skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not the technology which is slowing down the enterprises. That is done by processes, humans and risk.

You cannot stay up to date permanently, because that introduces risks all the time. Once you earn money, there are layers to protect the money stream.

You can loose tons of money by not staying modern, that is true. But you can loose everything when you ignore a risk. The trick is to find a balance.

And all of that is not considering investors and their idea how the money should be used.
The absolute confidence with which people provide post-hoc explanations is great. Often the data is available for those explanations before the market behaviour and with $10k you could make $500k on SPY but everyone can explain after the fact but no one can predict.

Absolute cock and bull nonsense.
Good. Backup and restore has always been clumsy and broken.
Firstly, the choice is not between a 2% loss or a 40% loss. The choice is between a 2% loss and a 0% loss by buying or selling at the fair market price. Why take a loss if you don't need to?

Secondly, I don't think I agree with your descriptions of the mechanics.

I will quote user @lsc below: "You realize that "money laundering" usually isn't about tax evasion, right? it's about figuring out how to take money gotten from an illegal venture and figuring out how to make that money come from a trackably legitimate source, which means paying taxes on it"

You want to spend the money, which is why you are bringing it into the "white" economy.

Nominal loss is acceptable to many people. If you are worth 10 billion, you might be okay with taking a 1% loss on a million dollar home to just to speed things up. This has nothing to do with it being black or white. You will be just as sensitive or insensitive to losses if you don't need to take them. That is, if you can be patient and get full price, you will do so.
You're investing in driverless cars at this point.
Yet there are plenty of wood-framed, and even wood-foundationed, houses in older cities that are already at 100+, and a decent portion of those are pushing 150. The problem with more recent construction is not the material, but the building methods (specifically corner-cutting in mass-produced tract houses).
The good thing is that they are already starting, so that the red flags are risen early.
It's nothing like the .com boom, CNBC was everywhere. Uber just happens to be really well known by everyone and is thus getting a lot of attention. Your hair dresser isn't likely talking about the Zoom IPO like they would have in 1999.
why do you think I'm arguing anything? thats what you got out of that? be an issuer or a bank and sit it out if you aren't.

lets see, if I was arguing anything it would be that the media should talk more about the deal flow itself and pretty much ignore secondary market trading, showcasing the convenants of the deal in comparison to other deals. How about celebrating with the underwriters and profile the MD who worked on the deal - if we are putting large public deals on a pedestal - lets pop champagne with the people that actually made money and stop pretending like the secondary market price even matters, or maybe cut occasionally to a live stream to the underwriter's traders trying to hold up the stabilizing bid like it was a poker match if the market is dumping, and if they fold under too much selling pressure have silly music and the hosts on picture-in-picture laughing as if it was a Japanese game show
Amazon didn't turned profit for first 5 years or so after IPO. If you go back 15 years down the history, you will find many articles/analysis doubting if they would ever become profitable. However no one doubted that online retail was the future and brick-and-mortar stores will increasingly become part of the history.

I see a lot of parallels here. No one doubts anymore that app-based cabs are the future and traditional taxis business is pretty much done now. So if you take that as foundation then there has to be one or two companies that would eventually dominate this business. With first mover advantage, Uber has good chance of being one of them.
Full self-driving cars will be unproven/limited to certain very specific areas for a while. And Uber will have to deal with the liability from accidents, too, plus the media storms (and they have enough of those already).
The slug has to be computed at INSERT time (e.g., by a trigger) and not allowed to change thereafter.
> Anyone who successfully outsources in China is very hands on about it.

> send your own QA

Rarely... what American big co. managers understand under "sending your own QA" is usually something like:

1. Hiring a lawyer "doing" that

2. Lawyer company hiring a manufacturing auditing company

3. Auditor company hiring an inspection and certification expert

4. That expert company finally hiring a professional services company which sends an underpaid engineer temp to finally visit the company and do a 5 minute check.

It sounds absurd, but I've seen that way too often, few times with things happening in this exact sequence.

Being hands on about that is the key. It is not rocket science, but so few are doing that... almost like if C-levels of American companies get some kind of "yuck factor" dealing with Chinese.

Those guys have it almost as an unconscious impulse to hide behind a wall of 10 legal counsels and other agents whenever anything involving China has to be done. Before coming to the West, I could not have imagined that it is even possible to hire an attorney for doing something like that.
At the same time, JIT can outperform native code in some specific circumstances, since there are certain optimizations which can be proven safe at runtime which can not be guaranteed to be safe at compile time
I have added all the links posted here on LearnAwesome's Clojure topic: https://github.com/learn-awesome/learn-awesome/blob/master/p...

If you do come across other useful resources, please do send a pull request.
You could set up a fob-mixer party with your neighbors. If everyone gets together and swaps fobs every once in a while it would make it really hard for the landlord to track any one person.
Not according to AMD. It's more an organizational issue, since to make it open, they'll need to maintain two versions. One without DRM garbage (HDCP), and one with it. And it costs more to do it naturally. As usual, DRM poison ruins technology.
the usual C2 kicks-in is 10000, not 5k. But that statement about warming up is true only for microbenchmarks.

C1 which is an dumb (but not terrible) compiler tends to be at 1k, and if you cannot get your code to 1k, likely it never needs compilation, so no point to spend time and space on performing the said compilation.

The 'prewarming' does include perf. counters, so it's guided compilation to boot.
It used to be that I would pop open Amazon any time I want to buy anything. Now I have to actively search for my options since Amazon is no longer my go-to option. It's unfortunate but Amazon has made it clear they care about their merchant dropshippers over keeping a measly customer like me.
There's was an episode of the This Week In Tech podcast from 2015 that interviewed LibMill's creator about its design concepts:

https://twit.tv/shows/floss-weekly/episodes/358

And HN discussion from 4 years ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10585505
> While I generally agree that incompetence explains a lot of decisions

I'm not talking about incompetence at all.

> They’re one of the most long term oriented companies in the world.

That still doesn't change anything. More information or a very long term focus isn't going to make someone see that being a successful #2 or #3 player in a market isn't a failure.
The hard part with Android, especially in regards to icons organization, is that this is entirely Launcher dependent, so it would more be the job of your launcher's developers to allow those data to be properly backed up.
> Boo to the underwriters(Morgan Stanley), who seemed to misjudge the market's appetite

Who suffers if the price is quickly adjusted downward by the market? How is that different than it being released at that final market price from the get go? Naively I would think that setting it too high ensures maximum value is captured rather than going to early traders.
When it comes to embedded in particular, Qt has another major disadvantage: you have to pay royalties (!) to Qt, and worse yet, you have to deal with their slimy salespeople.
There's made in China and made in China after strict specifications. Completely different kettle of fish.

See companies like Suitsupply, for example.

This being said there's a movement back to locally made in the US and Europe in the mid/upper range. The customer "connoisseurship" culture eventually made people more aware of things like fabrication quality, its relation to price and the trappings of branding.
I'm not talking about the limits of finitism.

In an ideal setting a human can do anything a Turing machine can, because a human can do all the elementary operations. The converse is not necessarily true, and seems most likely to be false from the evidence we have.
Those commits are referenced. Parent comment is talking about commits that have no references to them (ie. You make a commit then remove all traces of it, it is not gone completely until after a certain amount of time).
Tim Cook: Four-Year Degree Not Necessary to Be Proficient at Coding'
Serious question: why do you care about 400MB vs 50MB of dev dependencies? Is your internet connection slow? Are you running out of hard drive space?

There are projects like create-react-app and Parcel which offer very reasonable zero-configuration toolchains.

If you care a lot about runtime dependency weight, there are lightweight libraries like Preact (3kB).
Dogs quiet up as soon as you feed them some tasty treats.

We already have a couple fake cameras on the property as deterrents that were installed by the landlord. I just happened to install a real one because I wanted a little evidence collection since I've been a victim of theft more than once in the bay area.
Well, they did have one other contractor. Also, back during the full time days, there were periods of no work or periods of waiting, due to either bad planning or maybe due to how the monthly magazine schedule works. Waiting on articles to get done, waiting for people to respond back, etc. Also probably cutting corners on fact-checking.
Why do you think we are barking up the right tree? The assumption that mind = NN seems wrong on many levels.
So what are the chances that a version of Git, or something like Git, will be developed that is suitable for the average user? Someone above made a comment about how easy it is to do X in Git, and then preceded to write lines of Git commands that are as arcane as anything an alchemist could come up with. If that is easy Git, I'd hate to see what hard Git looks like.
Why? I use firefox+uBlock on my phone, and don't have chrome installed on any devices.
I'm surprised no one mentioned the "Crazy Good Chocolate Pop Tarts" algorithm. That one took my by surprise :)

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51952511_De-amortiz...

Hilarious
I presumed it meant roughly halfway between "indistinguishable from native-born American speaking General American" and "Typical ESL accent for people who were born in India."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_American
This is absolutely gutting the American small-business retail sector and the jobs that sector supports. I'm not 100% confident what the solution should be, but these types of stories really underscore how tech is enabling accellerated job displacement in America, and the need for new solutions, perhaps like Andrew Yang's UBI proposal.
The cost of per mile was from AAA.
Even if it does, we know full well from decades of medical and aerospace disaster research that these problems can only be treated if they are handled as systemic and non-malicious. Punishing these people will make it harder to learn from what happened here, and make it harder to prevent these sorts of disasters in the future.

We know people act irrationally or apathetically in disasters. The only way to fix it is to design systems around peoples' inherent weaknesses. You can't go around punishing these people after the fact, we need to understand why they acted how they did and how we can stop it from happening in the future.
Then the vertical padding should be reduced. As it is, they're inconsistent and looks bad. I really want to like KDE and I used KDE 3, KDE 4 (from 4.8, since every version before that was a shitshow) and Plasma 5 for a long time as a main driver and is still my go-to in my backup laptop; but the visual aspect has always been an utter failure despite the massive improvements made in version 5.
Could you explain a little more about how you define business automation consulting? I’m an IT generalist (manage an in-house department plus an outsourced vendor) and the cross-department automation (e.g. let’s remove this dumb paper process and connect these key systems via APIs) to create efficiencies is what I find most rewarding. Curious to know how much you specialize and how you find clients...
This is something that would be extremely useful on microcontrollers, where you do lots of event-driven programming. Any sane design ends up with a state machine (or a hierarchy of state machines) driven by events generated in interrupts.

Coming from Clojure, I wished for something like core.async on microcontrollers for a long time — a way to convert most of my state machine into sequential code, with the complexity hidden, all while keeping everything in C (converted/generated during compile).
Because unfortunately, behind the scenes, Time Team is not well respected in the Archaeology community. A couple of their archaeologists were good, but overall they misinterpreted sites and caused problems when they dug (e.g. mattocking through a skull by mistake).

This site is quite old news really, but the notable part is that they've finished some of their analysis and are publishing, hence why it's showing up in the news now.

Source: archaeologist partner
I should put this kind of tech on my office door. If I want to leave, I have to feed it a dollar. An amazing savings plan or just motivation to keep working instead of going to veg out on the couch.
The reason others prefer immutable constructs is due to a permanent and stable cognitive blockage. [About half of programmers are incapable of understanding mutable state](https://blog.codinghorror.com/separating-programming-sheep-f...). Functional programming solves this problem by removing mutable state (almost) entirely.

Functional programming is like speed controls for trucks. It enables people who have cognitive blockage to produce some work for the company. So it's going to be promoted over and over.
We're moving to a state where only the rich can afford good information and everyone else is in the dark.

What makes you think the rich have better info? Most people with money read the Economist, which has real reporters, but anybody can get that. There's the Bloomberg terminal, but that just gets you news before it hits Bloomberg Business Week. "Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg terminal".

There are expensive newsletters which cost hundreds or thousands of dollars a month. They're devoted to very narrow subjects. If you really need to know what's going in in offshore scams, get Offshore Alert. For oil, there's Platt's, which is now part of S&P. For ports, there's the Journal of Commerce. For security issues, Kroll has some expensive info services, but they're mostly repackaged content from elsewhere. There's the good old Dines Letter from James Dines, the senior gold bug. (Dines is always saying "the sky is falling in this specific area", and he's often right.) And there's Hulbert Financial Digest, which rates all the other newsletters.

It's more about knowing where to look. It takes some money, but not a whole lot.

You can pay financial advisers, but as a group, after fees, they underperform index funds.
The article is paywalled.

So, there is a documented decline in vaccination, but is there a documented link between that and spread of measles?
I'm not really sure about that.

Just like taking investor money at anytime it can be a way to get extra cash to continue to build the company quickly.

The IPO system is wonky and there are bad examples but I don't think your rule makes sense.
They could also stop spending so much?
Seriously, you view veganism as some kind of elite-pushed new world order way of cheapening human experience into livestock? I would think that if the establishment were interested in veganism, it would be more popular.

How many billions of people can earth supported wih a hunter gatherer diet? Veganism is one of the least CO2-intensive diets possible in a modern society (https://i1.wp.com/shrinkthatfootprint.com/wp-content/uploads...), and if you knew any vegans personally I think they'd agree with measures to reduce the CO2 intensiveness of agriculture. I'm not exactly sure who or what you're arguing against.

With regards to insects, plenty of people are interested in insect and wildlife suffering, including vegans - https://reducing-suffering.org/why-vegans-should-care-about-.... Under some assumptions, by reducing land & water use, veganism does reduce insect suffering somewhat. Clearly, it also reduces livestock suffering.
Why not? If you are delivering value, you should charge something for it. Whether you call it a "fee" or something else is up to you.
I charge a weekly retainer regardless of the amount of time I spend during the week. I practice continuous delivery so the client can see the daily progress during the week. At the end of the week the client has the option to continue with the next week by paying the retainer for the previous week. Client has access to all code and infrastructure automation scripts if they decide to take over the project at any time
Amazon was cash flow positive within few years (6?). Uber still isn't
> Dear ImGui

> Cons

> nothing jumps out to me

Why the fuck am I reading this article? I could easily write "nothing jumps out to me" or list a bunch of first-impressions of GUI libraries. But I can tell you off-hand a list of cons for Dear ImGui, and if you're interested there are plenty of Qt -vs- ImGui comparisons out there based on people who have actually switched and done a writeup. (Various people fall on both sides of this debate.)

https://deplinenoise.wordpress.com/2017/03/05/why-qt-and-not...

https://gist.github.com/bkaradzic/853fd21a15542e0ec96f726815...

There are definitely use cases out there where Dear ImGui is a clear winner over Qt, and vice versa, and if you're going to compare GUI frameworks I would expect to want to know more about them.

I have a big ole' bag of Google Docs that contain comparisons like this, but I sure as hell ain't gonna share them because they're full of subjective declarations and I stop evaluating an option as soon as I've figured out it doesn't meet my needs.
Java 8? I wish! We're mostly stuck with Java 6 and 7! :(
where i live, it's customary to either re-key your door after you rent a new place or just exchange the whole lock.

as long as you give back two copies of the key by the end of the lease, landlords usually don't care.
PostgreSQL Hardware Performance Tuning
The Nest thermostat is really great, a huge leap over crappy manual thermostats and the expensive "high tech" ones that others in the traditional industry have tried to create (bryant, looking at you).

BUT when I purchased this, this is exactly what I was afraid of. I think this is a huge problem for the software industry in general: most companies don't last. As a customer you can't place your trust in them as they'll be gone in 5 years.
I found it quite amusing, specially as the author failed to present a case -- and an example -- of what he perceives as being a modern paradigm.

I mean, how many projects he listed that supported any kind of UI design tool?

To me, Qt is still leaps and bounds beyond any alternative, not only in is design-centric tooling but also ease of use. Doubly so with Qt Quick. I find it quite strange that those aspects of Qt aren't readily noticed by someone who bothers to produce a list of C++ UI toolkits
Well, that certainly congrues with my personal experience. As the oldest of eleven children, I left home with a strong set of babysitting skills and an even stronger desire not to raise any children of my own.
Packet is a great alternative to the NuGet client.

Tooling might be slightly behind Java's, but honestly, there's not much in it. Dotnet Core might only have been available on Linux for a few years, but Mono was around for many before that.

The dotnet CLI also recently got the concept of 'global tools', which are akin to NPMs.

A lot of work is also underway on better cross-platform performance analysis, crash dump handling and the like for runtime in production[0]

Is there anything in particular you miss?

[0] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-diagnostic...
I've never understood why so many people were/are so bullish on Uber. I understand that ride hailing is a big deal, but it doesn't feel like it's that hard to launch a new ride hailing company.

I'm basing that opinion on what I've seen in my city. When Uber and Lyft left Austin, there were lots of alternatives that had existed or popped up to fill the space.

Aside from brand recognition, what does Uber have that the others don't?
> The popular conception is that "substantially all" of the rise in price has been due to foreign speculation"

Just like "money laundering caused x% of the increase in property prices", the above is a meme, the actual truth of which is unknown. Once repeated enough, such memes eventually turn into axioms (~popular "facts") that then contribute to erroneous thinking in all subsequent discussions.

Once you fully realize and appreciate how important this rarely noticed aspect of human/crowd perception is, reading the news (and discussion about it) becomes a very different experience, I highly recommend trying it.
> Force pushing branches is what you do when you have pushed a branch that you expect to modify. Why would you do that? Because that's how Github and Bitbucket have taught people to conduct PR's.

I thought that Github and Bitbucket encouraged people to push up additional commits to fix issues in their PR. So, a typical PR will end up with a commit history like:

Implement a feature method
Add calls to new feature method
Update to version 1.2.3
fixing missing semi-colon
addressed comments
one more thing
now its working

People who force-push are the ones who are trying to keep a clean commit history (meaning you don't have those extra 4 commits). So, your point about a PR being bad UX versus a rebase is correct, but not for the reason you state.
It's not up to Google, it's up to web developers. If they find <portal> useful they'll implement it which forces FF/Safari to create their own implementations.

Dart ran natively in Chrome once. Why doesn't it now? Because webdevs didn't care enough to write native Dart on the front-end.
The people who actually build the project get paid salary unlike investors who risk a lot of money and may never see a penny out of it if things go south which they well may.
Wait, what's stopping the community from helping out? It is open source, right?
> Sampling bias means people who like performance are optimizing the languages used for performance …

Also, there might be a something to prove "bias" :-)
I would personally pay twice the rate I pay for an Uber to be honest.
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