skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess I just have a fundamentally different view on open source than you. I don't see anything wrong with a company writing a tool in the way that is best for them given their current circumstances (e.g. skills of the team working on it) and then open sourcing it. The team that wrote this obviously felt that Haskell was their best choice for this project, and I don't begrudge them for open sourcing it just because it might not be useful for others.
i think the primary reason for US interest in mars is due to the fact that it is much more likely that mars #1) previously contained life and #2) we will be able to find evidence of #1 on mars, vs venus.
You're kidding yourself. A large majority of Americans still believe Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her house, and that was SNL satire. It will be very difficult to undo the damage done by a convincing and well-timed deep fake. Especially a fake that people want to believe.
He still doesn't drive. He's resisted it (mostly passively) pretty hard. He even has his own car. But to him, it's an alien thing, something he doesn't want to do.

He can talk to people who share his interests at the moment, or in highly structured interactions (he works retail and is pretty good at it), but in free-form "polite conversation", he's basically paralyzed. I seriously worry about if he ever has to engage with the police, because I don't think he could obey their shouted orders.
news agencies could just use an encrypted video stream, since only they have the private key you'd know it came from them and could be trusted as from them.
How is this a billion $ business? I've been rejected by YC a number of times, even though we have lots of docker downloads. So, I am just curious, what worked in this case.
I have a pretty beefy gaming PC that I almost never game on. 4K isn't a huge deal for me. Convenience is.

I'm tired of updating my GPU drivers and experinece (5-10 minutes), then launching Steam, waiting for it to update and restart (2-3 minutes), then picking the game I want to play, waiting for it to update and install (5-10 minutes), then finally launch the game and have it spend more time connecting to servers before I can game.

The value prop of seeing a game trailer or game video that seems interesting and being able to say "play with stadia" and it just throwing me right into the game is the feature that speaks most to me.

If Stadia does this and it works well enough, i'll gladly get rid of gaming PC.
You're very generous.
I spent 7 months trying to build a json api using yesod with a friend. We had nothing but headaches. Its insanely hard to find example code or search issues when using yesod. Hardly anything exists about it on stack overflow already so any time I had an issue I had to post it on SO and wait a day for someone to answer it which meant I could only do about an hour of programming a day. I ended up giving up used RoR and replicated more than the 7 months worth of work in a few weeks.

There is a very good reason RoR is far more popular than haskell web apps. Its just so easy to get started with rails, there is a near infinite amount of information online.
You've posted the same article with the exact same comments twice now. Perhaps because you didn't like the comments you received the first time you posted the story here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20111571 ?

Why are you so fervently in favor of censorship? Remember when the church oppressed dissenting views and minority voices? Now that your clique has power we should silence the rest?
IRC is great. I've been on Freenode since I was an obnoxious teen. There are upsides and downsides to not (generally) having server-side channel history; one big upshot is that nobody needs to maintain the infrastructure to store, curate, and archive 30 years of IRC logs for a whole network.

XMPP is still a mess after all these years; there is no reason you should have to send so much XML just to send an IM or update your presence.

I'm kinda waiting for SMTP to receive the slight adaptations it requires to be a decent IM protocol. As a long time SMTP operator, I think it's pretty darn close (especially looking at the way Gmail and Inbox [RIP] show threads), if SMTP daemons would cache trusted/known well behaved hosts, or batch/stream envelopes, that's prettymuch all that's missing on the server side.
Their mother had them when she was 24. It paused her finishing her master's degree for a semester. She went back to teaching college, then into IT, where she's a product owner for international e-commerce.
Why not both? It's not an either/or necessarily (your friends are probably not there right that moment).
Pretty sure he was referring to exiting the Steam application; not Steam as a service being shut down. I might be wrong though.
> I am not a lawyer - However my own take on the AGPL is that...

I am also not a lawyer, however my take on many legal things is that it doesn't matter what my take is, or even if courts will agree with my take, what matters is whether the benefit is worth the hassle if I end up needing a lawyer to deal with it.

Even if you "win," the engagement with lawyers can cost you so much that it becomes a pyrrhic victory, and the amount of time required to deal with certain legal squabbles is astounding.

So sometimes, the right thing to do is to shy clear of anything that carries with it some risk of legal potholes.
> First Crack does not rely on any third-party tools, code, or frameworks

Sorry just a little nitpick: Python is a dependency that's not guaranteed to be on someone's system, probably should mention this somewhere
> Cohabiting couples break up faster and more often than marrieds.

I find the distinction between cohabiting and married couples a bit weird. I mean, aren't most couples cohabiting before they marry? Which in turn would mean that married couples have, on average, a more mature relationship? No wonder that those relationships are more stable than the mixed group, from fresh couples to equally mature couples, which is called 'cohabiting couples'.

Feels a bit like apples and oranges and I wonder what the message behind those facts should be.
It seems like the incentive structure is broken here because the tax software companies have the wrong customer.

Their customer should be the IRS. These are the options asI see them:

1) Have the government “make” their own version. There would be little attention paid to user experience, since there’s no competition and the bureaucracy has no incentive to create good products.

2) Have the government hire a company - which is really the same as “making it” since I’m assuming government employees aren’t the ones writing the code. However, if structured properly, the outsourced company could be compensated based on user experience metrics. I see the likelihood of this happening as low.

3) Arbitrarily complicate the tax return policy. Put the burden of understanding on the citizen. Let the “free” (contrived by government intervention in this case) market fulfill the artificial need in the market. This seems to be the way things are being done now.

Trouble is, our democracy doesn’t seem to be effective at solving problems like this. It appears that we don’t have the ability to actually have a direct impact on this policy change. Only if the majority party happens to have the political willpower to work on this, and only if that party holds a majority in the house and the senate.

Couple that with a $100M+ annual investment (institutionalized bribery from my perspective) from these tax software companies to ensure that elected officials don’t unwind the artificial demand that’s been created, and you have the situation that we are in right now.

Let me know if I’ve missed anything or have been unfair. If anyone has any ideas about how an average citizen can affect this policy, I’d love to know.
Yeah, this doesn't really seem that groundbreaking to me. You just try your best and take new information in as it becomes available (assuming the information is trustworthy). Then again, I build software. Even when there are competing ways to do something, you just weigh the pros and cons (that you are aware of) of each solution across various dimensions to determine which is better (assuming you can weight the relative importance of each dimension - which itself isn't always easy to do). The more information you have, the easier it is to decide on a course of action.

I think for stuff like religion or philosophy, you really move away from the domain of "correct/incorrect" to more conditional arguments: philosophy Y makes sense if your values are X. One is only better than another if it more aligns with your values and experiences. Your values are going to be determined by the totality of your life experiences and genetics. You can dispute that holding a certain position isn't necessarily pragmatic within a given context, but you can't really say it is wrong, in my view. Of course there are lots of smart people on this site, so I'm curious to see what others may think of my views on philosophy.
Slack+Twitter seem to have replace my IRC alternate life.
There are probably over 100 IRC clients that don’t require arcane commands and you certainly don’t need to keep your computer on all the time.

mIRC is an IRC client that has been around for 24 years and makes IRC very easy.

I stopped using IRC about 20 years ago but I got a lot of knowledge out of my time on DALnet and then Undernet.
All of Los Angeles/most of southern California was a desert, wasn't it? Massive water redistribution is the reason tens of millions of people can live there. Much of California's agriculture comes from the same water redistribution projects.

Plus, there's no life that we know of on Venus. A bacterial population capable of living, evolving, and growing exponentially in that environment would be a huge change.
Btw, laws are not actually things. They're descriptions that are reified by some people. What you have are things in the universe that have natures that their natures lead to detectable patterns. A law of physics is just a shorthand way of saying "things of this kind behave in this way". It's very important to understand this instead of assuming the universe is some vacuous collection of natureless things that are governed from the outside by some "laws".
Reading about the Soviet Union's systematic process to finally get some decent data from a lander was very impressive.
Yes and the average american woman took the bait hook line and sinker.
Its a project management web app. For some reason every IT department seems to have locked all the computers they manage to only running IE, and then they customize the shit out the settings on IE which make the site break in insane ways that we can't test.
Well we had Clive Palmer get into the senate, who was effectively our low rent version of Trump.

That and the revolving door of prime ministers over the years means we've endured a similar level of political turmoil as Trump has managed to stir up on his own home turf.
There is a google sheet which has the data I used for this post [0].

I had also looked at companies like Slack and Zoom which target lower average deal sizes and it was quite remarkable how much better their metrics were. But didn't feel like it was apples to apples. That data is the spreadsheet though.

[0] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BV1Kk542KHultHOB8Lkz...
For what it's worth, Blizzard still seems to be doing the build-half-a-game-then-cancel it thing.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/06/report-blizzard-began...
> Then you quite possibly didn't actually see any of the City and County of San Francisco.

Very possible. I got a good sampling of a 5 mile radius around SFO and sporadic sampling elsewhere. I wouldn't claim to know 1/100th of what a resident does about the area.

However, I was interested in testing to the extent I could the implicit hypothesis often floated on HN, "the Bay Area is borderline uninhabitable". If an area 15 miles away from downtown seems quite low-density, and assuming a 15 mile commute is reasonable (assisted by BART, whose analogue doesn't exist in many comparable cities), I concluded complaints on HN are overblown, especially considering everyone doesn't commute to downtown. For example, YouTube headquarters were pretty close to SFO. Stanford is not near downtown either. Not sure where all the other headquarters are located.

I don't have high confidence in that conclusion obviously because my information is very limited. But I am comparing to cities I know better like DC and NYC.

> it is not the main public transit in the city, Muni is

I assume "Muni" means buses or cable cars, and I will only say that during wandering around for ~20 hours, I didn't see a single bus, so I conclude Muni doesn't service suburbs.
.su – The Soviet Union TLD
I've been working on a Genetic Algorithm/Evolutionary Computing framework in Scala, using network-parallelism to solve optimization problems fast. If you're interested, check it out at https://github.com/evvo-labs/evvo
I use it all the time at work. Along with Mattermost (yuck) it is a solution that works on a secured network. If your computer can reach something like Slack, your computer is exposed.

At home I recently used it to chat with open source developers about a bug. They found the cause, then my son and I fixed it.
Really? A blog post? Perhaps you would benefit from reading this wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution
Why would human beings possibly be the best source of “bio-energy” instead of other organisms? Futurama already made the point, but that part of the plot of The Matrix is really total nonsense.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s still a very good movie.
I think it's usually a function of what data structure your "genotype" is stored in.

In my experiments with GAs, defining a coefficient for mutation that is either far too high or far too low means you search search for too much of the problem search space or far too little, respectively. Testing parameters such as the frequency of mutation are part of the iterative process of tuning your GA.
Does anyone have any numbers on how well they perform on average to above-average connections? I'm on Google Fiber now so obviously the test passes with flying colors, but I'm thinking about going back to moving often (between big cities) that probably won't have as accessible fiber, and a "portable console" like this sounds perfect -- as long as it still works well on first-mile, average connections.
Communities supporting products that the community dislikes are like restaurants with a good location getting away with crappy food.

The product is only as good as it needs to be to serve the community -- if the community's stuck with it, then the product has no gravity pulling it to get better. That said, I happen to think Medium is just fine. The complaints in the article seem (a) to apply only to some uses, really and (b) fall into the "if you dislike it so much, make your own damn mousetrap" camp?
There's no need to read aggression in my comment or to reply like that. I was simply stating this for readers who might feel self-conscious about being skinny, as I did when I read the comment. Western culture very much shames skinny, healthy men so I thought it was a useful reminder.
Paying down debt and building savings. We still go clothes shopping at goodwill regularly too.
However, the Allegory was about how our senses and perceptions limit our full understanding of the world

That's my whole point. As a parent, you not only have the authority to tell your kids not to believe anything they see on a screen or hear through a speaker, you must raise them with that understanding. They will spend their entire lives with their senses and perceptions not only limited in a Platonic sense, but under active, continuous assault.

"Somewhat fitting," indeed: https://news.stanford.edu/2019/06/05/edit-video-editing-text...
How is his argument flawed? And is it intrinsically flawed because he comes from “literally an entrepreneurial perspective”? If so what should the right perspective be?
I actually had a similar(ish) situation to yours. I read a book called "boundaries" and that's made my relationships with my family much better.

This all came about when I was getting married.

This was about 10 years ago now. Fast forward to wife + kids and I did something I never thought I'd do. I moved home to be close to family again.

I'm still fully self reliant but my kids get to grow up near gma and gpa which is amazing.

It wasn't until I entered into the group of my friends with kids that I realized there's a fair amount of isolation there.

Anyway, I followed a similar path. I moved across the country to get away from my family man, and now that I've learned to set boundaries I'm back and happy with our new relationship. Maybe that'll work for you and your family and maybe it wont.

We did have friends who were family where we used to live. The kind of friends you call when you're going into labor and they pick your kid up from daycare after driving for an hour. I miss them more than almost anyone else in the world. So, while you can make it work with family and it might be great, you can also make it work without them. That's just what I chose to do.
> only if that party holds a majority in the house and the senate

Supermajority, or house and senate and president. :(
Zoox CEO explains what makes the company’s self-driving cars better
If not Slack, then Discord
I press "okay" when my phone tells me I have an update.

That's it.
Many web apps might be written in haskell but I assure you many many many more are written in ruby. I very much doubt you will find a haskell developer willing to build your web store in haskell for $15/hour. With rails you can just import Spree, make a few modifications and host it and you are done.
Well, it bothered me. I never watch dubs - if possible. I watch subs instead.
>Everything breaks down at that point, because trying to use mathematics or physics to explain something that existed before mathematics and physics doesn't work.

What is the meaning of this paragraph? Mathematics are not dependent on the existence of any particular universe
YouTube is profitable and brought an estimated 15 billion in revenue for Google last year. It’s not operational because of some other motive, it’s operational because it’s successful.

The same can’t be said for this new business model. The entire point of the comment you’re replying to is that Google doesn’t have a good track record of letting products that don’t make them money live.
Web of Knowledge
> We can call this thing God, but by that we don't commit ourselves to any particular religion. At most that gets us the God of deism.

Not so. The deist God is more of a Cartesian/Paleyian watchmaker, not the God of the philosophers classically understood. The God of the philosophers is very much in line with the Judeo-Christian God (not everything can be inferred through unaided reason, but much of it can). And God as "I am" ("ehyeh asher ehyeh") is precisely not a thing ipsum esse subsistens, or that who's essence it is to exist, and by which all things are. However, it precedes things and in doing so puts a stop to the infinite regress of having to appeal to still further things to explain the existence of things (which cannot work because we aren't trying to a chain of causes but the cause of their existence in the here and now).

Response to mythrwy:

If existence were a property, then it would follow that things precede their own existence, which it absurd. And as I've written above, things cannot account for their own existence, thus you must posit existence as distinct from the things that are by virtue of it. You must appeal to a causal non-thing to account for things and thus depend on that cause for their own being in the here and now.
Giving a name to my sales anxiety
If you have $3m, sure, a business crisis could wipe you out, but if a medical one does, it's your own fault. Health plans can't even have maximum lifetime payouts in the US anymore. They will have to pay for everything over your out of pocket max.
Amazon ECS Improves ENI Density Limits
If with revenue for year 2020 estimated between 745 and 768 million dollars they are still losing money then what are their operating costs?

I am not familiar with how software as a service companies operators but if they are not manufacturing anything then their cost must be mainly development and operator salaries, and rent and such like. So what else is the money spent on?

AWS? Google Cloud?
Maza is an activist who claims to be a journalist. He is a public figure and so fair game to criticism.

Crowder is a comedian. He has made fun of Maza. Apparently Maza has a thin skin.

Maza's also a hypocrite. Here's how he respectfully deals with people he disagrees with:

https://mobile.twitter.com/gaywonk/status/113086281371350221...
> but consider that zshoptions(1) documents ERR_EXIT while bash(1) lists errexit. i never know which to search for, and i end up mixing various spellings in zsh code. now shell options are a tiny slice of my shell scripts, but doing this for all identifiers? ugh!

It sounds to me like this is a problem with your search tool, if it would search in a style insensitive manner then this wouldn't be a problem, you'd find both.
The income tax system is as much about the government asserting dominance over citizens (and residents) as it is about raising revenue.

There could be more efficient revenue collection schemes devised (less friction), taxes with fewer collection points, but then everyone would not have to submit to Caesar annually.

It is a tribute to the success of popular delusions that the 16th amendment was, and pretty much all new taxes are, sold as tax-the-rich schemes.
Doesn't point 2 (something exists of necessity) negate point 1 (clear it doesn't have to exist)?

On point 3 I fail to see logical need for external cause. Existence could simply be an intrensic property of the universe.

Besides it just shuffles the "cause" issue up a level. If God can exist "just because he does and always has and is without external cause" so can a universe.
Maybe afterwards when people are gathering up their stuff and heading out. There is always something to talk about, i.e. how you liked the class, was it hard or easy, etc.