skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If your into Dev &| Ops the example of A/B testing should be something that you engineer in really no time. Be it reconfiguring your existing webserver or re-using an elastic search instance your anyway running I think it's like cooking an Asian meal as an Italian cook, you have the tools , you have the knowledge.
"You need to realize that your fundamental request is for people who are giving up their free time to do something interesting to change their plans so that you can run your enterprise while providing no help or financial incentive."

...

"I can't even really tell what your proposal is besides changing release frequency. What are _you_ willing to do to support that?"

...

I offered $50k to run 9.x up to 9.15:

"... I can contribute USD $10k per year that this course was
followed, or $50k over five years. We can contribute some hardware, hosting and bandwidth as well."[1]

As I said in this old, old thread:

"I'm not a FreeBSD developer and I have little use
for either CURRENT or STABLE. I'm saying that I need a major release to have an effective lifetime longer than two years."

... and in anticipation of your 2020 response, I direct you to the FreeBSD handbook, which explicitly states:

"This is still a development branch, however, and this means that at any given time, the sources for FreeBSD-STABLE may or may not be suitable for any particular purpose. It is simply another engineering development track, NOT A RESOURCE FOR END-USERS."[2]

FWIW, we have also offered and paid several FreeBSD development bounties since 2005.[3][4]

[1] https://0x.co/TCZM6C

[2] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/current-stable.html

[3] https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2007-Ap...

[4] https://blog.kozubik.com/john_kozubik/2009/01/64bit-freebsd-...
I'd never read that analysis of the ending of Contact. Thanks for sharing!
We discussed a similar thing a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16192608

Here's a prime smiley face (with code) I generated at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16192922
Automating it basically ensures that you don't adjust your submission for tha audience or consider if it is appropriate for the site. That makes it spamming. You can be working manually and spamming too, but automation "helps".
Mars colonization would fit well, just like their recent products shiny and beautiful and utterly useless
You’re talking about a very specific type of game: single player games. Not to mention most people don’t play games the way you are describing and the appeal of games certainly isn’t just to be able to talk to people in the room with you while you’re playing (even if it is appealing for some).
Hm. That looks cool as fuck. Do you happen to know if it needs to be specially provisioned with e.g. AT&T, or can one simply take the LTE sim card out of their phone and stick it into one of these?
The problem is that the index itself becomes so large, even you use a dataset-optimised number instead of pi, that it's much worse than just storing the original data.
Lambda-Behind the Scenes
It's a play on faang. Which excludes Microsoft because cool people like Paul graham think (wrongly of course, as usual) I that Microsoft is dead
Well there's a few things in here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google

Am a staunch gun-control type, but there certainly has been evidence of google censoring political causes they disagree with. This is not the way forward.
It's incredibly hard to have a discussion with someone who clearly has a point about the masses being dictated what they see/think by a Google search.
These sort of things do not advance civil discourse and only serve to inflame it in an "us against them" mentality.
React query list, inspired by Dan Abramov
1. That's not what the post you are responding to said.

2. I don't care whether incels want a peaceful, reasonable dialogue with the larger world. I want to solve the problem, and you should too. Starting a dialogue is a necessary part of solving the problem, and waiting for people who don't feel they can talk to the rest of the world to start a dialogue is not going to work.

Ostracizing angry, lonely people is a great way to make them angrier and lonelier.

"They're the one's with the problem, they should be the ones to apologize" is not an effective strategy.
I didn't do a lot of research so may have misread... according to this report, the average graduating debt for a 4 year degree is $29k. (see figure 1)

https://ticas.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/classof2018.pdf
We don't come close to seeing everything that gets posted to HN—there is far too much of it, so we rely on users to let us know about the worst stuff. I had no idea that flamewars were going on in this thread until someone told me about it.

When you see a comment that ought to have been moderated and hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we haven't seen it yet. We can't moderate what we don't see.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Pretty cool although it struggled with certain very basic 2d images.
You should try APL.
This would actually happen. Usually the person you owe money to would drag you to court and then get you thrown in a debtors prison.

I guess my point was that you could end up there for civil or criminal things.
Why shouldn't it? If I spent 10 months coming up with non trivial interface and 10 years marketing and popularizing it, you cant come in one day and steal the thunder
You're being downvoted, but this meta-level problem really is the problem to solve. How do you identify experts? How do you choose when to defer to experts and when to play it by ear? More generally, how do you decide how to make decisions?

I've thought about this a lot, but there's really no way to get around the fact that you'll draw insane conclusions if you start from insane priors. And you're kinda forced into having insane priors if your parents believe insane things. Either we force people to make the right decisions (as decided by [insert favourite entity here]), or we live with some people doing batshit insane things. Those are the extremes of a spectrum that includes many only slightly forceful interventions, but in a nutshell, that's the choice we have.
> Thing is, most people can't afford a gap year.

Get a job. There, now you can afford a gap year if you save. Spend six months working all the hours you can get, whether it’s in McDonald’s or something better and if you continue to live like a high school student you can absolutely afford six months in South or Southeast Asia.
Mostly unrelated but this made me check to see if the Prime Number Shitting Bear is still online. It is! https://alpha61.com/primenumbershittingbear/
At least DO was responsible, transparent and disclosured the bug for the public. After reading through the post, I've felt much more confident to use their services, specially after that comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20119939

Big G's policy is to lock you, provide no further comments and no contact link.
This is just a weaker version of the twin prime conjecture. You’re asking for primes that differ by 2^k instead of 2. Last I heard the best result was from Polymath 8a.

http://michaelnielsen.org/polymath1/index.php?title=Bounded_...

Edit: Actually I was wrong, differing by a binary digit is much stronger than a difference of 2^k. But that’s a starting point.
True but some are causing problems right now. https://www.bbc.com/news/health-50659893

I'm in New Zealand we have an outbreak at present, largely due to fear around vacinations in middle to upper class families. It's crazy.
Can Germany’s Auto Industry Keep Pace?
While fuck Oracle and all that of course, I actually must admit I disagree that interfaces are trivial and, especially, not creative and thus worthy of copyright.

I think interfaces are super creative, way more distilled ideation than implementations which are often bogged down with mundane details. I and work try to write programs very compositionally, and good interfaces are the keystone that makes this possible and productive. Put in a slogan, I must rather be forced to replace and rewrite my favorite implementations than replace and rewrite my favorite interfaces.

Perhaps think a better argument in a better world is a symmetrical fair use one where if you invite people to consume (re provide) and interface, you must also allow people to provide (re consume) it. Unlike e.g. a flu vaccine, the market isn't preexisting but built around the interface. I dunno, I'm still thinking it over.

Of course, given that's copywrite is insane, it might be prudent to pretend otherwise!

(lastly a fun fact: harmony alone isn't copywritable while melody alone is.)
I think it would make great sense!

Currently, we automatically connect to Segment (https://segment.com/integrations/modern-pricing/) to make the integration easier. Additional integrations have been commonly requested thus far, but we are prioritizing open platforms to start.
Well I just tried some of this. I was being questioned, I answered the question about my name but that was it. I flipped them asking why, i'd love to help but why do they think that, etc. I was then detained, cuffed and placed into a police car.

Cops have more power than you, the average joe. I do not recommend doing the above.
“Transparency” due to blowup of bad publicity on HN. They’re simply not big enough to ignore this audience. They wouldn’t have given a damn if they were, just like they ignored many cases that didn’t blow up.
> Why would they work on Android at all if they could not benefit from it economically?

Someone might think their current monetization model should be discouraged via regulation.

MS used to charge manufacturers for Windows Phone - Google could undoubtedly do the same, Android has too much of a moat now for manufacturers to succeed with anything else.
Right now you may be able to do more with AppEngine but the trade-off is you're locked in to platform-specific APIs. With Cloud Run there's no platform lock in since all it is, is a Docker container with whatever you want running that listens on $PORT.
You're taking that one line out of context in his post. Yes of course the brain is special because it's the only organ that makes you, you. Just like the heart is special because it's the only major organ that if you removed, blood would stop flowing.

GP's point was that in the context of how medication affects our bodies, the brain and body are more connected than we tend to think. Medication doesn't either only affect our body or our only affect our brain. It affects the entire system.
While I’m really hoping that Google wins this, I also hope that the Supreme Court applies the law as they see it, without any consideration at all for the social impact. If you want a law change, you should be hoping to see that come out of the legislature, not a branch of government that specifically does not have legislating powers.
Due to this I was almost sure that that list would have one item and be a rude remark about places to post about your startup/launch.
> It's somehow funny to see that Bing search results are so successful when packaged with privacy in mind into DuckDuckGo.

I'm kind of ambivalent about the privacy of DDG vs Bing (maybe I shouldn't be, but since I use DDG anyway, I haven't done the research) - I simply prefer the UI of DDG over Bing.

> I don't like bing search results, especially for Europe. They are just bad for many local things.

I wish Google was less aggressively local. I pretty regularly search for things on Google where I'm looking for the global/most well-known instance, and Google directs me to weird local results that I've never heard of and don't care about.
The only fix to your script is to use `display` command to open image (NOT `open` command).[0]

wget $(curl -s https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/fulldisk.php?sat=G16 | grep -o -e 'https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/FD/GEOCOLOR/[0-9]*_GOES16-ABI-FD-GEOCOLOR-1808x1808.jpg' | head -1) -O earth.jpg && display earth.jpg

And here is my resulted preview.[1]

UPD: Found that this CDN[2] also has static links to latest image, so script could be much more simplified by dropping `curl` and `grep`:

wget -c https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/FD/GEOCOLOR/1808x1808.jpg -O earth.jpg && display earth.jpg

[0] https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001720.htm

[1] https://i.imgur.com/gFaVvhz.jpg

[2] https://cdn.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES16/ABI/FD/GEOCOLOR/
Zscaler is absolutely horrible. I have never seen an organization with such great design, marketing, and customer service have such an awful product. It’s quite strange.

Case in point...look at their hosting records. It looks like some malware laden VPS budget hoster from the late 90’s. Incredibly careless setup. Their products also suffer from enormous lag. Again very strange because you can call in and get immediate and overwhelmingly thorough help...not sure why the products can’t just work though.
Interestingly (and I did not know this) Mercury is actually one year older than OCaml. Both are fine languages that are underused/under-appreciated; OCaml did much better (PR wise so to say) than Mercury but both should have, imho, more market share.

Mercury came about as the OG was wondering about a mix between Haskell and Prolog.
I think what BB so great is the story of hope.
I suspect they're just saying they'd rather see a CPU implementing the wasm isa, in a facetious way.
> Get a job. There, now you can afford a gap year

Youth unemployment, even at the lowest it's been in more than 50 years and even with the low labor force participation rate among youth, is still quite high. So “get a job” is far from automatic with desire.

> if you continue to live like a high school student you can absolutely afford six months in South or Southeast Asia.

But living like a high school student means “fully supported by your parents in their home”, which, if your parents aren't in South or Southeast Asia, you probably can't manage there. Aside from (and because of) that, high school students tend not to have a particularly spartan lifestyle, actually it's often quite profligate, so I'm not sure what you are trying to say here.
Once always-on AR glasses are ubiquitous, people could attach accessories and frills to them to make sort of neo-tribal-masks.
Doesn’t LastPass Authenticator suffer from the same problem? If I understand correctly, they store the MFA secret in the same account — meaning if your LastPass vault is breached somehow, so is your MFA.
I know lots of indies that hang out on twitter, maybe some appropriate replies or hashtags for people searching?

There's also a handful of forums, gamedev.net tigsource and others.

StackOverflow is a common place to search for answers, if you can find questions asked about "what can I use instead of flash" without coming across as an advertisement.
Not exactly gait, but this helps you identify individuals based on movement patterns: https://gitlab.com/polavieja_lab/idtrackerai
> states usually have constitutional safeguards that keep a safe balance of power between citizen and state
I don't see much of that in China... which has too many people for that "usually" to work.
Ironically, China's biggest companies are likely the ones on the tightest leach !
I disagree. For each loan, you have both sides. So if one side suffers, it doesn't qualify but if the other side suffer is does qualify?

Also, you can't gain from the interest, make all that money, and then expect the law to protect you from this risk side of the "risk/return" ratio because "too many" are in the same boat.
Neat. Thanks for tying it in to something real. Makes sense now that you phrase it that way. Not something I've ever looked into much.
If I could download it, I'd use this to better prep for data structures and algorithm style interviews.
So far what I've observed is <10s cold-start times on GCR. This is a fairly lightweight web app written using Undertow in Java so carries a JVM as overhead.
In this case, the petitioner went to law school and simply decided being a lawyer wasn't for him.

A medical school graduate could declare that they want to pursue a career in music, thus making them qualify for both #2 and #3. #1 perhaps not, but "good faith" is pretty squishy.
Congress could change the law if it doesn't like how the ruling goes.
Law grad wins discharge of his student debt
The law would be destructive only to the half who foolishly lent money. To the half who foolishly took it, it would be tremendously constructive. 50/50. The law shouldn't favor just one side, by definition.
Good, but it is Python-way ;)
This was also popularly known only a few years back as 'On the phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs'
Isn’t that most medium-form content on the internet these days?
> Just because a law makes it illegal to discriminate does not eliminate discrimination.

It increases the cost of doing so, which is really the point. People and businesses respond to incentives.

> small businesses account for the most employees.

That's not been remotely true for the past 26 years (you're welcome to find data before that). Businesses with up to 19 employees (i.e. the ones exempt from the Equal Opportunity Employment Act of 1972) employed only 20% of employees in 1993. And that share has fallen over time - it was about 17% in 2019.[1]

And even if it were true, all the other benefits of the CRA would still outweigh this one flaw. I think you underestimate the effects of generations of violent voter suppression, and segregation in education, businesses, housing, and other opportunities.

> If a minority runs a business and only wants to hire minorities

A small business (< 15 employees) that only wants to hire minorities would also be exempt from the Equal Opportunity Employment Act wouldn't they? I'm not a lawyer, I still can't believe this is actually legal, and maybe there's some other law elsewhere that makes this illegal. Discrimination is wrong, no matter who does it. But what you're saying wouldn't happen either.

1. https://www.bls.gov/web/cewbd/table_f.txt
Actually I replied without thinking too much, sorry... Your question is (probably a fair bit) stronger than the one I related to. Edited.
Control Firefox browser with voice commands
If we want the tech world to consistently advance, companies need to succeed by providing products and services people want, rather than collecting rent indefinitely off of a good idea they once had. Their thunder should get stolen if they can't do a better job than their competitors.
Why not? You can't shoot them out of the sky or realistically recover them in any way unless you're the one controlling them. I doubt they're drug running in the middle of Colorado. I would run lights on my theoretical illegal drone to help lower the risk of other aircraft hitting it if I was just doing it as a hobby
“That's not hyperbole. As the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) states“

Because EFF never hyperbole always noble.
Wow, awesome find.

macOS and probably iOS has an undocumented set of filesystem calls which require a "cookie." You call open() and provide a large integer of your choice (probably random); to close the file you need to provide the same integer. This fixed a lot of crashes in CoreData, where some rando was closing its SQLite fd.
So long as you don't confuse users of those sites with potential customers, and you post on these sites understanding that those people will never buy your product even if thousands of them look at what you've made and say they love it, it can still be useful. People often point out accessibility and usability problems, and more general issues like spelling mistakes.

Even if the feedback from people themselves isn't helpful, installing something like Sentry or Rollbar before you post to one of these sites can give you a ton of "real world" data about whether your app actually works.
I think he was saying that RSS would still matter for plain packet forwarding.
Yeah, to be honest, parallelism is great for number crunching.

I used GPU.js for some frontend crunching and it turns out even a builtin GPU (integrated graphics) can get a small upgrade out of moving some data into a more parallel format.
If you have a billion dollars, there is nothing irrational about spending 100k on a car you don't really need. Those 100k have barely any utility for you, so it doesn't matter that the car also has barely any utility.
Which was very foolish of them, considering the success of the iPod !
A use case I think that's awesome for this project is YouTube educational videos about programming.
C, C++, D, Nim, Haskell, OCaml, Rust, Swift, Objective-C, Crystal..... the list goes on. Many of the languages have a native code implementation in addition to an interpreter or a byte code compiler — e.g. Common Lisp (SBCL), Scheme (Chicken Scheme), Kotlin/Native.....
It's like a magic trick. Amazing at first, then you sort of realize how they did it.
False equivalence. Indoor plumbing is nothing like an app to call a taxi.

Also see both my points. You don’t know if their lives would get worse. You’ve just assumed that the main goal of everyone is to hyper optimise their lives.
I'll admit life inside Apple's ecosystem is pretty comfortable these days. But with every new Apple service I sign up for and every Apple product I buy I feel a bit more at their mercy. It would be pretty disruptive for me to switch out of their ecosystem now and that makes me uncomfortable. Their rejection of the app used by HK protesters recently is a good reminder of just how absolute their control is when they decide to exercise it.
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> Why does it matter if owner is known or not known?

Sometimes you need to contact your neighbor. If they don't live there (or if you don't live there) that can be hard without an actual name and address.

I manage a rental property. I've needed to talk to all the adjoining properties at some point for fence issues, tree issues, and noise issues. They are all rental properties, so none of us live in the houses (college town).

It's taken me 20 years to collect the contact info of two of the three adjoining properties. We still haven't managed to contact the owners of the property in the back.

Our house is the only one with an actual name and address. The others are trusts or LLCs.
Now I'm wondering if DDG uses those !g search queries to understand where it falls short and why their users decides to use it.
By the time Microsoft bought Nokia, they were already in deep trouble, having lost major parts of the smartphone market.
In this case it also makes most sense to use size_t, right?
Why would this be only a concern for remote workers? You'd have the same potential issues if your local job disappeared for whatever reason, with similar potential courses of action available.
Nonetheless, it's freaky that our deepest secrets are encoded into pi. If pi is normal.
I agree with the author's assessment that having the kanji, the furigana, and the English is really helpful for learning.

But I couldn't help but notice that the the software didn't romanize 困った correctly. It was "koma ta" when it really should have been "komatta".

And I wish I didn't have to use Chrome :|
"You're allowed to tell lies to protect your health and safety" is a surprisingly dogmatic moral statement in what is otherwise fairly cautious advice for general consumption.

As a Christian I don't think that's always true, and as an atheist I would have rejected it too. Do the majority of people actually think it's always true?
People should be able to pursue whatever work they want so long as it doesn't harm anyone else since we can afford it.