skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it makes much sense to assume that all of what's not "surplus value" (the "due" return of capital, I take it?) is already captured by labor, which is what the claim that all the value one creates over one's compensation is "provided by [...] the people who built the company" means, I'm pretty sure. In fact I think things get pretty messy and unhelpful when we start trying to attribute the "proper" due of anyone involved in this. You get what you get, and if your employer's not getting more than that they should probably look at hiring someone else, and if they could pay you less for exactly the same return on your labor they absolutely would, even though the value you're creating is the same, which tells me that no, capital is not somehow responsible for all that extra value, and I don't think it makes much sense to put things in those terms, even—like workers, they just get whatever they can manage to get.

[EDIT] point remains, your wage is the cost of having that work done by labor in the market, unrelated to the value (return on investment, say) it provides, except that same value puts a de facto cap on the wage. If capital can get a 10% return paying $20/hr, they'll do it. If they could find a way to do the exact same thing but pay $10/hr, they would. "Value" remains constant.
This isn't meant to excuse any bad behavior, but how many "domestic workers that aren't engineers" do they employ versus the rest of FAANG, and in what roles? If a huge portion of your business consists of plucking things off of shelves in warehouses then yes, of course you're going to have a higher rate of injury than the guy at Google whose job it is to wheel in new kegs of kombucha every week.
When compared to the other two major OSS libraries I would say:

- Leaflet. Widely known, suitable for mostly simple use cases.

- Mapbox GL JS. State of the art library based on WebGL. Mapbox started off with a fork/extension of Leaflet called Mapbox.js but over time has moved on and created the Mapbox GL JS library from the ground up. Very fast, but requires a GPU due to WebGL.

- OpenLayers. Often used by more professional users. Probably the most features complete library. Also usable without a GPU.
> The bit you quoted doesn't even have anything to do with any type of technical background.

That could be why he led with "I wonder..."
The hypothetical is that they were planning to murder the victim instead of just rob him.
A company exists for whatever purpose those that control it desire to (within the bounds of the law), including doing good at the expense of profit.

The whole "Companies must maximize shareholder return" is a myth, because its a vague, unfalsifiable statement. More profit now could easily result in less profit, or no profit in the future.
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SCOTUS and the constitution act as limiting factors on the government's power, that does not disprove the general rule that government power tends to increase over time.

Example: https://blogs-images.forbes.com/waynecrews/files/2017/08/Pub..., including both actual passed laws and agency rulemaking. Also see https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2733378
Have you verified that this is impossible or was gathering evidence for your strong claim too obvious for you?

It is possible to do this better than random guessing!
Now guess if Dr. Dre is a PhD or MD.
> And these irresponsible folks and individuals are painting an apocalyptic view of the future that is completely at odds with the best science.

This, of course, raises the question: what, precisely _is_ the view of the future painted by the best science?

I see the same news articles as everyone else, but, when applicable, I've been hunting down the papers they're based on and at least reading the abstracts. I've noticed some articles exaggerating or getting details wrong (such is the state of science journalism since forever), but nothing that gives me very much confidence that there will be a future for civilization in 60-100 years. Am I getting the right idea, or am I reading the wrong papers?
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All Mac Pros include a Magic Mouse and Magic Keyboard. You just have to pay more if want a Magic Trackpad.
I am watching a friend in Texas go through this right now. He has been planning on leaving his current employer for some time, and his plan was to start a company that is only vaguely in the same space (basically going after an open area of a market adjacent to his current employer's space, not competing directly) but is now enmeshed in a battle over a very broad non-compete that he signed with his current employer which employment lawyers are telling him is enforceable (even if he relocates to the valley, which was the plan) for a period of two years despite basically being broad enough to prevent him working for companies vaguely related (along the lines of "does it involve networking?").

It's still in progress, but it's one of those things that immediately rules Texas out as an option. It's really amazing how bad it is out there [1].

[1] https://www.beckreedriden.com/50-state-noncompete-chart-2/
A lot of negative comments here, so I'll offer my 2c.

I agree that their initial post was deceptive, and inexcusably so. But the spammy tactic I think is outweighed by their total devotion to understanding their customers. Maintaining over 300 simultaneous conversations, just to get an insight into their users is a herculean, and praiseworthy, effort.

The takeaways and tips are useful too, if you're thinking about starting a bootstrapped company. They're not pitched as "do this and you'll succeed", they're pitched as "here's what we did, you do you", which I appreciate. I'll borrow some and ignore others when I start my own venture.

EDIT: curious why I'm being downvoted
That's more a limitation of the motherboard than the Ryzen, no? You would buy a motherboard with however many PCIe and DIMM slots you need for the desired specs.
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Rails ActiveRecord kind of already does this. To update the database schema, you write migrations, either in Ruby pseudo-SQL or in actual SQL as desired. When you run the migration, it auto-generates a schema file that is also checked into the repo. Ideally, any commit with a migration should also have the updated schema file from applying that migration.
> The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object.

-- Hannah Arendt
Making a one page site to 'validate your idea' by getting 'sign ups' is more a measure of how willing people are to hand over their email address than any proof that your startup could work. How many of those people will turn in to actual real money sales is the only metric that counts.

If you can get 150 people to preorder and pay an actual fee based on an idea and a mockup then I'll be impressed. And it is possible...
Thank you so much for this, I was wondering what the differences were. I've used Leaflet, but not OpenLayers or Mapbox.
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Am I crazy to think they should invest it in modernizing their country and bringing industry to it? Why not invest in making Saudi Arabia the world leader in "X" for when the oil runs out instead of just blowing money on Uber and WeWork?
> An 8-core i9 with a 1TB SSD and 32GB of RAM is $3600

Whaaaat.

That's nowhere close to a reasonable price!
Playing around on PCPartPicker [0], I can get a 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X, 1TB SSD, 64GB of RAM (expandable to 128GB later) and a RTX 2070 Super all for less than $2k. Sure, the monitor is worth something - but 50 percent?

0: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/92GygJ
Hiya! Author of the article here. I used OmniGraffle.
We're commenting on an article that describes Verizon giving 0 fucks about what is "important to the public".
And it's $400 to get wheels on the tower version. Apparently those stand-offs are expensive to remove no matter the case orientation.
This is not just about breaking the law. Being negligent can cause personal liability. This is the kind of liability people often think the “LL” protects them from.
Having worked with Django a bunch, I'd recommend squashing your migrations once you have a lot of them. It will speed up the time it takes to make a new database, including testing time if you're testing your database.
Don’t know about cheaper, but Planet (planet.com) offers daily imagery. Worked there a few years ago.
I am surprised people are disclosing their financials to third party that easily. plaintext accounting isn't very hard to use, yet it is much more powerful and safer.
Interesting. Wish there was a way to auto-generate these graphs with my git history.

I like them!
How did nobody realize that DREAD is an incredibly ominous acronym early on in this project?
How will you get a tech valuation if you're not changing the world though? /s
Correct, but one facet of xkcd passwords is that it's very easy to remember which prevents people from writing down passwords on sticky notes, thus eliminating that security risk.

In the case of Welsh words, it's about as easy to remember for a non-Welsh speaker as leetspeak is, and so people will just write down the password somewhere again to remember it, which makes this less secure overall than xkcd passwords on English.
Leaflet author here! Just wanted to note that if you haven't looked into OpenLayers in a few years, you absolutely should — it's astonishing how much it progressed: from something that I was so frustrated with that it prompted me to write Leaflet in the first place (11 years ago) to a modern, fast, well-engineered and lovingly maintained library.

It's especially great when you're doing complex GIS stuff and need a ton of features and formats supported out of the box. As for other libraries, I'd recommend Leaflet for simple maps, and Mapbox GL for rich, highly interactive apps that benefit from vector rendering tech (I'm biased since I contributed to both), but it's great to have OpenLayers in the mix — there's a library for anyone's needs, cross-inspiration moves all three forward, and the mapping software landscape in general is greater than it has ever been.
> This would mean China is always a step behind. China wants to become the leading country. To achieve that in the shortest time span possible, they copy whatever they can, learn from it and build upon on it. In short, China copies, then innovates.

They don't necessarily have to innovate to become a leading country. They could do that by achieving mere technological parity, but producing it at a larger scale.

For instance, if China slavishly copied all US weapons designs and went to war with the US, China would win. It has more population and a larger industrial base, which means more soldiers in uniform and more equipment on the battlefield. The slavish copying would neutralize the US "quality" advantage, turning the conflict into one about "quantity."
Not trying to defend any side but :

> Because it's easier and cheaper than developing it yourself.

Why should the humanity invest resources twice to figure out how to make the same product or the same service on another place on Earth? That would be a bad allocation of our time, as a global specie. In the era of internet, sharing knowledge is instant, why not make use of it?
Yes, some people keep magnesium, K2 MK-7, K2 MK-4 and D3 in their system to slowly break it down. This is done primarily to reverse the calcification in and around the heart to get a lower CAC score. Ideal score is 0.
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And even if it was private, execs can get an admin to join them to the channel - assuming they don't already have that permission.
Because it applies the convention of one forum to another. It assumes that the readers of this forum will be familiar with them and appreciate their inclusion.
No one care what you think I know or don't know bring arguments that support your opinion.

Whats the mcap of USD?
Whats the mcap of EUR?
Whats the mcap of Gold?
Why does no one know exactly? Because It's irrelevant meaningless and basically impossible to know because of lost units and secret holdings (in case of gold)

Ofc people speculate with currencies but not the average joe, whos supposed to use it as a medium of exchange. And that's the whole point. Small fluctuations or small inflation doesn't matter for its use as medium of exchange.

The whole "global bitcoin economy" thing wasm't the topic of my post no clue why you tell me this. Also the price of btc is already determined by "global market force" if you wanna call it that way. although it has not much to do with any other market. It's just supply and demand that make the price.
I apologized so it is clear that I'm not rejecting your idea due to my shallow thinking. Maybe you are trying to convey a story that potentially opens wide-range of possibilities and I just don't see it.

As I said, maybe there are people who'd find it extremely useful. Would you mind sharing your "hack" in https://github.com/magit/magit or https://gitter.im/magit/magit ?
Weird... it is almost as if the Russians invaded Afghanistan and then we used it as an opportunity to shove a spear right in their stomach. But yeah, I forgot, United States Government (USG) = bad. Rest of world = good. NPC re-programming complete.
I've heard that Ryuk is highly targeted, usually a manual secondary attack on enterprises that can afford a much higher ransom than normal. So it's probably not autonomous, and its reputation for unreliable decryption after payment should make victims less willing to pay.
You can think of these enhanced pictures as an artistic interpretation. Like a robot painter drawing your portrait. That's not a bad thing, good artists, and most likely good robots know how to make something look good while preserving the essentials.
Unless I am doing astronomy, I'd rather have a beautiful night sky than a speck of dust that might be a starlink satellite. And if I am doing astronomy, having all the super-resolution features is really nice.

Unprocessed camera modes will continue to exist for people who want that. Maybe with some built-in digital signature in case it is used as proof.

Photography, and earlier that that, drawing, has always been world-how-people-want-it. Accuracy is just one of the things you may want.
In 1 month, you spent about 5 hours doing operational stuff with a team of 5 and you think that is too much ? I would say not really. Welcome to being the founder. I was just yelling at myself for figuring out how to fix the damn CRM. And I actually have a team of sales/marketing people even though we are just a little bigger than your team size.
Stealing isn't getting something for nothing its a crime based on the inherently rivalrous nature of physical things.

You and I can't both eat the same sandwich or park in the same space. We decided to adopt a complex set of rules for parking spots and sandwiches to keep people from settling matters for themselves by punching and kicking each other so we can go about all the other fun things that make civilization go. Re-purposing it to mean me doing or not doing something that will profit you is intellectually dishonest.
It always surprises me when managers think that they can focus on 1 single aspect of the work experience and fix everything. People are complex, and managing is necessarily also complex.
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can you go into more detail on this? it sounds interesting. What's an example of somethings value that varies non-linearly with the purchase price? Is a "non-linear transfer function" a stand-in for "quadratic payments" in this case?
> Git will eventually delete unreferenced state files during git-fsck

Yes, but if it’s in the index currently, then it is referenced and won’t be garbage collected.
> I agree with the observation. But the alternatives are grossly over-engineered or a case study in NIH. I'm sticking with Makefiles until someone can present something better.

I agree that they are complex beasts, but that complexity is incidental, not essential (some might argue "a lack of engineering" rather than "overengineered"). The documentation for these tools is also pretty atrocious on average. However, I don't think they're NIH insofar as their direct ancestor (Blaze) was never publicly available and Bazel didn't exist when those original Googler pilgrims brought their build-system ideas to Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, etc. But nevertheless, there are half a dozen shitty tools instead of one decent tool. Worse, they're pretty much all designed for use in large organizations' monorepos--organizations who can employ people who are specialists in operating/maintaining these tools.

> I don't think Nix improves anything when you are stuck writing a weird javascript derivative. This comes from a packager writing bash for a living.

The improvements are certainly not uniformly distributed, nor are they sufficient to really justify its mainstream use, IMHO. :)
Have you tried "gitk"?
Oh, I'm specifically referring to pro-audio (a Tascam 8x8 I/O, and a Presonus 1804) interfaces, that my Ubuntu 16.04 system was pretending were "surround sound" interfaces, so it's something configuration related, not ALSA/driver itself.

(I'm exclusively interested in pro-audio, vs whatever the OP of this comment was concerned with)

I have 2 interests with regard to this:
1) writing a driver for a home-brew soundcard with an MCU running the DAC/ADC TDM interfaces, and interfacing with the computer via SPI, as it's clock is a function of the audio sample clock running the whole shebang, and I never saw an SPI transport for ALSA in my life

2) just generally trying to get to the bottom of how linux/ALSA sees my soundcard hardware (the specific multi-channel audio interface being interpreted/configured as a surround sound interface etc.)

I mentioned the Device Tree Overlays as it appears that this is how the Bela system manages it's PRU supported audio codecs in Alsa mode, but consider it a clueless comment off-topic...

Thanks for writing back, I appreciate it!
I'm a big Ardour fan.
Jack is standard for everything in pro-audio these days, and yes, I know that you literally have spent 30 ++ years in this realm, hence my questions...

By the way, when they ask for "quantizing audio" in Ardour, it's already there! I can say that the following works GREAT in Ardour:
1) strip silence function
2) snap the audio bits created by #1 to grid/quantize value.
the worst would be the absolute prohibition of outside projects, even open source unless it were explicitly my job.

Wait, what? If you work at Apple, you are absolutely prohibited from having outside projects, even open source projects that are explicitly not a part of your job?

That's so surprising to me that it feels like it can't possibly be true. The best hackers all have some kind of open source projects, and Apple feels very supportive of open source work. How could they attract the best talent unless they were fine with people building open source projects?
Agreed. If you have enough money to own a house with a garage and electric car, you can probably afford to have an electrician run an outlet to your garage if it doesn't already have one. Similarly, I doubt anyone who owns a house and gasoline car is going car shopping and saying "Oh, honey, this car is electric, and we don't have an outlet in the garage... we can't get this..."
What are the implications for ML used in real-world situations with no training set (or a very limited one) that could have life or death consequences - passenger vehicles, industrial use, military, etc.?

Or is the consensus that it is a matter of time before compute and algorithms make these situations "safe enough," even for edge cases?
Because their decision making is political and short-sighted with no sense of ownership of their management decisions for the future of the company; rather they are looking for their next golden parachute.
"When I say people should study logic, I don't mean necessarily its formal presentation."

If that's the case, you probably shouldn't have linked to that Wikipedia article because it's mostly about formal logic systems. Regardless, I'd usually classify studying informal fallacies more under critical thinking than logic strictly speaking. There's an entirely different set of formal logical fallacies that apply to formal logic.
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> recall that Qatar was kicked out of GCC recently for aligning with rival ideologies like Muslim Brotherhood

This is a very narrow view of what happened. It has more to do with the worry of Qatar's growing influence and independence in the region, as well as their close ties with Iran and Turkey. And the success of Al-Jazeera. I mean, just take a look at the demands made of Qatar:

- Closing Al-Jazeera and its affiliate stations.

- Closing other news outlets that Qatar funds, directly and indirectly, including Arabi21, Rassd, Al-Araby Al-Jadeed and Middle East Eye.

- Closing the Turkish military base in Qatar, and terminate the Turkish military presence and any joint military cooperation with Turkey inside Qatar.

- Reducing diplomatic relations with Iran. Only trade and commerce with Iran that complies with US and international sanctions will be permitted.[228]

- Expelling any members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and cutting off military and intelligence cooperation with Iran.[229]

- "Qatar must announce it is severing ties with terrorist, ideological and sectarian organizations including the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Jabhat Fateh al Sham, formerly al Qaeda's branch in Syria" according to one Arab official.

- Surrendering all designated terrorists in Qatar, and stopping all means of funding for individuals, groups or organisations that have been designated as terrorists.

- Ending interference in the four countries' domestic and foreign affairs and having contact with their political oppositions.

- Stopping granting citizenship to wanted nationals from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain.

- Revoking Qatari citizenship for existing nationals where such citizenship violates those countries' laws.[228]

- The payment of reparations for years of alleged wrongs.

- Monitoring for 10 years.[226]

- Aligning itself with the other Gulf and Arab countries militarily, politically, socially and economically, as well as on economic matters, in line with an agreement reached with Saudi Arabia in 2014.[228]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar_diplomatic_crisis#Demand...
When talking strictly about DDL (managing schemas, not row data migrations) the third bullet doesn't really provide much benefit, IMO. As long as your tooling knows how to properly transition from any live schema state to the new desired state, the actual migration / specific ALTER statement is basically unnecessary.

Facebook has been using the declarative approach (repo of CREATE statements, pure SQL) company-wide for nearly a decade and it works extremely well. Conceptually, this approach allows you to treat database schemas just like code: request a schema change by pull request; CI validates and sanity-checks; review the PR within your own team just like code; merge to kick off the change using a CD pipeline.

I liked this approach so much that I started an open source project in early 2016 to help enable this workflow for MySQL and MariaDB, https://www.skeema.io. It has a number of validations and safety checks built in, including the one described in your 4th bullet.
You might as well play the lottery. You have better odds than thinking you will sell for a billion. Hell selling for 100 million or even ten. It's delusions of grandeur.
Beyond leaving the slots open, there's a slight performance benefit
An interesting question is can you remove the second amendment? “Shall not be infringed” implies any effort to limit the right is blocked.