skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can wipe down a tablet but not a pad. Isn't there some risk of transmission via the paper pad?

(Thank you for the insights!)
Family friendly will be Disney+ everything and the kitchen sink will be Hulu
you mean the last 30 years?
Unless you own the complete path from server to user (and no one does) there is always someone who can “turn you off”.
Just to answer the last question, successful B2B firms provide provable ROI. The company I'm with currently has a couple thousand customers, and every single sale is about proving our product will provide a return that exceeds the time and money invested in it. That said, you usually need a 'lighthouse'. This is a term commonly used for a reasonably sized firm which had taken the leap with your product and can be shown or referenced to future potential customers. This is why partnering with a customer can be a good path. It provides immediate feedback on your product, and also gives you a showcase for future prospects. In your situation, I would probably be looking for a customer that stood to greatly profit from the use of your product and try to pitch it to them as an R&D investment. To be honest, this won't be that much harder than your first B2B sale would normally be, as either way there's no proof of ROI.

If you're dead set on VC, then you need to figure out how much of your product it would actually be possible to sell. If that number is in the billions (which means you must be generating more than that for your customers), then think about everything which gives your group a first move advantage and allows you to become a near monopoly. If that all adds up, then VC money may be right for you. If not, VC money could drag down an otherwise good idea.
DanG, there is a book in here somewhere, or at least a substantial collection of essays, on a coherent theory of moderated speech and debate.
No I do not support people doing bad things. That does not mean that I am against everything that could possibly be used for evil. This is an absolutely inane accusation.

Are you fine with black communities being ruined by crack cocaine because police can't search people? Of course not, that'd be a ridiculous thing to think.
The progress-bar at the top of the page that shows how much reading you have left is pretty neat UX.

I bet "gamifying" the process of reading an article to completion like that encourages longer visit times too. I'd like to see an A/B comparison of how long a visitor stays on the page with & without that element.
Great example. Weil is said to be the one who was deeply immersed in both the geometric tradition of the Italians and the functional perspective of Riemann, so he was in a unique position to see many analogies and deep connections. (He proved small pieces of it, and laid the roadmap for Grothendieck.) These are the kind of “ideas and understanding” that Schulman is talking about.

What collapsed were the proofs, and some if not all of the ideas survived and got painted over with the new language. Sadly algebraic geometry has this bad reputation of being obtuse and opaque, that it has become devoid of geometry. Mathematics need to be more open about ideas that are not rigorous, not just left unspoken between the experts themselves.
Im not sure if you have seen their keyboards lately (for starters) but they are definitely not doing one of those things anymore.
University of People?
and the reason they wealthy are flocking to the US? because they avoid having to pay for the social services programs to their employees which leads to huge profits. foreign workers comes to the US and because they know they can get all these social services once they've returned home, they can underbid their US counterpart. the expanding different between the haves and the have not is purely due to the world wealthy and foreign workers exploiting the lack of social services in the US.
2008 was peak iPod and they started declining after that.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ipod_sales_per_quart...

Note FYQ1 is calendar quarter 4.
I'm curious what you think of Eisenhower since he was basically warning us about the state of America today?
Source? Curious to read
I find it amazing that people unironically advocate the deaths of literally everyone because they can't be arsed to deal with overpopulation. If immortality were the default, it would rightly be seen as batshit insane to force everyone to die to solve overpopulation.
I actually think all this talk of royalties is sort of insane since for the devs there is no immediate monetary downside if a game flops.
This definitely limits the usefulness of Google's "always free" tier. This will x2 some bills I have for small personal projects, though will still be a bit cheaper than an AWS alternative after the 12 month free tier.

Sigh.. I suppose it was a matter of time before they figured out the pricing loophole. Back to creating new Google accounts every year to get the year of credits...
> IPv6 is not yet that useful for external facing sites

Google's NAT pricing only affects connections initiated by the VM (external load balancer traffic doesn't use the NAT). So most of this traffic is going to be your servers talking to 3rd party APIs, update servers, etc. A lot of these services support IPv6 now, meaning your NAT costs would be lower if GCE supported IPv6.
The 4% rule, sequence of return risk, and a real stress test for FIRE
Juul, Philip Morris Sued Under Racketeer Act for Targeting Kids
Twitter Helped Chinese Gov Promote Disinformation on Repression of Muslims
Safe treatment? Great.

How about obtaining informed consent first?
Startups have technology that can win the market or scale easily. This is a real estate business, not a tech startup.
> is not The Driver for Scala to interact with Apache Spark ?

A gateway drug? Perhaps. A driver? Perhaps. The only driver? Nope. For example Scala is used a lot for regular Web servers.

> Secondly, it seems from comments here that Scala -> JS is a thing, so that is used for .. ?

* For the frontend of Web applications, notably because it allows reuse of code across client and server;

* For CLI applications based on Node.js (better startup time than with the JVM);

* For server apps based on Node.js (for people who like the Node.js ecosystem better than the JVM's, or who have an existing codebase to integrate with);

* For AWS Lambda apps (again, better startup time than the JVM);

* For mobile apps through React Native;

* For embedded applications, in cases where a JavaScript engine is available but no JVM;

* For browser extensions;

* For integration with any other kind of application that provides hooks in JavaScript (e.g., Google Sheets, see https://medium.com/@antoine.doeraene/make-your-google-spread...)

* etc.

> Third, is it the case that Scala 3 is taking the wind out of Scala 2 improvements, and the dev community is small enough such that, that is visible as 'not much happening' with Scala 2x ?

No it is not the case. There are as many core contributors to Scala 2.x now than there were before the Scala 3 effort was launched. And there are many more external contributors, with numbers growing every year.
Double edged sword. Too short an article, the progress bar is meaningless. Too long, and there's no way I'm reading until the end. Useful if all the articles are about this length, but even then fades away with frequent readers.
The fingerprint scanner is intended to benefit the company, not the users. It makes it significantly more difficult to share an account, which protects Bloomberg's $24,000 / user / year revenue.
> This was the whole attraction of Netflix

Yes, but everyone (including Netflix, analysts, and every observer with two brain cells to rub together) new that was temporary, and it started breaking down when Blockbuster started aggressively bidding for exclusives for their streaming service.

Netflix having everything was only going to happen as long as everyone else was standing back to see if Netflix could prove streaming a viable market worth competing for.
Holy cow, that was fascinating and disturbing - I wonder how much more that bird is capable of, it reminds me of Whistler from Sneakers.

I think the species that was imitating the cell phone was a rose-breasted grosbeak, and it wasn't nearly as perfect as that Lyre, but close enough to be recognizable.
Massive Coral Reef Damage from Giant Clam Shell Digging in the South China Sea
"Though eating electricity seems bizarre..."

I think when you get down to the virus and microbe level, there isn't a lot that's truly analogous to our layperson's understanding of "an animal eating a chunk of stuff it found".
Estimated Fluoride Intake and IQ
A 1-mg increase in fluoride intake was associated with a 3.66 (95% CI, −7.16 to −0.15; P = .04) lower FSIQ score among boys and girls
The US government isn't abusive to its people though.
Tips for Reducing Cart Abandonment
> In C++, technically every initialization of a sub-coroutine starts defaults to being a new heap allocation. I don't want to spread FUD: my understanding is that the vast majority of these are optimized out by the compiler. But one downside of this approach is that you could change your code and accidentally disable one of these optimizations.

I don't think this is correct. C++ 20 allows a lot of choices to implement it without forcing a heap allocation.

see https://lewissbaker.github.io/2017/11/17/understanding-opera...
also see this video that goes in depth how to have billions of coroutines with C++: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9tlJAqMV7U
True, but sadly all Netflix proved was that streaming everything was a viable market, not that everyone streaming their own content on competing silos was a viable market. And now the pie is in too many slices and nobody wants to buy it.
Thanks for the offer, but I'm not even sure if any of my code from that era survives. I'll have a look sometime.

Cool project btw!
> The current rumors point to Disney+ being fully interoperable with a Apple’s ecosystem (Apple TV channels, launching on Apple’s platforms, etc), and not interoperable with Amazon’s platform or devices

What I heard (and I thought it was announcement, not mere rumour) was that Disney+ was actively working to be available not only on Amazon devices, but actually as an add-on in Prime video the same way HBO Now and a number of other streaming services that are also standalones are.
Georgia has a lot of state parks. Sometimes you can get a park pass from the library with your PINES card.
Ads are payed for and marked as such.
Or, Mturk the s*%t out of it. You can do it for the top 10-15 stories of the day, for probably 2-3$ each.
I respectfully disagree. While there is communication overhead, it really does scale with the number of people you have to communicate with. If you have twice the people working half the time, you still have twice the communication cost.

Moreover, the communication overhead will eat up a much larger percentage of working time, since the person is only working half time. But you can't just communicate half as much. Any fixed overhead, such as status meetings, breaks, etc will suffer from the same effect.

Then there's the concept of flow. It's hard to get into a high productive state doing something like programming if you are working 4 hours a day, and 1 hour a day is overhead. Even if you get into that zone, you will benefit from it for a short period of time. For me, it can easily take half an hour to get my mind back to where I was on the previous day.

Ramping up and learning a codebase is also an overhead, and will take longer in terms of days (since you aren't working as long), take communication time, and then once you are an expert, you'll bring a smaller amount of time to bear against the problem.

In terms of teams, having a larger team (2x as large, let's say) means that you will get more good hires and more bad hires. But bad hires are far more of a problem than good hires, especially if they spend all the time communicating, asking questions, and making work for others. One bad hire can ruin a team. One good hire really cannot make a bad team into a good team.

All of this assumes also that all the part time people are working at the same time and able to communicate, which almost certainly won't be the case. Part time workers will not always be able to communicate, and may have to wait a while for an answer, further reducing productivity.

It's not only not negligible, but I worry it's not scalable.
> won't guarantee that some other thread of execution won't change the value under your nose

My understanding is that compilers can always assume that there is no other thread involved, which (part of) why C11 atomics are necessary. Is that not the case?
WeWork, in most cases, doesn't own the property. They are subletting.
Shhhhhhhhut uuuuup
For the ~95th–99th percentile wealth class, the world has changed considerably. For instance, I can travel anywhere in the world and find a place to stay within an hour, and do so frequently. As a business owner, I can find an international market for my product in a matter of months. I can get anywhere I need to without owning a car. I can maintain a high salary while living in a remote location, of traveling.

For the majority of people, however, things have changed little.
Absent an existential threat, a union drawing membership fees is marginally most profitable by doing exactly nothing. This is economically perverse as a limiting case.
I just want to thank you for your work on Encarta. It was the first _real software_ I interacted with in my teen years; it fascinated me a lot back then and I believe it’s part of the reason I’m in software industry. Thank you.
Junior high school kills scientific curiosity
Haha, I'd rather you would have seen me in the Chinese police station last year, absolutely furious and further raising hell in a yelling match with the local Chief of Police after he raised his voice at my Chinese partner. Had a similar experience when my Chinese resident permit was delayed for a dumb reason, causing me to miss my daughter's high school graduation in the USA.

I'm not afraid to say exactly what I think when it needs said, and I've said what I truly think here.
Does anybody know how good and up to date the C# wrapper is? I often find that the C# bindings are second or third class citizens in open source libraries that are either buggy or way behind. Saw this with Lucene and quite a few others.
Yup; it's absolutely terrifying.

The scales chosen in the study make it sound a lot more scary, though, given the unfluoridated mean intake was 0.3 mg and the fluoridated mean intake was 0.93mg. Still, this is an estimated difference of two whole IQ points between the populations.
Because they already know if and, to a certain extent, how it works: “if”: yes, “how”: throw lots of money at original content as a necessary (though perhaps not sufficient) requirement. That's been proven already.

There's no toe dangling opportunity unless you can completely own a niche and scale up, and even that would be a relatively unproven approach.
> You say that it is only thing outside of the execution model that require volatile

No, I'm saying that the statement that volatile is only necessary and sufficient for outside the execution model. For signal handlers, it is necessary but not sufficient; for threads, it is neither necessary nor sufficient.

> Or, from the C99 Rationale:

C99 does not consider threading at all. C11 and C++11 do, and any compiler written in the past decade is going to be obeying the rules for the C++11 memory model (which C11 adopted as its memory model). The committees explicitly considered whether it would make sense to imbue volatile with any special threading semantics, and they explicitly rejected doing so.

A volatile read or write is not guaranteed to be converted into a single hardware load or store, even for lock-free types. There are situations where the compiler will narrow or widen the load/store, or even insert extraneous loads and stores to the value.

> This was unsafe even on in-order uniprocessors, because the compiler was free to reorder loads and non-aliased stores.

The compiler is free to reorder non-volatile loads and stores with volatile loads and stores. Only reordering volatile loads and stores with respect to other volatile loads and stores is prohibited. Volatile is not sufficient to make double-checked locking safe.
I'm not an advocate for the US Political system. Having grown up in Europe and moved to Australia. Therefore your assumptions that I'd use the US as the benchmark I set for my democratic wishes is misguided and the majority of your argument falls flat as a consequence. Democracy allows the very thing your discouraging, _choice_.

Your democracy or rather the US democracy is not my own. And for the arguments you've made, I agree. Fortunately I don't live in the US and never have. Likely never will.

Your criticisms of the US version of Democracy are valid, fortunately Democracy allows that recourse and discussion if not out right encourages it. The Chinese political system I cannot imagine would be so welcoming of this type of discourse.

That you defend and disguise the Chinese Dictatorship as a potential alternative to Democracy, this argument leaves me flabbergasted.
A Tongue-in-Cheek Look Back at Broderbund's 'The Print Shop'
If someone employs me to innovate for them I expect them to protect me from the consequences of failure (as long as I don't constantly produce failure) while still appreciating my results.

I mean steering the company to invest in projects that are more likely to succeed, that's just the job of upper management IMO.
Every Issue of the Weekly World News Can Be Read in Full on Google Books
Seems like merging `xkcd-script.ttf`[0] directly into `chart.xkcd` repository may violate `xkcd-font` licensing.[1]

CC-SA-NC-licensed thing could not be merged into MIT-licensed thing.

[0] https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font/blob/master/xkcd-script...

[1] https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font/blob/master/LICENSE
Any followup research? how does the redox tower of these microbes work?
Mostly serious comment: I'm not sure why the form e^{i\pi}=-1 isn't better. Only it doesn't have 0, but is it worse, less beautiful? (It doesn't seem to have the same "relationship between 5 fundamental constants", although it adds the negative number realm, to the imaginary and transcendental–neat.) Would E-mc^2=0 be similarly be better than E=mc^2, because it has an additional "fundamental constant"?
It is what I am looking for. But why does it rely so much on kernel versions? I will try it once 18.04 is supported.
We have up to 160 GB SRAM on our WSI. The rest of the transistors can be a few million cores or reconfigurable Morphle Logic (an open hardware kind of FPGA)

Our startup has been working on a full Wafer Scale Integration since 2008. We are searching for cofounders. Merik at metamorphresearch dot org
Except they think it's going to help them live longer.

And quality of life is poorer with atherosclerosis and cancer - so the years that you do live could potentially be much worse ones.
"Inlining is a gateway drug^H^H^H^H optimization"
The one place where I found videos were hugely better was blender tutorial videos. The program has countless features and shortcuts and is hugely visual. The video just helps you capture as much of that information as possible as well as showing you the typical workflow of a pro.
>> Jobs was a businessman

People say this like Jobs didn't also have technical skills. I am not sure where this myth comes from, but Jobs was plenty sharp around technology. Compared to Wozniak, no, but almost no one was. Jobs was every bit of a toolsy hacker that worked from a young age for a computer corporation.
A guy I know is already doing this, as a nonprofit: http://stochasticlabs.org/portfolio/ai-animal-intelligence/
> And now the pie is in too many slices and nobody wants to buy it.

And yet the total number and $ value of streaming subscriptions sold in the market is going up as more options emerge, not down.
Twitter can't "disappear" me in real life. That's the difference, I think?
Before anyone asks, here's the direct link to the (in)famous 1992 "Bat Boy" issue: https://books.google.com/books?id=5O0DAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA47&dq=b...
Let me generalize:

Typical "bad" or rather high-risk idea is when someone is coming up with "solution looking for a problem". It typically starts with: "Oh, I have this amazing idea about the great business... ". Countless millions lost this way.

On the opposite spectrum - typical high success rate idea is born via tight relationships where you already have customer with money ready to buy specific thing where you form startup to build it.

And then you retain ownership to rinse-repeat-resell.
Show HN: Hookstate: Modern and fast state management for React with hooks
I was hoping they’d switch to Nintendo Switch :-)
Advanced Packaging Options Increase
How An Obscure Rubber Company Became a Linchpin of Tech Industry
true, and that’s definitely a problem, but government is a bigger issue because they have the ability to force a population: corporations can only influence (we can have a different discussion about how corporations give you “choice” but not really, but i think they’re different cases, and government is clear cut)
You can make a decent argument that it has been, and definitely is sometimes, for certain definitions of "government" and subsections of people.

Whataboutism is lazy though, and I do find it telling that the go-to argument a lot of pro-China commenters across platforms use is exactly that...
One definition for fascism that I heard long ago and always found useful is that it's a cult of strength. Fascism says: strength is virtue, and it's the weak who are -- who have always been -- holding back the strong. (It's always, obviously, the strong who fall for this line.)

In this context, these two documents -- the self-published e-book discussed, and Michael Anton's discussion of it -- are clarifying. If you were confused or unclear, here you go! This is fascism.

The fact that there are two layers feels important to me. First, there's the e-book and its gleeful, pitiless, ahistorical visions of cruelty. Second, and just as important, there's Michael Anton's sly willingness to entertain it.

This is bad shit, really bad -- reheated evil from the back of the fridge -- and look how it claws its way out of the darkness. An eager recitation; a tepid rejection; that familiar stance: Well, no, of course I don't agree with this -- but it's interesting to think about!
Yeah (unfortunately) but there are lots of open source space simulation programs: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20518109
Isn't the scrollbar to the right of most articles a similar function?
Mastering the Web
Godspeed. These companies have proven themselves morally reprehensible time and time again. I'd love to see serious criminal charges for the executives though.
Godot? Seems to be popular and some pretty decent games have been made with it.
I definitely poured hours into Encarta as well. I was already a big fan of computers but I do wonder how much of an impact Encarta had on me. It definitely built up that early browsing habit that translated so seamlessly into the web.
Yeah, I've never liked these progress bars—and unfortunately, I'm seeing them all over the place. They're wasted space for functionality the browser provides me already.
All the tap water in Australia is fluoridated. You would be considered a bit odd if you drink filtered water instead of tap water (bar say SA where the water tastes bad). All other things equal, we should expect 3&4 yearolds to have a 3.66 higher IQ than those, say, in NSW, where the water is treated and tastes good enough to drink?

Surely there are some population effects or something else going on here, or the effect, especially later on in life, evens out between the groups.
I feel the exact opposite - that Woz is elevated by programmers and engineers to a much higher status than he deserves.

Jobs was a once in a generation visionary. Woz was extremely talented, but not singularly unique.

Jobs, one-in-a-billion; Woz, one-in-a-hundred-thousand or so.