skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would depend somewhat on if you can conclude there is absolutely no one (or not enough people) who are willing and able to pay money for what you have made. And also if you need to earn money again soon to live off.

Is there any avenues to find out from the market why they are not buying. I'd suggest calling everyone who was on the trial and interviewing them. Come up with a set of questions that is to discover why they didn't buy. Maybe they loved it but couldn't get approval? Maybe they were just trying out because they liked you or are friends but the product doesn't really solve a problem for them?

I'd give it a deadline (3 months). Spent that time trying to proving beyond any doubt the product is a failure so you can finally scrap it. If it isn't a dud then use the information to form a plan to sell your solution to people. Also keep an eye out for a pivot.
That's an interesting way of framing it—I expect that no, he hasn't directly dissuaded more people than he's encouraged.

But I expect that the second- and third-degree network effects have. MIT has had a huge influence on open source software. Keeping the number of women who contribute to FOSS lower has a snowball effect of discouraging other women from contributing—there are fewer leaders to look up to, and day-to-day misogyny in FOSS spaces goes unchecked more often.

As another commenter pointed out, I also don't think net impact is the bar. But besides that, it's very hard to measure, so I prefer to focus on having positive impacts and limiting/fixing negative impacts. I think the things he said on the CSAIL mailing list continue to contribute to a negative environment for women at MIT.
At the very least, we shouldn't be comparing quantum computing to air flight. The Wright brothers were basically hobbyists, incomparable to the global leading technology corporations in the history of human civilization.

This seems more comparable to the moon landing or LHC Higgs-Boson discovery. Challenging to pull off once, and the next steps seem to increase exponentially in man-power and cost.
It does - drunk driving accidents and violence caused by alcohol plummeted during prohibition.
Hot desk, cold comfort – Office design that treats workers like drones
You could remapped whatever you don’t link.

I have Caps Lock set to be Ctrl and tmux set to use Ctrl+a. For a vertical split, I have it mapped to Ctrl+a, |. For horizontal, Ctrl+a, -

It’s pretty flexible.
YC (and probably Ron Conway) are apples to oranges with a16z. Spray and pray works when you are looking at 10000x multiples on your best investments. It doesn't when you are deploying billions and don't come near that order of magnitude for your best bets.
How would you propose authorities stop people from using their phones while driving without:

1. Detecting when people are using their phone while driving?

2. Imposing a penalty when people are caught?

Applying a high fine for infringements is a good deterrent. It's definitely about safety as much (if not more) than revenue raising.

If people don't want to give revenue to the government, it's simple - don't use your phone while driving.
Please correct me if wrong, but these are likely measured via the book value of the investments which reflects the private market valuations of the companies you mentioned.
The Red Score. Salem Witch Trials. Lynchings in the American South. Kristallnacht. Astor Place Riot.

Please give a counter example so we have evidence to back it up to the contrary.
I am considering using g cloud run for my next project. How did you like it ?
>I've had jobs that took 18 hours to run on single machine finish in 12 minutes on Lambda. I could run that process 4 times a month and still stay within AWS's free tier limits.

Ok I'll bite. What takes 18 hours to run on a single machine but finishes in 12 minutes on Lambda.
I've had nested tmux sessions before. Usually I'll have a couple tabs on my local device, and then may want to ssh to a remote server and interact with a persistent tmux session there.

I usually make a point of setting different prefix keys in that case though.
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Can't social media enforce a harder stance to eliminate fake accounts? Forcing real info & phone number usage, constant re-validation on suspected accounts, asking real photos, with real IDs, confirmation by others etc.. I think many trolls would simply disappear if their identities are public. Maybe anonymity shouldn't be a thing in social media?

Though such enforcements are also not the best, then the tech companies are given too much power. Hard topic, but just asking people to be careful is never going to be enough, so much passion out there, people will reply. Or real discussion will be watered down when real people are called bots.
Can’t wait to get me RRDNSOHTTPS going
As general rules these sound great at first sight, but don’t really address the main culprit from TFA - like for like API Gateway costs a lot more to process n number of requests.
There are some breaking features from added in 3.7 which were not in the language in 3.7. Meaning code written for the newer Python 3 version might not work with the older Python 3 version. Most of those additions are relatively easy to fix though.

Code from an older Python 3 version should always work in the newer Python 3 version though (at least for 3.5 -> 3.7).
Social media bots are child's play. Here's how foreign interference really works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lSjXhMUVKE
For a company that control minds with computer this aquisition is just ‘reverse engineering’
You can get most of snappiness back even with ReSharper installed. If you dig into the ReSharper option menu, under "Product and feature", and untick everything in the feature section except "Navigation and search", you still get the amazing refactoring and writing-code support but without your computer slows to crawl speed.
> But I expect that the second- and third-degree network effects have. MIT has had a huge influence on open source software. Keeping the number of women who contribute to FOSS lower has a snowball effect of discouraging other women from contributing—there are fewer leaders to look up to, and day-to-day misogyny in FOSS spaces goes unchecked more often.

Surely second- and third-degree network effects occur on the encouragement side of the equation, too. Why would we expect any putative discouragement of women by Stallman to travel further in the social graph than his encouragement of both men and women?

> I think the things he said on the CSAIL mailing list continue to contribute to a negative environment for women at MIT.

Which things specifically, and in what way?
Thanks.

I'm now buried so deep in this domain it feels like it's supposed to be a long term career. I enjoy my work and it's the best and most valuable (IMO) work I've ever produced.

We don't _need_ the money as we live a very simple life, but not being able to earn a living is having an effect on my self-esteem.
Hyundai is a massive conglomerate, as well as being one of the top automakers in the world. I certainly wouldn't bet against them.
Additionally you can cycle through these with <ctrl-b> + <space>
Camel case is extremely common, but it's funny that they use it given that the language is case insensitive: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Unofficial-FAQ#why-is-i...

Sidenote: not a Nim user, but this seems like it could get in the way of interoperability with C (and most other languages)?
"Geekfeminism" :D

Can we leave cuck-leftist faggot "sources" out of the conversation.
9 financial quarters plus all the prior years of work.

Aptiv appears to have been working on self-driving for quite some time.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/05/31/self-dri...

https://www.aptiv.com/media/article/aptiv-launches-fleet-of-...

In fact the self-driving part goes back several years:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/joecornell/2017/12/06/delphi-au...

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/24/16533534/delphi-nutonomy...
Can you expand on the 4kb part of row sizes? I have been experimenting with storing json in MySQL tables and I'm curious about this limit
Why Private Equity Is Ripe for Vanguard-Style Disruption
How to Autoscale Your Workloads on DigitalOcean Kubernetes
If you're on a Mac, try tmux -CC with iTerm2. You get tmux goodness like multiple panes, persistent sessions, etc. But you also get native scrolling, native copy and paste, etc. It's what makes tmux usable for me.
Thanks. I'll be doing some interviews. Good advice, thanks.
I agree, social media should require validation that you are a real person.
Fair enough, though at some point it starts becoming a bit hard to distinguish between what OpenAg was doing and what a significant fraction of all demos do.

It's typical for some amount of 'rigging' to exist in demos, particularly because Murphy's law has an ugly way of rearing its head. At a very minimum, almost everyone goes over the demo many times and fix or avoid any issue that causes a failure or questions that can't be easily and decisively answered.

I really did get the impression from the first articles I read on OpenAG that the claim was that they were doing absolutely nothing and that it was 100% faked. The article on the nitrates discharge was surprising to me in light of that.

I'm perhaps a bit jaded also by seeing how much computer science / signal processing academic publication is essentially fake. "The desktop version doesn't really exist but we have a basement version doing stuff" seems like a fairly mild level of deception compared to many other things I've encountered.
Outdoor Bouldering for the First Time
Think of it as a duty. Love thy neighbour and all that.
I'm curious about why you want to develop your own toolkit and what will differentiate it from the others. Will it draw its own widgets, or wrap platform-native toolkits?
He has many zingers on record. This last one finally caught up with him.

I almost feel sorry for him-- like maybe if he had someone who could just tell him: "Dude, Slow your roll!" he would not have gotten into this situation.

On the other hand, he's an adult, old and wise enough to know better, especially as a spokesperson and thought-leader. He did it to himself.
Regardless of the validity of the effect they are describing, this is an incredibly mean and nasty comment.

They are describing a personal experience so that others may research it further should they choose to.

I agree they haven't shared any objective evidence to add credibility to their claims, but our response should be to ask for more evidence, not to mock and sneer.

"cooking your brain to wage slave even harder"

Not just mean, but wrong; as another commenter pointed out, they seem to be self-employed, and for all we know, could have a serious reason (e.g., financial challenges, important work) why it matters a lot to be highly productive, at least occasionally (note they literally wrote "It’s not something I really want to do, but sometimes it’s useful”).

For what it's worth, here's an article from 2014 that examines research into this kind of practice and finds evidence for its efficacy [1].

Other studies have found evidence that transcranial infrared energy may be beneficial for cognition [2] or illnesses such as Alzheimer's [2] and MS [3].

That said, it's not the kind of thing I would try, at least not regularly, as I take the view that artificial interventions like this likely carry some kind of side-effect or cost that renders negative or at-best neutral over the long-term (I feel the same way about pharmaceuticals and stimulants like caffeine).

But I have used infrared light in other ways to address issues like muscle tension and inflammation, which is common and often recommended by mainstream doctors.

But please, keep comments like this off HN. It's meant to be a place for curiosity and respectful discourse. The derision and contempt you displayed has no place here.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2014.0003...

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42693-x

[3] https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-08-publish-brain-ms-fnir...
HDDs are not, in my opinion, displacing tape. For just about any use case (capacity, cost, latency, reads writes, reliability, electricity, physical space, vendor agnosticism etc etc), I think it is HDD that is being replaced on all fronts.

For any sort of performance requirement, SSDs and NVME are quickly replacing disk on account that they are more performant, way more reliable, and nearly the same cost as disk, in exchange for a bit less capacity.

Tape, if you are willing to spend on a fancy LTO7 drive and wait a few minutes for your data to arrive , is a way cheaper and reliable solution if you are dealing with hundreds of TBs or more in stored data, especially with media files instead of compressed databases.

There may be a very specific sweetspot of say, 40TB of data that you need to access very frequently from a server where you have free electricity and don't mind paying a ton for 24/7 runtime and data replicstion or something where it makes sense to just buy the proper amount of disk.....

but that is really the exception to the rule. The most cost efficient solution for me will always be SSDs backed up to tape or CDs.
Yep, but that’s equally true of any IRR calculation (for any IRR, you should compare to the risk-free rate or alternatively some other equal-risk benchmark). As an example, perhaps the real comparison for VC investment should be to having your “capital to be called” in the S&P 500 while waiting for capital calls. Except, as you allude, that’s quite risky for “you are required to deliver” (and IIUC, often within days). That makes the easiest assumption some sort of money-market fund or treasury something something.

In any case, the $X in S&P 500 at t=0 versus the IRR of a venture fund is not an apples-to-apples comparison. There are many ways to meet your capital calls, and I suspect that sophisticated investors aren’t keeping the cash in their checking account waiting for an email.
Hmm, take hn demographics and intersect it with a real estate company's workforce. Considering that number, do you think a throwaway would guarantee anyone's anonymity?
According to google te median 2019 household income is $63k. And according to the CBO the median income of the middle quintile of households filing tax returns was $72k. That seems to disagree with your wsj link.
What aspects make the contract unenforceable? It seems to meet the legal requirements.
You can adjust your GPS at a stop light if the phone is in a cradle.

Actually it's still legal to adjust the GPS on your phone while driving, if it's in a cradle.
This is a baffling article.

It starts with description of the current monopoly and how is it caused, which is fine. And then it pivots to "but this app is changing everything."

I don't think an app will change anything, there are existing apps that are sufficient. The only reason TI has the monopoly is because it is not internet connected, another calculator app will not change anything.
What are the "Parallel" funds? And why do they much better returns than the main funds?
Most social media platforms I use already do, but maybe not enough, or maybe most can be tricked easily. Another problem is that those platforms do not care at all since they value the # of users, regardless of them being fake or not.

Time to time they do these "clean-ups", just to save face it feels like.
> invented by Christine Peterson in the early 90’s to distinguish from GPL-style free software

Invented by Christine Peterson in the 90s, yes (though it was 1998); to distinguish from GPL-style, no. The Open Source Initiative immediately listed the GPL as an Open Source license, and the FSF had already described permissive licensing as free software (as distinct from copyleft licensing).

https://web.archive.org/web/19980119061702/http://www.fsf.or...

> The X Window System illustrates this. The X Consortium releases X11 with distribution terms that make it non-copylefted free software. If you wish, you can get a copy which has those distribution terms and is free. However, there are non-free versions as well, and there are popular workstations and PC graphics boards for which non-free versions are the only ones that work. If you are using this hardware, X11 is not free software for you.

https://web.archive.org/web/19981201223102/http://www.openso...

> GIMP

> Gnome

> Linux

> Open Source is a marketing program for free software. It's a pitch for `free software' on solid pragmatic grounds rather than ideological tub-thumping. The winning substance has not changed, the losing attitude and symbolism have.
Hi All,

Please review my website, and let me know if it makes sense to pursue it or should I shut it down.
I noticed that Araq's personal post about v1.0 mentioned a powerful macro system as a top priority. I wonder if Nim's macro system is now expressive enough that a front-end web framework like Svelte [1] could be implemented using Nim macros, as opposed to Svelte's HTML template language and custom compiler. COuld be useful for developing isomorphic web apps with something lighter than Node on the server side.

[1]: https://svelte.dev/
>his comment that one of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage victims willingly prostituted herself

I don't get it, why journalists so persistently misrepresent Stallman's words. I mean, yeah, what he said was tone-deaf to say the least, but that's not what he said.
Where can adults living with this kind of thing, like extreme bullying or psychopathy, get help moving on to better their lives?
You're seriously underestimating how long it'll take to perfect a self driving car. 2-3 years is very laughable. And even if by some amazing miracle, they achieve it, the legal challenges around making such a system ubiquitous won't be resolved in 3 years.
In addition to real time encryption, it also handles sound and siri, which presumably involve some form of remote communication. I trust Apple as much as NSA, MacOS is closed but it's pretty controllable, T2 Chip is not.
There is no hivemind...hivemind...hivemind...hivemind
Wow I've seen everything on HN to protect RMS. The Allies action was to counter gratuitous aggression and persecution of large swathes of people. Are you telling me RMS has had the same experiences in his life to warrant his egregious behavior ?
So what do you use as the backend for now?
The description is somewhat clumsy (I’ll have Bradfitz update it) but “peers” allows for distributed. There are lots of things I don’t like about groupcache (e.g., immutability / need to version) but it is where the “group” part comes from.
AKA Leibniz’s rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_integral_rule
> You have to go out of your way to install tmux

You have to type: apt install tmux. Or, whatever your distro of choice's package manager install line is. I'd hardly call that going out of one's way.
>people usually don't worry about speed traps on Nürburgring

Now that would be a real moneymaker.
This is really interesting and probably deserving of a government investigation
That actually gives me all the more reason to bet against them in the SDC space.

That being said, iirc Aptiv has nutonomy which has a good approach and smart people. That could be a wildcard.
>You often CAN tell information from people's outward appearance, albeit probabilistically. Therein lies the problem: you can very easily train an algorithm to be maximally right according to your cost function, but end up biased because the underlying distributions aren't the same between groups.

In fact, an AI trained on aggregate data to probabilistically infer characteristics about individuals is _literally a stereotyping machine_.

If people are upset that their stereotyping machine stereotypes people, they probably didn't fully understand what they were doing when they built it, because this is not a design flaw -- it's the design.
the true way to remove pain is to acquire sufficient slack.
Even if the US has lost its manufacturing capability and this leads to a worse quality more expensive product, it's worth it. Do we want to go down the path of not being able to produce anything and outsourcing all our products until we have no talent? Where will that leave us in a generation?

I recommend reading Crouching Tiger about US China relationships. Manufacturing and sustainability is very important to war fighting capability past day X (where X is when our current inventory is attrited). So this is something those seeking our security will want regardless.

The last thing to mention is about comparisons with countries which do not have the same labor laws / pollution laws. Yes, given the same assumptions they will make stuff cheaper. They don't have the same regulations. This is one reason why tariffs to help offset this imbalance (minus shipping across a gigantic ocean) are necessary - regardless of political views. Either the US has the same regulations as the competitor or they offset the difference somehow (I get it that our current tariffs are much more than that, I'm simply mentioning tariffs in general).
> Free software isn't about making data openly available.

You must be allowed to redistribute the software, and you must be allowed to get, modify, and redistribute the code. Binaries and code are data.

Maybe what you mean is that the biologists' and x-ray crystallographers' journals developed their push for data access independently of the free software movement, but it's a stretch to say that access to the data that a programmer creates and access to the data that a biologist creates have nothing in common.
One day people will realise there is a Linux box behind Lambdas and you can run your own box in a basement a lot cheaper
Since CSS isn't really space-sensitive, you could just pad unevenly matched names with spaces, and then layout should be reasonably clear in any standard monospaced text editor.
Honestly, I think we let a lot of mean-spiritedness pass as "comedy", and I think sexist comedy causes a lot of real-world problems.

> I would be dollars to doughnuts that the author of that site and the editors of that "wiki" have made or thought worse things at some point, but because they have not reached a certain level of celebrity, there's no dossier on them. It's truly ridiculous to me the amount of effort spent on trying to claw others down.

"With great power, comes great responsibility." When operating in contexts where you have a lot of power, one has to be more careful with their words and actions. If he had voiced that opinion to a friend of his, no one would have complained. But voicing his opinion minimizing rape on a university mailing list has direct negative effects for a lot of people.

Also, some people do listen, apologize, and put in the work to learn.

> I accept that inequality exists and perhaps RMS has some awful opinions, but if that's the case then just ignore him.

The problem is that other people don't just ignore him. By ignoring his harmful behaviour, we let his negative impact spread further as others repeat his misogynistic ideas.

> A world where everyone is constantly being watched by eachother and reported on is already too authoritarian for me to want to continue living in

I'm sorry and hope you find a way to continue living in this world. And I agree strongly about authoritarian governments.

I don't really think calling out a post on a large mailing list counts as "everyone is constantly being watched by each other" though.