skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, I remember the old InterNIC hostmaster forms. FTP it from a site, fill it in, hope you didn't screw up a space somewhere, wait. That's how I got my .org that's old enough it has been legally able to buy its own drinks for years.

As for this:

> Even back then, .Net and .Com were never enforced for a particular purpose.

Maybe we had a different experience but I was actively turned down twice for .net domains because the listed organization wasn't a network operator. One time was for a local computer company that wanted a name ending in "NET" and the second was for a small co-operative ISP (and the rejection said to go to .org, funny enough). You could be right about .com; I wasn't ever turned down for registering in that zone but I only remember people caring back when having a .com wasn't "cool" because it meant you were "commercializing the InterNet."
> The end of Payless is just another private equity story

There have been a few of these, lately. I'm having a hard time telling if the debt PE loaded the firms with is the problem, or if it only sped up the inevitable. PE doesn't buy companies because they're doing well; it buys them because they're failing.
Having grown up in a nothing-but-Western-music culture, I was unsure what to think when I first heard Nonesuch's gamelan album 'Music from the morning of the world'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdJMesV7UP0

Here, "nothing is right!" ... but I was delighted. It was quite a while before I could understand why !!
I gave up trying to invent something unique (because trying too hard tells you that you are failing), but I constantly contemplate on ideas to make something that already exists better. There are many things that are already great, but some weird or restrictive design decisions are making it impossible for me to accept their 'greatness'. Take the G5 Power Mac, for instance. At the time it really was one of the greatest products Apple ever conceived. But then came some weird design decisions, partly due to IBM's inability to provide more efficient chip designs and it all went to hell. Coolant leakage, overheating, insane power consumption. Since then I've been trying to come up with ideas to make the Power Mac design a thing again, but with another system inside.
for reference a link to the previous conversation is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12854895
It's a hell of a lot closer to China than to Philippines or Japan.

FWIIW it was historically used by forces which threatened Chinese sovereignty, including Japan. Since Chinese leadership actually reads history instead of making stuff up as they go along, as Westerners do, that's probably why it's such a sore spot for them.
The point of having the umbrella with you for the day is so that when you walk out the door and it’s raining you can open the umbrella.
Thoughtful and intellectual conversations require good moderation, this is hardly a new concept.
Clayton Christensen publishes “The Innovator’s Dilemma” in 1997.[1] No incumbent is safe. It can be easier to be first to market, but being first doesn’t mean permanent victory. If you believe your solution solves a problem people have then it’s a fine choice to keep going.

Also, you’re going to need alignment between your funding, the skills of your team, and your proposed solution.

[1]: The Innovator’s Dilemma, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma
Hi Rahim,

Thanks for liking the landing page and the excellent suggestions.

1. Pricing - we will soon have a pricing page followed by a self-checkout option
2. "No Credit Card Needed" - will be incorporated in the new design. Thanks for pointing this out, had skipped my mind.
3. Yes, we are planning to make Review the default behaviour for the row.

Cheers,
Rushabh
On the flipside, maybe this version better emulates (a subset of) technical writing? So if you're tuning the design of e.g. a book or thesis, this is more representative than actual Lorem Ipsum?
I agree with you on many points.
The restaurants analogy is especially true when the provided service or product is very simple. Additionally if the size of the user base does not influence the experience of the individual user there is no need to catch up in this area.
Competitors can be seen as a proof of concept and are not a real obstacle if there is no network effect involved.

I also agree that not starting a project if it doesn't have unicorn potential is ridiculous, but I don't feel like there is anything to explain there.
> It makes sense: as media capture reaches maximum fidelity, creative expression increasingly involves the purposeful choice of infidelities.

This reflects what occurred in European art from the 1850s through the turn of the century: paintings becoming less “pixel perfect” as Realism [1] gave way first to Impressionism [2] and then to Expressionism [3].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(arts)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressionism

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionism
China could also use mainland family members as leverage, which might explain its otherwise-surprising influence over HK citizens outside its official reach. (Could they really credibly threaten to abduct him a second time, with the whole world watching?)
What if you have three groups: One with a small software startup team that, by some criteria, is judged super passionate about the product. Another from a corporation where at least one lead programmer is super passionate about the product (usually the "owner" in agile talk), and another corporate project with a shit ton of programmers, but no clear passionate programmer in love with the project.
I have had very good luck using mkmkv. It runs under linux/mac/windows and has a very no fuss interface that generates a un-encrypted but otherwise bit-for-bit accurate copy of dvd/blueray disks. Nominally it costs $50 but a free 'beta' key is posted on the forums once a month that allows it to be used for free indefinitely.
Also worth noting the downside of scale: some opportunities are "too small" for a Microsoft or Google to pursue. Google revenue for 2018 was $136.8B. Extra effort to possibly address a small niche segment of a market, that would improve revenue by $1M per year, is too small to draw anyone's attention.

However, that same $1M/yr is enough to sustain a bootstrapped business and even possibly build the credibility to raise a larger round and try to win the space.

If a company is already solving a problem, a better question to ask is "why didn't I know they exist?" It may be that they aren't properly tailoring their marketing to the target audience, in which case you have a clear opening.

As a "personal anecdote", we (https://sheetjs.com/) offer a variety of solutions for problems involving structured data. Before we started, there were plenty of solutions but every solution had various compatibility issues or didn't work with our data. Even in 2019 companies turn to us because of compatibility issues with Google Sheets or Excel 2019. We went through the same analysis and concluded that neither company thinks there will be a meaningful improvement in revenue or marketshare
I tried it and only ran into a couple of issues:

1. I was using VCV Rack on Windows, but I think my friend was not, so you may need to tweak Git's line ending settings

2. Some changes you just don't want to merge. The other person could have different audio output settings. There can also be rounding errors in the knob values so sometimes the values can be edited slightly even if they were 1.0 before, even if you don't think you changed them, which makes merges a little noisier. But `git add -p` made short work of cleaning that up.

Edit: This is also assuming that you coordinate who takes turns editing at one given time - "ping pong" is easier than free for all.
An (interesting, but impractical) solution to this problem would be to use astronomy to deduce the current date first, which should be good enough to validate the certificate.

See this QA on Astronomy StackExchange: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/12886/get-date...
Of course most of the commits are by a small number of developers: Nobody else cares about the project enough to commit.

However, the interesting claim of the paper is that restricted numbers of developers increases code quality. However, having skimmed the paper, I'm not really convinced. I see a lot of posturing and quotations from other literature, but very little in the way of data analysis. I'd be extremely happy to be proven wrong, but I don't think this paper has done the analysis to back up its claims.
I'm going to draw a hard line and say No. There is no subset of writing that produces anything that looks like this.
I run it alongside my regular consulting work, so I suppose it's not my full time job. It's also a fairly new business so I'm not too sure how successful it will be yet.
What streaming could enable is more diverse niche channels.

If you've got a second-or-third tier channel, you're not setting your own price. You're a "for 8 cents more per subscriber, we'll also add this" sidebar in the ESPN contract negotiations. This probably puts you in poor control of your economic fate.

If you go ad-supported, eventually the marketing sector will realize that individually-addressed, anayltics-slathered and highly categorized eyeballs on digital are worth more than the pig-in-a-poke eyeballs of advertising on traditional broadcast. It might require developing centralized inventory and selling systems, but it's coming.

A good example of this is the anime market. It's funny to look at all the ads slipped into old products: "pester your cable company to carry (long defunct anime channel #229)" Crunchyroll can go direct to consumer and control its own pricing and accessibility, and it's at least treading water despite a market thart's undergone major deflation from its peak.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brake-by-wire
I don't think they were implying that reposts are bad. I guess they were just listing out links of discussions on previous, similar submissions if we want to check them out too.
Does looking it up afterwards help or not?

Imo, its better if you start working on it, propose your solution and then see what exists. This might just help you think and ideate in an unbiased way
Do they not hire adults? That’s disgusting.
I am not OP, but in the blog post the author mentions he works for Transloadit, which (after googling it as I wasn't previously familiar with it) is a service which handles lots of different file processing tasks for developers (e.g. image manipulation, audio/video encoding, virus scanning, etc.)

If you are a service selling a product targeted towards developers, I can't think of better marketing than something like this, where tons of users will use it for free, but many users (like me) who hadn't previously heard about your core product will find out about it through this.

EDIT: One thing to add about the marketing angle, another commenter mentioned that this was posted multiple times before reaching the front page, and some of the generic "Awesome! Will definitely try this!" comments here by low-karma users makes me think there is some astro-turfing going on. That said, I don't really mind it. Author created a useful tool, open sourced it, and I'm now glad I know about it. Kudos to him and if it helps more people become aware of his business (which obviously funded his creation of this open source tool) more power to him.
Among a great many other passages:

For the world being fallen:
"Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned." (Romans 5:12)
"Cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you shall eat of it all the days of your life; thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field. By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread until you return to the ground..." (Genesis 3:17b-19a)

Our mission on Earth:
https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/topics/Charity
Note that most of these quotes are very often used (and quotes here) in such a way that it wouldn't even be sustainable to survive and continue giving. You have to use your brain, even with Biblical commands, in order to carry them out it seems.

Take note here that I don't even think any of this is necessarily moral or a good idea. But it's easy to find!
In the US, I used to tutor in a college's "Learning Center", where students could come in for free tutoring from staff who'd be hanging out there.

One student who came in was very elderly; I don't know her age, but I think she mentioned great-grand children. And what she wanted tutoring on was her math homework.

She was studying how to add single-digit numbers. We must've worked on it for like 3 hours. I had no idea that the college taught a course like that; in fact, I strongly suspect that there was something else going on. And I was kinda confused about why she'd even want to learn about how to do basic math like that.

But she seemed to find joy in it. She was certainly an enthusiastic student! I don't know if she really walked away with a strong command of the material, but it was good to see someone so happy to have gotten to study.
I bet somebody has a Gnu/Linux rig using ALSA with well below 5ms round-trip latency, too.

The plus to CoreAudio is that any system it runs on has probably been designed so that a non-technical user can get something like the low-latency you're describing by default. The minus is that hardware probably costs at least $800, and CoreAudio doesn't support things like the RPI.

The plus to ALSA is that it runs on things like RPI, with the minus that non-technical users probably won't get round-trip latency below 5 ms without paying someone Mac-level money for hardware designed especially for Linux audio.
> less than 5% of Hub users (x2)

That they know of. Not sure if I will keep highlighting this.
What on earth would 200% test coverage mean?
Yes,

Guess it depends on the business.

Large companies I've worked at with several hundred people have multiple dish washers per floor, cleaners going round kitchens on the floor making sure cups/dishes are in the dishwashers, running regular wash cycles and emptying.

Small offices with a handful of people normally have people put cups in the dishwasher at the end of the day and turn it on when leaving.

I guess maybe it's the medium sized companies that have an issue? To many people for a end of day cycle to work, not enough people to justify multiple dishwashers/full time cleaner to keep things in order.
One of the things I've never found an explanation for is the voice these guys use on the radio. Where did it come from?

The 'airline pilot' voice we all use these days comes from Chuck Yeager, and everyone trying to sound cool, but these guys sound always sound like they're telephoning the front desk.
I read an article years ago about how urban design in China post-Tiananmen has deliberately incorporated features that prevent mass protests. Narrow, labyrinthine alleys are hard to clear out and control. With sprawling, eight-lane highways, it's relatively easy.
Well, when I was a kid you could say at least we aren’t buying K-Mart or Pamida shoes. Foot Locker or its equivalent had the name brands.
The emotional de-attachment is needed for many people I expect. I once raised a small herd of bottle calves. The day I sold them to market is the day I dropped any dream of raising livestock.
It's a 'Simultaneous Localization and Mapping device' (SLAM) that will give you its position, velocity and acceleration in 3D. There's quite a large [1] literature on the subject.

[1] http://www.arxiv-sanity.com/search?q=slam
Not if it descends faster than 9.81 m/s^2 (or slower, since a deflated balloon will create a lot of drag), neglecting a violent downdraft on what looks like a pretty normal day.
Is the Chinese "superblock" the same thing as a Soviet "microdistrict?

If so, the article is off the mark, the whole idea of the concept is a less car-centric life. You're supposed to commute to work by public transport and walk inside your "superblock" during leisure time.
Before property taxes you had things like the lord demanding a certain amount of labor per year. Plus some amount of goods. For a minor noble inability to supply that without reason would result in being replaced.

Taxes are less intrusive than say being press ganged to spread asphalt on I80 at 2am for a couple of weeks.

At least for me.
I run NTP at work, more specifically, we use GPS time sources to synchronize a wide-area paging network (by wide area I mean over an area nearly a quarter of a million km square). Timing is extremely critical for our application to work correctly over an area that size.

The only viable option for us is about 3 (or more) rackmount NTP appliances from a well known vendor which have the GPS already integrated, support for multiple time source modules and power supplies, and have integrated software to drive the whole thing. This means we need to get GPS antennas installed on the roof of the datacenter and fiber run from there to our racks.

Our remote sites (connected by 4G and VSAT) also have GPS units, but they are connected via RS-232 serial (not USB) and suffer from some of the synchronization issues you describe. They fallback to the time servers in the datacenters in the event that the local GPS time source is rejected.
One big difference between the film and music industries is that film content is much much more expensive to produce. So I don't think we're going to see a comprehensive $10/month service any time soon. Even as cheap as music is to produce now it doesn't seem possible to make a profit with prices that low.
Their main revenue is actually Adwords.
Savings accounts seem pretty useless, only because the interest rates are currently ridiculously low. My credit union currently pays 0.3%.

But here's an interesting question: since the Fed pays banks 2.4% interest on excess reserves, why can't someone start a "bank" that simply takes depositors' cash and passes through the interest from the Fed from reserving it all? The answer, I believe, is that while people have been/are trying, the Fed doesn't want that - the interest is supposed to subsidize conventional banks and not be given away to the general public.
I try to ask myself, if I execute this idea really well vs. really badly, what is the full range of possible outcomes? If the range isn’t that big then the problem doesn’t really matter. This has saved me from building a lot of cool, neat stuff that isn’t important.

I think my current idea (a new IDE) has potential to be very important, and I think I’m going to do 2 or 3 key things better than my competitors, so I just have to do it :) It doesn’t matter who else is doing it.
Slack is centralized Irc clone with better UI.
I still get them as a push notification through news sources.

The local track record has been pretty awful, including absurd lack of geo targeting, too late, referencing a tiny town that nobody has heard of, lack of useful timestamps (last seen at X, but when?), an early morning “end amber alert” alert and the “no charges, father picks up his son from school all the time, no further details will be released”. I think there have only been 5 alerts, 4 were in the above categories and the last still isn’t clear if the child was in danger.
Neat, thanks for linking this, I hadn't heard about Redtail before.

This camera only tracks its own pose - it doesn't output a full depth map, according to the FAQ.[1]

The visual odometry algorithm ("Elbrus") in that video can supposedly be run on an NVIDIA Jetson board (unclear which one) at 30fps.[2] It seems like this runs on the CPU, which is pretty impressive.

The Elbrus demo app uses the $450 ZED stereo camera[3], compared to the $200 T265[4], though there's probably nothing stopping someone from using Elbrus with cheaper cameras, including possibly this one.

1. https://www.intelrealsense.com/tracking-camera-t265/#fl-accordion-5c70b553f2112-tab-0, "Is this a depth camera?"
2. https://docs.nvidia.com/isaac/isaac/packages/perception/doc/visual_odometry.html
3. https://store.stereolabs.com/products/zed/
4. https://store.intelrealsense.com/buy-intel-realsense-tracking-camera-t265.html
And they'll sell you a AUD$25 reusable cup.
Probably not.

But if you're hitting the frontpage twice a month, probably time to pay for a plan.
Phrased like this, I agree with you. I didn't think about it like that.

I agree with the poster below. Outside of classes, lecture notes, the books I listed, and Sutton/Barto (Intro. to Reinforcement Learning) have taught me the material. I use Goodfellow to brush up before interviews or jog my memory about topic I don't work with very often (like computer vision).
You just need to convince everyone to get their own unique cup, and they’ll take care of it themselves. Just make sure there’s plenty of dish soap and replace the sponge at an appropriate cadence.
Personally, I don't agree with a lot of Dr. Harell's definitions for SL and ML to begin with. He mostly talks about clinical trials, a field I don't have much knowledge about. But a lot of the arguments seem to attack a strawman defined as ML.
I must say that's a very good comparison. Musk has mastered the use of the media for his purposes. Just like Trump has done over the past 40+ years.

It's a Very fair comparison. We might be seeing president MusK in 20 years.
Payless has been my favorite shop for years.

I buy shoes that look like leather loafers but as basically as floppy as slippers. This is exactly what I want and need. They are respectable enough to wear in work situations but I can also use them for martial arts or any other physical activity. Basically, they're nearly as good as barefoot, which isn't practical for various reasons.

I find it ironic that a lot of folks buy $120 "toe shoes" when they learn of the value of nearly barefoot ... when they could just buy the proper cheap shoes instead.

(Edit, I've studied bodywork, balance system and such. The arch supports and such of "good shoes" are arguably actually back for most people, interfering with the natural rhythm of walking, etc).
No, actually in my area they decreased. The bicycle shop we had for twenty years closed, probably because the price of enthusiast bicycles were getting too high. We had a phase with razor gas and electric scooters and hoverboards, but they died too.

The scooter thing really only targets the college student, and the adult who lives like a college student. Single, spends most of their time on or near a campus be it school or work, etc. It can't really scale past them, because that form of life is extremely limited compared to others and congenial to it.
DEMO can be postponed indefinitely.

Have you heard of any significant investment in maintaining structural integrity of the tokamak itself?

Fission reactors need to maintain the integrity of the coolant pipes and the physical supports for the fuel, all just passive structure. I.e., valves, pumps, etc. are behind shielding.

It's all just basic physics. And basic politics.
Let's say we pick spots in the desert to store all our trash. How we do we move all the trash from the population centers to the landfill? Fleets of trucks and railcars which emit tons of CO2 and would be better used elsewhere in the economy.

If we place landfills closer to population centers, then there is a much high opportunity cost for more productive uses for that land and greater care required for preparing the landfill so that contaminants don't leak into the water supply.

Either way, it would be better to reduce landfill space as much as possible.

More philosophically, we can't just keep living this "throw away lifestyle". There is a finite amount of land and resources. My generation is growing up facing a total climate collapse, and this way of thinking is the major reason why.
> it is not guaranteed that `memcmp(&i, &p, sizeof(p)) == 0`.

Even less intuitively, it is not guaranteed that `(void*)i == p` since `i` is not an integer constant expression, even if the value is known to be 0.
Interview with a Darknet Activist