skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pandas has from_sql and to_sql methods that are compatible with SQLAlchemy if you insist on using an ORM, that gets you most of the way there...
Much like a bulk of eu regulation, made by people who have no clue how the real world works. No longer wondering why the uk wants to leave, and why those who stay have to kept in by fear.
> One of Ubers biggest problems is that they have zero brand loyalty

> At least for me uber has huge brand loyalty, it’s sitting in the dock of my iPhone

Hear hear. It feels to me that brand loyalty arguments are really opinions being extrapolated to the rest of the population. For example, one can reasonably argue airlines don't command any brand loyalty for the average traveler and how they are in a race to the bottom, yet many people will readily tell you how much they hate X airline or how they love Y airline. One could say the same of hotels, shampoos, socks, what have you. There always are those that don't care for the brands, and those that do.
The idea of exponentially increasing patent costs has a major issue: not all businesses are alike. If I make a new model of fork and patent it, I can probably enter the market quickly. However, if my patent is for some new type of power plant, I will not be able to enter market within 20 years.

Refutal: raise the cost differently depending on time to enter the market?

Then some statistician will have to be paid to estimate this, meaning patent applications are much more expensive.

I hope you think my comment was constructive.
There is no difference between voters who attended school only because they were forced to, and hypothetical voters who weren’t forced to attend school.
I suspect there is but I dont know about it (I use SmartOS / Triton). There is a small list of jail management tools [1]. If it doesnt exist it should be really easy to make since FreeBSD jails (usually) sit on ZFS you can easily use "ZFS send" to create a image of the ZFS dataset. All that one would need to add is some (minor) tooling.

On the more "heavy side" I know that for example Project Fifo has experimental FreeBSD support [2] in case you want to host multiple FreeBSD machines with jails on them.

[1] https://mwl.io/archives/2291
[2] https://docs.project-fifo.net/docs/freebsd
It’s a non-profit because the investments, the real estate, the patronage jobs, and the shortchanging of staff all serve the institution itself. Surplus enables it to expand or execute better on its mission. A rich dude can’t invest in the university hedge fund and then redeem for a suitcase full of cash. Only the university itself can do that, and instead of a yacht it’s going to buy a research vessel, and instead of hosting kickass parties it’s going to study fish. And if hiring the customs inspector’s son gets it out of port faster, then so be it. But overpaying for custodial services isn’t going to get the fish studied any better.

Economic inequality is an important problem but it’s not the only problem. It’s okay to sometimes accumulate and deploy funds to other ends.

Universities don’t act like specific cost centers of governments, they act like governments.
We measure contributions using a project's git history (i.e. # of commits) every time a release is published. I realize this is terrible and it's my #1 priority to improve this after we get some engineers on board. I'm currently talking to the owner of SourceCred to see how we can use their protocol: https://sourcecred.io/
Then it is 8Gb of pointers. I doubt it's practical to worry about such extreme cases.
Don't depend on Google's APIs. Please use OpenStreetMap data with (and contribute to) OpenMapTiles, OpenTripPlanner, Pelias geocoding etc.
Leibniz: 'What a watch is to time, this engine is to thought.'

Daniel Waterhouse: 'Sir! You show me a few gears that add and multiply numbers – well enough. But this is not the same as thought !'

'What is a number, Mr. Waterhouse?'

Daniel groaned. 'How can you ask such questions?'

'How can you not ask them, sir? You are a philosopher, are you not?'

'A Natural Philosopher.'

'Then you must agree that in the modern world, mathematicks is at the heart of Natural Philosophy – it is like the mysterious essence in the core of the snowflake. When I was fifteen years old, Mr. Waterhouse, I was wandering in the Rosenthal – which is a garden on the edge of Leipzig – when I decided that in order to be a Natural Philosopher I would have to put aside the old doctrine of substantial forms and instead rely upon Mechanism to explain the world. This led me inevitably to mathematicks.'

'When I was fifteen, I was handing out Phanatiqual libels just down the street from here, and dodging the Watch – but in time, Doctor, as Newton and I studied Descartes at Cambridge, I came to share your view concerning the supreme position of mathematics.'

'Then I repeat my question: What is a number? And what is it to multiply two numbers?'

'Whatever it is, Doctor, it is different from thinking .'

'Bacon said, ‘Whatever has sufficient differences, perceptible by the sense, is in nature competent to express cogitations.' You cannot deny that numbers are in that sense competent – '

'To express cogitation, yes! But to express cogitations is not to perform them, or else quills and printing-presses would write poetry by themselves.'

'Can your mind manipulate this spoon directly?' Leibniz said, holding up a silver spoon, and then setting it down on the table between them.

'Not without my hands.'

'So, when you think about the spoon, is your mind manipulating the spoon?'

'No. The spoon is unaffected, no matter what I think about it.'

'Because our minds cannot manipulate physical objects – cup, saucer, spoon – instead they manipulate symbols of them, which are stored in the mind.'

'I will accept that.'

'Now, you yourself helped Lord Chester devise the Philosophical Language, whose chief virtue is that it assigns all things in the world positions in certain tables – positions that can be encoded by numbers.'

'Again, I agree that numbers can express cogitations, through a sort of encryption. But performing cogitations is another matter entirely!'

'Why? We add, subtract, and multiply numbers.'

'Suppose the number three represents a chicken, and the number twelve the Rings of Saturn – what then is three times twelve?'

'Well, you can't just do it at random, ' Leibniz said, 'any more than Euclid could draw lines and circles at random, and come up with theorems. There has to be a formal system of rules, according to which the numbers are combined.'

'And you propose building a machine to do this?'

'Pourquoi non? With the aid of a machine, truth can be grasped as if pictured on paper.'

-- Quicksilver, Baroque Cycle (#1), Neal Stephenson
If you catch people who have done bad things you prevent the bad things they are likely to do in the future.

1 in 1,000 does seem a bit high to me, but the prevalence of the bad images matters. You also have to think about the consequences of false positives versus admitting child pornography. If 0.1% of innocent meme pictures get removed from a site incorrectly - that's not ideal, but how much sexual exploitation of children do you need to stop to make that worth it?
Yes but the cross-section of people who prefer to live in the midwest and talented engineers is much smaller and the main reason why it's difficult to do that.
Of course not. There is no law requiring cookie notice popups, there never was.
* a LOT more weird porns

* we do not need passwords

* eventually, human will be more empathetic

* new educational system
You're right that they're libertarian/conservative in this regard. But they've published a number of articles with relevant facts about the growth of administrative roles in higher ed, and the associated costs. I haven't seen those facts questioned anywhere — have you?
> A patented invention should be described in sufficient detail, and the description is made public. This is how important inventions do not get hidden form sight forever, even if they don't bring any profit.

And the problem is that the patents of today do their best to be as vague as possible (in order to maximize the "area under patent"), while either being obvious or not revealing sufficient details for one to recreate the patented invention from the patent. Not to mention that patents lengths are not in line with exponential rate of progress.

So if they already fail at the functions they were created for, how worse are they from trade secrets? Maybe what we should do is not only get rid of patents, but also reduce protections around trade secrets? People will keep trying to make money anyway, this will still lead to inventions, but that way, at least society will get to make use of those inventions.

(Drug research is an exception I'm not sure how to handle, though.)
I'm actually super way too drunk to give you a full rebuttal, so here's a godbolt compilation thing that proves that I'm right and you're wrong:

https://cpp.godbolt.org/z/-zeMWT

(stop reading now if that's enough)

The -Os compilation is some bookkeeping and an idiv instruction, the -O2 compilation is bookkeeping, two shifts, and an and instruction. I don't know what they because I'm drunk sorry not sorry but the one that does the idiv instruction is both slower and smaller and that's on purpose. (you can tell the idiv one is smaller by clicking the 11010 button to display offsets. the starting instructions of both functions have the same offset, but the final instruction of the -Os compilation is substantially smaller than the -O2 compilation.)

The description of -Os which you linked is telling. It says it's -O2 without certain optimizations, and then it also says:

> It also enables -finline-functions, causes the compiler to tune for code size rather than execution speed, and performs further optimizations designed to reduce code size.

Somewhere buried in that tuning for code size rather than execution speed and further optimizations designed to reduce code size is an optimization that will replace bitwise magic with division statements. -Os does what it says on the tin. It makes your code small. It makes your code slow. It does so on purpose.

People think that -Os is a superset of -O1 and a subset -O2. It's neither. It is neither a superset of -O1 nor -O2, nor is it a subset of -O1 or -O2. There are speed optimizations that -Os adds to -O1 and there are size optimizations that -Os adds to both -O1 and -O2.

The point, I think, of -Os, is for embedded. If you have a size n PROM, and your code compiles to size n+1 with -O2, and if you apply -Os and it compiles to size n, that's a feature. -Os, in my opinion, ought to be uncompromising towards that goal. For better or for worse.

I'll be sober in the morning and can engage with you better then. Sorry.
isnt this already an issue with the current system too? Patents all have the same minimum cost and same minimum effective legal cost, even though some opportunities are large and some are small. I understand your criticism but I think, if properly fleshed out and part of a larger plan, some sort of exponential cost feature could be useful.
Ah, I was having difficulty reading the text due to formatting.
> Separating gifted children for accelerated learning is great. Ignoring social development by blindly sticking all kids together in unstructured environments where bullying and physical abuse is allowed to persist will override any hope for some kids.

I had no idea that calls to public_policy return type bool.
LA to SF isn't a 1 hour flight. LA to SF is: you start at downtown SF, 45 minutes later you arrive an hour early at SFO for your 1 hour 30 minute block-time flight to LA where you then take a 45 minute taxi ride to your final destination.

That's a total of 3.75 hours end to end, assuming no fog hits you at SFO, as it does on the regular. That's within spitting distance of a rail link that allow you to jump off anywhere along the way. It's by no means 2-3X slower if you take into account the entire process, with no TSA, starting at your origin and ending at your actual destination.

For instance Ottawa to Montreal is a "17 minute flight" that takes an hour of block time, and an hour on either end, for a total of 3h, or you could take the 1h 30m train ride along standard-speed rail for $20 USD. Trains can easily be faster taking into account externalities, and much more pleasant.

They usually do in fact have free wifi, better comfort, and a $20 price point -- specifically because as you point out, they're competing against air travel.

Hundred of billions is again a weird, defeatist argument. California has failed because infrastructure in America is not about building infrastructure, it's about graft, and if infrastructure gets built along the way, that's fine too. That's the saddest part, honestly.

Honestly, this is kind of the textbook example of defeatism.
How did being happy become a matter of relentless competitive work? Essays
When I was accepted that ($125k) policy didn't exist or we'd have been included, though in the upper half. I'd likely have chosen to go there if it had existed then.

That said it sounds like the general situation I described is somewhat true overall.
What Scorsese forgot to say was, "And that's OK."

Do they need to be? No. His concern is that they have creeped into the territory of expression using dollars and suffocated that market, which, to be fair is a legit concern.
That's not an actual quote, FYI. They peddled something called "community-adjusted EBITDA."
Ya, I don't think I would be too excited to haul a trailer with my $80k+ luxury vehicle. Nor would I have a place to park and store that trailer.
A straightforward, two-pass diff algorithm
Not for me. Got a 4K thinkpad and text does look quite bad. On Windows UI, on Chrome, everywhere.
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But I don’t think McDev above was talking about a software startup in the poorest part of the world. I have implemented GDPR in a small non profit open source SaaS business. A funded startup should have no issue doing the same.
Not what I would call a kneecapping, or even a burden.

Compliance cost at the place I work in the UK was negligible. We have personal data on every customer, had to make some one time code changes, and ongoing costs are essentially zero. Frankly, compliance was trivial and little different to Data Protection - which was also trivial to comply with.

If you're data mining everyone to death and selling it off to multiple unnamed third parties, compliance may well be more challenging. Hardly surprising as that's one of the things it's trying to constrain.
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The rich can afford patents and can enforce them. Unless that changes it doesn't matter who has the idea first.
> LA to SF is a 1 hour flight

How long does it take to/from each airport, and how long do you take to go through security, check-in and boarding?

A 1-hour flight easily becomes a 3 to 4 hour ordeal.
My experience specifically with SFUSD math tracking, a good 15 years back, was that it was rigid and caused as many problems as it solved.

Specifically, I had a parent that really, really wanted me to do honors math because my older brother did well at it(and he went on to get a math PhD etc.) and math seemed like a ticket to "success" - and so, in both middle school and high school, I was tracked into the middle options, and then within a few days of starting, parent had pushed around the bureaucracy to get me in honors, where I was not completely hopeless all the time, but suffered quite a lot from pressure to succeed and cheated a few times. Finally in my sophomore HS year I managed to fail a class and got switched to the lower track because for some reason you couldn't go from honors down to the middle option...and then some time later, parent tried to make me talk the school into letting me take the AP Calculus course anyway! Which they said "no" to, of course.

Basically, HS math ended with calculus, but even that "lower" track had a strong pre-calc foundation with some trig, linear algebra, etc. At most there was always about a year of difference at stake, in fact - so the post-tracking setup did not change that much. But when I went off to college all these feelings carried over and could not be left behind: I tried taking the engineering Calc courses, hit a wall with integrals, wasted probably a year trying to prove something to myself and developed a miserable self-outlook, settling on an economics degree because it had easier calc courses. (Had I realized that there was also some executive dysfunction in play it might have all been a lot smoother - oh well.)

Basically, parental worry about math tracking created a huge, huge sideline from taking on activities that would have actually helped along my development. It started early and to some extent wouldn't have been stopped by the system, but it would have presented less of a direct obstacle in daily life.

In contrast, the option of self-study and college courses as a supplement has been the path for the truly gifted learners, especially around SF(CCSF, SFSU, USF, and you can go visit Berkeley if that's not enough). That's a way more straightforward way to go about it w/r to a lot of academic topics.
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Dont tell the GM mob... they will release slightly GM modified insects to GM all insects and claim they have to paid for the service to the end of time
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> thats why electric cars have theoretical gas mileage of around 100 mpg

what good is that when your theoretical car can only hold 2.5 (maybe) gallons of fuel
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Fun fact: in east eu laws are bent to protect criminals, as they are essentially those in “power”. In Romania GDPR was used as means to threaten investigative journalists (see Rise Project and GDPR). There are other criminally bent laws that predate gdpr. For instance the government used some obscure privacy “concerns” mandated by the eu (not sure which) to remove ALL traffic monitoring cameras. The result is one of the highest road deaths in the EU and naturally easier to bribe traffic police. Organised crime members are also protected by bogus human rights interpretations, where a mobster gets more rights than and old lady stealing an egg for food.
Burnout – early detection and avoidance (before it's too late)
The problem is when the regulation doesn’t accomplish anything, but also costs a lot.

For example imagine a hypothetical email safety law that says you must keep everything encrypted and have multiple audits over all of your processes and systems. Such a law doesn’t do anything to protect users, but audits will suddenly result in a massive flat cost to start a new email company.

In reality look at the “privacy” legislation pushed by Facebook and google: mostly it reduces/removed their liability if they do a few relatively cheap things but doesn’t require them to stop spying on you or stealing your data. But relatively cheap for Facebook and google isn’t cheap for anyone else.
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interesting that they use deep learning to pawn passwords
Those are all great things. And all of them are done by the competitors. In Europe I use MyTaxi, same thing as Uber but much nicer cars
Very interesting thought–I'd love to see how this dynamic actually plays out. I personally would welcome more contributors v.s. doing their work myself.

I think if a project maintainer were to act maliciously in terms of earnings share, developers would call them out and less people would contribute as a result.
It can be very obnoxious having a child on your team who doesn't care about working together. They also have a tendency to have to abandon games at random times, when I played destiny there were raids that could take a few hours, especially with people inexperienced with that raid, and my group decided to stop taking kids because pretty often they would get called off by mom and you'd have to start the whole process over again.
Very insightful comment. I still have hope for 5) permissionless blockchain. I think the space needs an inflating cryptocurrency. I started a crypto project with 7% supply inflation. I think inflation changes the economics and fill the gap that Bitcoin misses. https://bitflate.org/
I do the same and to avoid this I'll abbreviate the name or use initials, just enough for it to be pronounced differently from the company name
One of the most sensible and workable solutions I have heard to the cluster-fuck otherwise known as the patent system.. and this is why nothing will ever become of it.
Lucky! I get some kind of fleeting toast message (sub-quarter of a second) about some kind of permission missing, before the app closes itself entirely.
I use it with the plugins enabled and, it helps a great deal for my knowledge organization and acquisition.

Its simple file structure also allows me to pair it with syncthing [0], and sync all of my computers with each other seamlessly. So I have my own self-syncing document trove and knowledge base without any considerable effort.

Using simple apps and integrating them is much more powerful than it looks, and it's one of the simpler things that I enjoy immensely.

[0]: https://syncthing.net/
By definition, any really effective backup (off site, offline) can't simply be modified instantly when you click a button in a web UI. The reason it takes months for backups to clear out your deleted data is that's how long it takes for the entire backup to be discarded and replaced by a new backup that reflects your deletions.

While the data is likely inaccessible forever in this case, the reason the company can't just say it's been deleted is if they actually do need to restore one of these backups, the data you deleted will come back.
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I don't know about you but I find everything about computers is hard, that doesn't mean there aren't better or worse solutions.

The browser is the presentation layer, it needs to know the latency of your headphones (or the system does). Why does the content provider need it? What's wrong with "here is frame A, please play audio A at the same time (while taking into account the latency that only you know about)" as a request?
It's not a controversial statement to say electric vehicles are heavier than gasoline vehicles. Typically an electric vehicle will weigh about 1/3 more than a competing ICE vehicle. Just look at curb weights for vehicles if you don't believe me.
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Once we have robo drivers everyone will have them. If Uber survives until that day, it will have no advantage over a localized competitor like Bobs Taxis with robo drivers.
Be very careful about combining Inactive Account Manager with telling Google not to store activity data. I started getting countdown to deletion warnings telling me I needed to log in to show I wasn't inactive, but no matter how often I did it was ignored completely until I turned on activity tracking. I'm not sure if this is a rare bug or working as intended, but it could go badly. In the end I turned off Inactive account management and activity tracking, but it was a bit disturbing.
Description of his interest in mechanized reasoning generally ignores the other half of his proposed project, which was to create a database of propositions for the machine to operate on. His idea was along the lines of Doug Lenat's Cyc, to represent all of human knowledge in propositional form. As I recall, in his grant proposal to the French court, he estimated that it would take a small group of clerks about 5 years to complete the job. The French didn't express any interest.
> convert Calculus derivative equations into algebraic ones...

This trick is - AFAIR from my classes - the basis of control theory math. You convert a control system to algebra, do your work there, and in the end, you convert back to differential equations.