skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
they playing at a different game, the value they bring is their network of connections that can leverage in all sort of deals, fair or otherwise. this is transitive, of course, so as they move the deal go both ways keeping the game net positive. it only works at that level because there's a limited pool of highly valuable connections to leverage, at lower levels the people either don't handle a budget directly, so their leverage is irrelevant, or their relative network value is average, making it not an asset during job negotiation.
The SDS sheet was linked near the bottom.

It lists vinylcyclohexene diepoxide and triptolide as active ingredients.

https://senestech.com/wp-content/uploads/SDS-051517-Final-Ve...
I was using TabNine very happily until it started consuming excessive CPU. This bug has been known for more than 6 months but no fix is available at the moment. https://github.com/zxqfl/TabNine/issues/24
The paper you're citing investigates the idea that "early childhood investments have significantly higher benefit cost ratios than those targeted at older age group", and it concludes that "there may in fact be no relationship between program cost effectiveness and the age of the recipient."

From this you seem to have drawn the surprising conclusion that there is no benefit to greater in investment in early childhood education, a conclusion which the paper you're citing specifically warns against:

> This finding does not imply that there should be less investment in early childhood programs. There are many early interventions that have large positive rates of return, and there are powerful equity reasons for investment in children.

> The data shows that prevention can be cost effective, but in addition, later treatment and amelioration using evidenced based programs can also succeed.
That's an interesting piece, which reminded me of another interesting article on the wheelbarrow that surfaced on HN as well some time ago:

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2011/12/the-chinese-wheelbar...
You get a better cut if your revanue for a game is above a million $ or something. For majority of devs out there the cut is 30%

They are generous with giving away steam keys, I agree with that. However the alternative for them is people selling exe on their websites instead of the steam key and losing potential customers over it. Also giving away free keys like that allows them to force devs keep the price same as steam prices
But you have to acknowledge that without the cross-financing those "markets" wouldn't even exist.

Before Google Maps we had a few online map services and they were terrible. Google Maps redefined what it means to have free access to web based interactive global maps, it changed how people find things and it was all payed by the ad business. Later on some monetizing efforts were made for it and competitors started to appear, mostly trying to catch up and copy what Google Maps did, but without the huge cash infusion of the ad business none of this would have happened.

A decade later, people take these things for granted and just want to split services up. I guess it makes sense from their point of view but to me it's not that clear what should happen while still allowing for the type of creativity and speed of development that allowed things like Google Maps to appear because I'm afraid "the next big" thing that could redefine our lives (and improve them) would be slowed down or simply made non-feasible.
The did things different back then, like how they do things different in foreign parts.
That's one reason I like it! Fits right in with the Gibsonesque view of technology.
Something like that would be tremendously useful when you're one person who's WFH. It would be nice to take a glance at the office webcam, and see if my coworkers are actually at their desks before pinging them a question - otherwise, I'm not sure if they're about to respond, or busy away from their desk, etc.
Did that sound clever in your head?
Sell it to Brits & Indians, they love cricket... Sorry couldn't resist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yeah, whoever said that should try to make one without being able to go the the hardware store
Unreal Engine kind of already is open source, for weak definitions of open source: https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/ue4-on-github
Eyles has a memoir out: info available here. (The title is "Sunburst and Luminary", which were the names for LM software builds for earth-orbit testing and lunar landings, respectively.)

http://www.sunburstandluminary.com/SLhome.html
A strikebreaker (sometimes derogatorily called a scab, blackleg, or knobstick) is a person who works despite an ongoing strike. [Scabs] are usually individuals who were not employed by the company prior to the trade union dispute, but rather hired after or during the strike to keep the organization running.[0]

The parent comment was absolutely correct in saying that you are trying to co-opt the actual definition to serve your goals, as the word has nothing to do with being a customer.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strikebreaker
Harvard study says an inch of silica aerogel could make patches of Mars liveable
The video of James Burke in the capsule was great. He could explain things to me any day.

I'm Canadian. When I was a kid we got reruns of Connections on TLC before it was a reality TV network. That was possibly the most informative TV show I've ever watched. When my kids start hitting the middle school science age I think we're going to marathon it.
Epic Games are infamous for opposing openness in various forms. (Buy these games … only on the Epic Games Store. Install this spyware … no, you can't see the source code. Use any current OS you want … as long as it's from Microsoft.) Supposing that some of the ulterior motives behind this grant are questionable does not seem overly paranoid.

However, I don't see the contradiction in Sweeney's statement. One can appreciate the advantages of open tools, libraries and platforms, and still want to publish a proprietary game on top of that technology.

It's kind of like an omnivore chef joining a forum full of vegans to work on improving seasonings for braised veggies. They might not be pleased when they find out that she wants to make a side dish to be served with steak; but that in itself doesn't mean her goal is exploitation or sabotage, rather than mutually beneficial cooperation.
A Bloom filter is just way overkill.

If you have a list of 20 trillion query strings, and each query string is on average < 100 bytes, you're looking at a three line MapReduce and < 1 PiB of disk to create a table which has the frequency of every query ever issued. Add a counter to your final reduce to count how often the # times seen is 1.
Exactly. The implicit argument is that there is always some magical high-paying job with awesome benefits just round the corner if they just simply make the simple decision of switching jobs and/or pulling themselves up by their bootstraps. Right...
I'm part of [INSERT ORG] that does [INSERT OPPOSITE OF GP'S STATEMENT]. So therefore, you are wrong. QED.

> all sorts of folk

Even if we did take your statement as a datapoint (hopefully one among many...), this clause could cover a small town or an entire continent.

It's amazing that in a community of Y-Combinator founders, there is such a malformed understanding of what it means to run a large organization.

Don't get me wrong, CEOs have inflated salaries. That is a society-wide problem, not just non-profits. To argue that non-profits should just forcibly change the bar for CEO salary (1) is the wrong place to enact this kind of social change, (2) would ensure that you only get the least qualifying candidates, (3) could lead CEOs into possibly devious action to increase personal wealth, and (4) could result in lower effort/efficiency as the CEO has to juggle other financial-fitness activities.

If CEO salary is important to you, there is tons of data out there to help you pick a similar charity with more agreeable administrative compensation. I hope that there aren't people out there who just don't donate because of this.
> It's not either/or

Valid point.

I do question how much something like this could realistically push the market though. Boycotting a public transportation system with only one revenue stream is very different from boycotting a multinational corp with diversified revenue streams.
Microsoft is still an American company if the cloud servers are in Canada. Can't the US government tell Microsoft to hand over the data (which MS can fetch remotely) if it needs it for some terrorist investigation?
> This feels really contrived; in what setting would this actually be useful?

The text file I linked to explains it in more detail, so I'll defer to that.

> I think this illustrates what I find counter-intuitive about this whole mess; any function of `undef` shouldn't itself be `undef`. `undef < undef` is false in my head. `undef < 150` is just unknown, not undefined, since we don't know what `undef` is.

Except that for `undef < undef`, what if they're two different undefs? You would have to track each potentially uninitialized value separately. And then the optimizer would want to strategically choose values for the different undefs – e.g. "we want to merge 'cond ? some_value : undef123' with 'some_value', so let's set undef123 equal to some_value... except that could negatively impact this other section of code that uses it". It's certainly possible, but it would make the optimizer's job somewhat harder.
EU antitrust law doesn't even require dominant market position to break the law.
Do you have an article or book you can link to on the subject? I'm very curious why there wasn't much demand for wheeled luggage until the 80's.

Is it because people flew less? Because more people checked luggage more often and carry-on was less common? Because airports were smaller?
> but they're working for you by some twist of fate instead - if you treat them like a code monkey they're going to hate it, and you're wasting their potential.

Well no one is forced to work anywhere, especially if they don't like it. Fact of the matter is that there is more support for entrepreneurs today than ever before, especially in tech. Electric scooters are getting $100 million funding rounds. There is more than enough support for this brilliant engineer to create his successful company.
Much like TB3 ports that have a small lighting icon, all USB-C ports and cables should have an icon that explains what type of cable you are expected to plug.

It would not completely solve the problem, but I think it would reduce it considerably.
In the UK, company directors have also vastly outpaced everyone else in earnings growth since the '80s.
Their compensation is decided by a remuneration committee. The remuneration committees are composed of company directors from other companies to give them "independence", shareholders play no part in the process. It's a you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours thing.
Why don't the shareholders object? Because the shareholders are mostly funds who similarly have directors.
TL;DR: the same reason everyone else is.
Programming Windows NT
The other half is this is the efficiency of Roman steam engines where so low as to make it more novelty than useful.

Seeing an expensive device that does less than 1/100th the work of a horse does not obviously translate into a revolution.
Why not just use your servers own mail service? A service like sendgrid or mailchimp is way overkill for such a simple usecase. Plus it costs nothing.
For the same reason non-Chinese students might worry about Chinese students in the US being treated badly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Rule
If you saw off a disc-shaped slice from a log of wood, and it rolls a few meters, you experience first hand that a single wheel can balance itself. Some say this is how the wheel was invented in the first place [citation needed].
You'll maybe want to start with this year: http://adamcadre.ac/19lyttle.html

This one got me, “The shadowy figure stood alone in the rain on the street corner under the dim yellow streetlight, casting a long thin shadow down the alley perpendicular to him.”

Perpendicular?
Between this and the Mechanical Turk article I read earlier today, I am left thinking about these type of jobs. There is this "chasm" of things that machines still cannot but that are repetitive and boring for humans, for which the value to human-effort ratio is small.

I foresee that in the following 10 years, we will be seeing more and more of these types of works. Now, the interesting thing about some of these jobs is that they cannot be moved to places where the payment to cost of living ratio can be improved. Some Mechanical Turk tasks could (if the language allowed it) but the Amazon warehouse jobs would be impossible to move.

Unless, Amazon opens a chain of warehouses in Mexico's cities that border the US (Tijuana, Tecate, Mexicali, Sonoyta, Nogales, Cd Juarez, among all the others) and then dispatches the goods from there. That however would need to include a very good import/export deal.
"indexing" is only part of the problem, it's a batch job. I find being able to respond to searches across a huge data set in the order of milliseconds (while having planet scale fail over) be a lot more challenging to implement.
Greatest autocompletion tool ever created just got better!
I'm regularly imagining what I would actually be able to accomplish if I went back in time 200-2000 years. Details are always the problem. It reminds you how little you know, but also helps you to form a background interest in engineering, metallurgy, geology, chemistry, etc.
Let's Build a Compiler
Because it kind of sucks in comparison. Epic is trying to make Blender better.
If we assume that USB4 is basically Thunderbolt 3 that means full spec cables will be too expensive so they will definitely allow lower-spec cables. And if it keeps using the USB-C connector then all the bad old cables are still there.
Google isn't a monopoly, or monopsony for that matter. Competitors are a click away.

Having a popular product != having control over the supply of a market. Market dominance through having a better product than the competition is how the free market works.
In 100 years will we wonder why recumbent bicycles took so long to catch on? MIT's David Gordon Wilson, the writer of the excellent book Bicycling Science, had been advocating for recumbents as a more efficient design to replace traditional modern bicycles for decades.

http://news.mit.edu/2017/mit-designer-inventor-author-bike-b...
and
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/bicycling-science-third-editi...
That doesn't even address the point, which is not everybody who claims they don't care actually doesn't care.
New face of the Bank of England's £50 note is revealed as Alan Turing
How could it be less efficient than walking? Unless your region is perfectly flat, you could walk the bike uphill and ride downhill and still save ~50% of the effort of traveling any medium distance.
You have the other extreme, Mr Money Moustache who claims to feed a family of 4 on about 300 dollars a month:

https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2012/03/29/killing-your-1000...

of course, that´s a lot of rice, noodles and beans (not that there´s anything bad with those, but I´d get bored).
His statement is definitively true on the software distribution side. Google wants every App installed via play store and now even Microsoft Office is only available there. Classical Windows on the other hand allows Chrome to be installed without MS acting as gatekeeper.

Yes, it's not totally black and white. Android does kinda allow side-loading with shitty usability. MS did start its own store and lets not get into telemetry. Classical windows still gives the user a lot of control, though.
An average human can peak above 1HP for short amounts of time (think sprinting). They definitely cannot maintain that. I think the Horse Power was defined at a sustainable rate for the horse.

1 HP = 746 watts and most people on a bike would cruise in 100-250 watts range. The top cyclists can maintain more like 400 watts

https://www.cyclinganalytics.com/blog/2018/06/how-does-your-...
> According to the article the Fish and Wildlife Service has researched this extensively. Reports have found it's 'consistent with the state’s marine protection and water quality policies.' Experts who make this their livelihood recommend this course of action.

And how many years ago would they have recommended dumping Roundup in places to fix a weed problem?

How many years ago did doctors actually recommend smoking cigarettes to help with breathing problems?

How many years ago did we intentionally spray ourselves with DDT?

All of those things were done on the advice of 'Experts who make this their livelihood'. But now we've learned better, and that advice is now seen to be utterly terrible.

The very name of the thing, 'rat poison' should give us a fairly good understanding of what we will learn in the coming decades about how short-sighted of a suggestion this is, just like all the others I have listed.
I'm from the middle of the US so all my experience is with $200 and cheaper bicycles (maybe $300 adjusted for inflation) since I'm not in the racing "scene" and bike commuting's infeasible outside very small areas (though I was able to, and did, do it for a while), but bikes never seem to quite work right—one set of brakes keeps slipping no matter how many times you fix it, a couple gears that you just cannot get to hold, tires lose enough air every 48 hours you have to add more to ride yet don't seem to actually have a leak and anyway you changed them once (and god is that a pain) and they still do it, chain keeps getting loose, that kind of thing. The best bicycle I've used I'd have raised hell and tried to return it under lemon laws if it were a car and had that many little problems. Meanwhile $300 is still, what, 1/50th the cost of an entry level new car? That's why it seems high. It seems like you should be able to get 50 very good and reliable bicycles for the same cost as a car. Not 50 that suck. There seem to be improved bits of hardware that fix some of the problems but then you're talking more like 1/20 of an entry level car, which, yikes.
My almost certainly incorrect chronology of events, cobbled together from pop science headlines I've read:

1) Free radicals are bad because they cause oxydation (oxydization?) and this is bad for our cells?
2) Thus, anti-oxidants are good, because they prevent this process
3) People recommended more dietary anti-oxidants
4) It turns out that ingesting anti-oxidants doesn't actually produce the antioxidants necessary to combat free radicals, the same way eating dietary fat doesn't create human fat. Dietary sources of anti-oxidants largely are not absorbed and are useless.
5) Instead, we should look for foods that stimulate production of anti-oxidants in... the liver? the spleen? Wherever those are made in your body? But no one knows which foods are good for that?
Was the person/process that led to that decision corrected ?
I went looking to see when ball bearings were invented, and came across this wildly detailed history, prepared for NASA in the 1980s:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/198100...

It's page 5 before it even gets to the invention of the wheel!
They also compare the remuneration with the one provided by peers. Of course every CEO is above average and deserves to be paid better than the industry average. Unsurprisingly, the average compensation increases year after year...
> taxes go to public universities who then train up a generation of students who won't contribute those benefits back to the country

I would be amazed if I could find a US accredited institution of higher education that offered subsidized education to non-nationals.

> professors hold immense power

Nothing to say about this other than "lol nope".
>>> But it sounds like this case is different - the companies in question didn't submit FOIA requests, the DMV sold them for profit.

The way I interpreted it (and from prior experience with FOIA requests), a government agency can charge you a fee for processing a FOIA request. So the $77MM that the FL DMV made from "sales" of personal information, I interpret as FOIA fees collected for processing FOIA requests.

I could be wrong, that just how I interpreted the article.
Absolutely. They're often used as charging cables, e.g. on cell phones and Apple laptops, where engineering a high-speed data cable of the length required would be costly, difficult, and unnecessary.
Libgraal: GraalVM compiler as a precompiled GraalVM native image
Add carpentry or vehicle technician to that list. All jobs where you have some sort of choice on how and what to do and motoric aptitude leads to high variance in skills.

The big difference is maybe that bad vehicle technicians are singled out by the boss or customers and quit? While neither the boss or customer can pinpoint a single programmer.
You would still have to regulate amount. Even if such a concoction existed, too much or too little would still be unhealthy.
Caning is not used for minor offences, only for violent crime. It's more like a $300 fine
Money can be misused. Food cannot.
> Likewise, in Europe, I also hear a lot of "I don't give money to beggars but if they want to eat then I can buy something". I disagree because to me it's part of a larger dehumanization process: who are we to tell people what they should spend their money on ?

I would never tell someone what to spend their money on. if I'm going to spend my money to help them out, I'd prefer it not go straight to a pint of liquor. is that unreasonable?
A horse peaks around 15+ horsepower depending on age and breed they can significantly exceed it. They also generally average above 1HP for long stretches.

1hp is at best one measure of the average consistent power output of an average horse doing a full day of work every day for months. Or about the equivalent of a person doing 0.05 to 0.1 hp.
If you purchased a new home that public record of sale tends to be the source of a bunch of spam - often claiming to be important mortgage documents.

If you were renting it's possible your landlord or management company provides information on new residents for 'cost saving offers'.
I did a similar job for UPS, but at an airport before school in the mornings (~2am-6am). Unloading the containers from the big plane, then sorting all those boxes, and finally loading the smaller planes or trucks. Everything was timed, and it was tough cold work (middle of winter, in a cold part of the US, at an airport where there is nothing to stop the wind), but its totally possible.

Comically enough, the part that stuck with me the most was how bad I was at memorizing the codes for the various trucks/locations as well.
I merely said that legality does not imply that no human rights violations are occurring.

Also I'm talking about deportations (and the associated camps, whatever you want to call them) is a separate issue from border control, in my opinion.
Not the first time New Englanders have boycotted a supermarket chain either. When Market Basket ousted their president and voted to give the shareholders dividends rather than reinvesting in the company[1]. Though these workers wern't on strike they were protesting what they felt like was the first step of the company getting gutted and sold.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_Basket_protests
Network of Chinese Concentration Camps for Uighurs Uncovered
whatever your reason is, it’s certainly not to stop writing whiny useless blogs.
Among other things. You'd have to live a mostly-off-grid lifestyle without it, but it's possible and completely legal. I.e., you are never legally required to produce any type of state ID card in Florida.
Those have been slowly coming down in price. You can get a bus-powered TB3 10G Ethernet adapter for $150 now.