skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don’t even need to read past the product name. Like a lot of geeks they just don’t have a clue how to sell, nor how to hire talent that can. There is no part of their branding that is not a straight disaster. (And that shoulder massage…oy.)

Look, real ballerinas are totally hardcore badass atheletes who could easily kick all our flabby nerd asses while standing on one toe, and I take my hat off to them for what they do. But how many professional software developers will really want to self-identify as “ballerinas” when discussing between themselves, never mind pitching to board rooms?

(Outside of the programmers-who-already-happily-self-identify-as-bronies subset, of course.)

Doubly so when the actual product looks as agile and graceful as a household broom.

Triply so when they can’t even do simple web pages right. (Just try the inline links on the Community page.) Or try the learn-by-example page, which spends seconds looking completely blank until some pointless Web 2.0 crap eventually loads in a perfectly static TOC.

I mean, I was prepared to overlook the marketing catastrophe just to read about their much vaunted take on structural typing (which is highly relevant to my interests), but this simple lack of technical competence means I am not going to waste any more time.

Money says the whole thing immediately sinks without trace, and none involved will ever be any the wiser why. What a pointless waste of effort.
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Two things:

• Noise is wasted energy, so the quieter a modern vehicle, the better as far as I'm concerned (I have Iain M Bank's descriptions of the efficiencies of some of the ships in his books to thank for this line of reasoning)

• Good! If the transition to electric makes the future streets of London quieter because micro-genitalled cretins parading up and down the streets in their over-powered cars (that are only allowed to do <30mph on the streets anyway), then I'm all for it.
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Volokh take is an interesting read [1]

I am curious how quickly most pages get put behind authorization. With the wording of this ruling you could pretty much go snap up any blog side (say like medium) and more. I wonder what kind of services would come out of that, having the data in a format it can be more easier parsed/analyzed?

so every ecommerce site is fair game? I assume most are already being scraped but I cannot imagine having to be in an environment where many of your connections are not people

[1] https://reason.com/2019/09/09/scraping-a-public-website-does...
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Also sprach Zarathustra.

What a book.
I think many people, 'countrysiders' and farmers included, mistakenly attribute some sort of natural mysticism, simplicity to farming. There is absolutely nothing 'natural' or simple about industrial (western) farming. From mining minerals, producing fertilizers, landscape management, crop engineering, cropfeed engineering, butching techniques, disease control and then foodtech which has it's own universe of methods and companies.

It takes an interested mind to put all that in perspective. Whether or not you do that has nothing to do with where you live or what you do (well, maybe some agritech types have this in their job description).
>Interesting about the resolution, since that was 1/60th the number of pixels as the NES.

surely you mean 1/4
I was just about to buy an SDR rig to play around with, so the timing of your comment is wonderful. I have been looking off and on for a year now and there are just too many choices. I have my tech license, but then I had two kids and haven't been able to go for general yet. I've been bored not getting on HF, which is where I hear all the "action" is. So what SDR would you recommend I get if I also wanted the ability to transmit HF one day?
I don't know about you people, but I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do.
About 20 years ago I was following a friend in a car and we ended up a few cars apart. I called his mobile and just said “which way are we going at the roundabout”. The person on the other end was very confused, it wasn’t my friend but the car directly in front of me. I’ve no idea how that happened but was incredibly bizarre and I think the other driver was more freaked out than I was.
> There is no license required to receive (how would that work, anyway?).

By prosecuting anyone who receives without a license.

Laws are often passed without regard for how enforceable they are.
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I have a friend who, for a few months, had a really strange thing going on with his phone. Any time his phone was off, calls to him would be redirected to someone else. It was another person from the same city, but using a different carrier.

Me, my friend and other friends of his called both companies to report the error multiple times. All we received was scorn and disbelief. We were told, repeatedly, that it simply couldn't happen. But it did, consistently.

It felt really silly when it got to the stage where I'd call my friend, someone else picked up and I'd go "Oh, hi, it's me again". One day, it just stopped happening.
> Barbara Oakley's book A Mind For Numbers

Thank you for the recommendation! I am looking forward to reading the book. It is good know that someone who started off their education assuming they cannot do well in STEM subjects, can actually pick up the skills much later in their carrier, is refreshing. I belong to the camp that I did well in STEM subjects through formal education but then lost touch with math later on. Am looking forward to regaining this skill.
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All the essays of Emerson, GK Chesterton, Hazlitt, Oscar Wilde, RL Stevenson, William James

Every book by Nietzsche (except Zarathustra).

La Bruyere - Characters

Charles Mackay - Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular
Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary
And sold the rights to 'We' for like $5mil in stock...to the company he founded. Matt Levine has had a great time ripping him apart for this.
Why is User Research crucial for startups?
> and the gig economy

Out of the frying pan, into the fire. Not only this is a risky proposition, you'll also be furthering the locust economy[0].

Don't subsidize, work for or invest in locust economy.

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[0] - https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2013/04/03/the-locust-economy/
This may sound like nitpicking, but it isn't: the dinos have survived. All birds are dinosaurs. In fact, birds are extremely closely related to the dinosaurs that were long conjectured to have the highest cognitive abilities [1].

Some birds arguably have higher intelligence and form complex societies. But it was the primate group that developed the "most complex" society. This despite the fact that birds like primates are visually oriented, highly vocalized, take extensive care of their young, and many are already adopted to live in complex societies. It could be that the manual dexterity of primates, as well as the mammalian gestation period ('pregnancy') and its ability to have more developed children at birth could be further required factors that led to societies of human complexity.

You never know what 65 million years of uninterrupted evolution would have produced, but based on the way birds evolved I don't believe we would have had a dinosaur Hacker News in this alternate history.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troodontidae
This is a weird case, as it turns the question of scraping on its head. Normally you'd think "am I allowed to scrape?", but instead the question becomes "am I allowed to prevent scraping?".

Anyways, I disagree with the court's judgment here. The users have consented that their data be used in accordance with LinkedIn's privacy policy. Even if it is publicly posted does not mean that the user has relinquished control over their personal information, for another company to do with as they wish.
Hi everyone, many thanks for all your comments - though there may have been some misunderstanding that we address below:

WE (at Nanosai.com) will attempt to build a data streaming engine that can process 1 billion records per second, and release it as open source. If YOU want to try the challenge too, that's fine (e.g. someone already working on data streaming engine tech). We did not mean for YOU to solve this problem for US.

Our initial measurements and calculations show that it should be possible to reach 1BRS, although the records would have to be small. Still, a data streaming engine will always have some record iteration overhead, so it would take some tuning to get that overhead small enough to reach 1BRS even with 1 byte records.
A $150,000 electric car isn’t going to disrupt anything outside of Porsche’s internal way of doing things, which while interesting isn’t anything to be excited about. On the other hand, were the Volkswagen group to announce a 25,000 euro electric Golf or a 17,000 euro electric Polo with a 400-500 km range then the excitement would be through the roof and that would really be a world-changing event.
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Jesus, that's my definition of oversensitivity. Literally everything, no matter how minor or insignificant gets turned into "this is driving women out of the industry".
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Both are essentially electronic systems of information on a computing system, a format and a protocol of communication through the internet. In terms of technical difficulty to enforce them it would be very similar.
Like I said, it is not just about updating software. You can't realistically update all your dependencies by yourself.

You are stuck with a tough choice: Do I start out with Python3 and tons of broken packages? Do I limit myself to Python2 and face a costly migration later on? Do I run the extra cost of supporting both? This the choice you had face for the better part of ten years of migration. Perhaps it's not obvious that all Python-based software was worse for it, but that's what happened.

I'm not talking about some web backend service where most of what you do is trivial stuff. You can write and re-write that in almost anything, it doesn't matter.
Not a fan of "Community adjusted" EBITDA I take it?
It was even more fun to live during the advent of the information superhighway :)
It depends on the main board jumper if the clockrate was set to high on open then it slowed it down if not then it increased the speed when the turbo switch was enabled (closed).

It basically gave you anywhere from 50% to 100% increase in CPU speed at the time.

That said for most people it would probably have done nothing since the turbo button was available on cases till the mid 90’s where it did nothing and often wasn’t even connected.

I had one on my MMX pentium PC but it did absolutely squat.
I think most fluent American speakers here would agree that a few of these are true, but most of them are just humorous exaggerations.

... unfortunately, I'm not quite so sure that there would be much agreement on which ones were the true ones. :)
Sleep

Get good sleep. At least 8 hours everyday.
Get a good mattress.

A good sleep makes a happy life.
> They found that the policy “reduced hours worked in low-wage jobs by 6-7 percent, while hourly wages in such jobs increased by 3 percent ... consequently, total payroll for such jobs decreased.” That means the total amount that employers paid to workers was less with the new minimum wage in place than projected payroll if the policy hadn’t gone into effect.

Also

> Surveying employers, Romich and other researchers found the most common response to the wage increase was to raise prices
So you're basically saying that it works with an offline wallet? Wasn't that the original point?
Also, "The Execution of Private Slovik" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0071477/) starring Martin Sheen.
It isn't counterintuitive. Too much calcium (especially in the absence of mangesium) hurts your bones (and many other things)
You're right, most packages appear to be Python3 now. Nevertheless, a lot of client code has been written for the Python2 stack and it's still in widespread use. That stuff won't get migrated soon, if ever. Security doesn't really matter there anyway.
Also because a lot of marketers were royally taken to task for letting their ads appear on political videos. Part of it might also not be that Google demonetised them directly, but allowed us the tools to opt out of having our ads shown on those types of videos altogether.

We now have a load of hoops to jump through to justify spend on YouTube advertising - and political videos are a strict no-go area.
There is no documented positive effect above 300mg/day.
>> Noise is wasted energy

Do you have a source for that? If it was true race cars would be a lot quieter
Agree, calling an EV car 'Turbo' is the stupidest thing ever
Tbf, GitHub is (at least in my opinion) also slowly overcomplicating its UI with all the new features they add
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They kind of did. They just announced VW ID3, all electric car, with roughly 400km range for 30k EUR
Berlin crash prompts calls to ban SUVs from German cities
Evidence we are not in a bubble and that markets are mostly sane currently.
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You'd need to get the managers to dissolve the company.

Remember when Yahoo was worth 'negative dollars'?
300 milligrams!?!

Current advice is don't take more than 100 micrograms per day.
VW just announced a 30.000 euro electric Golf called the I.D 3.

The Taycan, and upcomming electric Porsches are a great sign that Porsche is going fully electric sooner rather than later. If on the premiere performance brands goes fully electric, others will follow.
I created an issue for you https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-www/issues/1...
Bless your heart. You may also want to consider that there is a thing called culture that influences the typical patterns of communication.
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I don't have a source for that, no - it's common sense. I imagine the reasons race cars are loud is simply that it's not worth the extra weight or complexity to ensure the system doesn't waste so much energy as noise.

The sci-fi angle I alluded to relied on hyper-science as the solution for ensuring that all energy within the system was used beneficially.
I used to think like that as well, but then I realized that most of the lawsuits against Google was fair. And the thing is that the anti competitive practices done by the sleazy people over at the business department are bad and leads to lots of lawsuits, but they are also profitable and hurts competition so it is unclear if Google is really losing out on this.

Disclaimer: I work at Google but I haven't seen any internal communication related to anti competitive behavior, I just know what I read in the news.
> In a culture that says that women aren't programmers

Culture doesn't "say" this, culture reflects the reality that this is mostly the case. If the reality changes, culture will adapt to that new reality.

Thinking it is the other way around is a classic case of the "wet roads cause rain" fallacy[1].

See also Lee Jussim's work on Stereotype Accuracy, [2] is a good intro.

[1] http://larvatus.com/michael-crichton-why-speculate/

[2] http://www.spsp.org/news-center/blog/stereotype-accuracy-res...
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A lot of companies would be fine with 5-10 million in funding and organic growth. However investors don't want to manage thousands of small profitable private companies. They want fast growth and then exit quickly in a bang. This means a lot of companies get 3-5 times more funding than they need, then generate a nice profit but not enough to pay back the excess funding and finally shut down.
Learning how to overcome imposter syndrome.

I didn't come from a top-tier school, didn't work for name companies, and had a zig-zag middle manager career. instead of a meteoric rise through the ranks. Multiple layoffs too. I'll never see my name lauded in a press release.

I've discovered that self-worth is just that - it comes from within.
Liberal ≠ Malformed; an atrociously common misconception amongst atrociously common code.

The modern Web is the product of people who have so deeply and comprehensively misinterpreted and misunderstood every single facet that they are Not Even Wrong; then standardized, ratified, and protelyzed their own utter brokenness as The Right Way To Do It, and congratulated themselves on this marvellous job they have done.

Just Yahoos all the way down.
In some situations, curtailing your options can be good. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precommitment
funny how VW ignores success of Toyota hybrids. Their marketing is now like - let's skip hybrids let's drive electric cars :D
Have you tested the site on mobile? The examples page seems oddly unresponsive on Chrome on my Android.
How comes this? A higher CPU consumption currently it is going to have a higher CO2 footprint, even in a cloud-based, shared-VMs scenario.
They win my respect for their confidence in trying, but they don't win my money!
Calling lane following Autopilot is even worse IMHO.
This is the real story. The Porsche might be exciting for the small group of people who care about such things but the VW ID3 has the potential to make a significant change in world's driving habits.
Following that reasoning, Musk's mental capacity has been disrupted ever since he called Tesla's driving assist "Autopilot".
Ask HN: How you left your job and survive your own?
Hey HNers
I know there are lot of out you there which left their jobs and become your own boss.

How you did it?

What are the tips you give who can not afford to loose job but really(I mean really really) fed up and want to do something of their own and want to be on that path.
Apple's case is partially a tax arbitrage.
I believe that is for SRE teams. SRE teams are much more reasonable about on-call, having enough staff to have the on-call person on-call during their workday, not at 3am their time.

SWE teams often don't have the global coverage that entails, so they just pay you extra to be close to your phone.
Ask HN: How did you learn to touch type as a programmer?
I've done some typing courses to get to grips with the main keyboard, but I still often make mistakes when programming and using e.g. curly braces and parentheses. Moreover, I have an 82" wingspan and big hands which make things even more awkward.

I want to get to the point where typing is so effortless and mistake-free that it doesn't interrupt my thought process.

Not sure if this an ergonomic issue or just a case of practice, practice, practice.

Is there anything anyone did to master touch typing beyond just standard practice? (esp. tall and lanky people)
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Depends on what 'should' you mean?

From a moral point of view, anti-dumping laws are counterproductive. Their prime use is to sue companies that have lower cost than you.
"Never Split the Difference" and "How to Win Friends and Influence People". Before reading those I thought talking just happens between people with some of them being more resourceful. It never occurred to me before that simple tricks can be so useful in everyday conversations.

Why we sleep - changed my perception of sleep. I used to sleep the least I could get away with. Not anymore, I stand corrected by science.
Ask HN: Can anybody recommend a guide for total AWS env setup?
Hi all, I've been using AWS for 6-7 years in various forms, but today I've been tasked with setting up our organisation from scratch in AWS.

I understand all the parts but would love to find a guide that covers all the various elements and maximizing available resources.

e.g. AD integration, best way to structure roles for dev teams, security, e.t.c.

Any advice greatly appreciated.
But that it’s not hacking doesn’t mean it’s legal. That depends on the site’s terms of service.

And even if it’s legal to scrape it may not be legal to use. See also: copyright law.
why does this make it a bounty? even if you are an alien and have any power to game with bitcoin, such as doing a 51 percent attack, finding private keys, etc. you still have the whole blockchain of bitcoin to play with and probably you would start with many small transactions to go unnoticed.
Anyway, what makes the value of bitcoin is its security, knowing that it can be hacked or gamed will make it worthless.
I assume the parent means that the same asteroid, on the same trajectory, but delayed or hastened by 10 minutes will hit a completely different spot on the planet.
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I do not remember Code::Blocks' configurations, but a Release configuration may still contain debug symbols so you can debug your release executable.
You completely missed the point.

Porsche isn't a mass market brand. It's target audience are mostly people who either (a) take their cars to the track, (b) want to one day take it to the track or (c) are attracted to the company's lineage in track racing.

And so the Taycan is unquestionably targeted at their audience and is designed to be disruptive to their core business. Not to anyone elses.
Thanks. I just don't understand how you arrived at

k <= ceil cr (c(m-1) + r(n-1))

The rest is clear.
> It's not "broken"... Python3 is just the evolution of the language.

Python3 broke compatibility for spurious reasons. The language didn't change that much, it could have kept compatibility with minor concessions.

> Java or COBOL maybe have done a better job of not breaking backwards compatibility...

Literally every single other major language has done a better job at it. That's a big part of why they are major languages. Also, most of these are statically typed, so any minor breaking change is far less risky to pull off.

> ...but Python 3 isn't exactly Perl 6 here.

Well, maybe if Perl6 didn't happen Perl wouldn't be irrelevant today.
Very interesting, I wonder why this announcement didn’t make the front page of HN instead of a car that can only be purchased by those that win the start-up lottery or by the FANG employees.

Still a little bit pricey, 30,000 euros is already Tiguan (i.e. CUV) territory while ID3 is just a hatchback, I’m curious how the market will respond.
Comment of the decade.
The nuclear field has as far as I'm aware always been full of people claiming (sometimes with pretty sophisticated reasoning) that "it's not that bad" (used to justify storing waste or just dumping it).
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> The US, while legitimate in many ways, has a history of corrupt court practices.

I don’t know how can anyone with straight face compare US court system to Russia’s and not conclude that US is orders of magnitude more fair and less corrupt. Are you being serious right now? Russian court system is literally proxy for Putin’s decisions.

EDIT: disregard that, i somehow assumed extradition to russia was a sure thing already
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