skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it still active? Pity you could not get funded but then again, good things rarely come in the guise of fundable businesses. Kudos for doing this.
That vast majority never goes public or gets close to doing so, right? Those companies aren't worth a billion or more
It was a leaked document, nothing official yet. But this is massive news. Saying it doesn’t matter because there’s no practical uses is like the people discounting the Wright Brothers because the airplane could only fly for a minute.
Interesting approach. Makes me wonder if you authored a component and extended a license to say that “use of this code must abide by [inert relevant code of ethics]”, could you enforce that?
LG Chem mass producing NCM cyclical batteries for Tesla
Can you point me towards what you read on this outside of the article? Not doubting you it's just been like 500 years since I studied nuclear chem and I'm not sure what literature you're talking about.
I don't think that's the same person.
It is e-ink.

The refresh rate is good because they have come up with a clever method of only refreshing regions of the screen at once. Eg if you draw a line, it will only refresh the axis-aligned rectangle enclosing that line.
Perhaps a Juicero product?
Why (2005)?

The tool on github (and the homesite):

https://thomasokken.com/free42/

have been updated recently (2019).
If he fires the whole board, wouldn't that add further doubt about the company's governance and reduce the expected value of any future IPO even further? It doesn't seem like that would be in his best interest.
Thanks! Last semester I did a bootcamp on Artificial Intelligence and I had to do a final project. Last year I started becoming concerned about digital privacy when I discovered Facebook had an updated copy of your phone contacts including nicknames [1] (which basically means strangers at Facebook know the names I call my GF). I later found out this was explicitly said in FB's privacy policy. So when I did the bootcamp and discovered how powerful RNNs are to model the complexity of the English language I came up with the idea.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16661735
If this topic is an area of interest to you I can't recommend Eric Schlosser's book enough: "Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety". It is a whole history of known accidents in the missle and aircraft domains that involved nuclear weapons.
I’ve seen this hatred towards HN before on Twitter and I don’t really get it. HN is one of the most polite places on the internet, including Twitter.
Other than, y'know, lasting weeks on one charge. Or actively disconnecting from the internet, which was the stated goal of the project.
AI Talent Shortage? More Like Pokemon for PhDs
Uber the company will probably never make money. But you would have likely made plenty post-IPO
Such licenses exist, and yes. But it wouldn’t apply retroactively.
> Well, there ya go.

Really? That's it? You're not going to actually engage with what I have to say? Not going to defend your mutually contradictory statements? I'm not sure, but the fact that you're left doing another ad homenim and appeal to emotion leaves me thinking that I might have won this argument...
Yes, but reproducibility is not always necessary.

For example, drawing a simple anti-aliased line on a computer produces results that depend (at the pixel-level) on the software stack and or graphics card used. Nobody ever complained (much) about that.

(Then again, it may allow your computer to be fingerprinted more easily).
It's going to be very interesting to hear from Hacker News about this.
Ah well, very similarly DEC made altavista to show off so never thought of it as a product. Then Google came.
It feels like a probable reason. Imagine moving to another place while still keeping exactly the same contact with the same people in the old place and imagine doing the same, with no contact of the same people.

In the later case, you will most likely force yourself out to meet and engage with people because eventually you will long it. You might not need a lot of it, but seems human really need at least some other human contact (most of us at least).

In the first case, you get human contact, but only the surface. Would probably take you way longer to realize you need that in-person human contact.
We can hope so. Free Software is needed in today’s society, probably more than it was needed at its inception. But it needs to be for everyone, and needs new leaders. I hope this is the start, not the end, of the movement.
> They must be spending a steady amount on PR. The news seems perfectly constructed for the obligatory quote from their founder when in this case the answer isn't their system

It might also just be familiarity from the writer, i.e. journalist writing article about inexact nature of post codes -> remembers the article he/she wrote or read about what3words -> figures that's a good alternative so contacts the company for comment.
oh yeah .. indeed too early
Millennials are just the excuse to cut corners, costs and /or absolve executives of blame for bad business decisions.
Some other user reported that same thing this morning but I couldn't find any explanation to this err. It basically works for everyone except for these two precise cases. One idea I have is that you might be behind some sort of firewall that's blocking my website (because in the past either the IP or the domain got flagged by some antivirus company and now some business networks block it) – might this be the case?
Platform is still active, the 250k monthly uniques is the current number.

But I haven't been able to do much other than keep it in maintenance mode for the last 4 years. I've let other forums be created and expanded it, but haven't had time to address it's flaws and improve it.
I'd recommend jumping straight into the links under the paragraphs if you're a native russian speaker, the translation to English is quite difficult to follow.
I'm sure you're right - I am only ever a front end CSS dev in an emergency, and then only for desktop. That said, when I see a relative discrepancy between sizes on different media, px vs pt is where I'd look. That is, two things that might e.g. look the same size on a desktop browser but look different sizes on mobile.
I believe it would depend on the license which the original piece of software was released under.
It's a little unsettling that there is such an effort to give more importance to Stallman now, in his disgrace, than he ever had in reality.

He'd reached the point of being nearly forgotten until he shot his mouth off inopportunely and caught the full force of the outrage mob.
<quote>The US-based EV maker will be using LG Chem’ 21700 type batteries using NCM811 that boast a nickel proportion of 80% or more. The LG company previously supplied the NCM811 to electric buses. This is the first time to supply an automobile, the sources said.

Until now, Tesla has been supplied by Japan’s Panasonic, which uses NCA, which is another type of high nickel cathode material.

</quote>

So a different chemistry? why

....

<quote>The Model 3, which now receiving pre-orders in China, can run 480km on a single charge for the standard model. The cars sold in Korea are slightly heavier and have a single charge driving distance of 353km.</quote>

will improve weight and range...
> That means you can invite yourself over

It is fairly common for a man to marry a woman who does not like his friends. Then, the wife does not want the husband’s friends at their home. So, you cannot invite yourself over, and the man is so busy with giving his wife sufficient attention and with childraising that he cannot easily go out to meet his friends in another location.
With GameStop's several year history of bad public opinion and what appears to be decaying market share, I wouldn't bet on it. The current management is clearly willing to accept the status quo and won't take the actions necessary it "turn it around."

New management could signal that good changes are coming, but it could also signal that specialists have been brought in to carve the assets up before bankruptcy. I'd say it's far more likely that GameStop ends up like Blockbuster and Sears, even if they potentially could turn things around.
Random Meal Generator
Sometime around 8-10 years ago, requiring company approval for secondary sales started becoming a popular restriction to put into ISO grants (prior to that, it was just right of first refusal on sales). It's largely unfavorable to employees, but it does prevent some pretty bad situations. The benefits of this restriction were explained to me as two major things:

1) By preventing secondary sales, the company can control the going price for the stock. This means when the company has an independent third party do a 409a valuation, they don't have to take into account high third party sales, which would push the 409a up. Not inflating the 409a is beneficial to employees that want to leave the company and exercise stock. It means their AMT tax hits won't be as bad.

2) It also means the company/board get to control who are investors in the company, and thus who has the ability to request to relevant internal company information (like financials).
I think if you are including coffee shops, dry cleaners, and the rest of small businesses that are self-funded, I agree. If you look at VC backed high tech startups, I don't think that is the norm:

https://www.capshare.com/blog/4-key-insights-from-5000-cap-t...
I would like to see someone reimplement NeWS now. Hardware is way faster and we have more choices of embedded interpreter. Not that PostScript was, and is, not genius for that purpose, but there choices.

Also, Don Hopkins hangs out on HN, where he's already weighed in a few times with some ideas for future work if you grok through his comments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Former NCR tech here. I can confirm the parent’s comment - we’d routinely have to validate/ensure jumpers based on entitlement. As for recovery, I worked for NCR once they regained their independence from ATT and they were still running themselves into the ground. By the time I left (around the era of the 7878) things improved slightly.
> Worse still – and unmentioned by Batzel – a design flaw in the B28 bomb meant that if exposed to prolonged heat, two wires too close to the casing could short circuit, arm the bomb, trigger an accidental detonation of the HE [high explosives] surrounding the core, and set off a nuclear explosion"

P0 - WontFix
Total Population of the World by Decade, 1950–2050
> some research showing that friendship for women is basically with whatever other women you’re around the most. If you’re a woman and want more friends, you probably need to get a new job. Or make a long-term commitment to showing up to the same place where other women are also committed to showing up (AA meetings, church, sports team, etc). Or just be friends with the wifes of your husband’s friends.

I replaced "men" with "women" and it still feels true. Think this is just in general how humans build friendships with each other. Maybe also add "making an effort to hang out with your already existing friends friends"
Yes, when a powerful, politically active group forces another less powerful, politically inactive group to subsidise them it is definitely not discriminatory. You should tell that to India, those idiots thought making them pay for their own colonisation was bad...their society was better off. I can see now, it is so obvious.

> Society is better off when people can afford to raise a family.

Alternate theory: society is better off when people act like adults, and raise a family when they can afford to do so. No subsidies. No govt holding your hand. Even if you ignore the fiscal effect - it is huge because it is politically impossible to cut welfare that such a substantial amount of people receive, that is why govt spending in areas serving truly vulnerable people like care had to be slashed so aggressively - that is not what the policy is intended to do.

The (original) focus of the policy was to increase labour force participation amongst single parents. This worked. But, as you are showing, it has become something totally different. And it is now a big feeding trough for a huge share of the population (something like 10%+ of the working population receive WTCs).

Govt is not there for social engineering, it is there to help people who cannot help themselves. If someone is poor then they should get help. And this should be through focused policy that is aimed at poverty, not these insanely complex systems that backfire (tax credits are the prime example of this kind of policy). The system we have now means that the govt cannot actually take care of people who need help because of the obscene cost (again, tax credits alone are 30% of the NHS budget) of helping those who don't (but now feel deserving because they are helping society or whatever bollocks you are trying to say).

It is extraordinary to totally ignore how this policy has actually worked out (esp. the cost and esp. against the original aims), offer some half-baked inaccurate theory of govt (govt should be involved in the sex lives of citizens), and then call an interpretation that is based in reality naive...but that is basically where we are with govt spending now. Greedy middle-class people scraping the bottom of the poor person's barrel.
>The uploaded version is really more of an interactive Egyptian statue

Well that remains to be seen. It could be more than that. If you think how go playing programs have gone from rubbish to beating all humans it seems likely a future upload of a human could have abilities beyond us lot.
But it's not irrelevant, and I explain that in my response to the other reply to this. I also explained in that comment what I think of your link and all that, if you want to read it. But sure. I went into this knowing you probably weren't going to be convinced either, but I at least wanted to lay out my thoughts clearly and accurately for you and others to see. I sort of expected a mutual respect from you, but it's (not sarcastic here) fine if you don't want to do that, it's not like you owe anything to me or anything.

I genuinely enjoyed this conversation, you don't meet people on the internet often that are willing to discuss things at length, and I hope you have a good rest of your day!
> But they were too early and gained no traction

As I understand the history of Blockbuster, the CEO was actually winning against Netflix.

It was obviously costly fight (needed lots of investment).

The Blockbuster CEO met his performance goal and was expecting hefty bonus but Carl Icahn, a board member and big Blockbuster shareholder, torpedoed the bonus award.

CEO quit. The next CEO reduced spending in dvd-by-mail and online streaming and Netflix won.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110318006089/en/Hap...

So you could say that Blockbuster lost because Carl Icahn is an idiot and single-handedly destroyed Blockbuster.

There's no indication that they lost because they were "too early". In fact, their online product was "pay-per-view" while Netflix was "all-you-can-eat" https://www.cnet.com/news/netflix-vs-blockbuster-whats-the-b...
More like YouWork, MeEnjoy.
ProtoThreads: Lightweight, Stackless Threads in C
You can thank loose monetary policy that has created an unbalance between capital seeking returns and the number of investment opportunities. Executives have leveraged this into abusive multi-class share structures that sacrifice shareholder's ability to reign in company behavior. The result is a few tech executives wielding unaccountable authority over incredibly powerful economic resources.
Hmm, I was trying to go through your A/B options but it didn't seem to register any click. So I started clicking repeatedly. Then, it processed those clicks on the first 7 items, giving you bad data. FYI.
Computable Document Format
It was designed for embedded use.
I also played CyberNations as a kid and found social solace there. Did you ever play a similar game called LunarWars?
Aron Eisenberg stands among Jeffrey Combs, Louise Fletcher, and Andrew Robinson by having taken a 'minor' role and imbuing it with richness past what the writers gave. He was an artist who went all-in on his craft and left a lasting legacy. Beyond that, he was always open-hearted while interacting with fandom.

Aron Eisenberg was a treasure. He will be missed. My only regret he didn't get more roles worthy of his talents.
nope, they serious!
That’s not what triggering means, come on
I disagree with 100% of what you've said here.
If it's running in a consumer OS (not a RT one) and it counts on having enough CPU available to avoid missing the deadline, that's exactly what soft-realtime is.

Compare your “not a single click in an hour [for quality reason]” to a “not a single missed deadline in 30 years of the life expectancy of a plane, on a fleet of a few thousands planes [for safety reasons]”. That's the difference of requirements between hard and soft RT.

I did some soft real-time (video decoding) and I have a friend working on hard real-time (avionics) and we clearly didn't worked in the same world.
A good introduction is Eric Schlosser's Command and Control. For the points here the concept of one-point safe is the idea of if a nuclear device is likely to detonate in an uncontrolled situation. A good definition I found was[0]:

> What is one-point safe?

> Apart from preventing unauthorized use, it is equally important to ensure that the weapons do not explode accidentally. For example, if it is accidentally dropped dur­ing transportation (such incidents have occurred), it should not explode. A nuclear weapon is one-point safe if, when the High Explosive inside the weapon is initiated and detonated at any single point, the probability of producing a nuclear yield exceeding 4 pounds TNT equivalent is less than 1 in one million.

A surprising number of early nuclear devices were not one-point safe.

[0] http://www.nucleardarkness.org/nuclear/nuclearandconventiona...
1> (defmacro dbg (expr)
(with-gensyms (val)
^(let ((,val ,expr))
(format t "~a: ~s -> ~s\n" (source-loc-str ',expr) ',expr ,val)
,val)))
dbg
2> (dbg (cons 1 2))
expr-2:1: (cons 1 2) -> (1 . 2)
(1 . 2)
3> (dbg (+ 2 2))
expr-3:1: (+ 2 2) -> 4
4
4> (progn
(dbg (list 1 2))
(dbg (cons 1 2))
(dbg (+ 1 2)))
expr-4:2: (list 1 2) -> (1 2)
expr-4:3: (cons 1 2) -> (1 . 2)
expr-4:4: (+ 1 2) -> 3
3

Colorization is just inserting some trivial ANSI codes. Arguably, this just slows down the program even more and increases the size of the log files. It can be done as a post-processing filter.
>He is on a self-professed quest to cure loneliness

It seemed to me that he was on a quest to cure his loneliness.

Point is: It's interesting (perhaps even revealing) that you read it differently.

If it's not a problem, then it's not a problem. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Probably.

It would be funny if this blew up in SoftBank's face. I think it will make even Theranos sound more sensible.

Sure, the product exists and it's good but the "business plan" and its assumptions and business structure don't make much sense.

Though I don't know how long they will survive without any more cash injections in the short term due to all their rental liabilities.
with RSUs though, the company can re-up them with no penalties
I feel like this is short changing X. I have seen it as a good local solution over 20 years or so.

Did you ever see those 90s commercial Unix workstations? Like from SGI?

How about a Nokia N900? X on a smartphone. It ran pretty well. Today's smartphone hardware would run circles around that thing so I can only assume if somebody ported X to those it would also do fine.

I feel like people see things they don't like or imperfections and bash the whole thing as useless. X had a lot of mileage. I use it frequently today and don't see a lot of problems.
Looks cool. It's a small point, but not pluralising words when the number is 1 shows attention to detail (e.g. 1 scandals for instagram).
It depends, I suppose, on how soon We needs more investor money. If he actually exercises his right to fire the entire board, it seems like it would be hard to get somebody else to chip in big money.

On the other hand, it could be that Softbank knows it won't work, but feels they have to be seen attempting something.
America wasn’t a country yet. There was no country to betray. I’m an American, but, c’mon, a lot of people living in the, now, US saw themselves as British subjects. Sure he joined the revolution, but not everyone who joined the American Revolution was aligned with its goals.
It is not common and if you experience this then you are: bad at setting your own boundaries, bad at mate selection, or bad at friend selection.

Men are not victims here. Have a hard look at why you think this and fix the problem.
It doesn't have to be your favorite thing, it just has to be better than being lonely. Lots of people will be there actively or casually looking for new friends - there's nothing stopping you from going for a month then suggesting to a group that you check out some new activity next week.
>which I never understood the backlash against toxic masculinity" that I see from (male) friends whenever the term comes up. Who said it's supposed to be toxic only for others?

Because toxic masculinity is an exaggerated catch-all boogey man used online to shame men for their innate nature, taking for granted that society functions better if we act more like females.

Conversations around toxic masculinity typically implicitly deny thousands of years of sexually dimorphic specialization by blank slateists. What's more, it's men who get the blame for the socially reinforced aspect of this so called toxicity, with the conversation universally denying the role that female sexual selection plays in reinforcing these behaviors - women are innately drawn to masculinity, and to a large extent what is and is not culturally masculine is not limited social pressure. Men and women evolved with differently shaded psychologies. Why do you think male and female norms have so much overlap across almost all cultures? And have for thousands of years?
> I remember once when OpenAI team chose to not release a particular algorithm because they thought it's too dangerous.

You are talking about GPT-2, there is a really funny article on this topic, here: https://blog.floydhub.com/gpt2/.
Random Startup Ideas
Ask HN: Is there a good way to nullify a term sheet?
That is, how can a founder get out of a signed term sheet in a way that saves face / social capital?
Assuming you mean just tech companies, yes, this is now the norm. But I suspect it's mainly due to backlash over the previous period, where many ignorant investors would oust founders and replace them with "professional managers" who would then either run the company into the ground, or sell it for scraps.

So I completely understand why founders, now given the opportunity, would write these sorts of share class structures into their business. It's definitely gone too far, though. But that's usually what happens.
you’ll not find any offers at only 5-10% discount
i generally understood it to go more like this:

BSD-style developer wrote some code to scratch an itch

developer finds company taking the source and tweaking it to make proprietary product

developer and their friends land nice consulting gigs and/or full time jobs
It's definitely impractical to say you won't do business with anyone who does things you don't endorse. Imagine an electrician trying to demand a certification that the buildings he works on will host only ethical tenants. You just can't run a company that way; even people who do meet your ethical standards won't do business with you.

If you think that ICE is so uniquely bad that they specifically need to be boycotted, that makes sense. Without inviting any debate on whether it's true, it's a consistent position that can be reasonably applied.