skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The profit sharing part sounds odd as described. Cost of dev time is constantly increasing at a variable rate, so there would be automatic dilution baked in. Similarly by accepting any amount of money, you could be giving away a majority stake (and making a major commitment) before you even get started.

Generally I think it's worthwhile to think of customers and investors as separate entities and use established paradigms to deal with them. Ultimately you could have a combined customer-investor, but the deal needs to make sense from both perspectives. Learn about seed stage investment and how deals are structured in order to balance control with the interests of both sides.

If you're not careful it would be very easy to set up a deal with radically misaligned expectations on both sides, and without the right structure, a customer-investor could end up taking you for a real ride.
The german apprenticeship system requires a standardized test and you have to go to school 2-3 days per week.
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Please don't forget that you can self-host it, so you can own your data. But yes, the administration burden "killed it" for me, too, or at least the enthusiasm to make further edits, although it is a really promising app. I can only imagine taking care of such complex task as your main hobby when you're obsessive to take digital notes of everything. It's not been a year since I've spent a couple of days creating profiles, taking notes of events, conversations, etc, so it might be helpful in a couple of years when I can't remember any of these notes. However, as a self-hosed app, it might not survive that long and I could shut it down to give its resources to something else. Still, a great project, I hope it finds its target audience.
Indeed. Most fiction is ultimately about social relationships, someone's inner life, or personal growth. There are many stories, however, where those concerns are not the primary motivation for writing or reading the story, and SF has a disproportionate share of those. A fair number of "hard SF" stories are basically travelogues.
Does clojure interface well with Java libs?
For people intrigued by this comment, check out the Galactic Lensman series. Solid science fiction.
This is the second article in two days on Hacker News about the topic of people taking genetic testing too seriously.

It’s really sad to realize how much damage Americans have done to themselves based on junk science.

Science works, but it appears most people are in no position to figure out how to respond appropriately to scientific findings.

I don’t know what the solution is, but the pattern is tragic.
> The presumption you're making is that a country would never spend money for the public good

I have just realized that I assume this to be the case. If a government ever does that is simply a collateral effect of their main purpose which is enrichment of the politicans involved in the process.
Yes. Very well. https://www.clojure.org/reference/java_interop
It depends of how the company behaves. It's no different than with any other employees.

Give people the feeling they are part of something, that their day to day actions have a meaning, and enough money for their trouble, and they'll stay.

Say "we are a family" in your speeches and write "values" on the walls while you are just fitting cogs in the machine while optimizing for numbers and they will leave, or do the bare minimum they can if they need the cash.

This is not something you can fake. Not for long at least.

So it's not related to apprentices.

However, apprentices will more likely fit in your culture, accept changes, etc. Because they grow with you.
Find a company that needs what you offer. Offer to build it for them for X dollars, you retain all IP. This is fairly common in development. James Altucher also talks about this somewhat regularly.
This is cool. I'll be paying attention to this. If for no other reason than to see what it's like porting from one language to another.
Typescript allow that too.
One big difference is that a classroom has 30 or 50 or 100 students, and an in apprenticeship environment you can have probably up to 5 students. The classroom is much cheaper.

Another difference is that in an apprenticeship you can "fire" the students. In a classroom there is a big pressure to keep the students there.
Closos: Specification of a Lisp operating system (2013) [pdf]
Lawrence Lessig: Being a Citizen Is a Public Office, Too
I would expect the NYT to do some proper reporting though instead of copy/pasting Facebook’s press releases.
As I said, he was really great to work with. He wrote the initial draft of the simple frame language that bauhaus used for "intelligent assistance". He was a capable Lisp hacker, and a big fan of Lisp and Smalltalk. He's also just one of the nicest people I've ever met.

He left Apple some time around when Steve Jobs returned. I don't know why why he left, but I wouldn't be surprised if Steve had something to do with it.

I worked for Steve at NeXT for a little while, and he came and sat in my office one day and went on at length about everything that was wrong with Apple in his view. Prominent on his list were the Advanced Technology Group and the Human Interface Group. Larry was involved one way or another with both of those institutions, and Steve wasted no time getting rid of them when he took over again.
>The downside is that they'll only learn skills that are valuable for that specific company.

In my experience, university did not provide any skills valuable for any company, other than being useful for networking and a little bit of politics if you're involved with organizations in the university.

The big value, at least for 18-22 year olds, is from proving that they have the discipline to put in the work to get into a selective school and/or achieve high grades in difficult subjects. As an employer, my main concern when hiring someone is if they are capable, and if they are disciplined enough to apply themselves. If those two are true for a 22 year old, then there is a good chance they can be useful regardless of their specific education.
No, it was a regional forum.
Sarah2 Cipher
No need for a slide rule. The Asgard has a computer in the ship's control room, operated by Chief Computerman Kelly.
If you think it will benefit your company, and you have the permission to distribute the videos, sure.
In the same way Star Wars has incredible bits about light saber battling.
> at least set appropriate cache headers!

This seems like some pretty good actionable advice. It might be a good idea to make this an issue on their github page.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
Hard sf (where i use hard to basically be the science is consistent and no saving the day by "reversing the polarity of the deflector dish") can certainly explore the relationship between people and technology. Although personally i think that sf is best when exploring the relationship between society and people, and how it changes in different contexts.

For example, i consider greg egan (e.g. "Diaspora") and peter watts (e.g. "Blindsight") to be authors whose works are improved and excellent because they are hard sf.

Which is not to say there arent plenty of bad hard sf novels out there, there are. There are also plenty of amazing "soft" sf too. Hard sf is just a different type of novel, with different benefits and weaknesses. Like any (sub) genere it can be amazing in the right hands and terrible in the wrong.
Yep. The lesson is sadly that it makes sense to delay the reply with at least a week.
Can't wait to see vdom frameworks switch to their own thread
Such as
https://github.com/neomjs/neo

Chromium supports it so the web will move forward, with or without Firefox.
In practice, even the hardware arrangements of keys on stenotype machines (disregarding the actual assignment of mnemonic labels to keys) are quite region-specific. A big obstacle to i18n in this field.
You can also add "An infinitely large napkin", and "Linear algebra done wrong".
Oddly enough, one college major is well known to have limited economic value: Music. Yet music education follows the apprenticeship model. Individual lessons, practice, ensembles, and performances, are central to the education of music performance majors.
People certainly died in the construction of the Empire State Building. I think I calculated that the risk of death for a worker on that was higher than the risk for a soldier deployed in Afghanistan.
Yes, Kotlin seems to me like the future of Java.
Even the integration and operation were contracted out. Shuttle operation was done by United Space Alliance (Boeing/Lockheed joint venture).
At normative and legal level it's when cesarean section or force labor are equal risk or inconvenience to the mother as abortion. If the baby can born alive with no added risk to mother, then it should live.

People have should have full full control over their bodies.
Not sure why you’ve been downvoted.

The title is ambiguous, it could mean open source textbooks that are free of Mathematics!
1. For math textbooks, being “open source” doesn’t really add much value (compared to just free).

2. Don’t limit yourself to free textbooks. I would urge people to not hesitate to pirate PDFs of good, non-free textbooks if you can’t afford them or find them too much of a financial burden (textbooks are usually outrageously priced in the U.S.) A good textbook vs a mediocre one probably doesn’t matter for entry-level topics (think freshman, sophomore, or even junior level topics for math majors), but for advanced topics, good textbooks can be markedly more insightful than a mediocre one, or sometimes you need to approach the same topic with different mindsets by learning from multiple texts.
Night Science vs. Day Science: What Is the Question?
> The modern web really is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland, and also is very slow, very complicated, very messy, etc.

Well, that's success at emulating print, no?

But at lower cost and vastly improved tracking. No more "don't know which 50% of ad-spend I'm wasting".

Flawless victory.
> time travel, superluminal communication, or infinite energy aren't included

You should read the "orthogonal" series by greg egan :)
What is a CRM? All acronyms should be defined somewhere in articles that use them.

What's the benefit over a .txt file on a computer or a custom field in your Google contacts for remembering friend's kid's names?
Also spelled. Just as an example (and not only in Canada): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Dykstra
Ah,a printed ad, that brings back some memories. The years have gone by...
SEO Lessons from 2019
But rust is trendy so anything that is not rust is crap.

I find it amusing when people blame technology for their own shortcomings, and think using a different language will improve things only to end up using the new lang just as bad.

You are getting downvoted because there is just too much religion surrounding tech x vs tech y on hackernews and some people imagine rust is great for the web as if the world will suddenly drop tried and tested languages, with loads of tools and documentation available, with package manager and nearly ubiquitos support in favour of a fringe language like rust.
Ask HN: What is a very old HTML+CSS+JavaScript website that still works today?
I thought DOM manipulation from WASM was pretty expensive because it needs to be bridged through JS -- is that still true?
I recently re read it in middle age. I was less confused second time round. Having more experience with philosophy makes me more confident in my opinion that large chunks of it are nonsense. It does have some good bits though. Knowing people with mental health issues those parts certainty resonated more.
> What do Heinlein and hard science fiction have to do with each other? He's far, far out on the squishy end.

The first paragraph of Heinlein's Wikipedia entry at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Heinlein says "he was among the first to emphasize scientific accuracy in his fiction, and was thus a pioneer of the subgenre of hard science fiction."

Going the other way, the entry for "Hard science fiction" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_science_fiction includes his "The Past Through Tomorrow" collection of stories and "The Rolling Stones" as representative of hard science fiction.
Some comments: 5.1 with LuaJIT extras is arguably the superior language version so the vast majority of Lua devs do not see it as a downgrade.

In fact I dare say that it is 5.3 and subsequent versions that are and will remain the oddities. LuaJIT is just too good.
> in an attempt to return freed slaves back to Africa.

Is that why it is called Liberia?
Interestingly dijkstra is a Frisian name. Frisian is closer to english than Dutch is.
The fact much research is tax-subsidised is one but not the only argument for open public access to scientific research papers. Other arguments argue for broader access.

And tax-based support alone does not argue for closed access to a single country. There are tax-supported activities which aren't limited to benefiting, strictly, any or all of: taxpayers, citizens, or even residents of countries, among the latter foreign aid and cultural support.

The last of which scientific knowledge is an element.
Charting the Economy: World Limps on After 2019’s Trade Bruising
Data is the new snake oil
Apparently, no female SF authors have existed. Or anyone from outside anglosphere.
Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki Voyage
Great idea to compile this list. One of my favourite mathematics books that is available for free download is GeneratingFunctionology - https://www.math.upenn.edu/~wilf/DownldGF.html

Well-written and incredibly rewarding.
Go is just barely statically typed though, with its lack of generics. Some day soon, it will tacked onto the language; a language that wasn't designed with that in mind.

I don't know about pace, but in absolute terms, Go is far behind even the oldest versions of Scala.
What Happens When You Report Plagiarism to a Journal Editor
The divide was pretty explicit once, but people hated Java and Flash Applets so this is the "improvement" we get. I hope you're all happy.
This isn’t any the bl but rather accounts that helped disseminate the bl’s stuff, which snopes doesn’t discuss
IEEE-CS is a subgroup of IEEE and is focused on computer scientists. Can't say it is better or worse than ACM. I long ago let my membership in both organizations lapse and haven't missed either much. If I were in academia or research, I might feel differently.
Lots of nice links there, thanks.

There needs to be a CMBAN, a Comprehensive Math Book Archive Network. It would fight link rot, allow an author to upload versions as they change and give a blurb as well as version notes, and allow a downloader to know if the book is free or Free, etc. There are some sites that archive some sets but I know of no site that tries to be comprehensive.
Is this accurate? According to this person, it's not for faking lack of candidates in order to secure an H1B, but rather for the green card process:

https://twitter.com/sanaerosen/status/1208389683132030978
Anecdotes aren’t data - but even though I knew how to code long before my university CS course - having to do a CS undergrad is the only way most people will learn the boring-but-essential - or hard-to-learn parts of CS or SE.

For example - I built commercially successful (by my standards) software while in high-school that used O(n^2) algorithms (!!) - who is is fine for small applications - but the difference between someone “who can code” and “someone who can code well” is typically a BSc and an understanding of how to make things that can scale.

We’re all familiar with the trope of the medium-sized business exec who scoffs at the invoice of an SWE consultant arguing “my 12-yo nephew could have built that!” - and they’re not superficially wrong - but their 12yo nephew couldn’t build something that scales to millions of users and petabytes of data.

I’ve found a quick-and-dirty way of identifying the unwarranted self-confident types is to ask them how they’d quickly put together a CSV parser - if they give an answer involving `String.Split` you can tell they don’t have a degree.
This was a book that changed how I view the world on a fundamental level.
Posting these is a legal requirement.

I wonder how things would change if America had essentially open borders for highly skilled workers.
Composition and improvisation (where relevant - mostly surviving today in performance on the organ, and almost totally dead in other instruments) are also taught the same way. Somewhat surprising perhaps, since there's actually quite a bit of intellectual engagement with these topics, too - but a heavily practical attitude has long been recognized as yielding the best results.
Oh man, this brings back memories... when this article was written, I was a high school freshman, and I had just bought Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 Days so I could learn how to write my own custom CGI scripts for my geeky personal webpage. It was my first true programming language, after childhood flings with BASIC.

Also, I find it humorous how the term “hacker” is used here to refer to literally anyone who works on computers. I suppose the title of this site retains that meaning...
The book is more about the idea of maintaining motorcycles that it is about actually maintaining motorcycles.
Alpine Linux 3.11 Released with Raspberry Pi 4, MingGW-W64 and Vulkan Support
I think ideally a PhD is an apprenticeship. Practice in my experience is unfortunately not like an apprenticeship, instead it's a low paid job that can be quite abusive. Plus many of the things you "learn" aren't good for research in my view, e.g., I think "publish or perish" causes many researchers to avoid projects with the largest impacts. This is treated as "smart" but I strongly disagree.
I am no expert, but having normal cell phone speeds available most of the time, then backing off to 'IP-over-SMS (IoTXT?)' speeds when off the cell phone network carries a lot of value for me, not just in search and rescue scenarios, but maritime use, use in the back 40, and so on.

Sure, we won't be able to stream media, but having slow and steady wireless communications vs. no signal at all is like comparing a running, rusty 1985 Volvo station wagon to a 2021 Porche 911 GTS with no wheels: one will move you from place to place, albeit at a stately pace and in no style, the other is super cool, and at this exact second in time, is unfit for the purpose of transporting a body from place to place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Customer_relationship_manageme...
Latency will restrict it to niche use cases, the most likely of which is probably #4. No Great Firewall can stop this, unless it morphs into a Great Faraday Dome.
I assume public transportation wouldn't be practical because of the costs of keeping a dish pointed in the right direction when in motion.

Edit: expanded concept.
Ask HN: If you could automate one thing you do often at work, what would it be?
Hello HN!

We're currently working on a work automation platform. We have a few capabilities that we're building to help you do your work better. For guidance it would be super helpful to hear directly from the HN crowd :)

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> What I liked was we could focus on making a product first, which is hard to do when you are essentially solving someone else's problem.

Isn’t solving someone else’s problem the point of a product?
Randy Suess, computer bulletin board inventor, has died
Interested but how much as good as with kotlin?
Being compatible is one thing, being as idiomatic is another.
And all this was done without illegal 302's for FISA warrant wiretaps.
> For math textbooks, being “open source” doesn’t really add much value (compared to just free)

That is wrong. For one thing it allows someone to take up a project if the original author dies.

> I would urge people to not hesitate to pirate PDFs of good, non-free textbooks if you can’t afford them or find them too much of a financial burden

That is also wrong. Authors spend a significant part of their lives on a book and are entitled to do with it as they like. The best way to get free access to a for-cost text is to use your library. (BTW, I write books that are freely distributed.)
Time Zone issues throw Boeing Starliner off course
The benefits per dollar or per meter? How many passengers are traveling on a bus on Van Ness in a given rush hour?
It cost money and provides them no benefit (besides good will).
Define idiomatic. As an example, I find myself using the java.time package quite frequently. An example:

(ns dev.scratch.time-ex
(:import
(java.time Duration)
(java.util Date)))

(let [from (Date.)
until (-> from (.toInstant) (.plus (Duration/ofHours 12)) (Date/from))]
[from until])

Returns a 2-element vector containing two java.util.Date objects, the second twelve hours in the future of the first. Here I'm using Date, Instant, and Duration classes. It's consistent with Clojure syntax (methods being first items in a list), and remembering to use . or / (roughly for instance or static methods) for calling Java methods. Using something like the thread-first macro (->) is idiomatic Clojure, and it's not my goal to convince you that Clojure syntax and style is better, just that Java is immediately and idiomatically available (from a Clojure point of view).

I find very little friction in using Java directly from Clojure code. I can't speak to comparisons with Kotlin as I have no experience using it.
After I first got online in 1995, I had noticed that Perl was this thing that everyone was using to create dynamic HTTP server behavior.

I ended up using what I knew instead: Turbo Pascal + some oddball "wincgi" interface.

Later I caved and started using Perl, since everyone else was using it. It was a pretty weird experience. I did my first paid "consulting", for a company from the tiny place where I grew up, building a "web app" using Perl. This happened during the first year of university studies. I got paid $12/hour. That was so much money to me, back then! (I was like 18 or 19.)

This experience is where I grew to hate Perl and learned to love more structured languages.

A year later in 1997, I ended up working full-time with the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_(programming_language) instead. This was essentially a precursor of Dart.
I don’t believe that the most instructive action to take on the list is to quibble about the title. Also, we humans still excel at context and language processing in general ;-)
The idea that you couldn't be a Nazi is dangerous. That's how it happens.
Aeroworx Global Wins Gulfstream Contract
I use Reddit Enhancement Suite, and one of the features it adds is autoloading the next page when I get to the bottom of the current one. It's really nice.
Yeah kamaal’s comment on that thread shows just how insanely terse Perl can be... truly the king of one-liners
Open source software is one example of collaboration outside of a company
Not to me, but it I guess it depends on your usage. However, for something like this I don't think you want to be competing with a Netflix subscription price-wise. I would have aimed for a dollar or two a month. Admittedly this was probably their initial idea too, but things don't always work out as planned.
I just checked and including my employer's contribution, my health insurance (1500 / 3000 family plan) has premiums of $32,000 / year.
A long time ago we used to cache static content and then use ajax to bring in anything dynamic like user preferences, comments, etc.

Those were mostly superfluous adds to experience on top of the content. It’s been a while but I’d like to believe if you didn’t have JS our content still functioned.

Now with things like Vue and React I see simple web pages with a loader in between what should be static content. Seems crazy to me.
A quick search on CRM returns "Customer Relationship Management" as the first several results.

Not everybody wants to share all this information with Google.