skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, yes. Although there is a connection. If you squint, you can see parts of the NFA. Indeed, it is very easy to simulate an NFA with unbounded backtracking (taking exponential worst case time). All you need to do from there is add a few op codes for look around and backreferences. Where you end up still looks like you're simulating an NFA, but the actual implementation has a lot more power.

To be fair, the same thing happens with the Thompson NFA simulation. It's not too hard to add a little extra power to it in the form of memory in order to track capturing group locations. It becomes more powerful than an NFA with this addition, but retains its linear time bound. This is why I've normally seen this addition called the Pike VM. (At least, Russ Cox and I both use than name.)

For completeness, you can also use bounded backtracking to simulate an NFA. It keeps track of all states visited per input byte, so it uses a lot of extra memory, but maintains a linear time bound.
Hi! GitLab employee, we have an epic open here to improve diff performance: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/1816
Would the workers have gotten paid more if they started before 9am? If not, it wasn't a "the more we do for each other" scenario, it was a "the more the workers do for their employer, with no additional compensation" scenario.
The NSA is spying on everyone and trying to weed out the Americans. That doesn't make your completely unsupported claims any firmer, and getting downvoted so quickly indicates you are posting things that might be acceptable in the rest of the internet but are not so welcome here.

Now, if you have some verifiable evidence to support your claims and can provide it then you will receive a far different response.
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If he loses the lawsuit, no (the money goes to a trust for the USG).

It's possible that Macmillan paid him an advance and so he already has the money. I don't know if the feds can do much in that case.
The NSA was operating illegal surveillance. Lied about it to congress multiple times, then only confessed once the information was leaked. The NSA were NOT the good guys in any way shape or form.

It's been demonstrated multiple times on multiple occasions that the CIA and NSA operate in bad faith, making poor decisions and causing as much destruction as they prevent.
The problem with Snowden is that:

A. He did not try to whistleblow through any officials channels in the NSA, intelligence community, or Congress

B. He stole somewhere around 1.5 million documents, of which the vast majority had nothing to do with the programs he thought were illegal

The house intelligence committee report on Snowden actually concedes that he could have enjoyed whistleblower protection under the law at the time. One could make the argument that one should not have trusted those protections and Snowden decided the same. But that still doesn't explain why he stole so much classified material that was unrelated to his civil liberties concerns.
People just don't like how resources are appropriated as they are subject to a different work mechanism in exchange for resources and not everyone else is. These headlines are mainly to trigger that sentiment.
One of the ways in which the Internet has changed chess is that games played all over the world are now posted online, and players of all levels can keep their databases updated.

That is almost entirely the result of the work of Mark Crowther, who started The Week In Chess in 1994 and hasn't missed a single weekly update since. Each issue contains a file with all tournament games he was able to find online played that week; these days usually some 5000 or so per issue (up to 9400 games in the busy summer season), error checked, names standardized by mr Crowther, all ad-supported on his own web page.
This isn't a bailout. The Fed is there for this specific reason, to ensure the market functions smoothly. The money injected into the repo market ensured that things ran smoothly. I would think they would simply unwind the repo positions as normal when the forcing factors on the market resolve... With no money lost or won...

Think of it as lubrication for a system that is a bit squeaky in some places.
In fairness, that's never stopped him before. Why not now, when it's useful?
Does Musk not have lawyers? How did they let him release a statement calling the person suing him for defamation a "creepy old man?" That's further defamation!

This statement hasn't at all helped the situation. Musk should settle ASAP. The original tweet(s) in context are completely untenable and this defense has only further worsened the situation for Musk.

Musk falsely calling him a "child rapist" to Buzzfeed News based on an erroneous private investigator report only worsens the circumstance, as do Musk's tweets effectively claiming it was true unless a lawsuit for defamation was conducted.

If I was on a jury, and there's no proof these claims are factually true, Musk is losing every time.
I think you're forgetting the baseline of everybody using a text-laden Word resume.
The big thing that sets you apart is how open you are about stuff like this. Don’t feel bad for doing it like this!
I'm not a Rails developer myself, but definitely noticed a lot of demand for Rails work in the various remote job newsletters I'm subscribed to. Can't say how much is legacy vs greenfield or whether this is a reflection of demand for a niche skill or that Rails is still a popular choice for companies. Either way, makes me regret a little I didn't stick to Rails development years ago as it seems quite lucrative even today.
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It actually does the opposite. It's big, infrequent releases that are risky, less stable. Users update automatically; they barely notice it today. Most non techie users have no idea that it is happening. A few years go we had these big bang releases with browsers, operating systems, etc. and things were much worse. Anytime you unleash millions of new lines of code on users it's almost guaranteed that there will be some stuff wrong with it that your months or years of testing did not catch.

Short release cycles mean smaller deltas and it also makes postponing the merging of changes to the next release is less disruptive. Merging things when they are ready instead of merging them to early to not miss some big releases is better.

Another reason smaller deltas is better is that risk does not scale with a linear relation relative to the amount of change but more like a quadratic or exponential relation. So, the less changes you introduce with a release, the less effort you need to ensure all is well. The testing over head increases massively with the amount of change since there are more combinations of things that can go wrong that all need testing. Finally, with the time increasing between the introduction of issues and people finding them, the complexity of analyzing them in the presence of other bugs becomes harder. Shorter feed back cycles are great for finding issues early.

Currently from nightly to release takes about 12- 16 weeks (assuming 6-8 week cycles). With this change, it will reduce to about 8 weeks. That's still two months of exposure to large group of nightly testers and an even larger group of beta testers.
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> Why release on a schedule at all?

I feel like it might help with motivation. It's easy to push things "to tomorrow" if you don't have a hard cap on how many tomorrows are available before the feature is supposed to go out.

> If people demand a certain new feature ("[this will] bring you new features more quickly"), it can just be brought out as it's ready, instead of having to wait an average of 3 (now 2) weeks before it can be released?

It's kind of like forming a habit. Having a set schedule could in theory delay quick features, but it will also keep the motivation going for time-consuming features.

> And why does this have to increment the major version, since when is every single update backwards incompatible?

I actually really like this personally. Encoding compatibility in a version number is, IMO, useless— it's sometimes just hard to know if your changes will break something or not, so there's a wealth of minor versions out there that break things anyway.

Just using a single number just makes everything simpler. Detecting breaking changes should be done with systems (tests, static analysis, etc) and not by trusting a number some developer came up with.
One day in (most of) Japan.
Thank you for the feedback and kind words.

I think YC can be invaluable to any company in many different aspects. For me it would be an amazing opportunity to create a great team.
I am surprised to read this: his patenting of the stock ticker and the two-way telegraph is listed on Wikipedia as the key to his fortunes. Do you mean "worthwhile" as in wrt. society or for him?
And funding 9/11 terrorists...

And their ongoing invasion of Yemen...

And their atrocious stances on human rights...
Well, there is big difference between 'saying it should be legal' and endorsing.

For example, i think that drinking alcohol and smoking pot should be legal, but also think it is stupid thing to do and definitely would not endorse that.
Or just making them illegal outright.

But the whole world has to participate...
Congrats on the success of your store :)

Yea, we do! WooCommerce is one of our most requested integrations and I’ll be getting to it soon. Trunk doesn’t yet support cross-posting however but this will be a Q4 intiative. Would inventory syncing be enough for you to get value from Trunk at the moment? I’d love to get in touch: james@trunkinventory.com
That's true if subreddits too. The smaller the niche, the more the contributors care it seems.

With regards to small youtubers, you can occasionally have an actually Q/A in comments.
Is that an A4 at the end? :)
What a beautiful use of human intelligence.
My guess too. I'm almost tempted to start coding :)
That sounds great, may you please list out questions and I can try to answer them. (Yes I get heated and pissed off here on HN as I have been here for over a decade and there are tons of self righteous nerds on HN who think they are the big swinging dick in the room, regardless of the fact there are tech titans here as well, but I’ve built many a thing in Silicon Valley and my pedigree goes deep, I just don’t flaunt it with simple fucking downvotes)

So ask away, please.
That's not how bankruptcy works. The court and trustee divide the assets across creditors according to debt seniority.
The media are the same ones who brought us the Kardashians. Find and read some books.
Facebook is the industrialization of personal information which has its pros and cons.
CA is the only thing blocking the full repeal of Obama era EPA regulations. So far CA has been able to side-step the repeal at the EPA level and CA has automotive industry support. CA is the last brick in the wall.
Yes, you’re reading this entirely wrong. This isn’t for rich people to stay solvent.
Calculus seems like a clear requirement for most science and engineering discipline outside of computing.

I can't imagine I'd want to do physics or mechanical engineering without calculus or trigonometry. And computer graphics would be a lot harder without trigonometry.

And for statistics and probability... how can you have a Central Limit Theorem if you don't even know what a limit is? ;-)

Being able to deal with continuous functions is certainly useful for statistics and probability.
I don't know how it works. But does 'first to invent' effectively start the clock earlier? If so maybe the public interest is still served. You could presumably license the patent soon after its invention and hopefully it's disclosed not-too-terribly-long after that relative to the duration of the patent itself (20 years IIRC).

But if it expires sooner now, we can enjoy it royalty-free sooner.
The Chinese government certainly has a lot to improve when it comes to how it governs the people of mainland China.

But we are talking about Hong Kong here. And it has been a model of restraint here, if you are being honest with yourself.
California != the United States, which I assume was the GP's point (and also one of Stallman's points): the age of consent varies between jurisdictions even within the United States, let alone outside of it, so trying to declare "sex with someone under the legal age" as inherently immoral would require clarifying which legal age in order for that declaration to be meaningful.

That is: it's hard to have a meaningful discussion about whether or not someone is old enough to give informed consent if there's no actually consistent definition of what "old enough" actually means.

I personally consider 20 to be that age (with some lenience for situations where both parties were/are underage at the start of the intimate relationship), but that's based more on the typical "half plus 7" rule than anything particularly concrete.
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How so? This is the result of a glut in treasuries and a lack of dollars in money market funds.
No, banks don’t get bailed out. That’s the point. These aren’t being bailed out each night.
Here's the utopia I'd love: The thermostat / door lock / light would present a simple documented interface exposing all the functionality available from the physical device. I'd even be okay if it was delivered via Wi-Fi or ZigBee (though I'd really prefer RS-488, RS-232, or wired Ethernet w/ PoE).

No manufacturer will do this because it limits their ability to engineer-in planned obsolescence, vendor lock-in, and recurring revenue "cloud" business models.

There are commercial and industrial-grade devices that do what I want, but they're priced for their market segment and, infuriatingly, their protocols are needlessly baroque (MODBUS, BACNET, et. al.) or proprietary.
xlnet output seemed pretty much I would expect from reader the paper and Transformer-XL examples. I am sad that that it didn't seem to take in bidirectional context clues, because this a nice differentiation between it and other auto regressive models like GPT-2.
Language? :)
Hyperinflation is great for those with debts. For everybody else: not so much. Savings, pensions all end up being worthless overnight essentially anything with future value and without an asset to back it turns to dust overnight.

This happened in Poland a while ago. Everybody with debts in old Zloty such as mortgages and so on was ecstatic, they could pay off their mortgage with three months work after the crash. Everybody else lost their life's work.

Those with property ended up neutral.

Banks learned their lesson: they pegged new mortgages to the Mark initially and later to the Euro, but people still got paid in Zloty...
The bankruptcy judge and trustee wouldn't approve an asset sale at significantly less than fair market value.
It’s part of being a professional. We even have a word for it: pro bono. Volunteering your skills doesn’t make you a sucker.

Companies may not care about volunteer work when making hiring decisions, but that should not be why you do it.

You say most open source software is used by companies to better their bottom line, but if you’re making six figures through skilled work and not giving anything back to your community, I fail to see how that’s any better.
Where moral comes from is dependent on a time and space. Where it is applied generally does not.

Ignoring those morals which are dependent on location, today's american applies the same set of morals against those on american soil as well as those on chinese soil.

They also apply those morals across time, such judgment on Ancient Greek behavior.

In the same fashion, we do not alter our moral judgement based on the jurisdiction the event takes place in. At least, we do not do so naturally, without additional effort. If this occurred in the open seas, would we hold our tongue? In a country where no such laws exist?

Legality is also hardly a strict mapping of morals to rules, with complete coverage of what we're trying to express -- if it were, there would be no need for judges; we could simply feed the evidence into an algorithm and spit out the result. And the arbitrary flip from legal to illegal, by virtue of a day, is hardly the concept we're trying to morally express through the law. But for practicality, a strict deadline was given.

Hell, what's your argument? That because morals are relative, there cannot be any discussion of it? Morality precedes the law; You don't make a moral judgement by referring to the law.
is it known what those firms were?
Hi, GitLab employee here. Sorry to hear that! This funding should enable us to throw more resources at maturing some of our features (e.g. we tripled our employee count this year). We spun up this product maturity page to make this a little more transparent: https://about.gitlab.com/direction/maturity/
For the past 4 years I've been too busy and have only written a couple of articles on Medium[1]. Thankfully I'm ending my current job which has consumed my time, energy, and soul for far too long and I want to get into the habit of writing again. This time on my personal site, not on Medium.

[1] https://medium.com/@Pier
> his phobia of plants.

> They decorate their offices with as many plants as they can and have even taken to wearing plants just to keep him from hitting on them.

I used to live and work around MIT and I'm trying to decide if this equals or exceeds the ludicrous batshit insane ass clowning that I witnessed. I'm not sure.

My stories don't involve Stallman, but... well... I'll just say "tech weenie weenie" and anyone around MIT who knows will know.

Mahketing mahketing! (maniacal clap)

In any case I'm not at all surprised that someone like Epstein would be sleazing around MIT.

I need to shut up now.
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That is the subject of the entire "oss funding" problem. Precisely that many companies are not willing to contribute funds even though the project is important to them. That's why this thread on HN exists.
> Nope, not much to report.

Hey, we may* get rid of the pacers this year!

Also, they sucessfully managed to dodge upgrading the transpenine route for the 3rd? 4th? time since it's last upgrade in the 80s. That's a win.... for something.
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>one of the motivations for a lot of the political change going on in the u.s

Which is horrifying because it means it’s being driven by total ignorance.

>why do we even have a system that needs so many bailouts

Overnight lending is not a bailout, ffs. You can do the same thing as an individual with a credit card, a payday loan, etc.
Here I am saying with a straight face: this hasn't become a 1000 times worse in the last couple of years. Do I have any data to back this up? No. Do you? If you do I'd like to see it, otherwise this is irrelevant to the discussion.

You keep turning this discussion into something big, like this giant problem that society is facing or something and I just disagree it is that serious, that's all. Stallman was wrong and no matter how this was handled the outcome was acceptable (to me). If this happens to someone that isn't wrong then I'll be on your side next time. I won't defend someone who is wrong out of principle.
That simply isn't the case though. First Class Mail (and Priority Mail) are specifically intended for both "letters" as well as "things". A glance at the USPS website shows this. Indeed, even in the CFR you quoted, it specifically mentions certain types of "package" services as sealed mail. I don't know where you're getting that there is a specific "intention" for anything.
Seeing it draw out a curve was pretty astonishing. What a cool slice of history!
I'll add this to samstave's cause:

I read something by Yoichi Shimatsu (a while back) that was along the same lines of what samstave originally posted. Shimatsu tied MIT and the pedo ring together through Nicholas Negroponte and Bernard Krisher. Didn't really believe it at the time.

Yet in the light of 2019--after Saville, Rochdale, Epstein, and all of these CSAIL guys >>knowingly<< taking cash from a convicted pedophile sex trafficker--it all seems a hell of a lot more plausible.

Then to read with shock and disbelief Lessig's mental gymnastics on the subject, or Stallman's pedantic quibbling about the Minsky situation, and it looks like even the "good guys" in our industry are devils. Perhaps Zuck and Thiel are the lesser evils?
It’s not impossible for these companies to fail. Banks have failed over and over even since the crisis.
One of my favorite companies!
I plan to become a customer when we finally get proper VDSL/fiber connections here in Greece, currently 900kbps upload :-(
They’ve just opened an EU datacenter(DC4) in Netherlands. It would be nice to see a future blog about distribution of customers.
> Personally, the first month or so that I used hooks in react, it wasn’t pleasant

I didn't feel that want when picking up React originally, but I do with Hooks. That's a giant red flag in my opinion.
The title of this post and thread is "Richard M. Stallman resigns", which would mean that this particular discussion is quite literally about the consequences to Stallman (and if they're not, then they're probably off-topic).
Well that is indeed what I said, you just have to get used to telling people that. That's the big problem. That's the reason this thread on HN exists. People trying to figure out the right path, how to ask for money on their little OSS projects, etc.
This is a legitimate question as the title says "Lego Modeling in Rust"

Perhaps the idea is that the user models the object entirely by writing Rust code.
> China is one of the safest countries in the world.

Is there actual statistics? The only source I found is from GlobalTimes which is clearly a mouth piece for China. The numbers also seem to be self reported. I trust it less than I trust the GDP numbers from China.

Safe is one thing. But what happens if you do get into trouble. Do you trust the authorities there? Last I heard, even the police chief has unknown sources of income.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/14/chinese-poli...

So it’s one thing to say it’s safe. But when in trouble, I still trust the system elsewhere.
His lawyers AFAIK were fighting the defamation suit claiming it's protected speech, free speech - it's his opinion, and that no one would genuinely believe that Elon has some special knowledge that any reasonable person would believe was a statement of truth; I certainly didn't think Elon had any credibility to that statement, it just made him look like he was having a temper tantrum.

Not sure why he's no longer sticking to that narrative or if his lawyers have changed their narrative too?
That's incorrect. "Standard mail" is the type of mail service used for anything that isn't one of the other named mail services, such as First Class or Priority Mail. Things sent in bulk, such as flyers, are an example of standard mail, but that does not preclude anyone from using standard mail to send a normal letter.
That surmises Edison had to have patented those inventions to secure his future fortunes.

I'm pretty sure the comment you're replying too was attacking the worth of patents, not the inventions.
I agree that they are very different. The GP said that the famous people should be very careful about what they say or have the risk of being fired. I only wanted to notice that everyone should be very careful about what they say or have the risk of being fired.
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Well right, it's all related. The schools are good (largely) because the people sending their kids there are willing and able to pay extra to live near good schools. The houses cost more money because the schools are good. Feedback loop.