skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I did assume the best—hence pointing out twice how helpful the comment was. I was merely curious why the author of the comment used TFA, and if they meant something else than the typical meaning of the acronym. Unless you personally know the contents of the author’s mind, I don’t believe you can answer for their meaning with much authority. You seem to have misunderstood my intent with asking (or do you generally like reminding long-time HN users about rules?). I’m not offended by the usage of TFA or assuming the worst of the commenter. I am curious about the juxtaposition of a helpful tone alongside a rather well-established acronym. Either way, thanks. I’ll hope the author confirms that was their actual meaning.
> Actually, it's quite possible to determine if a deterministic program with finite memory will loop.

More practically, if you stick to structurally recursive loops, it's trivial to determine those loops will terminate. Structural recursion is when the recursive calls acts on smaller parts of the original input (e.g. map, reduce and filter functions do this), so you know it'll terminate eventually.

I find it pretty rare that I write loops with complex looping conditions.
That would at least make SEO easy:

“How do we appear at the top of the results?”
“We’ll call our website ‘AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA - Wikipedia’”
If the store is in a community where theft is not that common you can combat it well enough using heuristics, random checks and strong punishments.
Please read the book "The School for Gods" by Author "Stefano D'anna"
> Is it the CEO? They are unlikely to know enough about French taxation

This line of thinking becomes a shield for executives, letting them push subordinates into corners where they'll have very strong incentives to do illegal things. And they will benefit from these illegal actions, while being responsible of nothing as they won't know enough on any subject.

This feels like a moral hazard paradise to me.
From my non mathematician view, it's not one function per se, but how they all fit together in an ideal framework.
> In most cases where several dogs live in the same animal care, only one dog has become ill

Could it be food allergy?
Could it be dog feed/treats from China?
Which law did Google break? It sounds like they followed the law and that’s precisely the problem.
I used them for my fiber transceivers. The vendor wanted $249, FS had them for $6, and they have never given me problems.
I disagree, I think it's very much essential to the point.

For one, 10^(i*pi) is some horrible complex number, which is what you'd expect when exponentiating random complex numbers. Exercise: figure out what it is from the rotation point of view.

Secondly, usual definitions of e don't involve complex numbers at all. Nor do questions such as whether e is rational, algebraic, etc.

Thirdly, if you go with this argument too far, you'll conclude that the value of pi is also not important. After all, circles must have some length, who cares what it is precisely?
Insiders cashing out is more important than anything apparently
The only birds in my city are pidgeons (that defecate everywhere), sparrows and crows. At least the only ones I actually see.
Ah, okay. Thanks! Maybe I was thinking of hash functions, for which it's not guaranteed that every output has an (n-sized) pre-image?

Edit: To clarify, I do now understand that you were proposing:

random number X -> output encrypt(X), encrypt(X+1), encrypt(X+2), etc

Which I had misinterpreted as:

random number X -> output encrypt(X), encrypt(encrypt(X)), encrypt(encrypt(encrypt(X))) etc.
Will we still have private companies making money off of public prisons by offering different services? Will there still be individuals earning a paycheck by working at prisons? Both of these groups will have similar incentives as companies running private prisons.
It’s upsetting that Toyota continues to delay pure electrics with this nonsense. They sell a hydrogen car (total scam) and hybrids that still burn oil and require costly maintenance. Dear Toyota, please give up your dream to delay pure electrics. You lost.
I wonder how history will look back on Reid Hoffman's book, "Blitzscaling". The premise seems bit ridiculous now in light of recent problems at WeWork and Uber.
Generally a Show HN has to be something ready for people to use, so I checked with the mods to make sure this paper qualified.

Didn't mean to imply any sort of endorsement beyond that.
Maybe statistically, but there was a case here in the uk a few years ago. An old fellow in his 70s at a nursing home got one of the care assistants, aged under 20 IIRC, pregnant in a consensual relationship.
I couldn't agree more. This is something that no one, from any polical side, right or left or republican or democrat or whoever in whatever country, says enough. Companies are indeed considered as real entities whereas they are just emergent structures which behavior comes from decisions made by real humans. And I truly believe that those real humans should be trialed and sentenced more or at least as much as the company they are working for in cases of fiscal fraud. And this is not the case now, the company shielding them from the consequences of their individual actions.
For companies, the justice system works quite well (just like here, even with extraterritoriality and fiscal paradise), nations can manage to apply the law to them. But the responsibility of the individuals in the same legal cases is often forgotten.
Take the Google example : even if you talk of "fiscal optimization" to give a nice appearance to those actions, some individuals in Google crossed the line and knew it perfectly. And it is true that Google, as a structure, is ok with it ('don't do evil' does not apply when it comes to maximizing profits). But those people at Google who crossed the line will never appear in court, nor the ones having validated their work (probably the higher management), which is a shame in my opinion. It happens that a company break the law, but it never does it alone : it is people who instruct it to do so.
To see my point, look at England at the moment : if a ruler of a country decides to break the law, is it the country that is responsible or the leader ? My view is that it is both and both should be prosecuted by the individuals impacted.
I understand "you can't use any kind of data structure to remember which cards you've already picked among 2^64 of them" as "N cards don't fit in memory". Or is the relevant distinction memory vs disk, as it's feasible to randomize on-disk data?
I live with a eczema with fluctuating severity and have to agree. I have been prescribed triamcinolone acetonide steroidal cream, which helps, but doesn't keep me from scratching. I am legitimately waiting for genetic editing to solve this problem for me.
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The Unicorns wander out of the enchanted forest, and turn out to be just horses with a stick stuck to their head.

Theres been much hand wringing about the sky high valuations, and its not really surprise when push comes to shove, those valuations don't play out. How a $65 billion potential valuation (or $47bn 'actual') becomes a $10bn float will be a write up I look forward to though.
The media is out of control - sensationalist fear mongering.
- Man search for meaning

- Letters of a Businessman to His Son Paperback - G. Kingsley Ward (Author)

- The Design of the UNIX Operating System

- Horse Sense

- Hemingway farewell to arms

- Save your marriage

- The Essays of Warren Buffett : Lessons for Corporate America

- On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors: John Z. DeLorean's - made me never want to work for big company

1000s of books... no time to read or list them all.
There is probably selection bias in the sort of person who would think it's a genius idea and an oversight by thousands of engineers for decades. Then account for the type of person that would make such a statement to a stranger. I'm guessing this set of people can be a bit annoying in general.
There's definitely room to improve the article. I'm intending it to be more of a Wiki-style site with additions over time.

Indeed internally my emulator calculates 16-bits per channel, performs gamma, saturation, luminance adjust, color emulation etc, and then reduces that to your target display. I have support for 30-bit monitors, but so far that only works on Xorg. I even considered floating-point internally for colors, but felt that was way too much overkill in the end.
Math contests feature prominently in the Cardano-Tartaglia dispute, an important chapter in the history of the discovery of the cubic equation.

http://brain.caltech.edu/ist4/lectures/Cardano-Tartaglia_Dis...
Is anyone informed about the consequences of such a down-round? I haven't kept an eye on their incoming investments, but you'd think there might be some unhappy investors there with various clauses in their terms?

This has probably been the most criticised IPO I've heard of in recent times. Interesting that the market is actually not allowing them to sail right through on their own terms, it's as if all the ridicule actually makes people think about whether to buy it.
I recommend reading Matt Levine "Money Stuff" he talks a lot about this kind of stuff. There is a lot of we work IPO in that newsletter.
Insiders can't cash out until after the lock up period, after which the price should have stabilized to whatever the market think it's worth, right? (So the IPO price isn't as important as the price the market settled on a few months later, by that logic)

Or is that thinking too simplistic?
So naive, so wrong. It's hard to know where to start.

> Operating SSH at scale is a disaster. Key approval & distribution is a silly waste of time. Host names can’t be reused. Homegrown tools scatter key material across your fleet that must be cleaned up later to off-board users.

Outright lie or incompetence at worst, or a "my salary depends on not understanding this" case at best, being demonstrated here. Even if you don't have chef/puppet/etc managing at least some level of fleet configuration (if you don't, your org is hopeless anyway and ssh-at-scale is not a first problem to solve), it's oh-so-easy to put just your pubkeys somewhere (S3, eg) and manage them via, say, git.

Next problem is that openssh-style certs do not support cert chains. So you cannot revoke an intermediate. A huge aspect of PKI is that you must be able to recover from a compromise. The rest of this point is left as an exercise for the reader.

You have to secure the CA! You have to properly authorize signing requests! These things fall into the realm of hard.
It's not only about safety though. A big problem with nuclear is the centralization it entails. Big, centrally controlled power, in contrast with localizable options like solar, lends itself to heavy handed state control, big industry exploitation, corruption, and just general top-down control of consumer options. I prefer technologies like solar, which can be installed and controlled locally by the property owner themselves.

If nuclear is really needed, I would rather see it be the last resort option only in cases where renewables are not sufficient... but this conclusion about whether renewables are sufficient or not should be reached only after best efforts at renewables have been made, which is certainly not the case today.
Matt Levine as usual called how this would play out. He said we work would start dropping the weird voting/control privileges ("corporate governance concessions") that founders have enjoyed on recent "tech" IPOs. He also said investors wouldn't care much and this latest news confirms that.

His conclusion: "But now WeWork seems to be facing the traditional tradeoff: Stay private, keep control, but lose access to billions of dollars of funding, or go public, raise unlimited money, and have to act normal. If it does either of those things, that will mark a sort of end of an era. At the height of the unicorn boom, big tech companies could stay private without giving up the benefits of being public, or they could go public without taking on the burdens of being public. Now they might have to make hard choices again."
Socialize the losses, quick!
"thesaurus that organizes words by category" - gives a bunch of online dictionary pages. I was trying to find a specific physical book I remember using in high-school.

"techniques for interpreting statically typed languages" - gives a bunch of super basic articles/questions about statically vs dynamically typed and compiled vs interpreted languages. DuckDuckGo actually gave better results for this.

I feel what's happening is that google is looking at what people are clicking during searches and then using that data to calculate absolute ranks for pages and websites. Those ranks are then not necessarily appropriate for different, less common queries or searching behaviors. However, this algorithm probably performs better in 99% of cases for some internal metrics, so Google ends up keeping it.
I'm coming up on three years sober this Sunday.

For me the thing that helped the most was the /r/stopdrinking sub on reddit. Reading people's experiences and techniques from all sorts of groups and books, and reading about the triggers and follies of their relapses helped me a lot. Also a place where I could talk about problems related to the sobriety was nice.

If you live in a bigger city or another you may want to look for a craft soda shop. It can be helpful when you go to a friend's where they drink. You'll have your fancy soda so you don't feel left out when they get their fancy beers. Also my 3 go to drinks for bars and such to not feel left out or another are: a mock mojito, ginger beer with a splash of cranberry juice, or a roy rogers(coke with grenadine). In that order. A lot of places can't make a mojito, some places don't have ginger beer or they have super low quality ginger beer, but everywhere has grenadine(which is pomegranate syrup not cherry...) experimenting with mocktails and stuff at home may be a good thing for you depending on what your relationship with alcohol was like.

Also last year for my soberversary I wrote an article on my sobriety and experience in tech if you want to give it a read. A lot of my points above are expanded and there's some good discussion in the comments. https://dev.to/samuraiseoul/alcohol-and-developer-culture-19...

Lastly, if you want to talk or vent or have questions feel free to reach out to me either on here, or using the contacts in the article I linked to above.

I will not drink with you today, good luck and good job on the ten days!
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That's Seiken Densetsu 3 (unreleased in US but fan translated by Neill Corlett)

:)
So why does everyone so interested in WeWork's IPO evaluation? Non trying to be sassy just genuinely curious why articles like seems are so regularly posted.
That is more of an indication that this unfairness exist in areas significantly more critical than ability to travel to popular spots than an answer, yes. I think we should be looking for answers in those areas (closer to being "rights") instead.

This is not a whataboutism either, unless you can put that label on trying to focus on major showstoppers that bring whole system down before light cosmetic defects.
This isn't new in the least. My 2010 Prius had solar panels that did "dog mode" - running the fan.
I was having this problem more and more until I realized "hey, those sites all have search engines" and now for general questions I search directly on SO and for deeper dives I go to Github.

Github's search is, in general, very good at finding what you searched for, all of what you searched for, and nothing but what you searched for. The one thing I want, and it's vague and complex, is a way to filter out the several hundred or thousand very very similar repositories that come into being due to a popular tutorial, school lab assignment, or frequently forked and slightly modified repository using the rare function I'm looking into.
25 years ago, if you owned a computer at home, you were a hobbyist, an engineer, scientist, or you owned a console system and were a gamer.

Yeah - servers had been around in one form or another since the 60's and even in the 90's not everyone had an office computer. Maybe if you were...again...an engineer or scientist.
I currently live in the Midwest in a fairly high taxed state. I've also lived in other Midwestern states were taxes were super low and any effort to increase taxes on anything was met with severe resistance.

The difference was very noticeable.

In the high taxed state, when I woke up at 7am after a heavy snowfall (read 6-10" of snow) my roads were plowed curb to curb. School buses were always running on time, the roads were clear and you were expected to be in the office.

In the low tax states, when I woke up at 7am after a heavy snowfall (read 6-10" of snow) the roads weren't plowed until late afternoon. Schools were routinely closed and you had no option but to work from home. The streets were hard to navigate since the plows just plowed around the parked cars, turning a two way street into a one way street. It was common to see cars plowed in for the Winter because the snow was plowed up over their windows. The city I lived in routinely ran out of money to pay the plow drivers so at times, the streets didn't get plowed at all later in the Winter months.

A lot of times, people reject the benefits of taxes and just see it as a money grab by the local and state governments. Once you experience the difference first hand, you can't have an appreciation of the amount of good taxes provide your local and state governments. I don't mind paying higher taxes because I know it does benefit everybody in a myriad of ways, not just the pleasant experience of having your streets plowed in a timely manner.
> Oh, and you are not charged for transfer.

This is the big one. Even for backblaze b2, it's the transfer that means 2-3tb data doesn't make sense on a personal budget (eg digital negatives and a few 4k videos). A restore become (too) expensive.
It also creates a vulnerability to crony capitalism, top-down control, corruption, and overtaxation.
Quote from Matt Levine:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-09-09/we-mig...

Well, I just got through saying that there’s not really any reward for being pessimistic and right about valuation when you are pitching an IPO. Your optimistic competitors will get the mandate, and then spend some time walking the company back

...

On the other hand it is a repeat game and there are occasionally penalties for getting it wrong:

...

it will be rough for Morgan Stanley if winning the biggest IPO prize [Uber] of the unicorn era loses it the biggest IPO prize of all time [Saudi Aramco]
Fractions simplify the hell out of this.

- 95% is 1/20

- 99% is 1/100

This makes it intuitive that 95% has 5 times more people saying "no" than 99%. The wording made sense, but IMO using percentage adds more complexity than necessary.
"Before Ethernet was common, BNC coaxial cables were used on some NICs as well"

Yes, at that time Ethernet was coaxial as well, the 10Base2
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So they can claim to overshoot their target? The investors will be very pleased.

OTOH this reeks of desperation to "go public", and drop the hot potato on clueless investors while they 're still clueless and the market is still hot. Sounds sinister tbh
It's a wonderful libertarian fantasy and it's really tugging at my heart strings.
Imagine all the people who exercised options...
Norway is in the EEA and that means they are effectively bound by same rules as the rest of the EU governing trade.
Yes, people have been switching to DDG for years now, yet still google is utterly dominant.

Candidly, I'm mystified by the complaints. Google's search works great, and has for years for myself and everyone I know IRL.

Any post about any product that isn't brand new on HN is going to get comments along the line of "Company X? Their product is garbage, it used to be great! I've been using <alternative that requires a ton of extra effort to setup> and once I got it going it was amazing!"
I wouldn’t look too deep into it. Private valuations are mostly meaningless. This goes for everyone.
if $10B is real, that might be the end of Vision Fund II.
This is very cool. And much needed.

I anticipate three other complimentary technologies which will help many, many people. (In case anyone is looking for medical startup ideas...)

More sensor data from non visible light. Like the recent popularity of using ultraviolet light to see cumulative skin damage.

Better ways to register and align (correct) photos, to better compare images taken over time, to better track progress of conditions over time. Eventually even full body scans.

Some way to measure the thickness or depth of the various layers of skin. Think side scanning radar, but for skin.

--

Source: I've had graft versus host disease greatly affecting my skin for nearly 30 years. It's been wicked hard to diagnose and monitor.
This: http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Just_a_Use_of_the_Patented_General_...

Software patents are a hack, they are really against the patent law. The patent law requires an invention of new hardware, which software obviously doesn't.
Regus, which I recall correctly is valued at around 4.5b USD, so WeWork should be less than that, but not proportionally so, given their much better branding.
I know the feeling around WeWork's IPO is to poo all over it, but let's take a step back and remember that all valuations at this point at just reports. It was reported that WeWork was going after 20B-30B, now it's reported they're going after 10B. When articles cite "sources" I'm pretty skeptical. Like all other IPOs, the bankers are going to price the stock based on what they think the market will buy. There's always intangibles that are difficult to evaluate, and maybe WeWork's IPO has more of those intangibles than usual, but I don't think we're outside of the realm of normalcy. Well, maybe we are in a massive tech bubble. I guess time will tell.
With all the bad karma / news out there at this point, what are the odds that they can get any significant money publicly ... and maybe privately now that so much dirty laundry is out there?
It's always a good idea to be skeptical of someone making claims you need lots of capital to rapidly scale your business when that person is selling capital for a living.
No, because there is a connection between both of these devices and all other devices on the phone network and the internet. It’s just bullshit and on top of that overcomplicated nonsense no one is going to use.
Lazy person with a proven work ethic. Sounds paradoxical but you don't want a lazy bum who won't get moving when things really count.

The ideal person is one who is capable and hard working when it counts but chooses not to be that way when it's unnecessary.
No, what you described is O(n).
This is basically a Dutch auction as IPO at this point.
This is much different from $47 billion. They know that we've caught on to the sham, and now the investors just want liquidity so they can dump this mess onto others. They're hoping some will see this as a bargain so they can still get an exit.

Don't trust this.
WeWork is used by many startups and remote developers, and HN has plenty of those.

In addition, it has irked a lot of techies that WeWork is claiming to be a technology company (they are actually a traditional real estate biz) and a lot of their valuation is based on that aura.
Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny
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Sorry, it was Ohio: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20552675
I self host, but then back that up to Wasabi [1] every night using rclone [2].

1. https://wasabi.com/

2. https://rclone.org/