in the wild. By contrast Desoxyn (the pill you mention) is pure D-meth, which is far more potent than L-meth or a racemic mixture. You will almost never find enantiomerically pure meth outside of the context of Desoxyn, so in fact crystal meth is not, “the same as prescription pharmaceutical pills” because the legal, Rx form is markedly stronger.

In short, you’ve ignored both the issues of impurities and cutting agents in illegal meth, and the important stereochemistry.

The issue of mentioning MDMA, while it may offend your sensibilities, does make sense in terms of being in the same family as methamphetamine and amphetamine. They do have different effects, but they share a similar chemistry.

http://www.emcdda.europa.eu/publications/eu-drug-markets/201...

In addition both substituted amphetamines seem to be neurotoxic in similar ways. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3231568/

The difference in outcomes between meth and MDMA abuse may well have more to do with typical patterns of use and abuse rather than a fundamental difference in pharmacokinetics. If you’re going to feel as you put it, “triggered” by an article at least be so as a result of valid concerns based on the science.
I'd imagine it's like accounts, where it can happen without explanation or any reply when you ask for one.
I don’t think you know what the word bribe means. Payment in exchange for a product or service (e.g. admission to a college) is not a bribe. When I go to the store and buy a soda I am not bribing the store. A bribe is when you pay an agent of an organization to misappropriate the resources of or otherwise defraud their employer. Like paying a cop to not arrest you, or paying a college coach to pretend you’re a recruited athlete.
I can't find the source on the site. Can you please add a github link? https://github.com/nehbit/aether

I had to go search in some reddit thread to find it since if you search for aether you get a legacy project from Eclipse.

Also the source on github does not appear to be up to date with the version that is download from the site. (2.0.0-dev.6+1811211332.746ec27e.d on git hub and the one I downloaded is 2.0.0-dev.11+1903010147.3fd391a3)
But DNA needs to be copied to be analyzed. So we could invent a law that makes each person owner of the copyright to their own DNA. There could be legal penalties for anyone who copies the DNA without permission. Twins will need some special consideration though since they share the same DNA.
If you are even remotely into tools, construction work or DIY you need to binge-watch "Essential Craftsman"! It's one of the best channels for that kind of stuff.
Who is this "we"? When I graduated with a degree in bioinformatics, the offers I got were ridiculous, the best one was $54K near NYC. And I was already a published scientist with years of programming experience at the time. At the same time salaries for web dev were great, so I stayed in web dev.
Plan Airdrop Bot
Controlled on a city by city basis.

In chicago the land lord must tell you exactly where the money is deposited pay you interest, and provide a precise disclosure from the city (even if there’s no deposit) or the whole lease is invalid. Most land lords therefore charge non-refundable “move in fees”. Other cities are different.
It seems like, to obviously generalize, a need to look successful. "My son is a successful partner at a firm after graduating Harvard," instead of having to say, "oh, he is unemployed but it's because I'm wealthy."

Besides the education part though, the other thing I've seen with wealthy families is appointing kids to high positions in a family business, or saying they are "in real estate." I'm not sure why they just wouldn't do that instead of bribing colleges, but maybe if their kid is set on doing something the family will "make sure they can."

Some families even surreptiously won't want to let their kids learn or step out on their own, they want to be involved in everything even after they are adults. The kids in that case must allow that to happen, but probably not too hard to "give up" if you get to drive a luxury car and live in a classy apartment building regardless of employment.
I think in the case of a rebuttal, particularly when the original statement didn't provide any source, it is a useful practice to provide some type of source - even if was a simple reference. eg 'wikipedia' or '1st result on google!'.

Otherwise it's just a really uninteresting he-said-she-said back and forth, no?

I really don't think every statement of fact needs references - this isn't scientific paper writing. But where someone is calling out something specific as incorrect, I think its often worth a little bit extra effort to avoid things degenerating into something not much more interesting than name calling.

That said, neither of those folks owe me anything. :) I'm just happy I get to learn new things once in a while on HN.
They will rapidly find that 90% of their traffic continues to exist within the subreddit, therefore anyone wanting a good thread will post it there rather than on the website, and the website will rapidly atrophy and be abandoned.