skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I now am starting to rethink this sentiment because the vast majority of the benefit of open source contributions on github, be they to languages, runtimes, application frameworks, databases, etc, go towards increasing the bottom line of for-profit companies, not to developers.

Isn't this kind of the problem the GPL is supposed to solve?

Sure, a company can build off an open source project to increase their bottom line, but they'll have to contribute back any changes they make. Which means their work is now benefitting other developers as well.

I feel like the GPL has somewhat fallen out of favor in recent years. To an extent I understand why, and yet...
Isn’t the common acronym for him MBS?
For a long time people were allowed to discharge student loans in bankruptcy. Most people didn't because costs were reasonable and it hit your credit score.

If you suddenly made that allowed again there's be a bunch of initial bankruptcies because of pent up demand and the market racing toward equilibrium but it would almost certainly revert to somewhere near the level it was originally.
archive.org mirror, because important stories like this one shouldn't be at risk of disappearing behind the Medium paywall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190918020021/https://medium.co...
In some sense, the IRA was not anyhow different than Hezbollah, but look how infamous Hezbollah is. Its really just a paramilitary unit trying to balance the overpowered israel and saudi in the region. Its lebanons only defence, because the west bribes them very very often. In fact in the Balkans, my friends dad is a very very high ranking politician whos currently in power, and I for a fact know that he has made a lots of business deals with western officials, which in fact has made the country now leaning to the west instead of the east
Belonging by Nora Krug.

Nice mix of personal narrative and history, and the visuals were wonderful.

It's about the authors investigation to uncover her family's role during Nazi rule, to hopefully absolve her sense of inherited guilt and to discover her "heimat" - a German word used to describe where you come from.

The author presents the story through a mix of handwritten letters, old pictures, and drawings, weaved together into
a very creative scrapbook style.

Something I really enjoyed were the cultural and historical sections that started each chapter. I was able to learn something new that was separate from the narrative, yet still keep my mind in the story world.

One of those parts I found interesting was on how important bread is to Germans...so much as to file their recipes for recognition by UNESCO! I had no idea.

Not to say that was the best part. The story itself was very good.
The point being made by the press...
Here's a naive view: both the US and China have the death penalty. Hong Kong does not have the death penalty. Which is the more humane society?

Having been in both the US and China, I cannot think of more similar countries at the individual level for day to day activities, and when comparing local district governments. People still want to eat, get rich, and be happy, all as conveniently as possible, with minimal obvious intrusion from others. Only above that (and the US constitution is definitely a federal-level document) are there noticeable differences.

It's a real shame, there is a lot of innovation on both sides that would be wonderful to combine. Hong Kong is missing its chance by focusing on its conglomerates.
Just FYI: 'dang is one of the HN moderators, so I'm sure he's well aware. He (and others) often add links to old discussions not to say "this is a dupe, shouldn't be here", but as a way for people to easily find the old discussions if they care to read them.
Consider if we required colleges to guarantee student loans.
> GitHub support is fucking horrible

When did the support started being bad? (I never used their support)
I think it's important to note that when you buy shares on the secondary market the company doesn't get any capital. You are just trading ownership for cash with the current owners.

There's a somewhat subtle and pervasive assumption that all owners will seek only to maximize returns (or similar) but that notion really needs to go.

Even with that assumption, it doesn't matter if you own shares in fossil fuel companies since all investors are equivalent.
I switched careers via some self taught work and a bootcamp. Got a job and I'm happy as is my employer.

It is possible.

The question more about you than anything else. In my bootcamp there was a former accountant, a bank manager, and a former director of something or other and they all took to programming quite well.

Others much less so.

It is very hard to know who might be good at programming, and who won't like it (that is a big part of having the drive it keep going)... until they try it for a while.
FYI, the price needs to be updated in the text of this page: https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/217665398-Backi...
> That would be a minor PR scandal

Here's one that made it to the front page of HN. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18886804
What kind of music do djs play in a shared office at 9AM on a Monday morning? My imagination is failing me. You’d think it’d have to be brilliant to avoid an angry crowd.
I don't have any firsthand knowledge, but it was created by a group of chemical engineering graduates who have been prototyping it for 2-3 years:

Interviews:
https://www.coffeeloversradio.com/clr-e117-decaf-coffee-has-..., https://seattlecoffeescene.com/decaf-coffee-get-really-inter... (2017)

Tweets from one of their advisors, a UW Chemical Engineering professor: https://twitter.com/lilopozzo/status/874342896798846976,
https://twitter.com/lilopozzo/status/1102031606233980928
Ask HN: Say Something You Dislike About Language You Love
Inspired mostly by this (https://lobste.rs/s/2cw6ov/say_something_you_dislike_about_language) thread, and of course decade old posts from here: (http://jessenoller.com/blog/2009/05/26/a-short-list-of-things-i-dont-like-about-python)
"The cobbler's children go barefoot."
Or a perfect analogy, because this tool is useless for writing. But there is a perfect analogy for writing: the first time you see something, and you don't know how to describe it or even whether it's good or bad or ugly.
Currently Safari does not support WebGL2. Currently renderer depends on WebGL2 (which supports vertex array object out of the box).
That poor lady. I hope she really sticks it to Lyft, mainly so companies will learn that providing non-existent or piss poor customer service is expensive.
Sure, unless everyone divests, a few people selling will drive down the share price only until those not selling realize the asset is undervalued and buy the price back up. All that, without actually changing the production and consumption model.
> Time and time again we see the mega corporations and the mega rich in America make life for the common person worse, while their fortunes continue to rise.

Their fortunes don't actually continue to rise. They keep making the same ~5% profit on average. That's what keeps them in business.

Stock prices may have risen in the past, but that's due to macroeconomic factors such as low interest rates. They can fall just as easily and rapidly if the wind changes.

> How bad does it have to get before something changes?

It's actually not bad at all - Amazon, Wal-Mart and McDonalds are some of the few major companies employing significant amounts of people at the bottom end of employability, at better rates than what smaller businesses can offer.
Probably an insurance company or bank, to be honest. Bonus, a lot of them are located in secondary cities or the burbs, where the cost of living is wildly cheaper than the tech hubs.
The last two points you made really struck me simply because I really think they nail these problems on the head quite succinctly. Wars are terrible, destructive and complicated, but they tend to end pretty quickly (few exceptions aside) because the people involved in their absolute majority don't want the disruption war brings to an otherwise comfortable (if imperfect) normal state of existence. The project "warzones" of large urban areas are themselves the comfortable state of existence for millions of their inhabitants. And thus no matter their their nastiness and miseries, just as you mentioned, attempts at positive external change are in a way analogous to war actually, because like war, they're the external and mostly imposed disruptions despite their good intentions. No amount of money and resources being thrown at urban blight will easily change things without bearing this in mind. This is not to say that resources for improving ghetto life should be cut off, but how they're attempted needs to seriously be reconsidered.
I can't fathom the fact that they didn't deplatform the driver after a customer reports a sexual assault occurred (even if temporarily while reconciliation with a police report is performed), or that they still charged for the ride.
It's great to see these technologies coming together. Thanks for writing this!
Look for a bank / financial services, insurance company, or government contractor. Personally I do not think I'd be able to tolerate the boredom.
I have a lot of empathy for what happened to this person. It’s something that obviously nobody should have to go through.

But I also have a hard time defining what the ideal would look like here. If Lyft were to immediately act on any accusation of wrongdoing, the 0.001% of bad actors would be prevented from acting badly once again. But we’d also be living in a world where a customer complaint instantly means the loss of income for someone who is likely barely scraping by and supposed to be innocent until they are proven guilty.

The problem is that once everyone knows that that is how the deck is stacked, the 99.999% of drivers who never act badly are in an even more vulnerable position and at the whims of their customers.

I’m not saying I disagree that Lyft acted poorly here or that I don’t believe the victim. I am saying I don’t see a clear path to fixing this. It seems like a really short sighted move by Lyft and I have to wonder if it’s maybe because it’s nearly impossible for them to sort true from false amongst all of the reports they receive in a given day, especially without the help of a police report.
Rebuild the image from what to what?
> Lyft’s failure to properly investigate the failues of their system that lead to my kidnapping and rape has severely hampered the ongoing criminal investigation.

Does anyone know more about this story? Except this line that is not further elaborated, the post says nothing of why the police were ineffective. And as a matter of principle, shouldn't Lyft be compelled with warrants/subpoenas to provide any records required by the investigation? I certainly don't want to rely on the benevolence of corporations for criminal investigations. So I'd classify this story as a failure of the police first, and Lyft only second.
Hyperbolic paraboloid origami harnesses bistability to enable new applications
I think a possible caveat is the Ctenophore had to continue to reproduce in an environment where other organisms possessed a central nervous system and intelligence. Although I don't think it is likely, it could be the case that evolving to that level of complexity is unlikely but once one successful organism in the ecosystem possesses it, it exerts evolutionary pressure on other organisms to move towards the greater complexity as well.
From my point of view, cable has the easiest kind of advertising to fully skip. It's distinct from programming and can be fast forwarded.

I find that preferable to the web and streaming. Being manipulated by unskippable previews and algorithms using personal data about me to show me an Amazon or Netflix controlled browse interface that tries to funnel me into watching what they consider optimal.
SpeedTorch: Pytorch library Library for fastest pinned CPU GPU transfer
Since it declares the interpreter at the beginning (https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup/blob/master/taoup#L1), you should just be able to chmod +x it and run it as ./taoup

Since it's an executable like that, this would also allow you to put it in /usr/local/bin (or wherever you keep bins) and call it from anywhere in your shell with 'taoup'

(my technical wording may be off)
What are five things you hate about your favorite language?
We use gitlab.com with drone CICD.
> I would have to disagree with this. Those people are in their 70s now. And without relics, there is no anchor for cultural values.

Relics without the people are pretty meaningless. There's very little you can learn about the ancient Egyptian culture even with all the preserved relics.

Sadly we lose tradition, heritage, and culture with the passing of every person. That's universal, Cultural Revolution or not, east or west. But personally I've seen new relics and artifacts recreated after the end of Cultural Revolution, so all is not lost.

> Your statement sounds too much like marketing speak without any substance. I think I heard it before. Oh yeah: Thor Ragnorak.

Well if it's cliche it's only because it's true. BTW never saw that movie, or any of the recent Marvel junk.
The few times I have contacted GitHub they have been stellar. Always replied very fast and generally quite helpful.
Right? And I didn't necessarily mean only the complaint stage. I'd consider hiring a potential sex offender, but worse and more realistically, allowing him to stay employed after such a complaint, piss poor customer service, not only to her obviously but every future rider.
Pithekoussai: Ancient Greek Colony of Nestor’s Cup
The Mueller report also well documented Trump's complicity with those illegal campaign contributions. That's why he was impeached right after the Mueller report was released.
any good article about coin arbitrage ? right now I'm mostly curious about the operation
>decision not to criticise russia

Do you have any evidence such a decision has been made by WL?

Does that decision apply to China too? I don’t see any wikileaks from China. What makes Russia special?

Perhaps these countries just aren’t that interesting to mostly English language WL?
I didn't even know Disney did a meal plan... Not sure that makes it any more tempting to go back, however. :-)
Sure, that makes a lot of sense, but what companies can you invest in that you wouldn't have to worry about for that long?
overwhelming amount of things to manage

nothing in college prepared me to do even 10% of this
Really??

A phone call to gather facts vs. a generic email would be a good start, given the seriousness of the situation.

Not forcing her to pay for her ride seems like common decency, even at the minor risk of some fraud. It seems that with GPS they should be able to tell she wasn't delivered to her original destination and instead was moved across state lines.

Immediate removal of the driver following an official police complaint would be the next obvious step, followed by more personal follow-up, and a cash settlement offer.
Can Kyoto's Buddhist Cuisine Teach Us All to Eat Better? (2017)
Yeah, but people conveniently forget that wearing a wig cancel that :(.
The fact that the Vice reporter turned around and published an email that Musk clearly intended to be private is really pretty dirty. If anyone should be held accountable for damages it should be that guy.
This is such an absurd case on so many levels. This miscommunication should have never happened, obviously.

Even if they turn out to be the criminally incompetent party in this relationship, I feel kind of bad for the contractors. They're facing felony charges for making what was clearly a mistake. I can't imagine they're consistently this incompetent - surely one of their previous clients would have noticed if they were physically broken into and didn't anticipate it. So either they've never done this before, or they messed up their contract.

I've seen plenty of similarly boneheaded, incompetent things in Big Tech (losing massive amounts of data, getting systematically defrauded in pretty stupid ways, etc) that resulted in getting fired at worst and a reprimand at best, so I feel kind of bad that these guys face felonies for being bad at their job.
It looks like they're both using gp2, so shouldn't the results be the same?
Their demand for his tax returns is because they've not been able to use anything else to remove him from office. They're hoping they can find a little bit of dirt with which to hang him. Good thing he's squeaky clean.
Unfortunately, I really only know roughly how thick the stack of pages was. I realize it's an imprecise metric. And I might be able to convert to a rough percentage and figure out a page number from there. But, then the page turning is just slow enough to make rapid scanning like that annoying.
Given this is HN, a good analogy would be millisecond read times. I had a fellow snarky student once ask me “so you get bored in 1ms?”

The answer for finance is just the same as for computer science, you are doing things many times with big volumes, so tiny differences ass up.
In the past 3 months, Hong Kong has successfully demonstrated that marketing wont save a bad product.
Positive discrimination. If you're a young, white male you can include a headshot and get a better-than-average crack at the job.
You guys must be fun at parties. Emojis = hieroglyphs, gifs = animated hieroglyphs. A lot of meaning is embedded without using words.
That's the problem with these monocultures. People just assume that "well, everyone uses it, so it must be the best/have all the features".

As for what Gitlab has that Gitlab doesn't:

* Built-in CI/CD that's actually pretty decent (easy to configure, you can restart subtasks, you can use your own runners)

* An issue tracker that supports estimates & time tracking. There are "solutions" for github that work with external services, but they cost money, and have strange workflows.

* The ability to self-host without huge piles of money.

* A lot of features that I'm not currently interested in, but others would be, like k8s and serverless support.
Towards Distributed Logic Programming Based on Computability Logic
> if you paid that mere $85, your $140K employee wouldn't waste those 70 minutes, so it's a wash in terms of your budget

This ignores that marginal time is essentially free for the company with salaried employees.
Surely the taxes on that income are considerably less than what was forgiven?

If nothing else, this seems like an argument for permitting the recipient of this particular kind of windfall to break it up across a few years, possibly retroactively.
> Never has a country build itself into a super power in so little time.

Stalin took the USSR from an pre-industrial economy to an industrial superpower in a couple of decades.

I do not consider either Stalin or the USSR an exemplar, but many people said very similar things about the Soviet Union, as you are saying about China, but I don't think history has validated the idea it was an exemplar.
Yeah, I noticed that myself a bit ago, and edited my comment. You're correct in that I was talking about the date. Thread comprehension fail on my part. :)
Ah, you’re right. The critical date for a patent is now the date of filing rather than the date of invention. Apologies for jumping the gun—I misread your comment as suggesting that first to file somehow changed how you calculate the date as of which a non-patent disclosure (such as an article) is prior art.
Has more details here: https://heavy.com/news/2019/09/alison-turkos/
I really don’t get this attitude of being able to say whatever one wants in whatever context and not have any consequences. If I’m in a position of leadership and openly discriminate again some group, especially repeatedly and consistently I should not expect to go on business as usual.
The argument made by most economists and Bill Gates is that divestment does not drive down the stock price, unless it is practiced by a overwhelming majority of all investors. The reasoning is that anyone not participating in the divestment scheme will simply bid the share price back up to near the market value.

If divestment did indeed drive down share price, it would succeed in hurting the company. The company would have to issue more shares when raising capital in future. It would also have to issue its employees more shares to remain competitive in compensation.
It's not that bad. If you only use GitLab for the git repo management purpose and already had other tools for CI (e.g. Jenkins, CircleCI) and project management (e.g. JIRA) then GitLab CE works perfectly fine. The only thing that I wish would be in the CE version is the ability to approve merge requests.
Dirty Money Did the Heir to the Red Bull Empire Get Away with Murder?
This sounds exaggerated to me. He's socially awkward so it's more likely women are taking his actions the wrong way. Richard Stallman holds ethics in high regard.
Because people actually stopped buying the products along with not investing in companies. The equivalent with fossil fuel investment would be that people actually stop using fossil fuels, which isn't what happens with divestment.
Are namebase and handshake related? How is handshake.org different?
The overall experience has been great. Web APIs(web-sys) are direct translations of WebIDL for now, experiences could get better if we have more 'rustic' APIs. (stdweb looks promising)

Learning Rust can be tricky sometimes. Sometimes it requires you to rethink the way how you code - especially when dealing with the borrow checker.

If you have to do async tasks (fetch, promises, ...) wait until async-await lands on Rust. It's possible on nightly Rust and wasm-bindgen git but it's not stable. Proceed with caution.
Happy to protest against them but any time you give me the opportunity to choose between paying $50 or manually preparing my taxes from scratch on paper, the answer is a no-brainer.
With credit cards you are typically getting a 0% borrow rate for ~30days, secures by your credit rating.
> No one is forced to take out any kind of debt

In practice, I'm not certain this is true. In Massachusetts, a parent can be forced to pay for his over-18 child's college education:

https://www.familyneedslaw.com/blog/2019/03/massachusetts-pa...

I'm unclear as to whether or not the court can force a parent to go into debt to accomplish that.
If Uber Drivers Become Employees, Can Uber Escape That?
From the linked page:

All mentions to homosexuality in criminal law were removed in 1997. In 2001, the Chinese Society of Psychiatry declassified homosexuality as a mental disorder. However, such change is yet to be reflected by the regulations of National Health and Family Planning Commission,[20] a government branch that controls all regulations of health care services in China, which has resulted in psychiatric facilities and psychiatry education textbooks across the country still de facto considering homosexuality as a mental disorder and continuing to offer conversion therapy treatments.[1][21][22] Transgender identity is still classified as a disorder despite laws allowing legal gender changes.

Also from this story https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2097292/why-...

A 2013 Pew Global Attitudes Project survey found that 57 per cent of those polled in China believed that society should not accept homosexuality
huge "️Heart Open Source" billboards

Did Microsoft do this?

A quick
Google search turns up nothing.

Or were you using artistic license, equating announcing that they’re open-sourcing something with leasing physical billboard space?
"Closed as off-topic"

Never change, StackOverflow - most consistent moderation in the past decade.