skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DocuSign reaches 500K customers but stock tanks after Q1 earnings report
Sure. The problem with the argument I wanted to highlight wasn't the puzzle nature of the solution, but the fact that the OP chose to instead focus on the research angle. I mean CSP, Actor Model, Lisp have strong foundations that took a lot of research... as did everything else from Type Systems to Linkers to Compilers. That said, I get your point too, I might have misunderstood OP.
I like LimeChat http://limechat.net/mac/ for an open source app, it's been somewhat dormant but it got an update semi-recently.

Textual https://www.codeux.com/textual/ is a proprietary paid app that seems to be under more active development. I used it for a bit and enjoyed it, but prefer FOSS when possible and switched back to LimeChat when it got updated again.
Saw him for the first time today on Joe Rogan, I've never seen my own ways of thinking reflected so completely in one place.

I think he's wrong on the danger of AI, only because his case seems predicated on AI replicating a human mind and that ML is limited to tightly bounded problems - whereas it overlooks that causing extinction level events or facilitating global slavery are also bounded problems.

Looking forward to reading and hearing more from him.
Cloudera plummets 43% after CEO abruptly departs and company cuts forecast
I love IRC.

Only really been on Freenode and a few other smaller networks (since the glory days of EFNet et al were before my time) but since 2008 I've met countless friends, some of which I know in person and I love working on open source projects with small but dedicated communities, which often use IRC.

Now if you excuse me I need to go move my bouncer to another box :)
Thanks for reposting the source. Lots of great quotes like,

There are no get rich quick schemes. That's just someone else getting rich off you.

The most interesting part for me, however, is discussion of removing the element of luck. Naval doesn't clearly elaborate on this but keeps making assertions that anyone can be deterministically lucky. The only "insight" I could gather is: specialize in something, start business and sell products. Obviously, that's exactly where you need to get lucky: right thing to specialize in, right product to create and run business over long enough duration despite of million failure points.
Seriously, let’s spend billions in renewable investment and government lobbying to fix the climate crisis. Wow, this is getting silly. Broadband internet is just not a fundamental human need, a habitable planet is.
I don't understand why you're being downvoted. Carrying capacity is a thing, and it applies both at the petri dish level and at the biome/global level.
Germany Mulling Sending Warships to Taiwan Strait: Politico
We don't support it at the moment. Adding fonts is on the roadmap, but, unfortunately, I cannot give an ETA for this. What fonts would you like to have, we may be able to add those to Termius?
Right. This seems a lot like a strategy to use/monetize spare launch capacity.
What's Coming in Go 1.13
This is not a joke or an exaggeration, thanks to the NBN being switched from fibre to copper, my parents now have no internet when it rains, is windy, or there is lightning in the area.

All to upgrade them from 13Mbps to 17Mbps. Yes, I'm being serious.
IKEA is going to sell robotic furniture to maximize space for city dwellers
What if the invite is to something you really don't enjoy, and saying yes results in your sacrificing doing things that bring you joy? Is the yes rule reciprocated?
Democracy, like security, is a process not a state.

We'll sort these bastards out.. it'll just take time.
Then we still won't have our water batteries with water density better than that of a bucket
makes me wonder how many ideas die(d) like this because they can't/couldn't reach the adequate attention from the public.
Something like just 10% of global energy is provided by ~450 nuclear power plants.

NASA conducted a study about how different energy sources impact human health and found that nuclear energy had the least affect on human wellbeing.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/903/coal-and-gas-are-far-more-...

Nuclear research was killed in the 80's. We still use uranium instead of thorium, which not only outputs significantly more power but also cannot be used to creat nuclear weapons. Instead of engineering solutions we draft contractual promises to thwart weapons development.

People once dreamed of a utopia when reactors were first theorized. But, after a string of accidents, we grew too afraid to make anything better than light water reactors (which we almost didn't build at all until the Afghan wars caused oil prices to skyrocket) and we never got there.
That's an interesting question. As you say, it depends on definitions.

I would say that some betavoltaic devices would qualify, and perhaps some phase-change stuff that I can't recall right now. Supercapacitors are essentially batteries but I seem to recall they actually do ion exchange as well.
I've been lonely for so long, I'm almost numb to it. I'm 28, and sometimes I don't even feel human. I can go weeks where the only words I utter to other humans are during the 10-20 minute catch-ups with my parents who live 2000 miles away. My only consistent communication is with a group of ~5 guys on Discord, where we mostly discuss the game we play together via text. I have
never so much as cuddled with another person, much less kissed/held hands/etc. I'm so starved for physical human contact that it's almost painful.

Anyway, I recently went back to school to finish a CS bachelor's. I have zero friends, shitty grades, no internship experience, a criminal record (technically expunged), and a GitHub profile that's essentially empty; supposed to be graduating next week and finding a job.

I don't know why I'm writing this here. Despite the fact that I'm graduating next week, I'm somehow at an all-time-low in my life. And unbelievably lonely. Like I can't even express how lonely I am, it's just a pit. Basically been in this state for 10 years now. My 20's down the fucking drain.
>"You have the gist I would say. It's important to understand that Google separates the control plane and data plane, so if you think of the internet, routing tables and bgp are the control part and the hardware, switching, and links are data plane. Often times those two are combined in one device. At Google, they are not."

That's pretty much the definition of SDN(software defined networking.) The control plane is what programs the data plane - this is also true in traditional vendor routers as well. It sounds like when whatever TTL was on the forwarding tables(data plane) was reached the network outage began.
You can see how this is very attractive if you have a lot of launch capacity to sell :)
I’ve never seen the animated version. That is incredibly well done. The way it takes scrolling into account is brilliant.
Yes, I'm well aware that it's a demonstrator for an eventual all-business-class supersonic passenger jet, which will pollute carbon into the atmosphere like there's no tomorrow. I don't think that's particularly cool.
We are now adding .deb package. Currently in beta, but should be released pretty soon. You could try it here https://www.termius.com/beta-program
I can't say I understand all of that but I love a story about investigating something that is happening but seems impossible.

It often happens with my code.
Chase Bank is imposing forced arbitration (unless you opt-out)
Or maybe she just does not know which tech to invest into.
If you need a GA, you haven't decomposed your problem well enough. Which is to say, if you need a quick example of an optimizer for a high dimensional space and you just want to tinker with a few cost functions, then GA is the right choice.
Thank you, Tom, really appreciate your support!
Disclosure: I work for Google, but not on Cloud.

No comment. ;)
Use mirror vdevs, not RAIDZ. (2015)
This origin story is not entirely accurate[0]. (I spent almost four years helping build datacenters for Samsung _Mobile_, who actually bought Joyent.)

[0] https://github.com/joyent?q=manta
That's why I said Pali, or something like Pali. Pali words seem like they are vulgarised Sanskrit words.

Fire in Pali is 'aggi'. Seems a plausible link between 'agni' and 'aag'.
Getting a job at Google is way easier than starting a large successful software company.
A Surprisingly Underutilized Tactic for Getting 20% Plus More Ecommerce Sales
Have you tried meeting or just talking to anyone on Okcupid or Tinder? Or tried chatting with folks on Twitch?
A Battlefield-like Starcraft FPS pitting you as a Terran marine against a Zerg invasion?

That would have been cool.
New Partnership for Line Pay and Visa
You do realize the topic of discussion in this thread, right?
Customer having to request for refund has been documented in their SLA, e.g. https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla

Having said that, if Google wants to delight customers, they should give a free tier bonus to all customers for a certain period, but such a thing cannot be fair to everyone.
Just how some criticize Bezos and Zucherburg for building massive fortunes with either terrible workplace practices or the invasion of privacy of millions of people. not all wealth was gained this way, some was gained through honest hard work, diligence, and prudence, but you also can't blame some for being overly cynical about whether most of those with great fortunes did so be committing great crimes.
WestJet airlines Flight Light – nightlight projects flight path using live data
My credit cards are each an account that I transfer money to each month. Most of my purchases go on one of my cards and then get paid off each month. CC transactions match that CC account and a category like Expenses:Auto:Gas.

My checking account is pretty much just account "transfers" and an occasional transfer to my "Cash in Wallet" account for ATM withdrawals.
I think that intelligence is much more environmentally driven rather than genetic, though I don't have any proper references for that. I would argue that, in a properly functioning society, intellectualism, assuming it's strongly tied to wealth, wouldn't really be heritable beyond one generation.

Combating anti-intellectualism as a trend is probably more complicated than just trying to get the existing educated to have more children then the existing uneducated.
This all depends on where you live and the infrastructure. I have 1 Gbit fiber, but in my country nearly all the infrastructure is concentrated in one of 2 cities, so I still have minimum 15/30ms (IPv6/IPv4) ping to everything since it has to travel across the country.

edit: gcping.com puts me at 40ms
Yes. I mostly hang out in ##frontend, #indieweb, and #whatwg.

The people I met in ##frontend were extremely helpful and made them good friends.
Millions of machines affected by command execution flaw in Exim mail server
Is it real skateboards or boosted boards (or those one wheeled electric boards?).
Yup. This was the exact reaction I expected to see on HN. Somehow, you're never welcome if you ever take an easy approach. I'm sorry i don't force feed myself nails for breakfast to get an extra dose of iron like you do, but forgive me for thinking there must be some sort of way where you can have both open source AND modern features! Wow, what a new concept for you hackers who just can't help but do everything the hard way even if it's totally unnecessary.

For what it's worth, I do some things the hard way. I like digging into the nitty gritty. I'm not a different species. The fact that you think I am is the reason you'd never get any middle ground accomplished. Being "outnumbered 99 to 1" not only reveals how you think of yourself as some kind of victim, but also implies that you exist in some strange reality where being in the minority is the 'right' side to be on. Funny, usually it's the opposite.

I just don't get it. Why, why can't we have both? Why is decentralised, open source, configurable, modern and easy
impossible to achieve all at once?
Perhaps tangential, but: Why is science up for “debate”? We could all offer opinions around the edges of present-day human understanding, but is there any merit to these debates? Feels like a lot of fluff. I wish Feynman were still around.
Sadly, I think there's no incentive for doing well for the planet to get business value. Maybe when we'll run out of clean drinking water, or land, or clean air, then traditional businesses will invest in R&D and come up with ideas and products to sell you to alleviate the pain.. that's the the goal of a business. what we need is more philantropists. Jeff Bezos is not a philanthropist. Bill Gates on the other hand - more likely..
Square didn't agreeing to that license. A third party did.

If the third party sold a copy of MS Windows using Square's services/software/platform, could Square even in theory be sued by Microsoft for copyright infringement?

It sounds like "yes" from my reading of what you write. So AGPL isn't something special.

Their lawyers don't need to be psychic about other licenses. Why did they specifically qualify with "v3"? That is, the original Affero license is one of the other alternatives, yet they seem to allow it.
Taipei to ban smoking in front of convenience stores, coffee shops
So... Was the subset just all of Facebook and nothing else?
Remember though that Blue Origin is a completely separate corporation from Amazon. That makes me wonder if a Amazon-Blue Origin tie up would be consider self-dealing which is strongly frowned upon.
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Taiwan to set up new agency soon to build cultural brand
This is a wonderful read. Seriously impressive employment of the scientific method (the way it should be). The take-home message is probably: identify (and, if necessary, test) all of your assumptions. In this case, it was assumed that the different batches of material melted to become the same liquid, since that is pretty much how everything else melts (although that may be open to a new look now). On that assumption, the problem was intractable.

The problem was solved by someone questioning that assumption and finding out that, in fact, different samples melted to become different liquids. Once over that hump, clever application of basic chemistry principles got the rest out. Lovely work.
Science is born out of debate. The only way current “science” came to be is through postulating and testing of those postulates, the testing of which reveals many flaws in theories and then those theories are tossed out. The fact that the truths we see now seem fixed is merely an illusion of the present. In fifty years, 20% of the current theories could seem like garbage compared to what we will have in the future.
Do you know of any work being done in this area? I'm not that familiar with compiler design but this sounds fascinating.
I urge you to look at this chart: https://www.financialsamurai.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/...

There's a strong correlation there. Fed funds rate seems to lead a bit.

I agree with you about the all the bad writing. It's pernicious.
Money on a larger particle collider risks that progress in physics stalls
Hey I feel for you stranger. I don't know what to say really because I don't have it figured out, but try not to worry about wasting time. I guess it's all sort of pointless in the end so might as well gamble with yourself? Do something unusual, try to meet people with similar interests. Maybe go to a bar or a park? You're not a failure for not having experienced those things you listed.
>I had a bout of this about 20 years ago, so I made a rule for myself: I wasn't allowed to decline an invitation.

That approach works great as long as you are currently getting invited to things. If it's been a year since the last time you were invited to anything, that's not going to solve your loneliness problem.
"Why not the government make better Public transport system?"

Both are not mutually exclusive. Metro systems and roads are being built at break neck speed. High speed rail too.

Also many state govts have floated tenders for electric buses and for Pvt companies to start electric bus services for eg Tamilnadu.
What?! It's the most exciting part of the job. Entire departments coming together, working as a team to problem solve under duress. What's more exciting than that?
The actual publication that resolves this riddle is here: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.cgd.8b01459

The gist is that a chemical called acetaldehyde phenylhydrazone (APH) produces crystals in the solid state. Very minute contamination of the crystal can cause the melting point to go from 96 degrees C (uncontaminated) to 56 degrees C (contaminated), even if the contaminating agent (an acid) is virtually undetectable. A contaminated (low melting point crystal) and uncontaminated crystal appear identical under crystal structure and spectroscopy.

The cause turns out to be isomerization. The solid and liquid phases of APH have different stable isomer ratios (solid: 100% “Z” form, liquid: 37% Z, 62% “E” form); the contaminant appears to catalyze the isomeric transformation. With the catalyst, the Z form can transition quickly into the E form, making the liquid phase more accessible and lowering the melting point; without, the solid Z has to melt into the unstable liquid Z which then slowly (spontaneously) changes into the stable Z/E mix.

The paper’s worth a read, if only to see how thoroughly the authors tried to rule out any other possible explanation for this very weird behavior - doing many, many tests of the different solid samples and checking and rechecking equipment.
My guess would be social stigma.
I think that's the most interesting part of science - the place where brilliant minds hypothesize and ponder about what may be. Sure it's fluff but we'd no doubt say similar of Einstein prior to his publications in the early 1900s if we were there then.

We live in a world of echo chambers. Where people can't imagine thoughts other than what they've been fed. I think that while this isn't rigorous, it's a healthy thing in moderation.
This is want I needed to hear. I haven't used either Clean nor Haskell other than playing with them and my introduction to Clean seemed more lightweight where there some syntax to make uniqueness seem easier than the same in Haskell. On further reading, when seeing the u:[...] syntax rather than * I can see they're really quite the same. They way the uniqueness attributes are described seems like a separate axis than data types where in Haskell there's just so much type. Also the docs for Clean avoids using category theory terms for the most part, getting you started by showing you the syntax to do certain things.

I expect to be coming back to this comment and the references quite a few times until it clicks for me.
If anyone lives in Seattle and is feeling lonely hit me up! I'll grab coffee with you any time. I'm 35 & a few years ago my loneliness spiraled out of control and almost killed me. I had a lot of crap from my late teens -> late 20's and it led me to a dark place. I know what it's like to be in that place. I got sober and turned things around. Now I work remote and have a flexible schedule. Life is good! I love the goodness of humanity & meeting new people, so hit me up anytime, cheers!
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There is one path which is get really good at an in demand skill and figure out how to get paid as much as possible for it, all while spending as little as possible. Basically doing something like becoming a neurosurgeon, or investment bank, etc... This is lower risk, but you're not going to get FU rich.

The other one is find a high risk high reward path like founding startups and then keep on rolling the dice.

There is real estate as well which is somewhere in the middle.

Each path has a lot of specific advice about how to achieve it, but they're all hard and require varing degrees birth luck and blind luck.
My solution is generally to apply the same rules to the people enforcing the rules. Drug test students? Drug test the administration, superintendents, board of education, etc...
Calling it a "postmortem" to get the truth out, while retaining plausible deniability for your exec overlords... well done.
It isn't "an investment for ....when your old."

That's way too simplistic.

It's like saying college is an investment for when your old. You may have loved learning about new things, but still rather not have to do a bunch of meaningless homework assignments,

You can actually enjoy being a parent immediately and simultaneously not like all the sacrifices. IT's a deeper kind of commitment. For some people, it's the first time they have actually loved something more than themselves. It's hard to express.
I guess he mean the one true kind of sysadmins who's job contains moving physically in data center and deal with physical infrastructures.

So it's real skateboard.
Carbon dioxide levels in atmosphere hit record high in May
This guy took that idea to the extreme: built an app to randomly join random Facebook events and forced himself to go wherever it took him.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/06/08/53...
Yeah, I met some women (mostly on OKC) a couple years ago. Went on about 5 dates with 5 different women. Only clicked with one; we setup a second date, and she cancelled on me last minute to say that she was getting back together with her ex.

Honestly though, as much as I want to be with someone -- I don't know if it's the best time. I'm basically a depressed man-child, living on grant money and parental support. My self-esteem is ridiculously low, and I'm actually terrified of the physical aspect of dating. I have ZERO experience, and it's going to be obvious. That's gotta be a red flag for most women my age.
It's a Jeopardy! clue.

[buzzer]

What is .. Software as a Service?
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Yep, I played assassins creed on chrome on my mac with a usb xbox 360 controller and it worked great.
Always happy to meet strangers from the internet in Seattle (particularly downtown).

Love nerding out with fellow nerds. :)
This reads like an advertisement. Why has it not been flagged by Wikipedia? What is notable at all about a single prototype test aircraft from a unknown start up?
> As a perspective if you hold your thumb up to the sky, the distance “covered up” by your thumb (if I did my math right) is approximately 480 miles

What distance? The distance immediately behind my thumb is about an inch. The distance way back at the edge of the universe is millions of light years
Isn't the drunk pelosi video literally just slowed down audio? If anything, it proves that we don't really need these insanely advanced machine learning techniques to make bullshit. Something as basic as slowing down a video 20% will do just fine in misleading people.
Bringing several Mbps internet to the farthest most unreachable corners of the earth, economically enough for low income people to use, is a net social good. you would understand if you had ever worked in geostationary satellite based internet access and seen how costly it is.
First, we need to established whether there is something that needs to be studied or not. The idea is to look for the outliers by exemaning a large volume of projects in many different languages. If you see a correlation between a language and a result then you can mke a hypothesis that the language is a factor.

At that point you can make a further hypothesis as to whether certain languages encourage a particular kind of social behavior, or whether particular kinds of people are drawn to particular languages. And of course it could just be the technical features of the language that end up playing a role because social aspect may be consistent across languages.