skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fair and thank you for that updated information (I knew they were using it as recent as 2017 but didn't know they had changed it), but it still goes to show the types of companies being built on the Shopify platform versus the drop-shipping flea market bins of Amazon.

If you're building a real brand, you're building a relationship with your customers that you own. You're going to do it on your own terms because you can drive your own audience.
I think that sentiment is already prevalent.
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Traditionally, OSS contributions are selfless labors of love and curiosity. These people are flexing their intellect and creativity doing something they thoroughly enjoy: solving problems in the most elegant way possible. Code is shared with an air of positivity, camaraderie, and we're-all-building-this-together. At the risk of sounding kitschy, it's this sense of collaboration that enables the open source community to produce robust software proudly capable of competing with proprietary alternatives.

If this culture is stifled the name of depriving corporations 'free labor' through OSS, the creative hacker community isn't elevated - everyone is brought down. IMHO anyone seeking to build financial value for developers or pad their resume is better off working on a side project/startup.
cut the crap dude. this guy has been either defending or trivializing young girls having sex with older men, or whatever you want to call 12, 14 year old girls having sex with 50, 60 year old men, for 20 years now. he is specifically saying on record that he isn’t convinced it’s a big deal, among numerous other comments. 20 years.

this guy isn’t being hounded out of his job over one slip of the tongue, one mistake. he has been making these comments for a long time, and it finally caught up to him.

this is entirely a problem of his own making.
Solar is the future! I can't wait for the panels for the roofs.
I think focusing on the types of probability you encounter in a discrete math course, like Joel specifies, is the idea.
Good point though there was 100-105 nations in 1950 depending on how you count vs 195 +? in the world today.
Drunk driving has a reasonably high likelihood of physical harm, as does yelling "fire" in a crowded theatre.

Posting opinions about current events on a message board is not likely to cause physical harm.
Perhaps I'm in my own echo chamber, but I definitely view open source contributions on a resume as a huge positive when I'm reviewing resumes (as a software dev my boss trusts to evaluate applicants), and I had thought that if that wasn't at least the norm that it would be pretty common among tech companies / companies where developers are part of the evaluation process.

edit: Also, all of the open source I do or that I know of my peers doing is 100% for the love of programming and open source culture, without a bunch of hidden motives. Open source was definitely key to me becoming a programmer when I was a kid - without it I would never have gone as deep as I did into coding (linux, gcc, irrlicht), 3D modeling (blender), etc.
>And suddenly something changed – just in one single day we no longer were able to place orders in time for few currencies. Either some one plays with scalping (which, in theory, exchanges tries to prevent), or someone were able to prepare efficient ML model to predict price movements within second intervals, or someone just can do it faster.

Something I experienced too. I would still spot profitable trade but would be late to pick them up, most of the time. With arbitrage you also have to beat the fees and the time.

Arbitrage in the past 2 years is a loser game - (or maybe not, and I am that loser). It was still a good learning experience that eventually led to other profitable ideas.
Agree - other notable work:

A mind is born (256byte demo) [0]

Bitbuf, portable 8-bit minimalistic live looping machine. [1]

His work on Teenage Engineering PO-2X s [2]

[0] https://linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/

[1] https://linusakesson.net/bitbuf/index.php

[2] https://linusakesson.net/music/po-2x/index.php
Dollar a watt is expensive for even residential solar.

When I worked a design/assembly gig in solar manufacturing (just last year) we were cranking out 60-cell 300+w panels for $85 each. You could buy directly from the company, no middlemen necessary. That's just over a quarter per watt.
> I can assure you that the overwhelming majority of people building open source software, even very popular software, are not being paid for it and it offers little value for their careers.

Can you give an example of a very popular project whose maintainer is not employed in a related field?
But is the server side method less spaghetti-prone? I'm inclined to believe that you just believe that because it is the way you are used to programming. A beginner will write spaghetti no matter the job, no matter the tools, no matter the method.
> is not merely a mistake with words.

Yes. Yes, it is. Are we talking about the same story? We’re talking about something Richard Stallman said. That is his offense and the reason for him being kicked out of FSF and MIT.

Since you dodged the whole point of my comment by reiterating that Stallman said something offensive, I’ll restate my point clearly as a question: In your opinion, can someone be forgiven for saying something wrong? and how do they seek that forgiveness other than apologizing and admitting they were wrong?

I’m sure like everyone you’ve said horrible shit over your lifetime, whether in public or private, whether strangers or family. If we brought out those people hurt by your words over your lifetime, wouldn’t you want to be forgiven? Don’t hold other people to a different standard than you hold yourself.
Not even that -- you pay tax when you buy the home.

Buy a house for £300k with a 270k mortgage, pay £5k stamp. Crossrail increases it to £600k. Sell the house, repay mortgage, buy new house elsewhere for £300k, pay £5k stamp, and you've suddenly changed your £35k into £325k.
As I understand they won't give up 'Merge Request'. But couldn't they at least make it configurable? 'Pull Request' was first and, as I suppose, is the preferred terminology by many.
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Are you really saying Minsky is a paedophile? You are exaggerating the situation here unfairly.
> I am curious how the Gitlab is so valuable. I've never used the service, but HN posts keep me informed superficially. Could someone explain the valuation?

FOMO from the VCs. It will implode.

The only company that could potentially be the one to pay the money already bought the valedictorian of the class.

The ones that are left are Google, Apple and Amazon. Google does not buy those kind of companies. Apple is not in that business and Amazon is... well... Amazon.
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and Stallman argued that morally, this is nonsense -- the moral aspect does not care for country and jurisdiction.
In my state, their coverage is pretty bad if you spend any time in the outdoors. Comparing the coverage of google-fi and verzion and att on highways through the mountains, its very stark. I'm also curious how they will fare when 2 of their 3 MVNO providers merge (sprint and tmobile)
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Ok, let me be 100% frank.

If RMS commits suicide because his life was ruined after someone lied and spun his linguistic pedanticism as support for sexual crimes, if that happens, will you come back and say that "this is what consequences for shitty behavior look like"?

Also, his wrong is again his language pedanticism - comparing it to actual assault like you did just now is disingenuous and precisely what the crowd did to RMS.
Not sure what exact experience you made with the GitLab support but I can tell you our experience is different. It took over two months to resolve a license request we made to their support (or sales team) with multiple pushes from our side, every week. There are bugs with the CI system like an issue with the cache retrieval when multiple jobs run in different pipelines parallel to each other, that is actually blocking us from using the cache to it's meant extend and that was issued in 2016. You will find a dozens of those tickets.

Just some examples. Wouldn't say GitLab is the heaven on earth GitHub isn't. It just has it's own, different issues.
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Has there been renewed chatter for possibly renaming GIMP? I have been out of the loop but it would be such a shame for the program to be renamed
> We’re adjusting our cadence to increase our agility, and bring you new features more quickly. In recent quarters, we’ve had many requests to take features to market sooner.

Mozilla has been tweaking their process forever, but all of it is for naught if they don't work on what users want. The latest FF brags "we are shipping a new “New Tab” page experience that connects you to the best of Pocket’s content", while standard keyboard shortcuts have been broken for well over 10 years. This is not a problem with their release cadence.

Users have a curious way of asking for what they believe is feasible. I've seen users encounter an obvious bug, and work around it by hand, and turn around and ask for something completely different, like an alternative workaround. (Just add a macro system so I can record this sequence of 7 steps to work around this weird thing...) They literally don't think to ask "Fix this bug".

I wonder if that's what's happening here. As an occasional Firefox user, I know that keyboard shortcuts have been broken since the Bush administration, and the codebase is far too complex for me to work on even the simplest features (I've tried). I can absolutely see a user thinking "If they can't do what we want, at least they could do it faster". That feels like a change that's feasible in a way that "Fix the massive complexity problem" or even "Fix keyboard shortcuts (which are apparently massively complex)" do not.

Firefox itself was created by a couple programmers chatting late at night in a Denny's. They made a far better browser than the Mozilla organization of the day could. It's an important organization and it's impressive they can regularly ship useful free software, but user interfaces have never been a strong point for open source, in the way that compilers and runtimes and databases are. Tweak away, but I don't hold much hope for the situation to improve. The next great open-source browser is going to come from 2 or 3 people chatting in a Denny's, not Mozilla with N-week releases, for any value of N.
But who are we hurting now by not teaching probability? I would argue we're hurting engineers, programmers, voters, and humans. Always tradeoffs.
> The article's author says Gmail filed it into the 'Promotions' folder.

Yeah, but they have to contact people by email because they don't have anyone's physical home address.
I am jumping on that.
So you need a logging pipeline
I agree that it's a thing, aside from some examples I have in mind, like for example, the original authors of OpenSSL (originally SSLeay) didn't really ask for any credit as far as I know. I think you might be overestimating the number of people who do a lot of self-promotion simply because those people are going to be more visible. There are plenty of people who work on important things and don't really do a lot of marketing or self-promo.
He has, on record, said that he thinks there is nothing wrong with statutory rape 'as long as both parties consent'.

I'm not sure he understands the concept of consent.
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Yup, that's the unfortunate reality you can find yourself in if these things aren't taken into consideration early on.

However, that doesn't mean improvements can never be made. Sounds like it definitely still would've been worth your team learning React!
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Where to start?

Why attempt to predict future conditions decades out? We do it all the time even though we absolutely know our predictions will not be exactly right. A prediction, even if imperfect, is useful if the prediction contains some bounds or probability estimates. People individually and society collectively makes best estimate judgements based on imperfect data every day, all day.

You've done some modeling of sales data, and the difficulty of predicting human whims leads you to suspect that modeling physics is an impossible and useless task? "I imagine climate modeling is more complex than my sales models" is an understatement of supreme folly. Even if you are a genius, the amount of work invested by tens of thousands of researchers spending their lives on this problem is incomparably more robust that some sales data modeling you tossed off.

> Have humans ever created a complex model that has enabled us to predict the future with any degree of accuracy?

Eclipses and solar positions can be computed to extreme accuracy centuries out. There is no closed solution -- it is all modeled and computed numerically.

The IPCC reports do get revised upward just about every release because the estimates are always conservative. Despite what is widely claimed by doubters, the IPCC reports have not been alarmist, and we can go back 30 years now.

Go back 40 years to Exxon's own modeling of climate change and considering the limited amount of data as compared to today, their estimates are not far off.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97...
> Thanks. Do you have any insight into MSFT's strategy for GitHub?

MSFT integrated sales channel. LinkedIn data + Github data is pretty much everyone who buys any "IT"/"software" services.
Funnily enough, a GitHub-to-resume tool recently hit the front page[0], but yes, that opinion seems to be in decline.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20995056
It doesn't really matter for most decision wether the universe came to being 6e3, 6e9 or 12e9 years ago, or always has been ... unless you are a geologist.
> Or are you saying regardless of what you say I cannot take action because of it?

"Take action", my, my, what a genteel phrase to describe ruining people's careers and personal lives. Very civilized of you. One wonders whether those crowds who stoned unbelievers in an earlier era would have simply described themselves as "taking action" as well?

The answer to bad speech is good speech, period.
For sure a hash collision in their content-addressed storage system for images. Probably they take a thumbnail of the image and pass it to a md5 function or something instead of truly making sure there are no duplicate IDs.
I took this for a spin on AWS and it blew the doors off Athena. Looks better too.
Disclaimer: IANAL (but did go to law school and vaguely paid attention to this part so lawyers, please correct my recollections where wrong)

My recollection is that, usually, only a small number of people actively sign up to the class during the lawsuit & settlement negotiation phase, and the named class is guaranteed a substantially higher payout. The settlement is worded as up to $X for the rest of the class, who can choose to accept the fact that the amount is not a guarantee or decline and keep their ability to bring a subsequent action (hence my original question of "Can you bring subsequent class action suits comprised of different subsets of the same impacted class?").

So basically, the people who actively signed up are getting a guarantee of an amount they negotiated, the rest of us are stuck deciding how valuable "up to" $125 actually is.
It's definitely not just PR Consultants...the gov't hires management consulting firms like McKinsey, Accenture, etc. all the time.
Great list! Appreciate the recommendations. Pretty new to coding full time, to I appreciate you fighting the good fight to make it easier to onboard!
It's been a long time ago that I heard the last Blue Apron ad in a podcast.

Seems as if the stick was handed over to a suitcase company whose "smart" suitcases cannot be checked in to flights due to batteries, that already-mentioned annoying prefab website company and underwear manufacturers offering to put decorative metals around my testicles.
> I could probably be convinced to jump on that bandwagon [dump calc, replace with stats]

I think, really, that the opposite needs to be done.

Math curriculums would do better to focus more on getting "the foundations" right. Starting with algebra, geometry, trigonometry and real analysis (calculus), and pursuing it rigorously for college-bound students. There should be a focus on mastery rather than covering a wide variety of stuff quickly.

Too many students get to college with a mathematical foundation that looks like Swiss cheese-- with many holes in basic skills: like fractions, exponents, trig (yes, even if they took calc in high school).
I'm curious: How did Joel Spolsky gain such clout and influence?
> Equifax cannot afford to pay $125 to each member of the potential class.

That’s not the victims’ problem. Even if Equifax has to be completely liquidated to cover the compensation, the government should fight to make an example of such a terrible company and give the victims some sense of justice. Hopefully the board and the executives would rethink their lives and careers, maybe even change.
It is way cheaper to flood your internet content sources with beheading videos or videos of live kittens being tossed off highway overpasses than it is to do the same “in the real world”. The internet would quickly devolve to 8chan...

Be careful what you wish for.
Did they seriously need to mine all this data? Yes, they did. "Everybody knows" is sometimes wrong. If you want to actually fix problems, you'd better know what the problems actually are, rather than just know what "everybody knows".
Though difficult, I endeavor to differentiate between an action and words in 'defense'(for lack of a better word) of said action.
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Doctors shouldn't ever get sued. The idea of an "individual doctor" is such a 19th century concept. They're gears in a machine- the hospitals. An ideal hospital would never get sued because it performs very well. Instead, hospitals try to never get sued but do not perform very well, because it's cheaper to avoid litigation than it is to improve performance. Improving performance could be incentivized by open transparency, pricing, and competition but they have a local monopoly, so there's no point.

It's a ridiculous legacy system.
"The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if I did not tell them?"
-Dune, by Frank Herbert
This is not an alternative to a rocket. It goes from geosynchronous orbit height to the moon, so you still need a rocket from earth to the elevator.

It enables the use of smaller rockets rather than no rockets. With a probably optimistic ~billion dollar pricetag for something able to move 100kg. You would need to launch an awfully large number of rockets with tiny payloads to the moon for this to be a net cost savings.
I'd never heard of Erik Naggum before but his wikipedia entry makes him sound interesting as hell-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Naggum
Ok could be good but the real issue is leaving earths atmosphere.
You can fix the governance problem. You can even fix the profitability problem. You can't fix the problem that they have high variable costs (leases, utilities, maintenance) that scale directly proportional to their revenues which precludes a unicorn valuation.
You likely have more experience in that regard than I do so I’ll take that on board, but to frame my point in a more semi-positive light; I feel enough goodwill to backblaze that embarking on a 6 month project with some of your most senior engineers to deliver a credits system just to soften the blow of a price increase, in a market without a clear competitor feels like overkill. You don’t need to do all this for my dollar a month!

I do actually trust them enough to not screw me over, their price increase history alone showed me that.

Sometimes the quick and forgettable slap to the face is more pleasant than the long drawn out apology - although as you mentioned from your experience, maybe I’m in the minority.
That's not quite how the math works. Assuming there was a size/mass minimum for fossilization, and that we expected that to be the only qualifier for fossil occurrence, we'd just need to expect X% of species to exhibit sexual dimorphism depending on how frequently we see males&females of the same species.

For example, if you needed a bone to weigh 5kg/meter and males are 5kg/meter but females are 4.5kg/meter then you'd expect to see a very low number of females even though they're only 10% smaller.

Obviously none of this is the case, and this isn't the deciding factor on why it's happening. Just pointing out where you missed things slightly.
Did you miss the part when he explained his reasoning, and then another part where after discussing his reasoning and state of current research he realized he was wrong, changed his mind, and retracted earlier statements? I guess you might have, it was years ago.

Or did you, again, mean correcting language so that allegations made were accurate, allegations that later turned out to be discredited by witness statement?

EDIT: Turns out the realization and retraction statement was published 3 days ago, so in all honesty you could argue this was a reaction to mounting public pressure - but there isn't much evidence that he's lying here either.
> WeWork is probably legitimately in the $15B range

How do you arrive at that number?

I've seen comparisons to firms like IWR / Regus that imply a much lower number would be appropriate, even if WeWork was as profitable as those firms (which it isn't even remotely... it loses money hand over fist).
The problem is not "following up on a bad review" the problem is "I got called to offer me $20 to take the review down. Didn’t respond, they somehow got my review taken down anyway"
How can you request a counter argument when you have not provided an argument?
I don't think anyone is arguing that trig or calc don't benefit anyone, but the opportunity cost for a standard curriculum in high school is extremely high. What about the other careers/professions/fields that are hurt by teaching calculus in place of _______? Clearly we need a higher standard than that.
Stallman was questioning an absolute statement by using some logic and common sense, building a most-likely scenario for what happened - which could maybe better reflect the situation based on knowledge he had about the deceased.

He did not transfer the guilt to the victim nor defended anything wrong that Minsky may have done.

This scenario seems entirely plausible for me. The deceased is not here to defend himself, so I guess it's up to his friends/family/coworkers to defend his reputation.

Also, about the age of consent, I find it ludicrous that a number of people do not know the age of consent on most of the western world is usually 16 or less. Some are even saying "some european countries still have 16 or 14 y/o as age of consent..." as if the age of consent is going to increase in the short term.

Spoiler alert: USA is the odd one out, and it's more in line with Turkey than Western Europe. Let this information sink in for a moment.
This whole argument is built on the premise that when you fall ill for a while or have an accident, nobody will help you and you'll die instead (I guess they didn't mean it so literally, but that's what the text says). As far as I know, this is actually false in every part of the world that can afford it except for the USA. You may not earn a lot while ill, government support isn't everything, but roughly a thousand bucks a month plus medical expenses paid isn't peanuts.
I absolutely HATE churn mazes. It's literally impossible to delete facebook. Netflix on the other hand is super easy.

Shows the service has positive self-esteem!
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Their back is against a wall because they saw a wall, pretended they didn't, faced away from it, and took backward steps until they hit it.
I like he casually has a Symbolics keyboard on his desk(easily mistaken as Commadore hardware)