skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you also think a good product doesn’t need marketing? And a good engineer doesn’t need to sell their accomplishments in performance reviews?
But on the other hand, much of the long tail of contributions probably come from companies using open source software, finding some deficiency, and contributing their change so they don't have to maintain their own fork forever.
Feel free to downvote more or post more revisionist history. It is not even remotely turkish, but like most "turkish" food and drinks, it was stolen from the cultures they attempted to destroy. Truth is downvoted these days.
For comparison, Chrome updates "every two-three weeks for minor releases, and every six weeks for major releases".

I guess Beta is moving to daily releases? I suppose it's good, generally I have to restart Firefox once a day for resource leaks and restarting through the update UI is easier than opening the browser console.

I was using Nightly for a while but it turns out that even daily updates aren't fast enough for that. If a new patch breaks something, typically the offending patch isn't backed out and it takes 6-12 hours to get fixed, meaning the fix isn't available in the next nightly and you have to suffer for several days.
This is so scummy!
Softbank are the ones who drove the valuation that high. I agree with the cult of the CEO thing and all, but I’ve always felt the smart money in the valley knew to stay away from WeWork. It was a sucker’s gambit from the start.
Semi-unrelated, but the American Express Business Platinum Card currently offers 1-year of WeWork included as part of $595 annual fee (which is easy to cover with the airline incidental credits, bonus points) until the end of the year.

If you were thinking of joining WeWork that is an incredible deal, especially since it allows you to use any WeWork anywhere in the world.
You and I feel that way, but there are a LOT of people who are extremely price sensitive, especially in a world accustomed to race-to-the-bottom app pricing. When we adjust our app price, or have a sale, we can really notice it in reactions in our support in-box.
It is missing a lot of stuff, like I want a modal popup, I need to search the web for a solution,

I want a DataGrid with sortable and re sizable columns, i need to search the web, find something that is compatible and also make sure the license is compatible

I want a basic Dropdown widget that can do basic things like ex have a flag+country name or have a list of fonts where each font is using it's family to be rendered. Also the scrollbars can't be themed for when elements overflow in all browsers so you are forced to find something that reimplements the scrollbars.

When I give example of Qt,Net or Java I include the full SDK , if you did not worked with this kind of SDKs maybe you worked with Android one, basically you have the language STL plus anything you need from file I/O, Networking, Widgets, to the serial ports,screen, and a lot of things, you don't have to package install a new thing for each feature.
And we grew up laughing at the stupid taboos and weirdly abusive social norms our forefathers had. Only to create similar ones ourselves.
Yes, this was how my college-level class was structured. We focused on using Matlab to plot things and understand what we were plotting as we moved across the range of topics. We never did any deep dives and no calculus and I think the class was solid (and approachable in high school with a competent instructor).
The predecessor to Rainforest Cafe?
You shouldn't need marketing when the "customer" has no other option but to deal with you. If you legitimately don't suck then the customer will figure it out through their experience (because they have to deal with you). Hiring PR firms to gaslight the public is not something a decent government does.
Why are Kaggle prizes so low?
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Are you really comparing the murder of aristocrats to someone getting fired for defending a pedophile?

Do you really find murder to be equivalent to this?
that is very true. at least angular1 was stable for quite some time i'd say, it was quite usable until they started working on angular 2.

that means when selecting a framework, don't pick the newest, but look for something that promises stability, and then stick with it. i picked aurelia to once angular 1 was no longer usable. and although i mainly chose it for other reasons, it looks like it will be a stable choice.
> Intent is irrelevant ... only the impact.

Generally both are judged.

You can have the intent to commit murder, but if you bungle it and the person is still living (i.e., no impact), then you're still in trouble.
True! But much, much more expensive.
Just shared this with my group looking for Amazon alternatives as well. Awesome.
If the impact is a bunch of people misinterpreting and feeling upset, that’s not much impact.

If impact caused harm then that’s another story.

There are laws for libel, slander, harassment, threat. Let’s use those laws and prosecute people.
sure-- but the main difference is that the community pretends to be super altruistic under the guise of doing god's work for the good of all developers. it comes off as super fake. at least thats sort of the vibe i get from it. i also dont have a huge sample size of repos so maybe im talking mostly out of my ass in this case

i would honestly rather it all be backed by corps and people get paid for it without any hints of "benevolent dictators"
Must be fun for ESR users, because ESR reports the base version regardless of when it was patched. So ESR 60.9 (released alongside 69, still supported), would look a year out of date.
In some ways anti-intellectuals create space for other intellectuals to get traction when opposing bad ideas promoted by establishment embraced intellectuals.

While, anti-vaxers, et al, are raised as examples of the harm anti-intellectuals can cause, many great harms have been caused or celebrated by intellectuals over the ages.
Lots of interesting comments here. I have not seen anyone mention a model that means something to me.

I am an academic. Simplistically stated, students come to study with folks who have an academic reputation (yes, I know it is much more complicated than that). A person could imagine that one place to get an academic reputation is through the development of great Free software, or other Free works such as texts.
I disagree with the impulse to discard calculus + trig.

You need more statistics than calculus to understand the current state of neural nets in Machine Learning, but you if you don't at least know the chain-rule, you're just using library code and not understanding even a basic perceptron.

And from a personal perspective: I've used so much trigonometry in my career (plenty of graphics work) that I'm not sure where I'd be without the time spent on trig and geometric reasoning in school.

I mean, I agree with their basic thesis that stats is important because of ML and the increasing practicality in using statistics and AI to solve problems. But I don't thin what they'd discard is well thought out in terms of what is going on. Nor is it meant to be, it's just a casual interview.
What statistics would you gather to prove this? Not everything in life is cheap and easy to quantify.

Some things are just stupefyingly obvious. For example, constantly looking at videos of puppies getting microwaved or people getting beheaded in front of their kids for 8 hours a day, 5 days a week just might really fuck with you.

Like, what data do you want to back that up?
So your solution. In so many words. Is to just give everyone food.

And then you handwave away the infrastructure necessary to do so.

You literally did the thing I called out.
How to Use Binder to Create a Reproducible R Statistical Environment
I decline to answer that question on the census, for just that reason.
Much of this description applies pretty well to western countries, especially the US.
It s the equivalent or researchers doing free peer review for elsevier. Nobody’s forcing them, but they kinda have to.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/07/wework-adam-neumann-... he is already a made man...
Or, it was annoying but tolerable, until an opportunity presented itself to score virtue points while having past problematic behavior to use for plausible deniability.
Or the 4chan janitors, for that matter.
Assumption #2: Google/FB development practices will fit in.
Depending on how much you asked I suspect the documentation required would scale but at a certain threshold they'd probably just pay an individual $300 with minimal documentation.

But who knows, they've been pretty craven and uncaring throughout. CRAs are not very good companies, honestly.
Looking at all the electronic internals in a modern car, I'm no longer sure I want an aftermarket :)

Already, when looking for/at a car, my first thought is: "is their software engineering team up to the task?"
I ate at Cliftons some years ago, before the remodeling. It was pretty cool but also pretty worn out. Standard cafeteria fare, nothing really exciting. Mostly it was about the ambience. Some of the interior decoration (i.e. the fake animals and natural settings) looked like it had inspired Disneyland's designers.
I agree with many things except point 2)

> 2) What most irks people about the current ad-tech based business model isn't the advertising, it's the data mining behind it.

I think most people are not even aware of some bigger implications of data mining except some banners following them for months. After being irked with generation of popup ads that you have to chase buttons to close it now most are irked with ads that autoplay video, sound and you cannot easily stop it. We are also irked with all those ads tracking technology eating lots of your ram and cpu power - modern websites are excessively fat and bloated mostly because of all those tracking scripts.

There is also another problem that ads business model generates - lower quality content, fake news, clickbait headlines, articles that stimulate flame wars, youtubers talking taking about something for 15 minutes even though you could summarize it in 1 min, game devs designing addictive games for kids. Basically fighting for your eyeballs time, keeping you glued to the screen as long as possible. This is not scalable because time you have during the day (24h) is fixed and wastes lots of people time that they could be use to make something more productive with their life.
>While China has a large counterfeit market, it's mostly restricted to inside the country

There are a huge number of online retailers where you can purchase chinese counterfeit items in the US. If you're in Seattle I can take you down a few streets where you can openly buy counterfeits as well, and I experienced the same in LA and New York. It definitely isn't mostly restricted to China, there is a massive market for counterfeit goods from China in the US
I use one of these templates: https://www.rpi.edu/dept/arc/training/latex/resumes/
Backblaze customer here. Charge me more!
>Few years ago I had had a Junior engineer on my team begin telling me how he finds certain speech so intolerable that he feels he has the right to assault someone for saying it.

Most people feel this way. Not with nearly as much speech as your junior did, but there are certain forms of speech we are so against we have written exceptions into law and the Supreme Court even used concepts such as obscenity to empower these laws to ignore even the First Amendment.

Is it really surprising a generation or two later people are now seeking to have even more speech fall under such bans?
I bet some people at MIT felt that view was sickening as well, and don't want their institution to be associated with that view. And actively want to show their community that they oppose it. I wonder how they could do that effectively...? Oh wait, fire the guy who said it! Brilliant.
Without looking anything up, can you give an example of what material science advances have come out of NASA or other space programs, that have propelled us forward as a species?
You pay stamp duty land tax (SDLT) on the purchase of land or property, not sale.
If not a lot of people are run through Equifax, their customers are going to ask themselves why they’re paying them.

That could at the very least give the customers leverage to negotiate the rates down, which would also hurt Equifax’s revenue stream.
Between the money-based fight to get your kids in better schools (public or private, it's money either way, just a matter of whether the money's in tuition or housing) and health care it does kind of seem like the system's designed to eat every last dollar a normal to well-off-but-not-actually-rich family can get their hands on.
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For tourism and appeal for businesses it can have a clear ROI; both of those are important for Hong Kong.
Wow. This seems like a very, very lazy interpretation of the jazz age by a particularly unmotivated high school student. Like they took the idea that required absolutely no thinking whatsoever and went with it.
Back when people were making a big deal about the apparent lack of women/minorities/etc in open source projects, I objected to trying to get them to give away their labor for free.

The response to that was that these contributions lead to jobs. But, that idea seems to have largely disappeared. There was a period where people were claiming your github account is your resume, but I haven't heard that sentiment in several years.
I'm not putting one above the other, I'm saying the right now you cannot live out of contribution. It's not a standalone option. I wish we could all contribute improvements, as you say, there are high chances that it would lead to a better society overall.
I imagine the several hundred million he has already given himself helps tide over any stress from this.
If it is legally called "rape" somewhere, then those laws are wrong and should be changed. "Rape" is a word that carries a particular meaning (i.e., violent unwanted sexual activity), and conflating it with things that are not violent is minimizing real rape.

"Unlawful sexual intercourse" like in your California example is fine: that's a good way to word sexual activity that's illegal without conflating it with violence.
Should drunk driving be legal as long as you don't crash?
Seems like a better benchmark would be South Korea which also ended a civil war in 1953. It also had some rather unpleasant political upheaval and still had better Per capita GDP growth.

Alternatively, Taiwan makes an interesting case study as it’s the other side of that civil war and had much better Per capita growth while starting slightly higher.
> I could see shopify setting up a system of letting sellers buy a certain original product from a manufacturer - and sending it to some warehouse and selling it on their aggregated store.

Isn't this just dropshipping (already an extremely popular behavior on Shopify). The aggregator I'm describing is one where the aggregator is just solving product discovery, but limited to non-Amazon storefronts, ideally limited to the product's owner, even if white labeled (doesn't entirely solve the quality issue, but would help with explicit counterfeiting at least). A core part of the value prop would be that it gives you direct access to the seller (some of whom may explicitly not list on Amazon) without Amazon as an intermediary.

Google kind of does this, but one of the reasons people go to Amazon is they know the entire SERP will be products, so if they're ready to buy, it's often the fastest way to get to place where they can click "Buy". The aggregator I'm thinking of is really a more aggressively curated, non-Amazon version of this.
What Distinguishes Us from AI?
This is amazing, thank you! It might be a good idea to slowly turn this into a website and then accept job postings :)
A very good list, unfortunately, one whose principles go largely unimplemented. Maybe SV is different, but at most places it seems you'd be hard pressed to find engineers skilled and capable enough to understand and push for these values.

I worked on a codebase that started as a ASP. NET framework project simply because that's what the team knew. No one knew React, and no one had the impetus to learn it thoroughly, if we forced that requirement we'd have to cut 90% of the team. It's unfortunate because we demonstrated how fast, maintainable, and modular a React-based system could be if developed properly. Multiple high-value features implemented in a single sprint, but as 90% of the team can't use it, we can't implement it everywhere.
I think the biggest thing is the context switching between different projects. I have open source projects that I wouldn't be able to move to GitLab as I would have to coordinate the move with all the other collaborators and make sure the users of the repository are aware that the new code will be in GitLab.
My point is that: are they really ethnic minorities?

Or is it like with Tutsi and Hutu, where ostensibly these were ethnicities but in reality just labels given to people, and dependent on their status?

I don't like this narrative, because it gives credence to a discriminatory standpoint - which is, to me, the core problem here.
Oh, on a personal level I totally agree about trig. I've used it a lot in my programming as well. But I think for the average person a basic understanding of probability is way more valuable, not because of the hard skills but because it changes the way you think.
Have you filed a bug about the resource leaks?
I understand that the pervasive cynisicm can be exausting, but in the case of computer security, it really is warranted.
Is there a way to know if I'm part of the class action settlement? IIRC I refuse to take part of the lawsuit since I was planning on suing them in small claim court.
> Also note that the UK has progressive taxation, so it was actually rich people who paid for Crossrail.

You're using the definition of rich that is "high paid"

I uses the definition of rich that is "high wealth"
I used to take down pedofile rings online with a few associates. This was strictly a black hat endeavor and I never had to look at anything. My motivation was that its fun to use these skills to ruin someones day (or life in this case) but it's only really moral to do these sort of things against people like that.

I once found a confirmed child porn possessing target with a smart home I was able to access. That guy must of thought he was in a black mirror episode.
Indeed, sex between minors is clearly the exact same situation as sex between minors and older rich men gifting them as sex objects. /s
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People who upvoted this, what made you up vote it? It's much more popular than I would've guessed when I first saw it on the homepage
It should force better security practices, but I know, it is crazy talk.
The returns the original Investors want: definitely.

But everyone selling at a loss is getting their money from someone buying. Since the price of some of these companies is nonzero, someone must think they are a good deal at that price. Just speculating as to why.

As for war fighting capability: that is the legit justification for ag support, but modern factories can’t be repurposed that way. Nobody would expect IBM to be able to retool to build machine guns any more.

The right fix is many automated reconfigurable on-demand factories making goods close to point of consumption. But that’s a long way away, and wind use humans.
Honestly, I have no friends, so I'd really appreciate it if you could explain the difference as best as the Internet allows.
Teracube is not backed by VC but the founders themselves. They provide free battery replacements (not just one time but as many as it takes throughout the 4-year warranty). It is true that users cannot replace the battery themselves but that's why the warranty comes with free parts, labor and two-way shipping.

The business idea is that by prolonging the phone's life, we can reduce 1/ e-waste (45M tons of e-waste produced by US and 135M WW) produced by people discarding their old phones, and 2/ raw materials used to produce the phones which not only the planet is running short but also the pollution caused during mining and manufacturing process.
> Many job postings list OSS contributions as a requirement / desirable for employment.

Well employers simply want to see your portfolio and coding abilities, and open public code is the easiest way to screen candidates. It's not the most ideal way of checking since there can be many good candidates that don't write OSS for fun but I suppose it's a trade off the employers are making. If you can demonstrate your coding abilities through blogging or other mediums other than OSS than that's a good way to show you know what you're talking about.

If you write OSS on the side then of course that's a bonus but definitely not a requirement. I tend to write OSS for fun but I don't feel obligated to fix issues if I don't have the time or resources unless they offer payment. Anyone can simply fork the projects and fix it themselves.
Richard Stallman leaves MIT after controversial remarks on rape
Because your material circumstances are a big influence on both your health and your happiness. If you're going to be materially prosperous, then either you have to live in a society with generous welfare, or you need well-off parents, or you need to be productive (and not have what you produce stolen from you).
Most of these businesses only exist because it is an upmarket. Nothing of actual value be lost in the recession.
Anecdotally, all the amazon basics products I've tried have been garbage and were promptly returned
That's not a solution, that's just increasing their workload. It doesn't remove the root cause, nor the fact that people still have to assess a lot of content - which apparently the super smart AIs can't identify themselves.
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I don't think this is fundamentally different from being proud of your importance as measured by salary. Granted a salary might be a more accurate measurement.
I would die for Gitlab. Such a great tool.
Well. The thing about these public speaking engagements of his at universities and stuff: There is image transfer going on there from a software developer celebrity to a spokesperson on copyright and related public policy issues. (Like when Bono speaks on environmental issues).

I went to see a Stallman lecture when I was at university too. They had booked the biggest lecture theatre and it was packed. But why? If my friend comes to me and says "Hey, I'm staying late today to see a talk by random spokesperson John Doe advocating free software. Wanna join?", my reaction is going to be: "Meh." You can have that any day of the week at any university that's seen as a desirable forum for public policy debate. But: "Wanna see the guy who created emacs and a billion other bits of software every one of us uses every single day? Wanna stick around afterwards for conference food and exchange a few sentences of smalltalk so that, for the rest of your life, you can tell people you ACTUALLY MET HIM?" Then "Hell yeah, count me in!"
One plausible, perhaps optimal strategy in the second arena is for the hiders to build a shelter around the seekers and lock them in place, circumventing the whole cat and mouse over ramps and ramp surfing (which the seekers would never be able to access). I wonder why this strategy is not arrived at.
Boston-based DataRobot raises $206M Series E to bring AI to enterprise
Some customers can choose, I recently decided not to fly to HK.
Has any intelligence arisen without multi-agent interaction?

Probably belongs in our definition of intelligence.
Yes and if defending pedophiles becomes the norm then Stallman will be a hero.