skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, personally I would prefer them to make profit. I would be willing to pay a bit more since the product seems quite interesting - not actually in the current state, but what the product could be if the business actually flourishes.

Better would be something like "Disclaimer: the product can have up to 10 dead pixels which are not covered by warranty."
>Who is saying that's strange?

The grandparent (yoelo) who started this thread, for one:

"The requirement of 401c(3)s to be "non-political" looks like a pretty weird to someone that doesn't live in the US."

>There are many non-profit news organizations

Which is orthogonal, what's strange is why such a law, that they should be "non-political" exists...
What was the most significant digital technology from the past 25 years?
Titles with "could" seem strongly correlated with clickbait.
I should've written "mostly" not corruptible. Still the level of corruption discovered pales in comparison with the previous guys.

As for the previous guys bringing up microreporting.... please, that is such a worn out excuse. They were in power for 8 years and they actually managed to start serious work on that particular solution half a year before they left office, becuase they knew they absolutely have to. How is that not doing absolute minimum they can get away with? Have you seen the answer the back then minister of finance gave when he was asked a question what did he do when he was informed there are likely billions of VAT refunds beign scammed out of the system? His answer was "I don't remember".

Also tell Germans, China and many other countries about that worldwide economic boom we've been experiencing for last 4 years :-)

I'm no fan of PiS. In fact I voted for their rivals 12 years ago because I did believe their promises of 3x15%, low taxes etc. I still remember many scandals that are forgotten today. For example billions spent on motorways built by the state and then given to companies owned by "friends" for 50 year lease so they could make profits by charging drivers whatever they want for using infrastructure funded by people's own taxes. But my biggest dissapointment with them was not even thievery as it can perhaps be explained that not everyone was a theif etc, but the fact they didn't implement a single one of their promises. They did nothing about rotten to the core bureaucracies of the tax offices, national insurance (ZUS) and tried to privatise the health service through the back door. It is no simple task to resolve this. Even though PiS has very little sucess in those areas, at least they are talking about this and are seen as trying with their "Constitution for Business" that is the only law (other than the actual constitution) that states tax man is supposed to use presumption of innocence not presumtion of guilt as it is done usually and actually treat people fairly in their dealings with the tax offices.

It is true that many people vote for PiS because of new social programs. However, there are many people that vote for them because there is no other viable choice. Sometimes the least bad is the only option.

Anyway, as George Bush famously said: "Full me once, shame on you, full me tw-you can't get fooled again!" :-)
A Pragmatic Approach to Software Architecture
You'll need to have strong backward compatibility with a popular system for it to have chance to become popular.

MS-DOS was compatible with CP/M when it came out and MS kept working on backward compatibility since then.

Linux was unix-like and filled a hole for a FOSS unix-like OS at the right time. The GNU utilities were among the first things that were made to work on it and it was kinda source-compatible with other unixes.

If your new system requires that everything under the sun gets ported to it before people can use their favorite tools, it will fail.

BTW, Gates didn't write his own OS, he bought it and got people in his company to work on it.
Because, facebook. He make a good point about privacy but even that was kinda handwavy.
FYI - Moosejaw is now owned by Walmart, so if you're trying to ethically "vote with your dollars" it might not be the best choice.

I buy essentially all my gear from the REI co-op, who seem to have both customer-friendly return policies as well as genuine commitments to environmental standards for the gear they stock.
The Emerging Millennial Wealth Gap
Solution: keep the token on a keyring, don't leave it in your laptop all the time. The point of 2FA is to prevent someone else from logging into the same account via a stolen laptop or stolen username/password.
That's not really the question. You kinda missed the whole point.

These companies exists because they serve a need. There's proven demand; killing Facebook will create a Facebook-shaped hole, which will immediately be filled by the most capable alternative.

In today's climate this almost certainly means that any American tech firm you destroy or break up will be replaced by the Chinese state-controlled equivalent, because at the moment they're the most capable existing competitor in most cases.

There are a few alternate potential outcomes, but all of the likely ones are just as bad or worse. The "break up tech giants" concept is very much like the "war on drugs" from years ago; it sounds like you're doing something good, but the end result can only be unmitigated disaster.
The law not working for "minor cases" (which includes cases over hundreds of dollars) is exactly the failing of the justice system I mentioned. This isn't universal, in many places you can get theft of a Mars bar or possession of tiny amounts of drugs prosecuted very effectively, all cases much more minor than the typical credit card dispute.
No disagreement there, but this should have happened over a decade ago.

Instead, we got DieselGate, not just one, but at this point, several of them [0] and the responsible parties, even government agencies who knew but tried to hide it, just shrug their shoulders and nothing changes.

Now they can celebrate themselves for putting EV on their agenda when everybody else is already miles ahead. Which is a common theme with German politics and any kind of tech innovation [1]

[0] https://www.rbb24.de/politik/beitrag/2019/10/abgase-dieselsk...

[1] https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/merkel-neuland-...
Can't run it on Linux in Chrome or Firefox, even though the console says WebGL support is available.
Donated to the GoFundMe page, because as a small business owner, this kind of abuse of our copyright and patent systems really tees me off.
I could not ever spend a cent with backcountry.com now, because to me their brand means bullying and abuse.
> Windows (not Microsoft) has failed in the cloud, the web browser market, and mobile.

I don't agree on the Cloud, it's the strongest competitor to Amazon, and on the other businesses there is no competition: mobile and browser is Google.

Amazon failed as well in the mobile business.
Deep learning has a size problem
I mean participating in politics, not consuming politics. You have no say over impeachment since, if it happens, it'll likely happen before any coming elections.
I never said it was a good idea!
Whether you trust Veritas or not (for me, it's a very mixed bag), this is a more difficult clip to refute, as it seems to not be undercover (and therfore not prompted as a leading question by their undercover agent), and is not internally edited (though it admittedly does not have full context, its statements seem to stand on their own).
Ask HN: Is “Show HN” replaced with “Ask HN” and not popular any more?
It is pretty blatant that they are increasing it by 50% to support Volkswagen's conversion to electric.

Most of the other comments seem quite negative. It is protectionism, but it applies to most electric cars and is a step in the right direction. It is late and selfish, but better than the alternative.
I'm still waiting for meeting transcripts that understand who is speaking. I'm legitimately surprised with how far we've come with speech recognition, how this fairly common use-case is omitted.

I'm not even saying it needs to name the people in the meeting. Just understand, contextually, if it is from "person 1" or "person 2." Then as it records associate it with that name.

Maybe this can help? But Google's existing APIs might be able to do this.
This is from James O'Keefe, a known liar and propagandist. The story linked could be true but he should be ignored in general.
We at NetToolKit have implemented arnath's requested functionality using OpenStreetMap data (demo available at https://www.nettoolkit.com/geo/autocomplete). The problem that we have found is that while some categories have great coverage (e.g. restaurants in Portland), many categories do not (e.g. gas stations). Assembling this data is expensive, and hence either the data is available via well-capitalized players (e.g. Facebook Places Search: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/places/web/search/) and/or are expensive to use (e.g. Foursquare).
> Red states that vote the most against social programs are the biggest beneficiaries. It's the leech screaming "Leech!" in the mirror

You're assuming in a "Red State," all those using social programs are the same ones screaming "Socialism!"

This entire premise is based on your stereotype of one's politics.

Perhaps you need to step back and re-examine your assertion.

> Or based on what the politicians elected by those states say and then vote for. "Vote the most against"...

You're stereotyping entire states and condemning the value of the people therein based on your ghostly spector of a Red State politician.

Yours is a stereotyped, bigoted position.
That’s what I meant. Microsoft hasn’t failed in the cloud - Windows has.

As far as mobile being “google”. In terms of revenue, it came out in the Oracle lawsuit that Android has only made Google about $33 billion its entire existence. Less than the amount that Apple makes in two quarters on iPhones. Google also reportedly still pays Apple $8 billion a year to bectge default search engine in Apple devices.
The Gene-Editing Revolution Is Already Here
There is no ever fountain spring of money and time which is exactly what buying a company is. You have to throw lawyers and time and effort into it. Assuming you did have Apple's cash balance, lets say you did try to spend it all.... what then happens to next years class of startups/smaller companies? Apple's $billions cash pile isn't all acquired in 1 year but over the past decade.

Furthermore, once you buy it you have to spend mental energy integrating the purchase into the company. Do you really believe all the shareholders and stakeholders are all down for that massive distraction?

There is a weird chain of thoughts that needs to be interrupted here. Someone I spoke to earlier this year was essentially saying the same thing about Rockefeller, "well he was buying up all the smaller oil fields and producers!". Well, if you did hear that was happening wouldn't you yourself go out and try to strike more oil fields to be bought out quickly? Furthermore, what do you do when the massive fields in the middle east were found? Do you expect Rockefeller to start heading over there buying up the entire region to shore up the U.S market?

This is quickly becoming an argument that defeats basic reasoning and basic reason.
"Advertising this to wannabe entrepreneurs by making a virtue out of necessity, while we live in regular houses ourselves by renting shovels to the gold-rush crowd"...
> German politics and any kind of tech innovation

I came to believe that German politics still associates "high tech" with the cog wheel: more cog wheels, more tech.

Since that doesn't apply to IT, it completely falls by the wayside. And since EVs have less of them than an ICE car, they're also lower tech than regular cars.

So far that's the only way I could make sense of it all.
Scumbags.
I'm not at all surprised that bullying is real. I'm not sure if my own experience counts as bullying; I have been targeted at times: teased, called names, excluded; once even by the guy who I up to that point thought was my best friend. But in my primary school there was also a very awkward boy one year older who was definitely universally bullied, and I regret to admit that I once wrestled him to the ground, which won me some temporary respect from other kids (and private shame later in life).

In secondary school, there were two kids who kept picking on me for years, but I eventually learned to ignore then and feel sorry for them. When I was somewhere between 15 and 18, a girl who had been in my class in primary school and apparently knew me as a potential bullying target called me a crybaby out of nowhere, and I was mostly baffled that someone would be so incapable of growing up. I'd grown pretty much immune by that time.

But what I often wonder is whether the stereotypical American TV-show bullying is something that really exists: wedgies, stuffing people in lockers, that sort of thing. On American TV, it seems to be the universally accepted standard form of bullying, but it sounds a bit too outlandish to me to be based on anything real.
A new microservice API gateway project in the Apache incubator
If you give a mouse a cookie...
They did shut down that China search engine Dragonfly so its not like its non-existent.
The real take away here is that only 10% of children who are visually impaired or blind learn braille. Additionally upon looking up that stat cause I figured surely it must be sensationalized, 50% of blind students dropout of school and over 70% are unemployed. A lot of it seems to stem from illiteracy. What a fucking outrage.

Edit: I had the the percentages backwards, 70% are unemployed and 50% drop out, not the other way around as I had written.

Information taken from https://www.nfb.org/images/nfb/documents/pdf/braille_literac...
Iterated convolution was the proof I learned, too. Probably a semantic difference that I don't equate proof with understanding.
I was talking about opening the dominating document formats at the time. Apple didn't dominate that market at all.
I hadn't even heard of the PineTime. I'm really intrigued...
That's disappointing, the one exciting feature on the Pixel 4 is its offline transcription feature. From the headline I figured that's what this was about.
Microsoft is about Microsoft, not Windows.
While windows is loosing relevance, my Microsoft stock keeps on getting more valued. Dividends also keep coming and growing.
Summing an array of floating point numbers
I have only studied Move by reading the whitepaper, but there's a gaping architectural hole that I found in five minutes:

public withdraw_from_sender(amount:u64): Coin {
let transaction_sender_address: address = GetTxnSenderAddress();
...
}

Checking the global txn sender address is not a sound way to authorize a transaction in a smart contract language. Consider that a buggy or malicious function in a different smart contract could call withdraw(). Linear type theory might prevent the resulting stolen coins from being duplicated, but they're still stolen.

I don't know if there is a clean theoretically sound way to do this, but here's an idea based on linear types:

The main function in a transaction is given a Sender object as one of its arguments. The Sender has a method that generates an assertion (an object) that the transaction intends to perform a specific action, e.g. withdraw 10 coins of type A. The withdraw() function takes an assertion as a parameter and calls a method that consumes the assertion before withdrawing the coins.
I don't know anything about Germany but back in New York (the city), anything that has mass and occupies space is a burden. The rent is high and space is tight.

I didn't even own a desktop computer because I couldn't justify the space a dedicated computer space takes.

Thus, given the golf carts can't drive everywhere, you pretty much need a second car so I kind of agree with you. That being said, wasn't there some noise about free public transit? Maybe a small EV (not necessarily from China PR) is good enough in a pinch if the public transit is free of cost and reliable?
Landed in Sydney a few weeks ago. First visit so I ordered an Uber (as I've used it a lot, trust it, etc.).

After we were picked up, the driver helpfully informed us if we'd ordered the same ride via Ola (he drives both), it'd have been ~50% cheaper (as a new user).

Naturally, I installed it and now I'll switch between Uber and m Ola. This then expands to Bolt, Grab, and so on, and you realise it's virtually the same experience with different branding and the sole differentiating factor is price.

I definitely buy the convenience aspect: it's way more comfortable to pull out your phone and order a ride on a platform you're already familiar with. My trouble is the barrier is so low to install another app (and new joiner incentives are financially motivating) that this leads to virtually no brand loyalty.

Perhaps in a different world, where there are no up significant upfront financial incentives and perhaps drivers were exclusive to a platform (i.e. to pass their rigorous screening processes is a sign of quality), that'd certainly buy some loyalty from me.
This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Stores like Walmart and Dollar stores opened up, and consumer made the choice to shop there rather than at local grocery stores.

Sounds like they are getting exactly what they wanted?

Reminds me of folks in SF who bemoan the loss of a local butcher store. Sure, they may like buying organic cuts of meat at $15/lb, but it's obviously most people don't, that's why those stores went out of business.
This was the 90's Javascript debugging experience and why I still hate JS to this day. The language felt like mush.
I like the color selection!

To be improved (desktop):

- Add Spacing (margins and paddings), play with negative space. At the job list.

- The header image covers up way to space, its height could be way reduced if is only a search bar.

- Consistency, I see some company logos at the job listings to have the triple width as other logos. It seems more of a UI bug, rather than a design decision.
That quote about premature optimization is from 1974. Back then, manually tweaking code to produce the "right" machine instructions really mattered. But it was time-consuming and hard, and hence should be applied only to the most time-sensitive part of a program.

Today, we get that kind of optimization, for the whole program, simply by adding -O2 to our build options, and waiting slightly longer for the compiler to complete.

Engineers using that quote are an important reason for the failure of software projects. Not only should we make efficient use of resources, but performance of software must be taken into account right from the beginning of any software project. Performance requirements must be clear from the start (how many concurrent users, how many requests per second, etc., times 2 (or 20) for safety) and when a design is made, performance requirements for each individual component should be set (and measured after implementation).
On Android: Language and Input > Google voice typing > Offline speech recognition, then ensure Wi-Fi and data are off and try shouting at textboxes (you might need to press a microphone button on your selected keyboard, unsure).

It doesn't work very well in my experience.
made an account to ask about this

>The Laplace Transform, on the other hand, decomposes a signal into both its exponential factors

in what sense is this true? yes the s in e^(-st) is complex but that factors the kernel of the transform into e^(-at)e^(-iwt). individually the factors do what you say (decompose over a basis) but as a product they do not do that.
> A local ranch sells beef but it would be quite expensive to buy year around unless you want a whole or 1/2 cow.

A 1/2 cow would probably require buying a new freezer, but splitting a 1/2 cow is quite common. (splitting a half gets you a better mix than buying a quarter)
More, Unfortunately, on the Chinese Alzheimer’s Drug Approval
Cannot be more of a death trap than a Renault Twizzy which I see quite often around the city, or any motorcycle for that matter.
As long as they don't market it as a normal car, I don't see why it shouldn't be allowed.
Just another data point: first time I encountered algebraic structures during my education in the Czech Republic was last year of grammar school, in a seminar for students who took maths as part of the exit exam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matura#Maturita_in_the_Czech_R...). And then in the second year of CS at the university.

Also, we did functional, logic and also imperative programming in the first year. I really did live under the impression that CS education is meant to give you all these foundations, and it's a TIL today that it's not universally true.
Yea I am stereotyping people based on my personal experience and what the author echos in the article. I’m in the Deep South and the article spoke about Illinois. Pretty far away but also the same mindsets.

There’s nothing bigoted about it. Every one has an opinion, call it what you want. I don’t feel superior compared to them.
Well, this case also has a nasty smell because Backcountry.com is, having recently launched a new product, just now is deciding that a bunch of existing businesses encroach on its trademark. (And possibly "picking on" smaller businesses, who are likely to have a much lower level of legal resourcing, but that's not completely clear.)

Trademark defense is one thing if you're proactive about it -- and as I understand it this is even a legal requirement for keeping the mark. Attacking another longstanding business because you've changed your business plan is, well, at least mildly sociopathic.
>> Being retro-compatible in a walled garden only doesn't make all that sense.

> It makes perfect sense from the company's point of view.

Yeah, for sure, but I was criticizing OP that was praising MS for still being compatible with their own 20+ years old proprietary and hegemonic document format.
Indeed. Considering that the "problems that one deals with at present" were generally calculations of ballistic trajectory for war materiel, this was an entirely accurate statement. As the cost and complexity increase rather rapidly as storage increases, there was inverse incentive to build a system bigger than one "needs". Like building a pedestrian bridge that could support 50 tonnes of weight. But yes, judged by today's standards it's an amusing scale, similar to reading newspaper articles about the menace of early automobiles "hurtling down the roadway at dizzying speeds" of 50 miles per hour. In a hundred years, people will have the same chuckle at our "TB of data" and "high-res images" -- What? No volumetric full-color holograms?
Indeed, Alaska has this problem and worse. The region relies heavily on seaplanes and short-take-off-and-landing aircraft for logistics. These eVTOL aircraft would be great in Alaska and especially in places without lakes. Places without a lot of flat area for landing, places like Papua New Guinea, have no good options at all right now, so these VTOL aircraft will be transformative.
Right, here in Argentina our currency has lost more than half its value this year, and the US dollar has lost 96% of its value since the end of the gold standard in 1973. I carry a Zimbabwe 100 trillion dollar bill in my wallet to remind people what real hyperinflation is.

I don't think that's the main threat Bitcoin is designed to defend against, though; I think there's a whole spectrum of confiscation threats, ranging from thieves tunneling into bank vaults (I know a woman here who lost her savings that way), to immigration authorities confiscating jewelry, to pirates, to trumped-up "money laundering" charges. And of course if we're mentioning Germany and World Wars, we must not forget the confiscation of Holocaust victims' entire possessions, including jewelry and fillings after the gas chambers. Bitcoin can't make genocide impossible but maybe at least it can make it unprofitable.
It does if you pay for a competent engineer in the first place who would know to do things like debounce switches and add hysteresis.