skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had good experience with Rackspace and DigitalOcean support (other than having to repeat my problem multiple times until I get to the right person, but at least they are keen to help).... Azure support was a disaster with too many support staff that know almost nothing about the platform except by reading the same websites I can read until you spam every possible support mechanisim you can find and finally get to a "real" support person. This will take around 2-4 weeks.
> Verisign controls the registries for .com and .net, two of the internet’s most popular. All it does is administer a database and collect small sums from website owners, but with computing power rising and practically no marginal cost to adding another website to the database, the entire enterprise is a license to print money. In the third quarter of 2019, Verisign showed operating income of $205.6 million on $308.4 million in revenues, a profitability margin of 66.67 percent. This makes Verisign one of the most profitable companies in the world.

I wish we lived in a world where a company being kinda monopolistic to make a 67% profit margin was enough to get me angry. If I hadn't read this, I'd have assumed they were making a lot more than $100 million a year profit.

I see the real answer to this as the gTLD program: radically expand the number of domain-issuing entities and normalize companies operating on something other than .com.
Yes, but that support will undoubtedly be for the new incarnation for Firefox, which I also don't use.
I feel like I groked floating point numbers easier when looking at 16bit floating point numbers. The values are much smaller and easier to juggle in your head. The fact that the fraction part literally translated to x / 1024 suddenly became clear to me when you're staring at just 10 bits

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-precision_floating-point_...
I'm curious about "beats the Model 3 on several objective practicality metrics". Please elaborate, I'd like to know.

I considered the Bolt to replace my Honda Fit. I was on my second (first leased, second purchased) Chevy Spark EV. I'm committed to electric driving and I like small hatchbacks and have had a great experience with the Spark EV. The looks didn't bother me and I didn't want to spend a lot on a car either. I'm basically the perfect Bolt customer.

And yet, I every time I drive past a Bolt in my Model 3, I glad that I didn't make that mistake.
Hmm. But if the exponent’s significant bit goes from 1 to 0, why would that affect the mantissa at all? Also, if the significant bit is always 1, how are negative exponents represented?

I understand there’s an implicit “hidden” bit, but what conditions cause it to become 0 instead of 1? And does that bit represent the sign of the exponent, or something else?

After reading https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8341395/what-is-a-subnor... more carefully, I am more confused than ever. Both visualization sites seem to be leaving out key details. And subnormals only seem to apply when exponent = 0; the visualization problem that OP mentioned happens whenever the leading exponent bit is set to 0, but the rest of the bits can be anything.
The downside is of course that you need a lot of clock cycles before the data reaches the corresponding device, which makes this too inefficient for certain applications.
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Parents do take out equity to co-sign college loans. Or HELOC's to pay for their assisted-living.

So the transfer is from boomers to doctors, banks, and schools.

But I agree that in the anecdotes I hear about, kids of boomers rarely get property free-and-clear.
hah! my grandmother's house was right next to this museum, loved going in there and exploring the various ships. (right under the balls)
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> Google employees care a lot about their "TC" and "GSUs" - that's it.

You’re generalizing 100,000+ people of all ages and backgrounds from all around the world.
What about the perverse regulations that punitively tax and restrict the production of smaller cars, because they use more fuel per unit weight?
> The other side was saying that a culture where you can be fired for advocating for the wrong political position is literal McCarthyism.

So were the at-will laws that current exist discussed in extension to this or did that little detail just become the elephant in the room? Because political views are not a protected class, so their bad ending has already been here for a while. It strikes me as strange to treat that idea as a possible bad future when it's the actual present.
AWS paid support is pretty good in my experience.
Just realized I meant to say “excludes” in my parent comment. Basically, no day trader transactions would be exempt from tax under this.
I'm father away from Teslas than that. My Kia is not an EV and I've never bought a new car in my life, always used. Tesla is so compelling to me that I'm jumping from practically one end of the spectrum to the other.
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Yeah, and I measure best interest in United States Dollars /s
I like the question! Maybe it's too big? (There are no responses yet.) If I asked "What are your ethical stances in life?" ..it's hard to say exactly. But if you asked about, say, the arms industry, animal rights, euthanasia, abortion, pollution, lawyers, bullying, tax rates, lobbyists etc etc, it's easier to say something, talk about relevant factors, and then listen to differing views. And then explore why we hold those, what deeper principles lay underneath.

What are some equivalent specific questions in the software realm about which you think people might have diverging views? (I'm no expert. Perhaps some are around things like...advertising, working for evil-doing employers, monetization, rent-seeking, who ultimately your duty is to - self, family, friends, country, world, god etc.)
> Who will be able to afford to buy a house? Will people spend more than 50% of their take-home pay on mortgage payments? This doesn't seem sustainable long term.

The US housing market is open to bidding from the richest people in the world. Wealthy people in other countries see US housing as a good way to store value, and are driving up housing prices. To answer your question: while Americans will be priced out of the housing market, wealthy people from across the globe will continue to buy into it.
If you could take the money you were going to pay in rent (or at least the difference of mortgage-minus-rent) and instead put it in an index fund, this would be a meaningful comparison.
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To get an interesting unique feature I recommend implementing generic dispatch a la CLOS or Dylan. That also makes your library writing a real joy, for example you can just write a plus function for each combo of types.

Check out Dylan, a high performance dynamic language that compiles to LLVM. Check out this example:

https://opendylan.org/documentation/intro-dylan/multiple-dis...

This is how to do it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C3_linearization

Gives the language powerful uniqueness feature that the 'mainstream' languages don't have.
> How much stuff do you want to give away for a 50% reduction in terrorism? And once you come up with that answer, how would you know if your giving those things actually was the thing that reduced it?

You are totally right of course, but the public "debate" around these kind of issues is so emotion-driven that this line of questioning is never explored. Humans generally want someone in power over them that will grant them safety and security, and a sense of certainty that nothing bad will happen to them. Any argument that relies on probability and the idea of trade-offs will never be effective in the public square of a democratic society
I think a beneficial course would be one where the students learn about the history of how controlling certain governments and malevolent agencies can be. History can tell us a lot about how bad it can get and the implications. People nowadays are forgetting the things that happened back in Russia under communist rule for example. We like to believe our information is in good hands and won't be used for nefarious purposes. We have forgotten how evil humans can be under certain circumstances.
Here's the WHO report for folks who are interested: https://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutrientscha...
Self-driving cars have the possibility to be transformational rather than evolutionary.

Self-driving cars mean you can get rid of on-street parking, freeing up a lot of travel lanes. They will speed up driving, since they have better reaction times and can communicate with each other to travel more closely. The time you do spend in a car can be more productive, effectively opening up whole new hours of your life. You can use them to move children around without having to drive them, opening up new educational opportunities. Ultimately tens of thousands of lives per year will be saved: humans are terrible drivers.

I don't really know what it will be like: transformational change is always unpredictable. Our entire physical infrastructure is built around driving, both in the cities and elsewhere, and changing the way we relate to our cars can radically alter the way we construct our lives. Maybe nothing will happen, but it's worth considering that this is a real technology that is getting very close and has enormous potential far beyond the "faster horse".
This quote kind of summarises the effect of the attempted takeover:

"Nonprofit websites will be trapped: If they want to keep their longtime brand and their archives, they’ll pay whatever price. “When you buy a domain you own it, but after a couple years it owns you.”"

Hope this ends well for all .org owners!
It's on the bottom of the web page now.
Absolutely true.

My buddy managed money for the kind of non-profits everyone has heard of at one time or another.

Tends to be that once they get big enough they find themselves recipients of endowments that they can invest however they see fit. They tend to put that capital to work in whatever yields the highest return.

Know what offers the best returns? Stuff that tends to cause the problems the non-profit might have been set up to stop.

Becomes a self sustaining ecosystem where the investments from the societally damaging corporations pays to sustain the cleanup effort.
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There are recent cars like that, you just can't buy them in places like the US or Europe because they're deathtraps. The Tata Nano was produced until 2018 and cost about 3000USD. BYD makes a tiny electric car (e1) for about 9000USD.
"The guide advises students not to work for companies that build technology that harms vulnerable communities"

I grew up in a vulnerable community. It was called poverty. I am happy to say nowadays I am no longer poor.

Not everyone was born with a silver spoon like I assume many at Mozilla's leadership were, or live in the Bay Area where job choices are plentiful.
Nitpick but the capitalisation is important. TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) is not just traditional medicine from China, it was a concerted state effort by Mao to modernise and standardise it, drawing from various local and traditional methods. Notably it was developed to create standard cultural identity and also notably, he did not use it himself.
Thanks for your feedback! I tried to design the .board file format in a future compatible way. It's just HTML embedded in a ZIP file. Make a copy of one of your boards and change the file extension to .zip to take a closer look. The HTML doesn't render the same as a board yet (it's copy & paste ready), but you'll get the idea.
> Leverage is the biggest benefit, I would imagine.

Yes, absolutely. A 20% downpayment of $40k suggests a $200,000 purchase price. A 6.5% annual return over 25 years suggests the house is presently ~$950,000, because that's usually how people frame things (appreciation on the value of the asset, not their equity), unless they say otherwise. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

So the house appreciated $750k, which is theirs to pocket. And based on the $40k downpayment, that's a ~13% annual return. But even if you base it on the purchase price, nobody cares about a lower annual return if you have a higher absolute figure you would't have been able to achieve otherwise.

(If you're not paying a mortgage, you're paying rent, and rents are typically approximately the current price of houses plus maintenance. There's a ton of variance, of course.)

We live in an intensively capitalist society, for better or worse. If you're not in debt, using money to make money, you're losing. Houses can be a risky investment, and for most people a mortgage is just what you have to do to maintain an average standard of living, especially in your later years when you can draw down equity and any appreciation. But if you don't have a mortgage you're at a serious disadvantage.

Rich people, or people who have the time and energy to trade derivatives, don't need home mortgages because they have other ways to make leveraged investments. For the vast majority of people, the first and only opportunity is a home mortgage.

This is why I think it's insane that we're building low-income housing with exactions and public expenditures. It's like buying Cadillacs for everyone too poor to buy a car on their own. You either buy older buildings (used cars) and refurbish, or better you get banks to finance construction of new properties in which they and the low income residents can have a property interest, similar to Singapore and (I think) some places in Honk Kong. The property interest may have constraints (can't sell for 5-10 years, some appreciation has to be rolled back into the program, etc), so it would take some public expenditures to cover the gap. But you're still playing the capitalist game, leveraging assets, and digging into the pockets of global wealth (not just the local tax base). Of course, the potential for abuse and bad planning is immense, but there'd have to be a ridiculous amount of abuse to burn money faster than buying Cadillacs for everybody. And when you consider the wealth building potential for residents (no longer just a handout, but the opportunity to build assets, like the middle classes), it makes even more sense.

A couple of years ago there was some press about some non-profits doing this in Oakland and elsewhere in the U.S. But the programs are just too small to matter, and the constraints far more onerous. If you don't permit such properties to eventually enter the free market and "gentrify", you risk creating ghettos. Do it right in a place like the Bay Area you need billions on the line.
But there is no reason why it couldn't be done today, even with non-autonomous vehicles. There are cars on the road that can automatically brake if they discover that you are incapacitated, or that something jumped out infront of you. Having some kind of "assisted red light start" which reduces accordion effect could be an easy way of improving throughput. At first only some cars would have it, and effect would be smaller from a system POV, but with time it would propagate.
It's a new twist in the war between tech and media companies for a prominent CEO to speak this strongly, even if her current company isn't so prominent and even if what she said wasn't intended to be public.
People pausing to think and find words, speaking slowly and clearly across language barrier, time estimate rounded up.
I found this article incredible (despite the tabloid-like headline) on this subject:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/01/14/icann_org_redacted/

TL;DR: Purchase funded by debt, includes another ex-ICANNer, will be done through four different companies.

Some highlights that I think are important from it:

Incredibly, the names of three directors of the organization that will buy the registry remain redacted in documents published by ICANN [PDF] this month, despite the three entities pushing the sale – PIR, ISOC and Ethos Capital – claiming that publication of the information is “unprecedented” and they are “strong believers in the power of transparency.”

The rationale given for the removal of director names is that it was based “on the principles set forth in ICANN’s Documentary Information Disclosure Policy (DIDP)” – a bizarre claim that has nothing to do with the issues at hand and which ICANN has refused to discuss.

As well as refusing to supply the names of those in overall charge, the three companies have also refused to publish the “underlying equity purchase agreement, sensitive financial information, corporate organizational information, draft organizational documents, documentation provided to governmental entities and certain supporting contractual documents.”
How do you know that? this data was exposed for a day or so, did you dump it yourself?
The jobs that pay well enough to afford housing elsewhere are in those cities.
It's there: https://geocities.restorativland.org/TimesSquare/Arcade/
Can you name some ethical companies that pay $250K/year to people with just a few years of experience? I would love to apply.
I'm surprised Microsoft doesn't just revoke people's licenses to use EOLed Windows, such that they're breaking the law by staying on that version. That'd get crufty corps and orgs moving, no?
Ah the counties work great! Never even would have occurred to me. And honestly, for many medium-sized towns, the county is more intuitive boundary anyways.

Since it's not clear you could search by county, may I suggest including that as a tip or something? Otherwise it gives the impression the site is broken somehow.

Or if it's possible, to find the smallest containing item that does have boundaries, whatever it is. (I don't know if OSM supports that performantly?)
Attempted? It already happened.
You can always install Linux on a Macbook pro.
For that many devices on SPI, run 7 pins to an address decoder that fans out to 128. You can do this in the spare pins of an FPGA that you might have for some other purpose, and the 7 pins are cut down to one or less if you've already put much into the FPGA. For example, the FPGA provides 4096 bytes of registers (12 address bits) to the MCU but only needs 3700 registers, so use one of the spare bytes to control which SPI CS is enabled.

I've also seen JTAG as an alternative to I2C and SPI. JTAG can be part of normal operation.
Here’s a mostly overlooked fact: Housing hasn’t become the biggest asset class — the land underneath each house has.

Housing itself is cheap to build. Location, however, is expensive. And that’s also what makes people win or lose in Monopoly.

I’ve written about it extensively: a book (https://www.unitism.com), articles (https://www.progress.org/authors/martin-adams), etc.
Any individual job is voluntary so long as there is more than one employer in the market.

It’s not opinion but fact: you are free to quit your job at any time. You are also likely free to move to any number of different cities that have different job prospects.

That is an important freedom, and you should use it whenever you want.
Most prams I see these days are much larger than the simple, light-weight folding models many people had when I was a child in the 80s. They're basically monster-truck-prams.

I think the perceived comfort, safety, and luxury is a big drawcard in both cases.
> unveil() needs can be trickier, since many programs handle failure to open a file and try to carry on anyway.

Is it possible to run strace and note failed file opens? There'll be some nice, but you could pretty easily compare against files that do actually exist and use that to make rules almost automatically, I would think?
There's definitely a little bit of fuckery regarding Beaverton's borders.

My mailing address is in Beaverton, but OSM thinks it's Aloha. My zip code according to the post office is 97003, but some map software rejects it as non-existent, or forces a change to 97006.

OSM's Portland borders also definitely don't match what mailing addresses are there. I used to live in apartments off of NW 185th near US-26, which most people would call Beaverton, but my mailing address was Portland, but I was at least 4 miles from anywhere people would actually call Portland.

I wonder how common these confusing city limits are in other metro areas.
To be fair, reddit was originally a usenet clone.
This is a really strong piece, with some great insights on culture, marketing and business.

One thing I’d add is that it’s really important, critical even, that marketing is operating across the business - supporting customer success, sales and even product and engineering.

Very often marketing sits in a silo as a kind of production house and actually loses track of what is happening in the rest of the business. They end up producing stuff that sales cannot use, they’re not connected to actual customer pain points and they lack detailed knowledge of the product.

For marketing to operate at its best and to be really useful, it needs to act as a support function to other areas of the business, as well as delivering world-class campaign and brand execution. This isn’t ‘knowing HTML and CSS’ but it’s definitely getting involved in other areas of the business.
If you think they are about questions relevant centuries ago, I'd really like to know what you think the questions are.

Many of the "classics" of classic literature (no pun intended) talk about questions that are perpetually relevant, and the same goes for lots of things that fall under history and philosophy.

I don't debate there's a lot of garbage out there that falls under "it's old, so we'll teach it", but I can assure you that the vast majority does speak about relevant topics. And like in SF, the ones that endure are the ones that speak most clearly.

In general, all stories teach about empathy - how can I put myself in somebody else's shoes. If you found a better way to learn that via SF, more power to you. The classics are still relevant because they provide the foundation upon all this is built, and so they become important once you discuss things in a wider circle. (E.g. I might like fantasy, and not have a solid enough grounding in SF. We need to find some common ground. Via acclamation, the world has picked literature/history/philosophy as that common ground)

And so I'd encourage you to maybe go out and give some of it a try :)

If you care for recommendations: For philosophy, I recommend "What does it all mean" by Thomas Nagel. I don't have a great recommendation for History - I like "By Steppe, Desert and Ocean", but it's incomplete & somewhat eurocentric. True world history in a single book is probably asking a bit much. Same goes for literature, but even more so - it's really a matter of taste. I adore "The Master and Margarita", but beware, it's weird :) Grapes of Wrath is a moving and v. relevant one. The Illiad is spectacular, but I only know German translations, never read it in English.
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Which universities allow computer science majors to skip classic literature, history, and philosophy? Every engineering program I'm familiar with requires at least 6 humanities courses.
I can get a bunch right, especially question 48 - that's me. (hi rob) :)
Still hacking after all these years.
I just realized I did not actually understand how floats worked. I just kind of assumed I knew ... and I did not actually know the details correctly.

Thanks for this!
There is a safe, out of band way to do this that system designers can utilize. Reset all the other peripherals on the bus.
Sure, but they’re addressing tech workers. I’m sure they’re trying to dissuade people from taking jobs at places like Facebook/Google etc.