skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is Discord profitable or are they still burning up VC to provide that hosting? IIRC they tried to branch into being a game store but it didn’t work out.

We use Mumble and it’s nice to know that our server isn’t going to run out of money and shut itself down, nor will it start logging all our communication to target ads at us.
tl;dr If the used cup won't touch the pouring utensil, it's OK to reuse; otherwise, you get a new cup.

In retrospect, this is what I observe as a customer in most cases.
Hydrogen is 3x more energy dense than diesel, and diesel is about 5 to 10x more energy dense than lithium ion batteries.
Water and electricity flow to many homes. It isn't certain that people can't refuel at home.
That is a space reactor. Send it to Mars or the 500AU solar gravitational lens area in the direction opposite Sagittarius A. Let it rot in place and don't worry that civilization falls, then 4000 years later the Mormons and the Scientologists are fighting for control of Yucca mountain from which they drill holes in search of Plutonium.
"Logout all my sessions" is basic decency towards your user.

I get that it's hard with your bloggable thing, but it's better for the people on the other end.
There was nothing in the interview about how to keep a hydrogen-fueled car from becoming a miniature Hindenburg disaster in a collision. Is that considered a solved problem?
Hydrogen can be refueled at home. Electrolysis is pretty damn easy.
Google Has $100 for Teachers Who Steer 20 Children to 'Google CS First'
> Some of my worries about having kids were right, though. They definitely make you less productive. I know having kids makes some people get their act together, but if your act was already together, you're going to have less time to do it in. In particular, you're going to have to work to a schedule. Kids have schedules. I'm not sure if it's because that's how kids are, or because it's the only way to integrate their lives with adults', but once you have kids, you tend to have to work on their schedule.

> You will have chunks of time to work. But you can't let work spill promiscuously through your whole life, like I used to before I had kids. You're going to have to work at the same time every day, whether inspiration is flowing or not, and there are going to be times when you have to stop, even if it is.

> I hate to say this, because being ambitious has always been a part of my identity, but having kids may make one less ambitious. It hurts to see that sentence written down. I squirm to avoid it. But if there weren't something real there, why would I squirm? The fact is, once you have kids, you're probably going to care more about them than you do about yourself. And attention is a zero-sum game. Only one idea at a time can be the top idea in your mind. Once you have kids, it will often be your kids, and that means it will less often be some project you're working on.
Welcome to the world of being a parent. It can be frustrating, perplexing and mind-bending. Few things compare to those little arms snug around your neck, the head leaning on your shoulder, all in complete trust that you love them and wish them the best.
Left brain v Right brain is mostly bunk [1]. Additionally, the zine trend is nothing new. It is just making its way to computing in a way I have not noticed before. It's been common in music scenes, especially punk, for a long time.

I like it because it presents information in a more conversational way and has more personality. I like Julia's stuff because it feels like you're learning the topic with her rather than being talked at. Having hand drawn visuals also lets a lot of information be communicated quickly in a way that's harder than just text in some instances.

[1]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/16/left-r...
It really doesn't solve any problems surrounding web analytics, user privacy or user experience. I think it shows the creators lack of industry experience in ecommerce, advertising and user tracking. It's like someone has sprinkled a flawed 20 year old method of tracking in glitter and saas'd it.

I think there is a very small subset of website owners that would be willing to pay for this. Then again he only needs to get a few people that aren't sales focused and are deluded enough to think this is the pinnacle of 'privacy'.
Now you're nitpicking. Sure, he can educate himself and should. But in the amount of time he has (can't be much) he can learn basically nothing. It's too late for that path to make any sense.

As for the other thing, looks like you're intentionally picking a fight. Therefore, out of deference to your better logic, I withdraw my comment that you are not a bad person.
I think they see the writing on the wall for their services business with solid state tech and wanting to fight the trend. Or, building engines are just such a core part of their company that they’re essentially petrol heads looking for a replacement as near as possible. But I’m low information on that and just speculating.

Fuel cells are neat tech though. I also understand the argument they made with respect to using nickel hydride batteries over lithium. See their CFOs recent remarks.
I’m not sure I understand.

Power isn’t what’s important. It’s power per volume/weight. If you have an infinitely dense power source then you can send matter at the speed of light through any medium. Is this really an important point to make?

Edit: Oh I see what’s going on above in this thread. It’s nuanced but I believe the original point was that in the Real World with Real Power Sources you have a Real Top Speed. You can’t just always dump more power into your ship to increase it and the right way to increase the max speed is to control hull dimensions.
Awesome!

There’s a quiet little subreddit devotee to this idea https://www.reddit.com/r/HMDprogramming/ They’d really appreciate this.
That's deeply upsetting. For those readers who haven't read the article but were considering it, I suggest you skip it if you've been the victim of sexual abuse.

I wish I could say something constructive, something about a panacea or partial solution to what this woman experiences while posing as a child. I know that VPNs, Tor, Proxies and the like will hide the determined, but I wish that something could be done about this.

Oh, and for those of you who may feel the need to say "don't let kids on the internet". That's almost impossible to enforce. Kids visit other kids houses, sleepovers, libraries, schools, etc etc. They get exposed to this stuff and it's horrible.
It's good that he thinks about "getting enough done" now. That should be everyone's focus in the first place -- if you're focusing on only doing what's necessary, the quality of your choices is bound to improve (Warren Buffet's punch card analogy comes to mind). It's depressing to me that with productivity culture we've left this so far behind.
Fintech: The rise of the Asian ‘super app’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Realto...
That sounds nice and dramatic, but I don't see how a terrible choice someone made 10 years ago says anything about how trustworthy they are with regard to financial or personal information. It seems you're leaving out the assumption: once a criminal, always a criminal.
>Throwing seeds is NOT enough to grow real crops in any amount that will actually feed anyone, especially the kind of crops that were around 10K years ago.

Yes, that was one of my points. The initially farmed plants were fully wild and hardy enough that they probably could be grown just by scattering seeds around.

>Farming takes a fuck ton of work. You have to water them, you have to fertilize them, you have to defend them from other animals, you have to weed out other plants competing with it for resources. It's not a simple thing. It's back breaking labor. There's a reason why 90+% of the population were farmers until the invention of gas engines, automated harvesters, electricity, etc.

Again, we're not talking modern, large scale optimized farming of GMO crops that would not survive without human care. We're talking about small, gradually expanding plots of almost wild, and therefore low maintenance, supplemental crops, that over generations become a larger and larger part of diet. How else do you think farming started?

A bison will feed a whole tribe for a month, sure, but it can also take tribe members with it, especially with your stone tipped, non compound bows. If you happen across an unusually supportive yield of whatever semi wild tubers you planted and basically forgot about, there's no reason a human wouldn't put off a dangerous hunt.

Anyway, the original question was why Hunter gatherers started farming if it were bad for them. I'm trying to show how it's possible for that to have happened. I'm not sure what you're arguing, that farming could not have occurred in any beneficial capacity before combines? Have you ever had a vegetable garden? Hardly backbreaking work if you're lucky enough to have good soil and the right climate for whatever you're growing...

Again, this is a gradual process. Hell, I can think of a modern analogue that I've picked myself, the blue Camas plant that grows all over the PNW in patches. It doesn't take much work once you've figured out you can plant them yourself next to your cave/camp.
If electricity costs $.15/kWh, efficiency might matter. If it costs $.03/kWh, there are way more factors that might matter a lot more.
First, consult a lawyer.

Even if you talk to them later without one, you need to know where you stand from a legal standpoint.
Those are also pirated, even on Amazon itself.
It's pretty, but what's the point of this article if there's nothing to download and use? In the comments someone says "it's coming" but the announcement seems premature.
> It's easier to sell software when you can pull a feature on a roadmap up to land a big account

It's initially easier to sell software with that quick-and-dirty approach, but if you keep doing it you'll find that you're incurring a lot of technical debt. Which you'll need to pay down in some way, if you want your software to be "constantly improving".

If you're right that customer requirements are requiring more essential complexity of our industry, keeping these dynamics in check can only be even more important, rather than less.
Many companies are “ready” to make BEVs. Where are all the BEVs, then?
The experience of having kids involves a relationship that spans something more than 25 years.

I remember seeing research done on people that have had the full experience and the overall ratings of happiness were lower.
Almost everything he says rings true with me after we got a dog. Especially the moments where I feel present and the joy from doing mundane tasks. Get a dog if you are childless!
Probably one of the more honest and rational takes on this subject that I've seen.

Asking people why they want/wanted kids usually (but not always) results in a loop of they have kids because they wanted kids. Or they want kids because they want kids.

Not that's it not a sufficient answer, just that it's different from some "artificial" wants which can be justified more easily.

My favorite other simple answers were just "I grew up with four siblings and three dogs and I like there to be lots of movement at home" and "I'm not plotting for world domination only to let it go to waste after I die"
Despite not being a parent I am closely observing many of my friends tread this path. To all I can only say:

You are more important than your children - for their sakes!
I used a little php script to do the password generation, and yes we did use FDE
I'll have to agree with pytester, and say something strongly discouraged by the article... But, well, Java can not be an extreme, its type system is very basic, it can represent very few stuff, so it can not check much.

If you want something closer to the extreme, go for Haskell. But then, you can't complain much about bureaucracy.

There is an annoying tendency of people to base their opinions on technology directly copied from the 70's.
trying to split the difference between https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Mirai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_S https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_Model_3

I mean different shaped/sized cars and all but probably a bit worse? range vs weight seems about on par with the S but worse HP?

but also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell#Theoretical_maximum_... so ?
Previous it is a cherry-on-top, now self sufficiency is their life line. A day and night difference.

But I guess those days will arrive no matter what, as semiconductor ended its exponential growth era, the West can't have an edge forever, no matter how hard they try.
Uhh. Just going to chime in here. It is absolutely OK if you don’t experience the emotions he writes about here.

You aren’t broken.

I write this because I read and it immediately messaged a few friends who respect Paul as well asking them if I was broken.

Everyone experiences parenthood differently.

I never had the chemical changes in my brain and often over the past 3 years have realized just how selfish I am when it comes to taking care of the munchkins. There are other things I’d rather be doing, learning, building.

That is OK.

Just because the HN generally respects Paul doesn’t mean that if your experience as a parent doesn’t match his something is wrong.

You are OK and chances are you are a better parent than you think.
I wonder if the same chemical switch that he talks about gets flipped if you adopt a child, or marry a single parent and thus become a step-parent. If so, I wonder how young the child has to be for that to happen.
I think it goes without saying that not everyone that buys software is a professional, and instead wish to use it a few times per year for job adjacent functions or as a hobbyist. For the "few times a year" folks, maybe "one month at a time is annoying but reasonable enough."

Hobbyists, though, are in a bad spot.
In your hypothetical, what if the 5% tax was presented (with significant evidence) as a way to correct for market distortions that, if left unchecked, would be exploited by those at the top, politically and financially? Would you still want the government to not interfere?
> Necessary for whom?

Necessary for anyone interested in preserving democracy[1]. Unless we actively fight to preserve privacy, surveillance capitalism will continue to "disrupt" traditional forms of power.

> If follow SA loses a feature it likely needs to remain competitive, and customers would have another reason to go back to Google Analytics.

Continuing the betrayal of user privacy in the hope of appeasing the surveillance capitalists won't be "[privacy] for our time". Advertisers and other eavesdroppers have consistently demonstrated they will maximally exploit any tool available to them.

[1] http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/02/shoshana-zuboff-q-and...
Of course a lot of those players have in turn gone on to gambling and hedge funds.
Depends on how you view density. Energy per unit mass - better than hydrocarbons. Energy per unit volume - worse.
My apologies, I was responding to the question about why a court would find an employment contract provision unenforceable - we don't know what the OP's employment contract states (or if he even has one), so I was treating this whole line of inquiry as separate from the OP's situation. Didn't mean to confuse the issues.
>Some things can only really be tested in artificial environments.

What exactly do you think will be tested in that artificial environment when the environment itself (with what I'd hazard to guess quite a list of specifics, many of the "subtle and implicit, but influential" kind) is a central variable of the test?

If an observational study of this kind is deemed hard/improbable/impossible to set up - how hard do you think it is to get the artificial setup right? To account for - or even identify - all variables and preconditions? This is so easy to mess up and end up with basically meaningless data. (Yeah, I know - that doesn't mean it won't be published. Everybody raise your hands and shout "Replication Crisis"! :) )
>Having kids is one of those intense types of experience that are hard to imagine unless you've had them. But it is not, as I implicitly believed before having kids, simply your DNA heading for the lifeboats.

But it is, because your entire biology has evolved for billions of years with the sole purpose of reproducing effectively. No amount of "I feel like I enjoy it" negates that it is programmed into you as an organism. It just re-enforces how integrated the drive is with your psychology and consciousness.

The negative points from the post:

* less productive
* less time for your ideas
* less ambitious

If you're the type of person for which those points sounds disastrous, don't have kids. Get a pet instead. You can still fulfill that nurturing side of you without having it take a wrecking ball to your productivity.
Or more simply, it’s because having kids is, on average, the meaning of life. We exist to preserve the specie, everything else is a hobby.
> Seriously, these are free?
Yup, like health care or love.

That's just genius.
The earlier discussion about this piece was pretty great: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5511815
> The difference between $200k and $300k is a lot, but I see a lot of unattached young people not really caring.

In which context do you see that?

> ex post facto' rewards as a sort of corrupting influence on the creation of art

So ... Patronage only? Commissions only?
Wrong: demonization is obviously one-sided. Because it alone can drive polarization, polarization is not "two-sided".

Moreover, there is a difference in calling spade a spade, and hate speech.
Mining Bitcoin on an Apollo Guidance Computer
* I searched for "chinese restaurant". Why is it showing me taco shops at all? I don't care that there are several open this late at night, I want to see my _search results_.
I had no idea about that, guess I need to dive deeper into the fulcro docs, thanks!
But then you'll have all these kernel bugs.
Maybe the assumption that its condescending is the problem? Someone some time ago figured out that calling evidence based arguments condescending, and for some reason it stuck.

Maybe because those arguments are not perfect. After all they are messy, based on the complex reality filtered through the ugliness of statistics and bounded rational arguments.

... and The Ugly Orange's tweets and one-liners are gospel, but anything that starts with data is condescending.
The only thing that's aggressive about that as an opener is if someone specifically takes offense at the suggestion of legal counsel as something you should always have if you can afford it. That's absurd. It is absolutely poor judgment to enter employment without it. If you don't have legal counsel and end up in this situation:

1) You should have had counsel earlier when you signed your agreement. You could have gone through your contract before you signed it, and potentially have gotten revisions. If you didn't get revisions, you could at least correctly understand the boundaries of legal restrictions you're agreeing to.

2) You definitely need counsel now. The situation is going to force you to make a high stakes decision.

Even if you can't change the situation, you can at least learn from it.
> The population won't permit modular reactors anymore than they'd permit traditional reactors

I'd much rather a smaller nuclear plant per every few square miles that isn't vulnerable to meltdowns than large nuclear plants that are more complex and susceptible to meltdowns that will destroy all adjacent land.

And to say the fear is irrational is ignorant to history.
Let people have fun.
Right , that's what I meant by other more "artificial" desires. This one is as natural/biological as it gets and that's why wanting to have them because you want to have them is a perfectly acceptable answer.
>Everyone has an interest in aesthetics and visual appeal

You'd be surprised.

>and has a subjective opinion on what they find appealing

That's true, but not all "subjective opinions" are equally informed, based on study, and refined/cultivated systematically.

For most, their "subjective opinion" in aesthetic matters is as random as their favorite food.

While "objective" things are clear cut (measurable, quantifiable, 100% not arguable), "subjective" is a scale from "uninformed random preference" (say, a person who likes "Dali" paintings because he's some some in websites and they look cool) to "scholarly expertise" (say, an art curator, that has studied Japanese woodblock for decades with masters of the art).

>but everyone has equal legitimacy in their opinion on this

In the modern world everyone has an equal right to offer their opinion.

That's not the same as the different opinions being equally legitimate (e.g. equally worthy of attention, equally informed, equally productive, equally subtle, etc).
Looking at the Apache 2 license, it seems like they want to take ownership of your trademark and monetise it. Otherwise they would simply fork it and get on with making their changes. I would point them to the license and ask them what issues they have with it. Expecting you to simply give them control over your copyrighted work is outrageous, especially if you didn’t do it on company time. It’s probably best to get a lawyer to look at your employment contract if it’s unclear how far they think their control and ownership extend.
A bit of this feels like rose coloured glasses. I don't regret having kids, and I love them to death, and even at 2 and 4, they really are interesting to talk to and interact with! However, they're also at times the worst housemates and worst companions there are. As Graham says, kids take a tremendous amount of time and attention, which can be very frustrating. Kids are possibly the greatest inconvenience one can imagine, maybe even more so.

I think it was a ted talk I watched long ago whose basic premise was that with kids the highs are really high and the lows are really low. It goes on to say that a major component of the lows is that we feel like we shouldn't feel like this because it's not socially acceptable to talk about the negative aides of children. However, if we talked about how frustrating children are, we could help make those lows a bit less low.

Like I said, I don't regret mine, but it definitely not all flowers. I'm not really refuting anything in the essay, as he highlights many of the good parts of parenthood, I do think it's important that we don't look at child rearing with rose coloured glasses. I mean, it _is_ super awesome, but it also _sucks_ too.
I could believe it is better for the environment to make hydrogen powered cars over cars with batteries filled with toxic chemicals.
I don't have kids but from what I know about small children they're likely to be a thousand times more selfish than you.
Can you explain how being selfish (i.e. wanting to do other things instead of taking care of them) makes you a better parent?

It's not at all obvious.
Battery tech has already won for general automotive applications, even though the number of cars sold is still small. The problem is that while Toyota is a big company, they’re not big enough to deploy the massive hydrogen distribution and fueling infrastructure that would be required in order to make their cars commercially viable around the world. To make this work, they’d need basically every other major auto manufacturer to commit to hydrogen fuel cells as their future non-ICE alternative. Unfortunately for Toyota, virtually every other auto manufacture has already bet heavily on BEV, and against hydrogen. Even if the bet ultimately proves to be a bad one on technical grounds (and I don’t think it is), it seems very unlikely that any set of circumstances can undo it at this point.
Direct link to the challenge: https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/neurips-2019-minerl-compe...