skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is a whole industry of universities of finding a technology and then licensing it out or spinning a company off to do something with it.

Kinda sorta, but that's a difference in kind.

Most university research tends to be "basic research", meaning that it tends to be focused on understanding how things work rather than developing anything that is immediately useful.

In the course of doing that, sometimes something immediately useful is developed -- but that's not the most common case.

This sort of research is not "finding a solution, then looking for a problem to solve". It's simply trying to figure out how our world works.
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What an entitled baby. No one cares. Unblock the domains if you want to see the images.
Yeah I considered trying some dynamic-extent declarations but just didn't care all that much. Can you post your version? I'm curious how far into the declaration weeds you need to go to get that extra 2x.

EDIT: I'm also curious how much using an optimized vector math library (e.g. sb-cga) would buy you instead of hand-rolling your own vector math. It would certainly be easier.
Twitter's algorithm can't ban white supremacists without banning GOP politicians
> It would not have taken more than some weeks to determine if the assets were not present.

The CFTC and DoJ were (and to all appearances still are, the latest news I can find on it is toward the end of 2018) conducting a wide ranging coordinated civil and criminal investigation of Bitfinex/Tether; there's no reason they would publicly release information before being prepared to take action, which wouldn't usually be when they first identify irregularities, but when they've chased down the responsibility and context issues enough to know the full range of charges they expect to file.

The idea that the NY AG not saying something about he results of an ongoing federal investigation in a state filing implies that the federal investigation immediately found everything to be just fine even though it continued for at least a year afterward and hasn't visibly ended is...not warranted.
well add in the 4 hour a day commute and that's actually 70 hours lol.
I’m seeing a lot less results as of yesterday, specifically in art related verticals. Guessing investors will be able to catch this pretty early from data sources like SimilarWeb. Also a guess is that the poor monetization is primarily google images traffic, not active users.

If the Google Images traffic drops suddenly after the IPO, that’s very suspicious and the SEC should investigate.

Anyone around long enough to remember Demand Media know what happens when you dominate a wide breadth of search terms.
Does a preprocessor really complicate the workflow?

Variables are still new and not fully supported.

Being able to nest css selectors is major win for me.

Reusable mixins is another.

I just don’t see a compelling enough use case today to switch to pure css for non trivial applications.
Well mummification involves removing the brain and major internal organs so at least physically it probably won't work.

I think the goal was to have a good time in the afterlife. And I guess by disturbing their graves we've prevented that from happening :-) Or, they had already enjoyed a few millennia there and don't mind the change...

On a serious note it is surprising to see them just let large groups of people in to touch and snap pictures
Hosting incoming SMTP requires doing network config at the provider level - stable static IP, port 25 unblocking, and static DNS.

Needing to host outgoing SMTP is an anachronism. It's only needed since client IPs are often considered dirty, so hosting it on your home connection can't fix that!

FWIW if you just don't want the responsibility of securing an Internet-facing server yourself but don't mind some config otherwise, you could sort email yourself with fetchmail+procmail or the like.
But if you have issued a lot of debt, does that not expose you to risk when the interest rate changes?

Additionally, don’t you think it’s true that companies are issuing debt to buy back their own stock, which they then intentionally overpay for in order to drive up the stock price?
I think the general tone about Tesla on HN is a bit strange. On the one hand, Musk is certainly guilty of creating "hype" around Tesla. He has a showman's aesthetic, and deploys it to great effect generating interest in his products. His timelines are always ambitious (or insane), and I never take them at face value. He boasts about capabilities that are presently out of reach and sound impossible.

On the other hand, what other company has yet brought such compelling EVs to market? Would Porsche have invested in the Taycan as soon/at all if not for Tesla? I think the years ahead will be filled with fantastic EVs, but Tesla should be given credit for showing what was possible. It's not like they've stop innovating, either. They just upped the range on the Model S to 370 miles.

A lot of the hand wringing on HN these days has to do with Tesla's self driving efforts and Musk's controversial statements about timeline and technology. I think it remains to be seen if he is correct that (1) Lidar is not required and (2) if his timeline is even remotely reasonable. On the other hand, which other car company is shipping a product as capable as the current 'navigate-on-autopilot' feature? Google is doing pretty limited testing in Arizona, Uber is doing so in Pittsburgh. GM has their cruise division. But none of these offerings are in customer hands. I really doubt there will be L4 self driving in a Tesla by the end of this year, but sometime next year? I don't think that is out of the question.
Bitfinex reports their prices in USD but I'm pretty sure that's bullshit. It's like saying "Each Tether is worth $1 because we say so." The Kraken price is much more accurate.

I suspect the price is holding up because most holders of Tether don't consider this a big problem. Either they believe that the NY AG will find that there are adequate reserves backing Tether after all, or they believe the reserves don't matter at this stage and other holders of Tether will continue to believe it's worth a dollar. Comments on this HN thread seem to support that. It's unlikely to change unless some exchanges go under entirely, and authorities in the U.S. don't really have the jurisdiction to do this.

I've been following coinmarketcap.com and openmarketcap.com, and also have a Coinbase Pro account that I'm using to track the Coinbase price (which actually diverged pretty significantly from the CMC prices this afternoon...must be a time lag). I don't have enough invested in crypto to get particularly emotionally attached either way.
There are other, better audited stablecoins now that have been growing for a while now.

The trust in tether has always been questionable, this will hopefully accelerate the move away from tether.
You can keep dumb money flowing by screaming fud a lot and appealing to emotion.
And add some crushed nuts like almonds
SR-71 pilots complained about having trouble telling stars from fishing boats to the point where an additional artificial horizon was added for night flying. There were reports of pilots rolling the plane up to 45 degrees without realizing it.
And those DEA agents are also in prison.
Eating sausage, eggs, cheese, and bacon will kill you but its better than dying from not eating it.
I wonder if this is somehow related, 550 BTC (~$3M USD) connected to 2016 Bitfinex hack were moved today:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/bha10i/bitcoins_fr...
I imagine that bitfinex/tether is liquidating reserves to hold the peg. They can keep it pegged until they run out of money and then not only is tether worthless but so are all your coins on their exchange (and probably most other exchanges that use tether). That’s how bank runs work.
>just because an evil company like Google or Facebook or Microsoft made an open source product that you are using, you need to shut up and stop criticising them!

It's the other way around, if you hate them and criticize them so much, you need to stop using their products.
> the current 2-day often turns out to be 3 or 4

I haven't had that happen to me at all. Weird.
I have IBD, carnivore works much better for me. I would not be happy with all the fiber of a vegan diet.
There is an overwhelming amount of evidence for human-cause climate change. It is one of the most well-studied effects in the history of science.

If you have enough evidence against it to disprove all of that, I would love to see that, and so would the Nobel prize committee. You'll be rich and famous, so please, post your work.
Pay tax in all countries where you're tax-resident. Although it's possible to optimise this by constantly travelling.

Look at the three flag/five flag theory on perpetual travellers.
My point is that many of the contributors to Lucene are motivated by the benefit it provides to their own companies and are paid to make those contributions as part of their job. Their contributions also benefit anyone else who chooses to use Lucene including large corporate entities such as Apple, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Akamai even those companies contribute little or nothing to Lucene. In other words, on the spectrum of people who are "monetizing" Lucene, Elastic and LucidWorks contribute far more than others and are called out about it only because their products are externally distributed and visibly leverage Lucene.
I just read today a tweet by one of the React Rally spokespersons how Hacker News is a toxic forum... yet it's the least toxic most data-oriented forums I've used in years.
I want to eat that now!
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> So...the CFTC isn't a State of New York agency, so what does this have to do with the reading into a New York AG action that Tether must have been solvent otherwise the AG wouldn't have sat on information since then?

Because it's pretty hard to imagine the CFTC would not have communicated with the NY AG if they had the info about Tether's insolvency. Also hard to imagine NY AG not contacting CFTC before filing.

> (Also, the CFTC and US DoJ investigations were still active at least as recently as November of 2018, which doesn't sound like they found that things were A-OK, more like they were—and presumably still are—trying to nail down the details and responsibility/liability issues surrounding identified irregularities.)

Again, with regard to insolvency, it's pretty hard to imagine CFTC would allow Tether to continue operations for more than a year if they had evidence of insolvency.
What's the lesson? That cryptocurrencies have different risks than other kinds of financial technologies? I think that is pretty commonly understood already.
You can get a virtual mailbox.
I often think (worry?) that this would be great material for a dystopian sci-fi novel. Something about a rogue strain of engineered DNA killing all the crops and leaving the world foodless. Kinda like the ice in Cat's Cradle.
It’s funny that you say that about pharmas - I’m not terribly informed but I’ve sure read a lot recently about big pharma following that model quite a lot actually.
uBlock Origin works in a browser; DNS blocking works in everything (notably mobile apps). Do both.
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> I think consumers would be much more ok with paying for reading a news article at $0.01/read. But alas, such options aren't on the table. I do concede it's hard to prove the reason for current transaction fees is what I attributed in my post, but there is evidence for it.

I think you'll find that very few people are willing to engage in any degree of per article mental gymnastics to read a news article, and will instead be very very selective about what they read, with ruinous effects for local news.

If Spotify was not $9.99 flat fee you would likely not happily leave it on all night or use it as background music for fear of what it was costing. The difference between the way people used metered and unmetered internet was huge. Charging any kind of fee on a per article basis would have profound impacts on the way people consume media.
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That's funny b/c we have that in our EE version.
Sorry, but I can't take anyone seriously writing this on Twitter, the most toxic platform of them all.
Apologies in advance if this triggers anyone.

Way back when I was starting as a systems engineer at one of them-thar unix workstation companies, my mentor in sales laid down a bit of learning on me.

He said "anything you give away for free has no value." His context was that here we are selling big expensive hardware, and while the software is cheap, it wasn't free. I wanted it to be free so as to lower barriers to use the systems. I wanted dev environments to be free, and pay for support if you need it. Again, to increase usage.

You can see similar concepts in what companies decide has no value, by what they are willing to bundle for "free". Cell phone plans in the use are doing 2-for-1 deals of some sort. The carriers believe their services have value, and the phones are merely a means to deliver their value.

OTOH, the cell phone vendors believe their devices are the value, and try to give away software they think will make their devices look better.

Yeah, I know, you pay for it in the end. Costs are always borne by the customers.

Amazon is leveraging its market dominance in ways that are hard to view other than as anti-competitive. I do suspect that eventually, they will be held to task for that. But that they will likely keep operating in that manner for as long as possible.

Azure, with its shared success model, may actually manage to convince OSS projects to work more closely with them. It would not surprise me in the least to see licenses rewritten to be friendly to the shared success model, and hostile to the do whatever it is you want model.
Wait, what's so foolish about buying debts for a discount? There's an entire industry (collections) devoted to that. Sure, that time they lost, but hindsight is 20/20.
Climate change affects and is affected by almost every industry on Earth and is the biggest problem facing humanity. It makes sense for it to be discussed on nearly every topic because it is relevant to every topic.
> "It's very mysterious, and they still seem to exceed our aircraft in speed"

Not sure what balloon exceeds the speed of a jet aircraft in the same body of air.
It's still commonly used in Southern and Soul food in the US too. I'm staying in Virginia right now and all the local grocery stores have lard and fatback.
RSI? Well that’s a bit of an exception. I personally interpret it as a more enduring meritocratic signal than attending any specific college.
I worked 60-70 hours a week for 6 months and destroyed by health (actually programming for 50+ of those hours, tracked time since it was billable hours for a consulting firm). Finished the project by the deadline I was hired for, but quit soon afterwards and within 2 months I was in the ICU, and then in and out of the hospital several times with some serious chronic health issues that I'm still recovering from 2 years later. I made a lot of money but spent the next year barely working and recovering my health. Doctor's weren't 100% sure it was stress/work related("possible" it contributed), but I was pretty sure. All things considered, it was a losing option despite the pay. I could have done it at age 25 but not at age 45.

Now I work 40-50 hours and week, make even more money(for where I live, average by SV standards), but it's still a high pressure job. I'd gladly work 25 hours a week for 1/3 the pay.

Why isn't there someone disrupting software development paying experienced people like me a low salary for 20-30 hours a week? I'd still get over half as much done as I do working 50 hours a week, I'm sure.
Perhaps your comment was meant to be tongue in cheek, but it sounds like this data exchange is a replacement for the World Wide Web? It's not IPFS is it?
I worked at Mozilla on Firefox OS until shortly before the project was killed. I wouldn't say that's the case at all. Andreas Gal was considerably more influential on Boot2Gecko and FxOS than Brendan, at least once it came out of Labs.

Mozilla really just got caught in between being an OSS organization and working with proprietary phone companies, carriers, baseband developers, etc. We were used to working transparently on wiki, Github and IRC, and suddenly had NDAs and confidential code that partners insisted on. There was a large culture clash, and the effort both took a bunch of momentum from the browser side and ended up putting unique technical constraints on Gecko and the Firefox Browser, both in terms of necessary functionality and on the development cycle.

That last could be a killer because you couldn't do anything quickly as everything had to be tested at length for interoperability, etc. FxOS was usually pinned to something older than the browser development (consider the security bug implications there) for extended periods of time, and teams had to shuttle fixes back and forth. Given that some of the changes were basically hacks to get the phone going and had no benefit to the browser, I'm sure that caused a lot of friction.

Partners also wanted to see formal processes guaranteeing their stake, and that was at odds with the more "steer don't plan" way Mozilla tended to run. The people that were brought in that were more familiar with formal process and could make partners happy weren't as familiar with Mozilla's community or culture, and that also churned things a bit.

Basically, it was a perfect storm of issues to deal with--Brendan leaving was just one of them, and possibly the least important. Morale wasn't awesome, and the window of opportunity for a new smartphone OS was closing--if it was even open in the first place.

While there was some talk around shifting to feature phones as a focus/market gap (basically what Kai has done), it was very late in the game. After a point, I think a decision was simply made to cut bait and get back behind the browser again. Quantum was the (IMO very good) result of that focus.

Honestly, Mozilla did as well as I'd expect any organization of its type and size--which is not as well as I'd expect a greenfield organization tightly concentrated on the goal to do. KaiOS is that latter thing.
Hmm. Kind of like explosive bombs are considered "normal weapons of war" but then somebody comes up with a nuclear bomb that's orders of magnitude more powerful and people start freaking out
Frustrated pilots got Navy to stop dismissing UFO sightings
It doesn't really integrate the Pi-Hole distribution itself, but by default it uses two hosts file (see https://github.com/trailofbits/algo/blob/master/config.cfg at line 72).
Using a virtual mailbox works well. The only pain is when their address changes for any reason. (Which has happened to me once) Or, if you want to change virtual mailbox providers.

Essentially, they scan in the first page of anything sent to your address, then email you a copy and wait for instructions (Scan all, Forward, or Destroy).

Works really well. Yachties have used similar services for years.
Communication overhead is a major limitation when growing team sizes.
I'm a fan of Open core... the issues come down to a lot of the time, projects will reject contributions, and have pulled features that allow competition with their non-core features.

On the one hand, I really do understand the needs here, on the other I wish there was a better option.

I wouldn't even mind seeing something like the new MongoDB license + open-core as a non-profit organization that funded the development of several shared projects, where what licensing it does get is directly towards development. It's much different when you are absolutely profit driven.

There are a lot of software problems that are hard, but the results can be shared.
In the same way that eating raw meat has "different risks" than eating cooked meat.
The devastating consequences of being poor in the digital age
Do you mean sunflower oil? That's the only oil I've seen in homes in France to cook fries.
Google Stadia will support “a variety of business models”
From arguably the main Spanish newspaper, El País : ( In Spanish. )

https://elpais.com/politica/2019/04/23/actualidad/1556024164...

Basically, WhatsApp seems to be calling their use of the platform 'automated spam' which doesn't really look like an accurate assessment.

Their use of it is the same as from the other political parties involved in the election. Not clear what prompted this.
I honestly have never seen the value in pre-processors when writing CSS. I think they abstract a lot of low-level understanding of your UI and make your stylesheets overly complex. They definitely keep things sane when doing CSS at very large scale (for example dealing with color palettes, fonts, etc) but are not that useful when you're writing different components with different rendering needs.

Nowadays I just do functional CSS (Tachyons, Tailwinds, Fractures, etc). It has some drawbacks but you can go faster and change things more atomically without breaking everything when changing a class, and you have the safety given by the fact that every property have the same level of specificity (which can be overriden by JS generated style attributes, in case you need to manipulate the DOM directly)

Also, you can address your rendering needs atomically which works very nicely when you're writing components in isolation. They also are an excellent approach when doing server-side rendering since you can store classes combinations in variables that can be passed from one template to another or used and overriden in the same template as it gets evaluated by the server. It's almost like a pre-processor without the hassle of recompiling your sheets.
The institution should be straight down the middle.

I cannot agree with this; both the left and the right are motivated to manipulate world views in order to control perception of the world and the direction of social progress.

The institution should cover the mainstream social perspectives and attempt to ascertain the motivations behind them.
It should not, however, base its own perspective on any number of transient world views (at least not without transparent and reasoned analysis) - the middle line is not unbiased.
I'm not sure if wireless shifting will ever become standard. I have an ebike with di2 and I haven't noticed any reason I would want it over regular shifting. You also have the problem that if the battery goes flat you cant shift gears.
> Too many words for nothing.

I'll spare you from my meaningless words from now on. Cheers.
From the article:

Photography is not just a system of calibrating light, but a technology of subjective decisions. Light skin became the chemical baseline for film technology, fulfilling the needs of its target dominant market. For example, developing color-film technology initially required what was called a Shirley card. When you sent off your film to get developed, lab technicians would use the image of a white woman with brown hair named Shirley as the measuring stick against which they calibrated the colors. Quality control meant ensuring that Shirley’s face looked good. It has translated into the color-balancing of digital technology. In the mid-1990s, Kodak created a multiracial Shirley Card with three women, one black, one white, and one Asian, and later included a Latina model, in an attempt intended to help camera operators calibrate skin tones. These were not adopted by everyone since they coincided with the rise of digital photography. The result was film emulsion technology that still carried over the social bias of earlier photographic conventions.