skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So far. Just hope that you're never distracted at just the wrong time. It only takes a couple of seconds to overrun your headlights, even at lower speeds.

A car with high beams cresting a hill behind you. A car with high beams cresting the hill in front of you. An animal. A drink. A radio station change. A text message.
Exactly. It seems obvious that you would want at the very least to fund the agency to the point where you no longer see a marginal profit for each dollar spent. At that point you're still very far from maximizing taxes collected.
Have you heard about the GoTenna mesh project, https://gotennamesh.com/ ? I haven't got one yet, but it looks like the sort of thing you're describing (though its a device that works with existing smartphones, rather than being a protocol our phones could run. An advantage here is that with sufficient GoTenna mesh users in an area, one's anonymity could be increased, as typically (at least in the USA and most of western Europe) one can't buy SIM cards to access telephone networks without one's ID.
One of the reasons (among many) is the expense treatment of stock based compensation was changed I believe as part of Sarbanes-Oxley. Companies are now required to expense stock given as compensation since it will have a dilutive effect on existing shareholders. Amazon issue billions of dollars in stock each year to its employees. Amazon also operates high cashflow but low margin businesses which make its net income very small. The company has emphasized free cash flow to investors for at least 20 years.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AMZN/amazon/stock-...
That's an interesting perspective, and I would take it a step further to say it's prisoner's dilemma but with millions of prisoners.

From the media owners' perspective, there's always going to be users who defect to piracy, so DRM is the resulting Nash equilibrium that maximizes benefit from not catering to pirates while still catering to customers.
Just curious, what’s your website?
Reflectors are required in all 50 states. Active lighting is generally required after dusk. If you don't have these then it's hard to blame "reckless cagers" for not being able to see you.
I'm saying that they would have been successful with or without this marketing tactics. I am not saying that startups shoulnd't use free marketing opportunities.
Hides the map canvas when the page is idle:
https://codepen.io/CalvinMorett/full/LYPbPXM
Any examples where you think they were wrong?
Ah thanks for the clarification. My interpretation of the advice is to START with things that don't scale. Because it's about getting to Product-market-fit soonest. Then the advice is not common sense.
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I'm not talking about vote count, I'm talking about individual user's karma counts.
Would you be against other people getting the subsidy?

I'm just trying to figure out if it's hypocrisy or selfishness.
It provides sentiment without clutter. Instead of 1000 identical comments or 1 comment with 1000 "same" or "this" comments underneath.
Vulcans in the world of Ferengis.
"Cornell University is studying human susceptibility to digital disinformation generated by language models."

"The Middlebury Institute of International Studies Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC) is exploring how GPT-2 could be misused by terrorists and extremists online."

"The University of Oregon is developing a series of “bias probes” to analyze bias within GPT-2."

But apparently no university studies the social and economic impact of using terabytes of public data to train algorithms that for all practical reasons end up being inaccessible to an average person.

If things go on the way they're going right now, in 20 years millions of people will be "mechanical turked". Most of information processing tools will be mediated exclusively through companies like Google and Amazon. They will be less like normal tools (e.g. word processors) and more like systems you have to be a part of. Can you imagine the levels of inequality involved? The hyper-centralization of power? This is the foremost challenge presented by AI, not some hypothetical nonsense involving terrorists using a text generator.

And it's not like there aren't any solutions. Douglas Engelbart, for example, pointed out a great way of introducing technology into society without screwing most of the society over:

http://dougengelbart.org/content/view/138

We kind of followed his vision for a while, with good results, but AI seems to be going in an entirely different direction.
Here you go http://fairpixels.pro (there's no 'advice' on there if that's what you're looking for)
You dump the brine into well-mixed ocean areas.
>puts in according to their ability

That’s sales speak for “others should pay even proportionally more than me”.
I think Paul Buchheit said it best in 2007: https://blog.daryn.net/post/32264049/paul-buchheit-limited-l... and
http://redefine.dyndns.org/~andyr/blog/archives/2007/03/note...

But see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70808 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=70795.
I didn't research every spacecraft but if you look at GTOSat, its intended orbit is GTO, so it won't really need the services of Epic since a rocket can place them there directly.

And if you look at the spacecraft, it doesn't seem to have any kind of meaningful propulsion system.
https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/gtosat.htm

I'm sure the other spacecrafts have a similar design concept.
> The "thermal window" seems rather narrow

Indeed, it's not that big. But:

> If that is accurate it means that for most of the winter (and possibly part of the summer) the device is off.

This obviously depends on where you live, but when I think of Germany (or look at data of it [0]), this might be very well large parts of September/October till around March/April...

Not bad, when you try to run this system as little as possible.

[0] https://www.wetter.de/klima/europa/deutschland-c49.html
> "You know what will make me richer, a decade of war with England and if we win followed up with several decades of poor trade relations"

Yea, that'd be silly, instead it was "You know what, the crown isn't listening to us and we're ineligible to be lords like those fat cats in england proper, let's throw a big to-do and get invited back in at a proper rank with representation."
Disallowing third party cookies by default, thus preventing most ad tracking. Some other browsers (ffox?) actively prevent fingerprinting techniques such as canvas fingerprinting.
I'm astonished, just because hg defined bitbucket for me. Else its other features were just OK.

Also, though I never found a reason to choose hg I had been told that it fit the Windows file system better than git. If so that wasn't enough.
I'm posing a hypothetical set of emotions for OP to try and understand is POV. If someone was to tell you "I get depressed if I don't work for long periods of time, because I my life feels meaningless if I'm not making money" How do you describe that person, if not "greedy"? I don't think calling greed "greed" is offensive. That isn't even saying OP actually is greedy, but that it was a possibility. To each their own.

I'm trying to figure out what OP feels provides him meaning at work. If it's the money, and he gets depressed when he doesn't make money, I'm fine calling that greedy. If it's the lack of meaningful "work" you can do the work without the money. If it's a 3rd thing, I genuinely don't understand what it could be since to me work is simply "doing a task for money".
Different experiences leading to an inability to communicate/empathize is universal, I think:

> 326. “I can’t know what is going on in him” is, above all, a picture. It is the convincing expression of a conviction. It does not give the reasons for the conviction. They are not obvious.

> 327. If a lion could talk, we wouldn’t be able to understand it."

https://www.quora.com/What-did-Wittgenstein-mean-by-If-a-lio...
Diet can play a big factor in autoimmune disorders. proteins leaking from the gut into the bloodstream can trigger a strong immune system reaction which makes the autoimmune disorder flare up.
> I've almost hit bicyclists because I couldn't see them

This is absolutely your fault. You're driving too fast for the conditions. You're the one who can't see what's ahead; you're the one who has to drive slower.
Elizabeth Warren Came Up with a Plan to Break Up Big Tech
IMHO: Once Slack hits 50%, it must be on its way out. Slack is one of the most easily replaceable tech 'unicorns'. Your company could decide tomorrow to use one of the many competitors (or clones, since they all look just about the same) and the biggest downside for you would be having to resubscribe to channels. And that's if they don't build a migration tool for you.

They're not even that great at what they do, they have regular downtime.
> Not sure how much is lost

We lose manipulability.

I can perfectly read an expression like this:

(a add b) multiply (a add neg b)

Even I can easily rewrite (with just a few keystrokes, if I have the right editor), into this equivalent expression:

(square a) minus (square b)

But, when I make the conversion in my head, I see the mathematical formula. I can easily parse the English version and I can easily write it, but in my head I work with the formula, not with the words.

APL languages have a considerable number of symbols to memorize (with the exception of k, which has very few primitives, J in particular has many of them), but the core is always the same and relatively small (see the APL Dictionary, by Iverson), and many symbols are related so they are easy to remember. Nevertheless, it takes a while. Once you learn the symbols, you need to learn common idioms and constructions, which takes even more (J, with a prevalent tacit style, makes this quite difficult) but once you start getting it and can manipulate the symbolic expressions in your head, the English version does not matter any more.

There are other reasons, like keeping a large amount of the program on screen (see the videos of arcfide), but mental expression manipulation is what convinced me.
> We're not there, though.

I suspect that's true, but you don't actually know that from this dataset. Some portion of the cost is born by the auditee to respond/defend against the audit and passed on to shareholders/employees/customers.

If the response costs are great with respect to the IRS's audit costs, the government could quite profitably add auditors, but have a negative overall impact on end citizens.
Love it.

I remember reading (might have been here) that math and art both get difficult at the same moment for the same reason. When you're a kid, you live in the rational world. By this, I mean numbers that can be expressed as the ratio of two integers. Human creations are rational. The volume of a square is a neat, tidy equation. So is the area of a square. You can draw them easily, too, using a ruler and clean nifty lines, and they look great. Squares are all over human creation. You can draw a car with straight lines and squares. Wheels and other things bring in this inconvenient number, pi, that is "irrational", but let's just go with three point blah blah and it'll be fine. At least the curvature is constant.

So, where are the squares in nature? Hell, where are the circles. Where is the constant curvature. How do you draw a leaf, a tree, a face? How do you calculate the surface volume of a leaf, or the volume of a tree?

All of a sudden, you can't measure it with the numbers you know. There is no neat ratio of integers that will calculate the volume of that tree trunk. Or even the volume under an easily expressed mathematical equation on a graph. In fact once you start measuring nature, rather than the things people make, rational numbers aren't anywhere. All of a sudden, you have to deal with limits, sequences, strange numbers that can be made arbitrarily close to zero as other numbers approach infinity. It turns out every number is "irrational", pretty much nothing is rational. So, instead of irrational, let's call it Real.

Where do math and art get hard? When you start to describe things as they are, rather than as we imagine the to be. You know, Real.
Maybe we should require that everyone break at least one window on their house once a year. This would create a lot of great window repair jobs.
> I feel like all these discussions should make some mention of how the US government felt this was their land to give

I feel the opposite. It distracts from the topic at-hand.
The reason the IRS's budget is being slashed is the same as why the tax code is complex. Political elites, corporations and those who truly call the shots want less transparency of their finances, not more. Complicated tax codes and no one to audit them greatly benefit the wealthy. There's clearly a strong vested interest in this country of using the government as tool to enrich oneself as the expense of society.
I might be misunderstanding you, but performance isn't in the ISA, it's in the implementation. In fact, the x86 ISA is the best example for this: It's really difficult to get competitive performance out of an ISA designed in the 70s, yet billions upon billions of USD in R&D and optimization make it work.
Simplifying would be great, but it's not really possible to do because you won't get the exactly same tax distribution with a simplified set of rules. So politicians will frame it as "why do you want to raise taxes on single moms?" and "why are you taking away the deduction for teachers?" and "this bill hurts vulnerable people who have been hit by natural disasters." So any suggestion to simplify the tax code is a no go.
SourceForge still supports Mercurial https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/documentation/Mercurial/#pub...
They don't need to allow browsing it; but at least have a minimal page which shows the presence of the repository, and allow cloning it.
The only way for `git checkout .` to blow away an entire month of work is if you didn't add or commit anything for an entire month.
> calling server-side autocomplete on a field you explicitly are typing in strikes me as about as sensible and forthright as calling an Amazon text field that takes my credit card number a card skimmer

Exactly, and waters down the impact of the termminology. If "card skimmer" is anything that can read a credit card, than the term is meaningless for security.

If "keylogger" is anything connected to the web that responds to a keypress...

GNU is risking turning into the boy who cried wolf here.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4995938
> "work somewhere or on something you enjoy"

Definitely not true, and a generalization. I've worked at the shittiest of shitty culture game startups in the early 2010s to places that really strive to build a great culture for everyone at work, is empathetic, and cares about putting employees on a career track they care about.

Just because you haven't been at such a place doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Just because you had a bad experience doesn't mean that speaks for everyone.

At this point you can definitely work for interesting startups remotely, I've personally consulted for several in the past year on the side. They use interesting tech, have great people, and are working on interesting problems.
That's not the kind of support I'm talking about.

Who is writing the RISC-V compiler? If the RISC-V compiler for GCC or CLang messes up, who do you call?

If the Power9 GCC / CLang compilers mess up, you call Red Hat for support. Red Hat / IBM are now the same company, so they'll offer end-to-end services.

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ARM has okay support: the ARM foundation seems to be taking care of their compiler kits / Linux patches / etc. etc. pretty well. But I don't think you can buy an ARM support package from anybody... really.

I think the ARM / Linux ecosystem is still nascent. You get good support through the Rasp. Pi community, and maybe the occasional Android Phone gets a big community around it. But ARM / Linux ecosystem is quite poor outside of Rasp. Pi.

ARM, as a company, is clearly designed as an "embedded" company. It provides the documentation and compilers, but doesn't provide too many OS-level services above that.
You don't need special genetics. All it takes is a continuous sink for calories (sustained aerobic exercise) that can be freely replaced with extra food. That means doing something other than sitting all day, driving home, and watching TV for four hours before bed. Also not going to happen with one hour a week on a treadmill or any of the low intensity fad exercise trends.
I'd say it's a bad thing. There may be a handful of areas where it's actually a positive for me (certain programming activities), but those are more than balanced out by the activities it makes hard (maintaining friendships) or outright impossible (maintaining romantic relationships) for me.

I've learned to fake it pretty well in most situations. I like to think that it never even occurs to most of my coworkers that I might be on the spectrum. That said, I am absolutely unambiguously faking it. There is a very thin veneer of learned social behavior, and I'm very careful to not put myself in situations where that veneer is likely to be pierced because when it happens I have absolutely no idea what to do.
> AWS in the early days wasn’t that different than many other cloud providers of the day

I'm sorry, but this just isn't true. The very first product launched under the AWS banner was S3, which was fundamentally different than anything else on the market. There were tons of companies offering shared and VPS hosting, but nobody offering an API-driven, usage-billed storage service like S3.

A few months later they launched EC2, which was absolutely comparable to the various VPS hosts (if differentiated somewhat by its API-driven use model). But S3 was first, and it made a loud and clear statement that AWS was aiming to build something unlike anything else on the market at the time.
You could still do that if the karma wasn't displayed.
Hurricane country here too (Houston). If you take Harvey as an example no city in the US could withstand that kind of rainfall. The difference is no one expects Phoenix to get 51 inches of rain from one storm. It was roughly 14 to 15 trillion gallons.

Not a prepper but living here several decades I have come to value preparedness. My family has 3 months of food supply and food safe storage for over 200 gal of water, water filters that can filter raw stagnant water to something safe and drinkable, a safe full of guns and ammo, and two years of vegetable seeds in the freezer.

I'm not expecting an EMP or "the big one" or whatever, I'm not really even worried about it. I've just seen how ugly it gets when folks aren't prepared.
> directly refuting the claim made in the title of the blog post. That is: Most [...] In the title, the author is seemingly making the claim that all [...]
The value is there, but it goes to the company and not the users.
I've got to wonder if I have this too. For most of my life, I've felt like I'm operating at 60%. Every damn day is a constant battle with energy, and focus, and drive. I've been told its depression, anxiety, or ADHD. Prescribed medication, which I've always refused to take.

As a kid we were always playing in fields. My grandparents owned property in rural CA hills where we used to run around for days unsupervised, wading through tall grass with nothing but shorts and a T-Shirt on.

Did I get bit by a tick? Maybe? To my knowledge and memory, we never did find one on me... But then again, we weren't exactly checking every time we came in. I'm sure in all those years, I was bit by multiple bugs. Multiple times. Could that have injected persistent bacteria into my body that feed on my energy, and constantly drag me down?

Maybe it is just depression. But that sure feels like a symptom, and not a root cause. The root cause of all this is SOMETHING, and blanket diagnoses of ADHD and depression don't satisfy my need for an actual answer. With respect to medical practitioners, I still have to say, at times it feels like we're living in the stone age of medicine.
That's my biggest problem. Until I can use a key in Safari and on iOS, they are useless for me.
>white noise over the speakers

W-what? I know some people swear that white noise makes them concentrate better, but forcing everyone to listen to white noise? Wtf. I'm not even sure that's legal from an occupational health & safety standpoint.
Here's the original post from the author of Webmin: http://www.webmin.com/exploit.html
"The Code is more what you call guidelines, than actual rules."
Sounds like Business B is going to need 9 new buildings. Are they built already?
I'm sorry, what? Your response to my criticism that the IRS has been known to use its authority to censor political speech is to point out that they are using it to censor both conservative and liberal speech? So, my argument that the IRS is being used for censorship was basically understated, and your claim is that the IRS's willingness to censor goes well beyond what I insinuated. Thank you for making my point.

Was your argument supposed to prove me wrong that an overly large taxation bureaucracy has been shown to be an instrument by which the government can threaten political groups' fundamental right to free speech?

I think perhaps you need to try again.
I don't think remote work is that good. It has its benefits like having more time, flexible schedule and work from where you want but this comes at a price: you work alone every day, your colleagues are in different timezones, you need to set hard rules on your work schedule and socializing is a must. Think of all the things you get for granted working from an office: colleagues, events, pair programming, face to face meetings, small talk breaks. Again I do agree the remote work has its benefits but everything comes at a cost.
> One way to maximize revenue would be for every tax payer to be audited every year.

Oddly enough, the government has the information to do this for many (most?) tax payers every year and send them the forms pre-filled out ready to sign. Unfortunately, the tax prep companies fight letting the government do this.
Countries tariff each other all the time, big and small. It's probably the rule more than the exception.
The government did wind up settling. https://www.courthousenews.com/justice-department-settles-te... It does seem that this could be argued as just a political move b/c the settlement occurred under Trump and the accusations are against the IRS during the Obama administration. I guess it's left to the reader if they would rather believe the results of the federal government investigating themselves or one party condemning the actions of the other.
Totally agree.

AWS also operate out of a limited number of locations where they can optimize against their fixed costs (locations where they can negotiate power and bandwidth costs). Some of their running costs decrease when resources are not in use.

WeWork needs thousands of locations in order to be attractive to the target market and empty desks are pretty much the same cost as a full one (ongoing lease per sqft).

In San Diego there are just 2 WeWork locations, the closest being a 25 mile commute (through traffic hell) from my home. In order to be compelling they would need to be not much further than my local Starbucks.
Noise Analysis of Computer Chassis and Secondary Sound Source Noise Reduction
Sure, but it wasn't phrased as an open ended question, it was framed as rhetorical questions with a given answer that are evidence for your conclusion. I'm confused by the "bschool he never went to" bit as well. I'll grant that it sparks an interesting discussion, but I don't think that it does much to support your thesis as evidence.
I thought somebody picked up as new maintainer and then Mike Pall was back. What happened? He lost interest?