skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During that era it was interesting to see demos coming mostly from countries at far northern latitudes and wondering why the scene was so focused there. It wasn't until visiting family up around Hudson Bay and discussing winter life that the connection between demo coders and dark cold winters stuck. While the long dark winter nights still exist, what's the future for Finnish coders in an age of easy access to an entire internet of distractions combined with fast hardware? Surely there will be more in quantity, as is the case almost everywhere, but what of the quality forged on those long winter nights?
Well what I should have said is there has been a lot of studies on the efficacy of type systems, but much has been shown to be flawed. I haven't looked at your citations mostly because of the use of typescript which I have personal experience with and I know it's not helping. I'm not going to debate this with you, though; too little good papers on the topic so too much heat and too little light. I've spent most of my career using static typed languages in hindsight I've found most of the static typing not helpful for successful projects.
$4.2 million.
Isabel dos Santos: Africa's richest woman 'ripped off Angola'
I think either of these acceptance rates are computed by casting the widest net possible. Nevertheless I have to believe Chick-Fil-A has a very rigorous process for hiring managers, who in turn know how to hire good workers; I have never once encountered the typical surly fast food worker at any of their restaurants.
I think it's mostly lack of planning and design, and then a layer gets built on that, and then another layer, because no one is brave enough to risk their job on rewriting a mostly working but brittle piece of code.
That uses webviews.
The other costs are plenty of incentive to choose a location carefully.

Even for a Subway. Earning back $350,000 takes a lot of sandwiches.
Disclaimer: I work here.

Discourse http://discourse.org/ really is fantastic for this. We do all our internal communication and longform discussions using the software as a form of dogfooding. We have lots of plugins that make working together as a team easier, and it’s so wonderful to be able to write a longform discussion that everyone reads and contributes to! We have more team tools on the way as well.

I worked on a remote team before primarily using slack and zoom and that was awful and full of distraction. Discourse is a breath of fresh air here.
Yes but at some point, if you have the right brains and vision, you can slowly replace yourself in the business, even if not completely. In a job no matter where, you stop working, your income goes to 0. Period.
Avondale Man Sues After Google Data Leads to Wrongful Arrest for Murder
>people choose to buy franchises rather than start their own independent shops //

[Agreeing] There are massive costs (relatively speaking) for an independent involved in just learning/optimising the supply chain. With a franchise you, presumably, can skip this which gives a huge head start.

Also if it's a brand chain then you have the benefit of brand level advertising (which works at a different psychological level to shop/activity/product advertising) which should be more efficient per "lead".
IIRC the word "explosion" has a very specific meaning in this context. I remember reading that the SpaceX AMOS-6 failure was specifically NOT an explosion even though it really looked like one to a layperson.
A lot of the criticism git receive is about the stance that there is the git way and the wrong way.

We all are super sure that git has extremely efficient workflows available; it is just that maybe many people do not like them.

Git does not try to be a tool for everyone; it is very opinionated on how to best use it; this obviously leaves space for less opinionated tools or even differently opinionated tools to shine under specific use cases/scenario
You are paying for the brand, strategy, training and lot of risk factors that are mitigated due to the franchise setup. Yes, it is still risky but starting an entire business from scratch is a lot riskier. That's why you pay.
Related from 7 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20093646

2014: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7583121
IPFS still has a long way to go until it is useable in my opinion. The default configuration for the desktop client will gladly keep open 1000+ peer connections and will happily degrade your usual internet experience.

In addition the ecosystem is filled with technical/community debt that makes navigating the system a nightmare for anyone who isn't an expert. As an example: https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/1482

It's a shame if you ask me.
Yes, it's Bulma :)
Sounds like an experience better had on a closed course than a public street.
I'm inferring that you believe that the regulators were wrong to ground it.
> To my mind if I return to a piece of dynamically typed code written any time other than in the same session I have to load a whole mental model of the entire code, what types all the variables are

This is one reason my favorite model is the "egg model" - hard outer shell (static typed signature) of a function with a soft gooey center - dynamic code internally. It lets you use the convenience of dynamic typing but confines the scope of the mental budget to understanding just a few lines of dynamically typed code. Languages like groovy are pretty good for this type of code.
EUV is 20x smaller wavelength, 10000x higher power, and far larger area
A bit from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17422822
Management being less than open because of management vs employee concerns smells like management viewing employees as tools to be fed input, and then expecting specific pounds of output.

In fact it smells like the very material being fed to such employees.
Well done! I'd love to see something like this for VueJs.
How does accuracy compare in Nlp tasks vs XLnet?
If we can have XLnet accuracy and fast inference on a single gpu, that would be revolutionary!
NASA Space Educators' Handbook Home Page
Forget to mention in title: not for mobile.
Still getting results that are outdated if you click on the links, even though the date on the search results page is recent.
Insecurity comes from you comparing yourself to others, which, in reality, is silly once you've experienced/seen enough. Not to say it's easy to get past, but there are ways to sort of clear that up. I mainly use sorts of meditation and read quite a bit on religion, philosophy, and psychology.

I suffered from major depression most of my life until last summer when, after trying to work out what was going on in my head, was able to essentially remove what I thought I was going to live with the rest of my life. So it's possible.

My advice to you, and anyone dealing with mental/emotional health issues, is to analyze yourself. Ask yourself questions about yourself and the environment around you. Follow your own intuition and curiosity, if you really want to get better you will find your own way to do it; you just have to put in the effort to do and look.

You can get better, but only you can do it for yourself.
I believe SpaceX isn't working with NASA to get Starship human rated by them. I think they are trying to do it 100% private, partially so they don't need to prove it to NASA's standards.
> Not really. It's true if you compare, like f(x) to (f x), but in general Lisp really does have more.

In general I think this is true, but an important caveat that your post brings up is that sometimes it also has to do with how we translate one language to another.

Consider treating a 3-tuple as a list, and assume you have the primitive functions zip, square, sum, and sub (inverse of summing a list). Then the idea of the distance between two points reduces to:

(defun dist (v1 v2)
(sqrt (sum (map sq (map sub (zip v1 v2))))))

Of course there really are more parentheses here than in the C snippet you wrote, and it's arguably harder to understand, especially if you're unfamiliar with functional programming; it could be slower, too, and careless use of the zip function truncates at the shortest array. (I'm sure there are other objections I haven't anticipated.)

At the same time, if you want to generalize the C function to arbitrary vectors, you'll have to do a little more work with passing arrays, checking bounds, adding a loop. The Lisp function, by contrast, requires no such effort, and once the concept is understood requires little further explanation.

Even so, the point is that line-for-line translations may not always capture idiomatic usage of the language, which may in turn make it look or feel worse than it really is.
I was in Vegas a few months ago and saw construction signs for a new Chick fil A at Planet Hollywood on the Strip. Can only imagine how profitable that location would be.
The Longevity FAQ
I came across a javascript implementation [1] and HN discussion from a year ago [2].

[1] https://github.com/davidkpiano/xstate

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17805950
My biggest takeaway from this is that Wendy's standards are surprisingly high. Why do they require a net worth of $5 million when most seem to top out at $1 million? Is it a way of ensuring a lower closure rate as people with $5 million net worth are less likely to go bankrupt and shut down the restaurant?
I've been tinkering with React Native and it looks like you can do something quite similar to Proton Native here, while also targeting mobile platforms. Here is how you can cover the gamut of platforms:

- iOS and Android - React Native
- Web - React Native Web
- macOS - Apple's Project Catalyst (run iPad apps on macOS)
- Windows - React Native Windows by Microsoft
- Linux - none yet, you could use Electron but that's undesirable

Perhaps one could instead use Proton Native for desktop and React Native for mobile, I wonder what the code sharing capabilities are for that.
A predatory option can be present with a choice to join it. People can choose to not take such a deal but those who did, they got the worse of the deal by large margins.
Even if they did choose that option, doesn't mean that deal was fair to them.
A different continent, not planet :- )

5 or 6 weeks vacation per year, + about 1 or 2 more weeks in total, because of Christmas, NYE etc, is how things work in Scandinavia.

(I feel curious about how things are, where you live )
For the record, if you only use youtube-dl for the purposes of downloading audio (like me), then you can keep a config file in $HOME/.config/youtube-dl/config with default arguments so you don't have to look them up each time. For example, here's a sample from my config:

# extract audio only
-x
# stick to mp3
--audio-format mp3
# get rid of the annoying URL stuff at the end
-o "%(title)s.%(ext)s"
Not to mention, I'm not sure I prefer the Windows version of the USB API anyhow.

Sure, you have to snprintf these details of the USB device, to construct a path. But... You also have a general purpose facility available to explore USB devices with, which only requires the general ability to navigate the file system.

I still remember writing systems for data acquisition via RS232 serial devices, and GPIB, on Windows 98, and using specialized drivers, which gave some magical API, and then moving to Linux..

When I realized I could just cat from /dev/ttyS0, and use ioctl to set baud rate and other parameters, it was incredible. And I could share a lot of the code for interfacing with GPIB which was also just a character device.
The Sex Wars
A friend is somebody you know whose company you enjoy. Depending on context, it does not include members of your family.
According to Wikipedia, he made $165m from the sale of PayPal.
Sorry, I just saw your question.

I do old school desktop, C++, some C#, Win32. Just converted to macOS through Qt.

My target market is firmly entrenched in desktop, for technical and political reasons. I have Web-based versions of my app using REST, XML, and JSON, but they only constitute 3% of my sales.

I switched from COBOL and mainframe Assembler to C in 1988.
"There is no contract about it."

You are disingenuously arguing against the wind.

Yes, there is, a kind of contract.

When nations agree to targets, and they did a long time ago, its material. That it's not technically part of the treaty is relevant, but not so important.

The 2% target was established long ago, there's a renewed 'agreement' since Trump took office, but it's along the same lines: European states will wait for Trump to be out of office and then ignore it.

The fact remains America provides defence for Europe, and Europe is willing to let that happen because, well, it's very expensive, among other things.
Asking for a reference helps:

- Establish the behaviour as documented.

- In representing and demonstrating this to others.

It's not that I doubt your word, but that I'd like to see a developed and credible case made. Because frankly that behaviour drives me to utter frustration and distraction. It's also a large part of the reason I no longer use, nor trust, Google Web Search as my principle online search tool.
Not exactly a book, Assessing and Strengthening the Manufacturing and Defense Industrial Base and Supply Chain Resiliency of the United States. (1)

It raises some concerns that folks in this forum are probably interested in and could do something about. Things like forcing US companies doing business in China to transfer dual-use technologies, the lack of US suppliers for certain goods, like high tenacity polyester fiber, domestic production of PCBs, specialized glass for NVG systems, a shortage of software engineers, but also shortages in skilled trades, like welders.

The dominance of the Chinese in certain critical industries is also problematic. For example one manufacturer produces 70% of small drones, which then creates secondary attack surfaces, like lack of security on the drone’s link. Another is the Chinese takeover of solar panel manufacturing, which creates a potential energy security risk.

For those skeptical of any report from the current administration, I would refer you to Ash Carter’s Inside the Five-Sided Box (2) which raises many of the same issues.

(1) https://media.defense.gov/2018/Oct/05/2002048904/-1/-1/1/ASS...

(2) https://www.amazon.com/Inside-Five-Sided-Box-Lifetime-Leader...
We’ve had offline GPS units for decades. You could easily have a database of every stop sign, and it would fit on an SD card.
Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River By Colin Angus
I've used Gust twice and I've been satisfied every time. The slightly more expensive plan also nets you 15k in AWS credit.
There are better ways of expressing this valid notion.
Are there any viable franchises that are hands off? Like you put in the investment, hire manager(s) and earn revenue as the owner without having to invest a lot of time on the day to day operation?
It is a bit unfair to compare loan sharks to business models liek franchises. Loan sharks can lend you money for anything even if you want to go spend it on something useless that doesn't create any value. Starting a Franchise business creates value even if it may not be highly profitable for someone. I wouldn't call Franchise model predatory even though I am personally not a fan of it because I like complete freedom in starting/running a business. Personally, I wouldn't do franchise (I am too much of a free bird to be caged) but calling it predatory is too much.
Bill Harvey: Mind Magic ⌘ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3573948-mind-magic

Make sure you get one of the older editions with mind drills in it.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/why-i-have-...

Hsbc demanded The Telegraph pull negative stories or they would pull their advertising.

All newspapers are full of stories about property "investment" and have a separate segment one a week for paid advertising of property.
i am not familiar with the history of the Alto or MOAD and how they connect to the classic mac. i'd love to learn more though.

according to wikipedia classic MacOS was partially based on Lisa OS, whereas OS X is nothing more or less than a full port of NeXTStep with a slight visual update. i have used both. they are the same UI. the difference is cosmetic. it's the same code too. i believe the kernel has changed more than the UI layer.

the question is not the spiritual ancestors but how old the code is that is still in use today. and i belive that if we look we'll find some Objective-C code in OS X today that goes all the way back to the first versions of NeXTStep.
If type inference damaged readability, we would expect companies/projects that use languages such as OCaml and Haskell where type inference is possible but not mandatory to have policies against it in their style guides. In my experience with OCaml, the widely agreed on style is to only annotate types of functions that are part of some public interface (although since this annotation is necessary to define the public interface of a library, it's not even necessarily true that type inference impairing readability is the primary reason for this).

Also, if lack of type annotations were a common problem, you would expect Java programmers who switch to Python to frequently want to annotate all their types. But as far as I know this is not the case: even now that mypy is becoming popular, people only annotate the types that it can't infer.
> But those components are not native, meaning they are drawn by Qt instead of using the components provided by the OS.

In the case of macOS, this is no longer true - when Apple finally kicked Carbon fully, Qt (IIRC, in 5.13 or something? 5.12 and prior used HIThemes, which was... showing age) switched to rendering true AppKit behind the scenes. There's a few custom controls where they render their own, if no AppKit equivalent exists, but otherwise it's AppKit all the way down.

As someone who used to decry Qt as not native, I'll be the first to admit it's fine now - if something looks "off" on macOS, it's probably moreso the implementing the author doing something different than the underlying framework.
There's an entire book making essentially the same point: https://www.amazon.com/Best-Interface-No-brilliant-technolog...
Why not go with low self esteem? Not trusting yourself should boost your motivation to be right. Depending on your goals in life, that could be useful.

Have you checked if it's you and not your environment? Maybe you can improve your life by working with and spending time with people who don't put you down?
> Imagine if instead of kneecapping XHTML and the semantic web properties it had baked in, Google had not entered into the web browser space. We might be able to mark articles up with `<article>`, and set their subject tags to the URN of the people, places, and things involved. We could give things a published and revised date with change logs. Mark up questions, solutions, code and language metadata.

Can you explain in technical details what you think was lost by Google launching a browser or what properties were unique to XHTML?

Everything you listed above is possible with HTML5 (see e.g. schema.org) and has been for many years so I think it would be better to look at the failure to have market incentives which support that outcome.
For js there are various implementations including this one: https://xstate.js.org/docs/

Here is an article by the author of this library with some justification for the appropriateness of statecharts in UI construction: https://dev.to/davidkpiano/no-disabling-a-button-is-not-app-...
The thing I worry about with IPFS is privacy. If you use IPFS directly (as intended, not via a public gateway), and you visit a site, then you are automatically going to be seeding (like a torrent) the visited content, and thus you will be announcing/broadcasting the fact to the world that you (your node/your IP) have visited it. My current understanding is that this cannot really be avoided, since one needs to be able to find the nodes that have the content for any given hash.
What about this:

DO reserves say $20 (just an example) when one spins up a new droplet, and if one forgets to pay — then, DO shuts down the server. But keeps the backups, until the GB-month cost is $20.

One could choose how much money to reserve, depending on how important the data one stored on the droplet, was. If it's just for running test: $0. Customer data: Maybe $$$ instead.

There could be a default that made the backups stay for 3 months?

Any remaining money could be refunded, whenever one wants.

(also "cross-posted/replied" here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22094218 )
The Mazda puck control is awesome. Hands-down the best car UI.

I drive a Mazda and didn't even realize the screen was touchable because there is absolutely no reason to not use the puck.

(If you've never seen it, the puck is an all-in-one scroll wheel, button, and directional joystick - on the center console exactly where your arm naturally rests, no reaching necessary.)
...

Opera was purchased by a China-based investor group prior to its IPO. The group’s largest investor and current Opera Chairman/CEO was recently involved in a Chinese lending business that listed in the U.S. and saw its shares plunge more than 80% in just 2 years amid allegations of fraud and illegal lending practices.

Post IPO, Opera has now also made a similar and dramatic pivot into predatory short-term loans in Africa and India, deploying deceptive ‘bait and switch’ tactics to lure in borrowers and charging egregious interest rates ranging from ~365-876%.

Most of Opera’s lending business is operated through apps offered on Google’s Play Store. In August, Google tightened rules to curtail predatory lending and, as a result, Opera’s apps are now in black and white violation of numerous Google rules.
Same. I ate at a food court that had a Chick Fil A and the Chick Fil A employee refilled everyone's drinks at our table even though they weren't all bought at Chick Fil A. That's just not normal for fast food workers.
I can't agree more and very strange your comment is downvoted.

Right now the EV market I think is open to electric cars for people like us: physical gauges, just the bare minimum for driving (I'd include ABS for safety and cruise control for some minimal comfort), slick interior with a subtle vintage touch maybe. No autopilot, no Netflix for you. Oh and physical keys.

I'm constatnly thinking about this, but unfortunately starting a car company seems to be almost as difficult as going to Mars. But who knows, maybe some day.
Loan sharks appeal to the desperate. If you are in a pickle, you NEED a loan, you don't NEED to start a franchise.
And even thought it had no engine, it had a "mass simulator" to replace it.
I literally watched Jordan Peterson say self esteem doesn't exist.
Looks like making a claim is reserved for producers showing more than 4000 hours/year, AFAICT. The video was far from clear to me, though.

The solution appears to be filing through a company that can make such claims on your behalf.
10Mbit/s single-pair Ethernet enables connected intelligence in 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/28/business/subway-franchise...

Apparently too many subways has caused bully by Subway the corporation of franchisees over good locations.
Idris is great, its design is super impressive, and it expanded my mind tremendously in terms of what is possible in programming. We can and should ask much more of our type systems!

It is also way less mature than Haskell, and someone trying to learn it will run into many issues as a result. I mean, read the linked blog post! Needing to regularly restart one's editor, long compile times for even short programs, and difficulties with installation are all issues I also ran into.

(Also, strong agree about the book. It's really well written, and all around excellent)
> At $4.2m per store, Chick-fil-A’s average revenue is the highest of any fast-food chain in America, dwarfing both direct competitors (KFC; $1.2m) and bigger brands (McDonald’s; $2.8m)

Wow, I did not know this. Why is that?
Migrate Everything from Linux to BSD
Things Every Startup's Technical Co-Founder Must Know
Outlook is poor in every aspect.