skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> MIT grad, robotics engineer, mixed.

What does "mixed" mean in the author's bio? Is that relating to techinical accumen, race, or something else?
Pretty much every startup and company in our industry.
Quick comment - I haven't gone thru the entire site, etc - so maybe you are already aware.

I saw the free vs paid options - and the paid being "$30" and I was asking myself "$30 for...how long?" - so I went back (because I didn't want to make a fool of myself before I commented) and read it carefully...and..."oh - for one year of access"

Ok - that's fair - but I want to suggest that you make that part a bit more prominent on that card, because if I missed it I am sure others will as well. I don't think the price is unfair (seems reasonable out the gate) - but knowing the terms of how long you get access for that price shouldn't be something you have to search a bit for.
It all depends on the cost of switching. If the cost of switching is really high then you can screw over customers all you want and raise prices considerably before they move away.

However, if the cost of switching is very low, you'll find it's much harder to raise prices. In industries and products where switching costs are low, prices tend to be much much lower anyway, especially if those users are easy to reach.
RoR is absolutely not a niche skill-there a huge companies using it (GitHub, Shopify), tons of conferences on it (and a lot of Ruby conferences are heavily Rails), and my company personally has had no trouble recruiting devs. StackOverflow puts it at 8% absolutely popularity while Express is at 17%, so just little less than 50%, so it’s not niche just not in the top 3 backend web frameworks.
The vast majority of people I meet, including myself, are highly irrational. Ironically, that is not where my user name comes from ;-)
That message would be "silently cover up any data breaches and hope they don't get discovered", wouldn't it?
There aren't a lot of totally free, open-source, end user products. In the 90s FOSS devs though one day GiMP would surpass Photoshop, we'd see Linux on at least 8% ~ 10% of laptops at coffee shops, Inkscape would be better than Illustrator, etc.

Today, a lot of FOSS is corporate sponsored. But it's not end-product. It's all middleware. Hophop/Hack, Lightbend libraries like Slick, React, etc. It's all to help you build things to interact with the big commercial players.

Yes there is still a lot of FOSS that's small, 1 ~ 5 people maintainers that's volunteer. But there is a considerable about that's corporate backed. We're a far cry from the FOSS hope of the 90s. I wrote about this a few years back:

https://penguindreams.org/blog/the-philosophy-of-open-source...
Amazing. Very cool to see this sort of emergent behavior.

I also very much enjoyed this section:

"We propose using a suite of domain-specific intelligence tests that target capabilities we believe agents may eventually acquire. Transfer performance in these settings can act as a quantitative measure of representation quality or skill, and we compare against pretraining with count-based exploration as well as a trained from scratch baseline."

Along with the videos, I can't help but get a very 'Portal' vibe from it all.
"Thank you for helping us help you help us all." - GLaDOS
Related: How Much Screen Time Is Too Much?

With a huge qualifier—"it depends”—when it comes to recreational screen time for kids and teens, I would say 1-2 hours on school days is a reasonable amount. On weekends and holidays, perhaps 3-4 hours of recreational screen time is a reasonable amount. These are more like guidelines than limits, and there would be many exceptions. Still, it is helpful to have some general guidelines in mind. > https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/tech-happy-life/2018...
Is Sytse on vacation? It's the first time I don't see a response from him :p
combine factorio with kerbel space program, and we'll have this sorted out no problem
> It seems no one is happy except me.

Well, keep what makes you happy, and rest assured that happy people usually do not voice their happiness, so the entirely one-sided voices you are hearing carry almost no real information.
Kalimantan and Sumatra forests are burning again. Who cares?
I pray and support all the people of Indonesia. in order to be given safety and health and the disaster will end soon.
It's possible 99% of PR/marketing firms don't have armies of Reddit/Twitter bot accounts, while at the same time the 1% that do make up a big power base on Reddit.

There are plenty of companies doing things like SEO and suchlike that build up networks of websites/content farms, and bots to comment on blogs and suchlike. Not much of a jump from bots commenting links on blogs to bots commenting more subtle messages on Reddit.
> worse than the actual conduct

A 74 year old man allegedly has sex with a 17 year old on an island of a known pedophile and sex trafficker.
Their ability to pay would be limited by their assets, not revenue or profit. If they've been making profit for years, they might easily have enough cash. Also, their future profits can be borrowed against to pay for a one-time expense like this.

I have no idea whether they have the cash or not, I'm just pointing out that looking at their current revenue and income is not enough. :)
Overseas being not America?
> In this case, downside protection for early backers appears to take the form of a $1 billion convertible note that changes into equity on the last day of this year. The note is held by major shareholder SoftBank, according to We’s regulatory filings. We’s prospectus offers only a vague price for the conversion, so it is impossible to tell exactly how much or whether shareholders will be diluted, says Nori Gerardo Lietz, senior lecturer of business administration at Harvard Business School in an unpublished paper seen by The Wall Street Journal. But because the conversion appears to happen after the IPO, buyers of its shares in the offering could take a hit.

How is this not something material that should be disclosed as part of the initial filing?
I think that, of the so-called inertial or ficticious forces, you are thinking of the centrifugal rather than the coriolis force [1].

On any of the ballistic / into space flights, you would experience weightlessness between the engine cutoff and the point where atmospheric forces became noticable -- this is what the space tourism companies are aiming for.

I do not know if any flights were conducted at a constant altitude, but note that the centrifugal force goes by the square of the angular velocity.

Also, Mach numbers depend on atmospheric temperature and therefore indirectly on altitude. Strictly speaking, a Mach number for the ISS is meaningless, and even if we are being lax, the figure of Mach 22 is not directly comparable to the X-15 record Mach number. The comparison must be made between speeds, which are, approximately, 17,000 mph for the ISS and 4,500 mph for the X-15 record.

If we disregard the relatively small difference in the radius (from the center of the earth), then my BOE calculation suggests that the reduction in weight is about 7%.

Note, however, that while the motor is running, its acceleration is the biggest contribution to weight (reaching up to 4g as the fuel weight goes down.) Once it is cut off, then our assumption of level (i.e. non-ballistic) flight assumes that the airplane is capable of generating lift equal to its weight, which implies sufficient atmospheric density for the small wings to generate that lift. This, in turn, seems to imply enough density to produce a non-trivial deceleration due to drag, which also contributes to weight. Therefore, I doubt that there is any phase of the flight where the centrifugal reduction of weight is the dominant effect.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_force
That's a sickening viewpoint. It's from ten years ago, so I hope his views have changed since then. I'll still defend his right to say that, as long as it's outside the venue of his work. And if a preponderance of evidence were to support him, I'd have to accept that view, as much as I disagree with it. I strongly think he's wrong though and the evidence is against him.
That would fall under "perceived benefit" and thus not free, according to the parent's definition.
> No one can accuse me of anything if everything happens in an open office with plenty of witnesses.

If you won't have one-on-ones over issues that are personal and sensitive, and force them to be dealt with “in an open office with plenty of witnesses”, then, yeah, there will probably be things you can be accused of on that basis alone.
It's kinda hard to sit down and formulate a "rational actor" that has no emotions or drives or goals, and put that into any sort of useful theory of the world. You end up calling rocks rational actors when they, having no goals or negative stimuli, "rationally" sit there and do nothing. (Which may be "true" in some sense, but isn't a terribly useful definition.)

Rationality is more about how goals are obtained than what those goals are. The latter can still play a part (e.g., are the goals coherent? that's a proper question for rationality), but it's lesser.
I always liked this post by Erik Naggum:

The whole idea that anything can be so "shared" as to have no value in itself is
not a problem if the rest of the world ensures that nobody _is_ starving or
needing money. For young people who have parents who pay for them or student
grants or loans and basically have yet to figure out that it costs a hell of a
lot of money to live in a highly advanced society, this is not such a bad idea.
Grow up, graduate, marry, start a family, buy a house, have an accident, get
seriously ill for a while, or a number of other very expensive things people
actually do all the time, and the value of your work starts to get very real and
concrete to you, at which point giving away things to be "nice" to some
"community" which turns out not to be "nice" _enough_ in return that you will
actually stay alive, is no longer an option.

(continues) https://www.xach.com/naggum/articles/3217750625724755@naggum...
Wait, the rule says everything must be locally hosted, except if it's open source - then cloud hosted saas is fine? Can you explain the rationale?
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For those rich guys, the decision to sell and leave often has less to do about profit than fear of becoming a fall guy for the CPC’s latest corruption campaign (and let’s face it, they all have plenty of dirt). They all have plenty of dirty. “Retiring” to Vancouver is an easy way out, and might even be encouraged by the local party (e.g. “you should sell your metal scrap business to my brother at a 60% discount and then get out of town...”).

The new generation of entrepreneurs is a lot more guanxi secure than the one that organically grew up in the 80s. They often are or have friends related to those in power, so we won’t see another transition until Xi passes the baton.
Always found it weird to see governments paying for PR consultants.

It's like : I give you tax money to do a good job, but you spend it to convince me that you're doing a good job instead of actually delivering getting shit done.
I remember seeing an article from the WSJ stating the need to analyze energy input: coal, electric, oil, etc... to really correlate the Chinese economic growth published by the communist government. So, 6% official growth number should be taken with a grain of salt.
Consumption of resources and cost are only weakly correlated.

The main types of economic resources are land, labor, capital, and natural resources. All of these cost money, and cost is a very reasonable way to measure resource consumption. The biggest inefficiencies of urban areas come from the cost of land and labor.
Well, it's not a matter of debt. It's more a matter of whether or not new entrants can enter the market and provide that good. In both real estate and Healthcare, it's very difficult for new players to enter the market, especially in highly regulated states. The result is a market where prices are much higher than they need to be.
Why PyTorch is the deep learning framework of the future
1) What does this mean for Xi's leadership and the CCP? Will this threaten their power?

No, only had you experienced the level and depth of China's indoctrination, can you understand how profoundly it affects the people, I still recall now and then the red songs I was taught and sang. Your whole world view is shaped by the regime to ensure their best interest, you think in their ways even if you are a rebel.

BTW they now teach "politics" in primary schools. The Youth are extremely patriotic and loyal to the party, they are impatient to even let you start your different opinions.

There will be discontent, but the power and reach of the tools the party has built is simply unprecedented in human history.

4) How will this effect China's middle class?

If the condo market collapses, most of them probably will go bankrupt and be in huge debts for a long time, being taught bubble economics the hard way, but the market probably can bounce back since it's CCP monopoly. Worst case senario the party can print money nonstop to keep the prices from crashing.
How do I start a credit reporting company?
> Epstein’s underage victims were “entirely willing” while being trafficked

Vice is taking a quote of only two words out of context. Stallman was saying that Epstein was coercing his victims to present to Minsky that they were "entirely willing". Basically what pimps do. Stallman's argument was that Minsky was a victim of Epstein's pimping.

I don't agree at all with Stallman's conclusions or way of thinking (and from all the other independent reports of his behavior, he should have been reprimanded for his approaches decades ago), but Vice is just peddling pure yellow journalism, you can't trust their reporting.
"Mr. President, we finally finished our gravity gun project! It only fires inwards, so we have to convince the enemy to invade the Earth's core first".
I'm sorry but I don't see any dichotomy in the two situations you've described. Cancel culture is literally people getting ditched because some people didn't like what some people did. That is, sticks and stones may break my bones but words are terrorism.
Hah! I laugh but getting found in Google is incredibly difficult compared to say selling the same produce on Etsy.
I think it's pretty clear to everyone around here that there's quite a difference between saying "Epstein coerced the girl to present herself as completely willing" and saying "she was completely willing". RMS said the former, Vice, The Daily Beast and other media reported he said the latter.
Have you ever seen were an object is talking.. Monsters are real
Number of people who strike will be larger than the number of customers who care
I'm willing to bet if I went through all your tweets, social media, and personal email, I could find SOMETHING that could have gotten you fired if it ever came to public attention. In fact, I'm sure that's true for just about anybody.
Which is not what the parent comment was going for. It said, "I'd like to see the courts force Equifax [...]".
I would have to get an actual lawyer with a lawyer's letterhead for them to care, probably. I don't really want to spend hundreds of dollars to get my free credit report.
Assume Good Faith
I got "divorced man" and "grass widower", which is apparently just a term for a divorced man. Kind of sad.
Hmm. The whole country is developing a ghetto mindset? I could maybe agree with that.

It's dividing into "gangs". (With colors, even!)

Strong families are in short supply.

The culture doesn't value long-term growth (either human or economic). It's all short-term fix, or entertainment to help you ignore the problem.

Drug dealers destroy a lot of lives (looking at you, Purdue Pharma).

People don't trust cops.

It seems like there may be more to this. Anything I'm missing?
There is when children are forced into it due to circumstance, coersion, or force. This subject at hand has nothing to do with an adult making a conscious choice.
Women and men trade resources for sex all the time. Are you aware of engagement rings?

The only issue here is the age of the girl involved.
Explosion reported at Russian lab that holds smallpox virus
NAT is an ugly hack to extend IPv4 address space that breaks the internet. There are numerous ugly hacks for NAT traversal to fix what NAT breaks, all of which kind of seem like exploits, and some of which are effectively standardized in RFCs and used heavily for things like VoIP. The whole thing is a hideous mess that IPv6 will hopefully eventually kill.
here's a theory. shoot it down: work and cash are more abundant and salaries are higher in urban areas and this causes demand-pull price inflation.

why are salaries higher? because the labor pools in high density urban areas have, in some sectors, a more highly developed set of skills and capabilities than the comparable labor pools in other areas have (e.g. Wall Street bankers and quants, NYC chefs and restaurant workers, SV programmers and capital managers, San Diego life sciences and biotech, etc). IOW, agglomeration economies.
RMS is an "awful person"? I would say that, he's a hero to a lot of people, including me. He might be "social unskilled", but an AWFUL person? I would say that is untrue in any common sense way.
Your comment is vague but I guess you were talking about Kashmir issue.

Don't want to start a flamewar, I'll just say Kashmir issue is far more complex than you can imagine and talk of fundamental rights suppression is utterly nonsense. But let's not discuss it on HN.

In the context of this thread and topic, Kashmir doesn't play any significant role in India's economy or growth story. Secondly, the troubled area is quite a small part of Jammu Kashmir state.
With all of Silicon Valley’s money, where’s the investment in climate tech?
Things I Learned from Transitioning into Software Engineering
This is old technique from early 2000 and flawed as others have described. Outgoing ICMP is blocked in every corporate environment I have ever been to and never makes it to the Internet facing gateway.
Yeah, it is. Thinking about it a little more, it possible that the counterfeits in this case are entering the flow at the distributor level, not at the amazon level, but we can't really tell from our perch at the consumer level.
Newfoundland isn’t just low diversity, it's actually a collection of hundreds of isolates. And, because of our ability to combine genetic data with uniform medical records, we will be able to derive insights from small cohorts (hundreds or thousands) that would take millions to find in admixed populations, if at all.

The rare variants found in isolated populations are not necessarily rare disease targets. For example, the very rare mutations in SCN9A led to a novel class of analgesic (one of the broadest medical indications). However, the combination of new therapeutic modalities like cell and gene therapy, together with a more flexible regulatory and payor environment for rare disease does allow companies to economically pursue treatments and cures for rare conditions.

We believe a private entity is the best way to create value for both participants and industry for two reasons: (1) public projects haven’t succeeded in delivering value to participants themselves - the benefits accrue mainly to researchers and secondarily to public health; (2) to really create value from a population cohort you need more than just data - you need to produce valuable insights like drug targets and real world evidence. As a private entity, we can invest to create that value. The ethical requirements are the same for public and private entities, and as mentioned, we spent 5 years helping build the right ethical framework to ensure Newfoundlanders, and the province as a whole, benefit from our research.
There is basically no reason for them to contribute back. Using all available tools while restricting their own efforts for their own use creates a competitive edge.

The only time it makes sense to release something to the public is as a complement to one of their paid services.
" just pointing out a lack of logic and supporting evidence, and that we should take things with a grain of salt."

Given that I didn't see any specific plan of action or policy advocated in this article, I just don't see the need to jump out an immediately attack and discount it. People are so used to arguing in black and white, we suddenly have to start fighting over an article that reports on people's experiences doing a job that we all would agree, really, really sucks. Appeal to emotion, maybe. But krimeney, have some empathy.
Quantifying the Bias of the Electoral College
What is the size of these “strategies”, measured in weights,bytes, or whatever measurement you look at?
Nobody's saying it has to be, uh...what's the name of a profitable internet company that isn't Facebook? But making demands on people who are working for free is bad manners. I don't care if you think the internet changes everything, it's still possible to be an asshole.

My off the cuff solution is for project owners to add a status flag to their issue trackers: PAID. Anybody can submit a bug as PAID, but it costs $50,000-100,000 to do so, per bug. And no private fixes: there is one version and everybody gets the benefit. No badgering on ETAs either.

If Ford thinks it has value, then the developer should get some of that value, and $100K for a suitable patchlevel of cURL might even be a low estimate.
Like calling the renovators when the house is still burning.
And in 2702 we will see Firefox 9001. A long time to wait for a silly joke :(
I agree with your overall point, however I disagree with the "just pick Rails and don't do SPA" part. For startups or any small team, the right approach is whatever boring technologies the team is comfortable with. If that is Rails, great! I personally don't know it so that would be a horrible choice for me. Likewise SPAs are comfortable and easy for me (aka boring), but a bad choice for someone else who isn't comfortable with them.
> thinking about her in terms of an entrepreneur with strong financial backing?

That entrepreneurship is based entirely on dating and marriage to a heterosexual man. Yes, her gender wasn't the only criteria upon which Bill chose her as a mate, but it was a massive determining factor that without which she would not be his mate or be in this position in the first place.

This isn't even about being a man or a woman. What matters is being attractive as a partner to someone else that has done the work to earn the resources they possess, and gender is statistically usually a big part of the partner selection criteria except when the person with resources is attracted to all genders.
> Metonymy has a purpose when it replaces a long, exactingly precise description with a short term that is equally recognizable

So... not here? ("Standard library" and "STL" are about the same number of syllables).

I still think metonymy is a bit besides the point. The explanation "Using STL in place of the standard library is a perfectly valid use of metonymy, which is a type of rhetorical device, which is typically avoided in formal writing - therefore you should not do this" seems coherent to me. That is - being a "perfectly valid use of metonymy" is neither clearly an argument for not clearly an argument against the use of term.
Change it to "made famous by Google". Do you have an example of a famous large system built out of many cheap computers (cheaper than normal servers) that predates Google?
Don’t kid yourself — moderation is done with an editorial goal in mind, and HN is no different. There are plenty of topics about which the mods will shut down discussion. It’s just that HN’s moderation is more consistent and less emotional/political than your average subreddit.