skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is true because weight is limited by the UCI limits. The bikes are so light now some riders have had to resort to adding extra weights to their bikes to pass the UCI inspection. The best rider on a $5k or $20k bike will still be in the mix regardless. I'd say they could even get away with a $2k bike.
Flexport? Or do you mean a different angle of automate?
reads like a sample SAT essay
There are archives of formal proofs that are quite big, e.g. https://www.isa-afp.org/ for Isabelle, https://github.com/UniMath for Coq
"absolute" dependence is a bit of a stretch... I'm sure all nations are careful about "putting all their eggs in one basket".

China has a number of advantages:
* Highly developed manufacturing/shipping coordination
* Well trained assembly line workers
* Government supplied infrastructure and subsidies (effectively an internal "Marshall Plan")
* Large population that is more than big enough to support its own internal middle class market development in the same way as the US/EU/"West" did after WW2
* Relaxed IPR environment in the same way as the US (and most other countries) did when developing (the US blatantly stole IP from the UK in the late 19th/early 20th centuries)

China also has a number of disadvantages:
* Lack of rule of law
* Central government planning lacking the flexibility to react to rapidly changing events
* Inhibited creative class by the nature of a communist/totalitarian ruling class.

But saying that China "absolutely depends" on the US is untrue. The nature of international trade is that both countries are suffering due to the current US administrations trade "policies". Tariffs are inherently a tax on the consuming nation, not the producer. China has already found a) alternative suppliers for US products (eg soybeans) and b) alternative markets (SEA, APAC, EU, ME).
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Like I have previously said: I have no personal investment in Slack, I couldn't care less if it was Mattermost or whatever.

Unfortunately for us, tech people, business decisions are taken on ease-of-use and other features that we don't tackle when we focus on the technical aspects of products, companies don't want to invest to roll out their own infrastructure, for anything, that is why the cloud is a thing. It's the same with a chat app, if a company can pay another company and offload all of the liability and responsibility to an easy-to-use product, they will do.

I don't know why you are ranting with me. I have used mailing lists before, I have used IRC before and I know what kind of workflows each can improve on my 15 years of career.

E-mails don't cut it, it's not the same ease of use, I don't care if technically I can achieve the same results, the interface and interaction is different and this is enough of an improvement for a product to have its place over another.

Good for the Linux Kernel to keep being developed on a mailing list, the rest of the world doesn't and is better if another tool can improve communication, be it IRC, Mattermost or Slack.

Create a product better than Slack and push it around to solve this problem, don't try to preach this to me, a mere cog in the system that is trying to be productive.
One easy way to communicate to said community that Medium provides a terrible experience for readers is by reducing page visits so that they start wondering about it and look for alternatives.
Oh come on. My youngest will be 18 in 8 years, so I should be squeezed out of my 180m2 (1800 square foot) home when she goes to college? When I'm 55?
Yes. There are two different things here:

* Learning how to pronounce the sounds of English: for example, how to pronounce (standard) English /a/, which is, of course, different from (standard) German /a/.

* Learning which sounds to use in a particular word: for example, is "swap" pronounced /swap/? (It isn't, of course. In practice most of the difficulties are caused by names of people and places.)
By definition, IQ averages 100 across a population. What you are talking about is how people respond to IQ testing which is inherently culturally biased.
you are implying there is a reason to love facebook coin? LOL!
12 years experience here. I dislike the idea of the manager as "the mayordomo" of the team. I like the idea of being a facilitator, but having in mind the last word is on them. Accountability must be enforced to avoid design by consensus.
Show HN: A star map creation tool with Common Lisp
Reading PG's ANSI Common Lisp was a pivotal event on my career as a programmer. I wrote a high-resolution star map generation tool in CL about 14 years ago, and have been working on it and selling the maps it produces for many years.

Now I am moving away from the things I don't do well (ranking in Google and promoting) to what I think I do best (making beautiful maps) with this new site, where I open the engine to people who want to add custom star maps to their own products.
Seem to think?

hear and repeat is pretty much how we all acquired our mother tongues. IPA is nice in the absence of a tutor, or a native speaker, but it's definitely not superior.

Forgetting the fact people need to be trained in understanding how to interpret IPA before they can even use it, it still misses some subtle inflections.
I recently noticed that Windows 10 helpfully automatically opens up your browser(s) when you restart your computer so you can pick up right where you left off [1]. That’s great because you don’t need to question whether going right into your email and web browser is the most productive thing you can do to start your day.

[1] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/intern...
On a somewhat related note, I'm curious what people think of having a remote manager? Either they're in another office/timezone, or you work remotely.

I work in an office, and prefer doing so as I like being around my colleagues. I find it easier to collaborate and, despite being an introvert, like being around other humans. I've had times when my manager has been on another continent and it's been the most frustrating thing for me as they're not just there, on the other side of the desk, when I need them.
It would be cheaper in terms of lives and suffering to raise a GoFundMe or Kickstarter to have these affluenza poxes on society snuffed out, Dostoevsky-style but with much less regret.
> The accelerating losses indicate a “devastating” future for the region, upon which a billion people depend for regular water.

And this is with just one degree increase of average global temperatures. Politicians do nothing to limit heating to two degrees or less, as per the Paris agreement. Global GHG emissions are still rising.
Guy Raz's podcast How I Made This does a whole episode on it, it's excellent https://www.npr.org/2018/07/27/633164558/slack-flickr-stewar...
Do you have an invite for Superhuman?
>I think it’s best to call people by the terms that they use themselves

Black people call each other nigga and if I go around saying same, I'll not be having a good time. So what you are proposing is not always true.
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They lost me on the "real names" fiasco
Productization - The act of modifying something, such as a concept or a tool, to make it suitable as a commercial product.

Making big money requires productization. Sleek UI and interface that the end users see, plus marketing and selling.

Even when someone is the first with tech and prioritization, it does not mean they succeed in the long term after the field matures. I don't have high hopes for Slack in 5-10 years. Neither do I see Dropbox or Netflix justifying current valuations in the same time period.
So what I'm getting from what you are saying is that it would be a good deterrent to suspend the business for a few years?
That was one of the advertising, rather than real justifications for getting rid of the rates - which was on ownership rather than occupation, and replacing it with first the poll tax - and we know how popular that was. Then council tax.

It was nothing other than a massive subsidy for the most wealthy as the top band is reached so early - it's only slightly less regressive than the poll tax was. The Tory campaigns were built around how "unfair" it was for the old widow or couple, who'd worked all their lives, to pay the same as a family of 5. No mention that no one in their right mind thinks a widow still needs a 4 or 5 bed house.

Double bonus: In bringing in council tax local finance could be massively further centralised, weakening the regions even more.

It's really surprising how little push there is to get shot of council tax, bring back rates or some properly progressive tax.
The ability of criminals to capitalise also depends on the people being exploited, no?

When the proverbial Nigerian Prince's legal fees are denominated in Monero there's a much higher barrier to entry for the average scammee. One could see this lowering significantly with the adoption of Libras.

Although to me it also seems possible that in the face of government KYC-style opposition, Facebook will use their Libra to advance their Real Name policy, bringing them one step closer to being the true 1:1 online representation of a person, essential for more and more services and tracked in higher and higher fidelity.
It would seem there could be a market for multi-month rentals of a ML/gaming rig, with return shipping/packaging?
It is outdated.

You can use the screen as described, but it is much quicker to roll the right steering wheel button up/down to adjust TACC speed. You can also push it left/right to adjust follow distance.

I rarely touch the screen while driving my Model 3 (or while my Model 3 is driving me).
Use Your Voice to Code
It's interesting you didn't take the opportunity to notice it as an interesting word, that has many subtle nuances by native speakers.

But instead saw it as a reinforcement, that solely you have the exact right way to pronounce the word.
I have done this, and I find my self activating caps-lock on other peoples computers all the time, it has become second nature in just a few weeks.

The only people who realistically need caps-lock are people writing software licenses and youtube video titles, everyone should be able to get by with the shift-key otherwise.
> We’ve got great feedback on our support for User Profiles and based on that we’ve added new ways to customise those for you.

Are user profiles the same kind of dumb shit that is in Chrome? As in, it's completely forced upon you even on a single-user machine with every way to disable it removed years ago.
How would you have figured out which libraries you need if you were linking it statically? I'm not going to apologise for Windows DLL behaviour (side note, you can use `dumpbin /dependents` or `DependencyWalker` to track them down) as it's awful, but this is categorically nothing to do with QT.
Similar for ransom for actual lives: http://www.econtalk.org/anja-shortland-on-kidnap/
23andme will you about ancestors if you want to know.
Yeah, it’s hilariously wrong. Some serious gymnastics to make that limitation seem like a nonissue.
If the owners get rich by cashing out on an IPO, that sounds like a "recipe for success" to me.
Exactly. Emperors' new clothes from naive convention abandonment of solved problems.
> Property taxes would be levied on the owner, and be directly tied to house value.

Property taxes don't necessarily fix the issue though, because the property value is usually re-evaluated on sale, so the property tax increases drastically at that point.
> (Also, a lesser consideration: there are some native speakers of English who can distinguish certain sounds in their pronunciation but cannot, or cannot easily, hear the difference between those sounds. I would guess that either they learnt to speak partly by watching people's lips or their hearing has deteriorated as they got older.)

It may also be down to the conceptual buckets into which we place sounds when learning languages, especially our native languages. For example, many English speakers would be surprised to learn that 'p' has two distinct pronunciations in English, aspirated (as in 'pin') and unaspirated (as in 'spin'). Similarly, the 'l' at the start of 'late' is not the same as that at the end of 'wool', the so-called 'dark l' sound. (Caveat: IIRC, some varieties of English do not make the latter distinction, and I wouldn't be surprised if some don't make the former one, either.)

A couple of personal anecdotes:

- I have a friend who pronounces the word "hook" with a long "oo" sound, whereas I pronounce it with a much shorter vowel (we have very different regional accents). When I pointed this out to him, he could not at first tell the difference between our pronunciations. It was only when I compared it to the difference between "pull" and "pool" -- which he did pronounce slightly differently -- that he grudgingly acknowledged the distinction.

- A Northern Irish colleague expressed incredulity at the southern English habit of pronouncing "poor", "paw" and "pour" the same, when in his part of the world they were, to his ears, said quite differently. When he spoke those words, I could hear that difference too -- but only just, and it took concentration.
>>> More than 88,000 Paid Customers, including more than 65 companies in the Fortune 100; and

>>> We had 575 Paid Customers >$100,000 of ARR as of January 31, 2019, which accounted for approximately 40% of our revenue in fiscal year 2019.

If my math is right, 40% of their revenue is concentrated in <1% of their paid customers. Is this normal in the corporate SaaS market ? I can only think of this as a huge risk.

I also saw that this is a direct listing and not an IPO. Again, I can only see this as a risk, basically because no underwriter will push the stock to investors. Is this so ?
Is is this a real thing that real people actually do? I hear this idea presented here and on Twitter on a regular basis as a solution, but I have never once in my life seen a house that has double dishwashers. At a purely practical level, the whole idea has some issues; most codes require a diswasher to be on a dedicated circuit, and then you'd need to duplicate the plumbing.

It seems like the kind of over-the-top extravagance that you could only support in a thousand square foot HGTV kitchen.
How is IRC in any way faster or more accessible than Slack for quick chats? Does IRC fit a purpose? If so, what? And how does it do anything better than Slack?

Slack is certainly no email replacement, and nor will I ever use it for such but in my experience and for the purposes I use it for, it is far, far more featured than IRC, unless you're using some uber IRC client that I'm unaware of.

I'm genuinely trying to understand out how anyone would think IRC is better than Slack and I speak as someone who used IRC from the early 90s up until only a few years ago when the communities I'm part of upped sticks and moved over to Slack.
(Shrug) RAM is there to be used.

I don't think we need to get into my optimization street cred, but suffice it to say I've never used Electron and couldn't really tell you exactly what it is.
I would literally and unironically prefer to run a company on mIRC/corporate IRC servers and Bugzilla than Slack and Jira.
It’s possibly fixed now. I first encountered this in 2016. Many coworkers complained of it and Slack always acknowledged it was an issue they were looking into whenever I reported it.
I really like the way TypeScript approaches Dynamic world of JS ecosystem with various advance types.

https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/advanced-types....

Intersection Types - An intersection type combines multiple types into one.

Union Types - A union type describes a value that can be one of several types

Type Guards - A type guard is some expression that performs a runtime check that guarantees the type in some scope.

Nullable types - compiler level safety for "can be a null " implication of any type

Type alias - as the name suggests

String literal types - Union type of few string values

Numeric literal types - Union type of few numeric values

Enum Member Types - enum members have types when every member is literal-initialized

Discriminated Unions - You can combine singleton types, union types, type guards, and type aliases

Index Types - you can get the compiler to check code that uses dynamic property names

Mapped Types - Transforms each property in the old type in the same way to create new type.

Conditional Types - selects one of two possible types based on a condition expressed as a type relationship test
I think this might actually be a really nice insight: they adapted by shifting their focus based on user/customer feedback/learnings to the extent of completely changing the core of what they are doing/making.

This level of adaptability might explain part of their success. Rather than naively sticking to your original vision, identifying where you have the opportunity to create value and changing direction based on that insight.
link without paywall?
Haven't noticed any issue with responsiveness with the official Slack client but my boss was kind enough to set me up with a pretty beefy Macbook Pro with more RAM than I'd ever need to use.
Caterina Fake talked about this on Tim Ferris' podcast [1] and Gimlet's "Without Fail" together right, they applied for a government start-up grant when building the MMO and didn't get it. However they had accidentally chosen to automatically resubmit the application a year later.

Around the time the MMO failed, they received the grant from the second application. They had something vaguely similar to photo-sharing chat in the game, related to discussing inventory items, and decided to transition to that as a photo-sharing IM client and use the grant to get it off the ground.

> As part of the game, they’d developed this interface where players could create an inventory of objects that they would pick up. That inventory looked like this sort of shoebox of photos. You could drag those photos into group conversations for other people to see and you could annotate them. And you could share the photos with other people. And that was the idea that Caterina and the people on her team wanted to transition to.

(from 2.)

As an aside, I highly recommend listening to the full interviews, as she has an interesting background and some good perspectives on tech in general. She also just launched a podcast that considers the ethics of some new tech developments [3].

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[1] https://tim.blog/2019/02/21/the-tim-ferriss-show-transcripts...

[2] https://gimletmedia.com/shows/without-fail/rnh444/the-accide...

[3] https://shouldthisexist.com/
Currently away from my A1200 so I haven't touched it in ~3yr.

I'm hoping to move my A1200 to my current location soon and install current versions. The A500+ and A600 I have with me do not have a capable (MMU) CPU.

The last time I had cli-only on Debian (couldn't get X to work), and had X on netbsd.

No GPU, just AGA. Any GPU would make X much easier AIUI.
Nope. A strawman wrong doesn't justify anything related to the topic. fork() duplicates everything, which maybe overkill, which is why pthreads and vfork+exec also exist.
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Five years at Valuemotive: insight into working in a small IT consultancy
Google might already have a messaging app and might still have video chat.
Just to follow up, I work for a distributed company where everyone works remotely. It's an essential tool for us to communicate quickly and easily, when talking over skype/video chat is not necessarily suitable or necessary every time one of us has a question. For our organisation, Slack fits the purpose perfectly.
A rogue Raspberry Pi helped hackers access Nasa JPL systems
> BERT is only masking 15% of the tokens, so isn't the amount of dependency pairs like 18% higher at most?

That's a small but significant difference, allowing them to improve performance by a small but significant amount.
How much of a payoff is there in browser business given that browser development is not trivial at all and it has become a commodity?
California has let two Chinese startups offer robotaxis to the public
Margins are high because there are A LOT of risks, starting from superexpensive vehicles and equipment which is never evenly loaded, and ending with bureaucracy, incredibly punishing contracts and weather.
The article is about single-child couples who built 400~700m² houses as their children were already adults.

Checking the numbers, Bethell is 78 so bought / built a 700m² house at 69. Their monstrosity of a house has 4m ceilings from the pictures. The Hambleton built their house at 82 and 68.
Resources aren't infinite. It's arrogant and wasteful to be lazy and resource greedy.

Electron is an embedded web-browser meets cross-platform application platform.. it's bloated, slow and awful... it makes Java look snappy, lightweight and brilliant.
I really love reading threads like that (or dropbox launch etc). It's really humbling.
> Regardless of how I feel about it, George Lucas made the changes to his film. I believe that is his right as creator.

I learnt a while back that George Lucas allegedly did those edits to prevent his wife from earning her royalties as editor: https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/7g5gfr/til_m...
Browser development can't both be non trivial and a commodity. Or I'm misunderstanding you.
Apollo-Core could certainly use better documentation.

I own a V500v2+ and it's an awesome board, but this kind of thing drives me nuts.

It has other silly limitations, such as the kickstart being embedded in the fpga core, which is not open source. There's no way for an user to boot to a custom kickstart; At most, it's possible to softkick one after first boot.
No, it's not true. You can implement something that can load a webpage from 99.9% of the world's web servers from a couple of RFCs in a day. But this ease of implementation means that for basically any issue where the specs give any degree of freedom, somebody will have deviated from the norm. (I've implemented TCP from scratch three times, one of those implementations basically ran the traffic of entire countries.)

The real problem is that every step toward 100% gets progressively harder to find and debug. See e.g. [0] for a middle box that would mangle connections if it received two identical SYN packets, or [1] for a way in which almost all servers anyone currently runs are accidentally resilient to a certain kind of connection-killing packet corruption, but S3 isn't.

[0] https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2014-11-11-tcp-is-hard...
[1]
https://www.snellman.net/blog/archive/2017-07-20-s3-mystery/
Bureaucratic cockup leads to delay of age verification block on porn in the UK
When the Light Doesn’t Shine on You
It's true that council tax is paid directly by renters, whereas in the US renters only pay property tax indirectly via rental cost.

However, from the point of view of the housing market they are comparable. They're both an annual cost to holding real estate... and in the UK it is very low.

In all countries there are plenty of older homeowners with a surplus of space. Most people don't want to move out of their home if they don't have to, even if it is now larger than they need. However it's even more so in the UK because the system incentivises people to stay put.
That I've been deeply involved in the design and implementation of both hardware and software for 40 years and know nothing about it, and don't know anyone in the industry who does either, is a comment on the $16B evaluation. Companies thrive on the needs and wants of people which is why Coke and Google and Microsoft stock prices are so high and maintain those levels. I don't find want and need for Slack among anyone I know. A small space but the same people have heard of and use Coke, Microsoft and Google.
Your comment made me smirk, but on second thought, it actually does!
The American right wing already believes food is a luxury: https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/10681363932375572...