skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I genuinely don't think many, if any of them are going to succeed

Yea, of course. All it takes is one though.
That is what money represents/has represented historically:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_theory_of_money
Climate change represents a near- to mid-term threat to human civilisation
If you want a Flutter-inspired framework that works on iOS and Android, have you considered, uh, Flutter?
When capitalism calls the shots on science
The Dinos of ‘Deep Time’
> try to claim you're just taking little mustaches or the swastika back.

In what universe is Paganism as iconically linked to Naziism as simplified swastikas and almost-square moustaches?
Not to mention the inability to split the keyboard - on iPad sized devices, trying to thumb type without a split keyboard is a huge pain in the ass.
A $20 USB microscope can turn almost every object in a classroom into an amazing image.
Survey- How quickly Bay Area tech employees expect to pay off student debt
Not saying I think the pricing is “right” but separate for $999 is actually great for people who would’ve previously paid $999 for the whole display & thrown that part away in favor of a VESA mount.

Look at the bright side: you save $800 if you buy the VESA adapter instead … BYOA VESA mount, though; because the $199 adapter is just a dongle.
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https://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-r... (excellent resource by patio11 on how to present to CRAs and build a paper trail, although more focused on responding to identify theft)

https://web.archive.org/web/20190604005100/https://www.balla... (Sample letters to respond to debt collectors)

Disclaimer: Not an attorney, not your attorney.
Yes and the system isnt all bad. For example, in the country I reside in, getting caught on drug charges would require paying a large sum to get off, which is kind of cool, because a primary job of police is to enforce drug laws, but who should pay for that, really? Should all the people who dont do drugs have to pay, like we do it in America? This way, the salaries of the police aren't paid by the whole populace but rather by the people guilty of the crimes enforced. In a sense, drugs aren't illegal here, they are just very very expensive, and that's possibly just as good of a deterrent.

But, the system is mostly bad. Corruption really holds back poor countries. Lobbying really holds back rich ones.
So essentially Nebula offering is a human-curated selection of algorithmically-driven popular content on Youtube :)
My, those machined lattices will cost a tremendous amount of
money. That's some Juicero level of madness but of course Apple will get away with it.
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Every time you see those statements?
Awesome, I never knew you could change the diff drivers in git. Such a well-thought-out tool
> I wonder if it would be possible to make a "meta-framework" that uses a single code-base to compile user written code into source code written in those 3 frameworks respectively.

Flutter targets native code on Android and iOS and JavaScript for the web. It has very mature compilers for all three.
You're hanging that "absurd" entirely on my use of the word "smaller" and ignoring the first clause of that sentence.

The simple truth is that an antitrust case needs to show some kind of harm to consumers, not to browser vendors. Again, I cite the fact that MS straight up murdered Netscape and got away with it (though it was scary for them for a bit).
This will go well with Xcode 11 supporting Swift Package Manager natively.

https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
The halting problem is formally proven to be undecidable.
And Nikon SnapBridge!
In case anyone is wondering, this refers to the display stand. I guess you don’t pay the $999 if you already have a display arm.
I really don't think Apple expects any average consumer to buy this. It's definitely aimed at creative professionals and enterprise, hence why it was launched with the Mac Pro and costs an obscene amount.
Gene edits to ‘CRISPR babies’ might have shortened their life expectancy
As a former Rhode Islander, I firmly believe that the East Bay Bike Path is the single greatest piece of infrastructure in the state.
Had no idea they were shipping zsh in newer versions. Neat! Wonder why they don't do Bash 4.x.x+ versions by default. Or, do they?
Since the beginning of television, there have been commercials and sponsored television programming. NPR/PBS has made the user supported thing work along side the sponsored programming. The audience is willing to put up with ads in exchange of viewing free content. However, those commercials never had the ability of doing me or my viewing platform any harm. Apart from malicious ad networks, my biggest complaint over the ads is there entirely total lack of concern for placement. Content created for commercial television has breaks where ads occur. YT and other platforms just randomly place an ad based on some formula for number of ads per total run time.
Head over to adafruit.com and you will find some cool ideas
That's exactly my point though. Marketshare isn't necessarily a good indicator of a problematic monopoly.

Imagine three companies dominate a given market. In most geographies, say 75%, the two larger companies company with each other and a few other stragglers. But in 25% geography a single company dominates. Who is the problem? The larger companies, competing in their broader market or the smaller company?

As an example, Amazon is dominant in the online retail sphere. The have an incredible market share. But I've never once had this create a significant problem as a consumer. Why? Because the cost to me as a consumer to use something else is tremendously low. I can use Walmart.com which has gotten quite good. Or I can go to a physical store.

Meanwhile, people must tolerate anything Comcast pulls, though they certainly have a smaller share of the personal internet service provision market than Amazon does of the eretail marlet.

To me monopoly is not dangerous because of marketshare. It's dangerous when the bulk of its customers cannot switch to another service. Particularly so if the market is difficult for new competition to enter.

I get all the open internet gripes about Google and what they've done with Chrome. And that thing could become a monster. But the reality is that you can switch today with minimal impact to an excellent alternative browser.

People buying a drug like HUMIRA are not so lucky.
Don't think ads, they are identification services.
I don't claim he is innocent but the argument is well known: he is a journalist who had no obligations to the U.S. government regarding what they want to maintain a secret, so going after him for exposing some information is mistreating him and by implication an attack on independent journalism. U.S. government had a breach of security and ethics, but instead of quietly fixing that they target journalists.
I feel the same way, but ultimately, nobody is forcing me to use their platform. It’s sort of like a restaurant that plays a very particular kind of music very loudly at all times; if I want the food, I better get down with the music, or I can always eat somewhere else.

The problem, I think, is that I am forced to choose Apple’s App Store when I buy Apple hardware. It should be the default, sure, but I should be able to install other app stores with other policies.
This is silly. Since when is engineering competence measured by how few lines of code you write? Arguing about lines of code sounds like a topic a Hollywood TV show might broach to appease normies, when in reality the conversation is meaningless.
It has a ton of great features, but my favorite is definitely the improved tab completion.
I don't think it's bold at all to say one _might_ be, as I purposefully did. I'd think that'd be pretty obvious, actually.
Indeed. The point was it was the default shell, being true to its heritage.
Video, photo, and iOS developers.

Plus anyone with a really high end designerly interior design.
Why the Proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem Doesn’t Need to Be Enhanced
And interactive.
Well, your system is very different from just having expensive drugs in one key respect - being poor results in imprisonment, not a lack of access to drugs.
A nice nod to NEXTSTEP :) (in name, and I suppose somewhat in the original and largely unrealized microkernel philosophy of having more things in user space)
I'm confused. I simply don't work over 40 hours a week (average), don't want to lower my per-hour salary. Increased compensation for overtime would be the only thing to make me work over 40 hours, I think that's fair. Genuine question: why can't you go home early?
> Our goal is [..] not to maximize work/life balance.

Maximizing work/life would mean work is large compared to life. So not maximizing it means work won't take up much time - your worries are misplaced, OP!
That's a take I hadn't considered. Google's danger as a monopoly comes more from the situation in which you have to pay them to sell anything on the web. That's a much more interesting argument.
Yep, it's so much better now in computer vision with early publishing in arxiv and published code. I feel like that is one of the reasons why research in CV is progressing so fast.

Also, I think it is something of a fact of life that you can't put all of the details of your algorithm in the paper, not just paper length limitations. I have actually tried to do this in two papers by putting all of the details in the supplements and the work to explain all the details and justify my choice of parameters and decisions for edge cases is almost as hard as writing the main paper. It becomes hard to justify the time spent pretty fast. Also, putting this in the main paper makes your beautiful explanations be tinged with edge cases and digressions haha.
And you can use MacPorts or (presumably) Homebrew to install newer versions of tcsh or pretty much any other shell you might want.

I personally never stopped using tcsh after the bash switchover since it's what I knew and what my dotfiles were already written in, and I'll most likely just keep using it in Catalina too.
It’s also bad for business. Healthy workers do healthy work and they can do it for years without becoming disillusioned or overly invested. If the company fails because of uncontrollable factors like an economic crash they will still have a healthy personal life and all of that time won’t feel like a waste.

The attitude of trying to solve one big problem now so that everything else will fall into place doesn’t work. If the company does well you still only have your work. You don’t just win a great life because you reached a finish line in one area. I take issue with the term “work-life balance” but every job is a lifestyle job. The line that the OP quoted is just start-up talk for “hustle culture”.
The main reason is issues with the GPLv3 license, as discussed elsewhere in the comments.
Imagine leaving a 1000 watt space heater on by accident in a spare room for a month, then trying to get a "refund" from the power company because you "didn't intend" to purchase all that power you used. That's effectively what this is - signing a service agreement and forgetting to turn off a service you don't need, causing an irreversible loss of resources. You're not entitled to a refund for a service you agreed to pay for and actually used, just because you forgot about it.
"Typically founding team means a stake in the company"

Which usually ends up being nothing. I've been promised this multiple times in my 20s for working crazy hours and no 'life balance'. Even if you get a sliver of a percentage, it will be much less when the company gets future rounds of funding..if it even lasts that long.
In some senses we are past the halting problem once we accept that that we will sometimes be wrong or unable to answer. Insofar as it has anything to do with the halting problem, this seems just another way to do that. Might still be useful.
You may not like it, but that doesn't remotely resemble theft or fraud in any way.
It's a lot easier to buy bitcoin than property.
I've been using zsh on Linux for years (4 at least). I was creating a function that I wanted to run in zsh and bash and I think I ran into some option that was available on a builtin command in bash that wasn't on the zsh version. I can't remember the details though, because it was a while ago. I imagine if someone deals with shell scripts more regularly than I do they would run in to those kind of problems more than me.
It really was terrible. The audio transcription puts you right there and just wow.

Like you said think it was a number of factors, but I think the other ones only compounded the situation after the master committed the ship to the float plan. He looked at an outdated weather report, didn't know the software options to plot the up-to-date hurricane overlay, company didn't permit any of the crew to have access to the ship's satellite phone (and presumably internet access that came with it) for a double check, then he dismissed a confrontation about the conflicting NWS report from the 2nd mate, then delayed pulling up updated information from his lagging weather report and went to sleep.

The design of the ship played a factor too. It was a retrofitted RO/RO ship with waived safeties, and had ventilation hatches that apparently lowered the de-facto lowest-point-of-water-ingress (forgot the actual parameter name) underneath the unsecured hatches, which were - unsecured. Or unreliable. New engineer started doing maintenance mid-storm, lowering the engine's power output, and I think the loose cargo became a factor afterwards.
I have verified that yes, 30 hours is acceptable where I work. It's been done, along with 32, and possibly shorter. Most of the benefits are pro-rated, but we'd still cover the health insurance fully. You could still work more and get paid for those extra hours, but the benefits would be according to how many hours you signed up to work.

Examples: If you sign up for 30 hours but work 50 hours, you get 75% benefits and 125% pay. If you sign up for 32 hours but work 38 hours, you get 80% benefits and 95% pay.

The job post in the "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2019)" item today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20088647
If the two parties could take a breath and not automatically reject ideas from each other they might find that there is some common ground here.
No, it says that unlimited PTO _can_ be abused, not that it's inherent to the policy.

I'm currently at a company with unlimited PTO, and the way it works in practice here is that people feel free to take random days off without having to count beans, on top of a pretty normal amount of scheduled vacation: I currently have six weeks of vacation on the calendar for the rest of the year (that's more than I would've liked, but I have a few important family things going on overseas). On top of that, I'm taking this Friday off for a visiting friend. This unavoidably means my career will be worse off than if I had an extra couple months of productive work this year, but I'm an adult, capable of making this decision to trade off marginal career success for marginal quality of life improvements.

It's beyond me that some people who don't want to take responsibility for their careers are so desperate to tear down policies that treat employees like adults capable of making their own decisions. It's not like unlimited PTO is being offered to those who are one paycheck away from starvation. Take a normal amount of PTO if you want, take less or more if you want, but don't pretend like this choice being offered is exploitation.
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Yep, nothing better for users than a platform no one develops for with great update infrastructure.
> 120 in a Honda? Is that safe

The real problem would occur if you had to stop or slow down as quickly as a car that actually had real brakes, like say an AMG. But hey... it would be HUGELY hypocritical of me to say that you should Not have done that.
In the past I've done software for healthcare, happened to learn for the privacy conscious:

You can order anonymous labs for yourself through various online lab resellers. At the lab, you don't need ID, just the order. You will get lab results; you will not get a diagnosis.

For instance, and not a recommendation:

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Q: How can I keep my “true” identity from HTD, and the clinic, and the lab?

A: Easy -- Don’t give us your phone number or credit card info. Then mail us a money order (a money order does not require your name or signature) for the total amount due for the blood draw and lab analysis. We will e-mail the lab paperwork to you when the money order arrives and email the lab results to you the same day we receive those 2-3 days later. If you want, you can even set up a temporary (and free) “alias” e-mail address at Yahoo! (e.g.,“YourAliasName”@yahoo.com) for the purpose of our email communications with you...

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Q - Can I do anonymous testing?

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Both of these work with LabCorp and Quest Diagnostics, DuckDuckGo can help you find more.
I don't really understand the licensing issues that well, but if what the poster above you said is true, I wouldn't really want to have to sign software that ships with my computer when it should just run out of the box.
>No programmatic ads

The "programmatic" qualification has a weird smell and makes me suspicious.
True, but Facebook’s overwhelming majority of users is completely irrelevant now that their brand is irreparably tarnished. People will still use Facebook for a long time, but nobody other than a few diehards and people who work there want FB to own their identity. I believe that particular grand vision is dead for FB despite their user base.
Cable franchises are legal monopolies. What could go wrong?
No need, that’s now baked into the Shortucts app itself.
Pardon me, maybe I just misunderstood the whole idea of research but what good is it if it's not reproducible?

I can understand it may be part of a meaningful personal journey for you, and I appreciate that. But if no one else can validate your research they're correct to discredit it and you.

So what is the optimal outcome here? Should we hold you to a standard of reproducibility even if it is as minimal as, "actually describe your algorithms correctly and don't misrepresent a piece of code and a paper?" Or should everyone just decide you can find your own research funding if it's not going to help anyone?