skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world has always been this way, where it seems like the giants will live forever. And that smaller companies don't stand a chance to dethrone any of these incumbents. But history has always proven that wrong. Just look at the landscape now, it's already so different than just 5 years ago. These so called large companies haven't even been alive for most of our lifetimes.

> That means the only way their investors will get their money out will be via an acquisition by one of the large companies. Google, Facebook, and their ilk “have become enormous by swallowing small companies”

This point about acquisitions always held true. Most companies will get their exit through an acquisition. There will have been many acquisition conversations had at any company that has IPO-ed. The media has us well poised to believe that a company must IPO to succeed, when most startup successes are buried in the boring stories of acquisitions. Very occasionally does a company breakthrough and IPO.

And if anything, this shows that small is still incredibly powerful – if they feel the need to acquire you instead of mobilizing their large numbers of employees, then, whether they admit it or not, they definitely believe in the value of small too.
Things like `maddy` seem much less error-prone and secure than the, frankly, house of cards of an e-mail stack most boxes run at this moment.
Apple paid about $35bn in corporate income taxes globally in the last 3 years. Their effective global corporate tax rate is 24.6 percent and most of their taxes were paid in the US.
I think most people make alt identities not through some sense of exploring self, but to make sure they don’t get “cancelled” in real life based on some post that goes viral and generates outrage.
Sure, you can get sufficiently close, and at what cost in terms of developer effort and physical infrastructure? Not everyone is Google, and in most cases if you explicitly have code that doesn't assume synchronicity you will avoid footguns that inexperienced devs will make.
Neither am I, I didn't know about the 5000yr thing
Show HN: Clips.live – Live video clips of every NBA play
> I literally had someone write down the exact answer for an algorithm question that appears on GeeksforGeeks down to the small bugs which the post had originally.

how did you know/verify this?

wondering why an interviewer would go GeeksforGeeks and other interview sites and match a candidates answer line by line.
“I don’t know what weapons world war 3 will be fought with, but world war 4 will fought with sticks and stones”- idk

A true major conflict would be annihilation and utter devastation across the globe.
Thanks for the insightful comment! I agree about the difficulty in grasping his musical concepts. It certainly
took me time.

For anyone interested - his tone poem “Verklarte Nacht” is a great work to understand the culmination of European musical ideas you spoke of. It has some of the chromaticism and an eye to Schoenberg’s future work while still having the immediate payoff of more traditional Western Music. It’s a striking and beautiful piece.
Think of the system as (human + the warning computers + radars).

Thanks to the human element the system has shared human values and decided not to start a thermonuclear war despite it being the recommended course of action.

If it was a completely AI system it would probably just start the war.
USB appeared to be in motion by that 1996 codex but it took the original iMac in 1998 to give it the impetus to reach critical mass (and boy was USB controversial in the case of the iMac).

I would not claim that the iMac gave it critical mass -- that still goes to windows PCs. But although it was possible to use USB devices in Windows XP, it was clumsy and there weren't a lot of devices available. Somehow the iMac had enough significance (remember Apple was still really on life support at that time) to get enough peripheral vendors to produce devices that it was able to creakily get airborne.
> Virtual machine emulates a computer with a full ISA.

You probably didn’t mean that they literally emulate an instruction set, because most modern hypervisors don’t emulate most instructions.
> No, you're not misunderstanding. I guess I made that statement with the implicit trust of AWS so I didn't think to qualify it.

But that doesn't change that you are trusting a third party?! I mean, if that were to count as "you don't have to trust a third party", then anything does. Use gmail, so you don't have to trust a third party (except for the implicitly trusted Google)! Use Facebook, so you don't have to trust a third party (except for the implicitly trusted Facebook)!

There is nothing necessarily wrong with trusting any one of those. But then you don't get to claim "no trust in third parties required!"

> You're absolutely right that if AWS is a bad actor it has access to all the information, but I'm working on the assumption that it's more profitable to AWS to be a good actor than bad.

Well, for one, see above. But also: is it? Is it really more profitable to keep your data safe than to give the NSA access and in return get some of the good government contracts, say? Plus, trust isn't just about them not screwing you over intentionally, it's also about incompetence.
I think 150m are poor at managing money. You can get Prime for free at almost any time (I've gotten it for free EVERY time I've ordered from AMZ since Prime existed) and cancelled before getting charged.
Now those of us with postgraduate degrees and who are in the elite of the Democratic Party live in our own Versailles, and we don’t know any working-class people either—except perhaps the name of a barista at Starbucks or the woman who comes by at night to clean the office.

I think this is one thing churches did really well; people from all social spheres coming together to serve their God. It didn't matter what job or status you had. Everybody was equal.

I'm sure the same could be achieved today without the religious aspect as well. There's plenty of volunteering opportunities, for example. Being part of a amateur sports team can bring people from all classes together.
Whitelists works fine. Pin "extensions" work fine. The next step is probably just a simple question/answer regarding personal information about the recipient.

Just like account security questions. Provide drop down selector/s for users to select their question.

I'm not going to provide my public number here, but if a caller of mine isn't whitelisted I just prompt them for my billing zip code. Now, that's not going to work for every one, but considering who I want to get phone calls from, it's pretty foolproof.

Keep the energy up @davidajackson. I'd love to see you hugely successful with your efforts!
I suppose technically the post doesn’t specify a currency.
Nowhere did I say anything about inpatient care, nor any specific condition or diagnosis, let alone severity.

Likewise I stated I'm not a medical professional at the very start of this conversation, yet you continue with the narrative that I'm somehow pretending to be one. You're shadow boxing with straw men here.

You claimed to have a power level you're hiding from normal people.

That ain't well dude, and it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that. Get help if you can.
Yeah, when you expand your scope of analysis to include the labor movements of other nations, it’s striking how anemic and disenfranchised organized labor has been in the US.

Unions in other countries have historically been a voice of the people, and don’t have a lasting allegiance with any political party or movement. I have no idea why American unions collapsed; perhaps, it was justified in the moment, but the present absence of a strong voice for organized, skilled labor is tragic.
Your comment convinced me that I’ll live to see the day when the government bails out Google.
The three major things I did was automate everything, document everything and require justification in every task I do.

Whenever I had a task that recurred more than once, the second reoccurrence was when I implemented automation of that task. Didn't matter what it was or how much time it actually saved. The purpose was to have documented, reproducible results on any task I do. I often switched roles and then a year or two later I suddenly had to perform an old task I was "really efficient at." With automation i was able to do the task right away with almost no need to jog my memory.

Documentation requires you to get in the habit of writing. Doesn't have to be good, doesn't have to be smart and color coded. You just have to do it. I have vimwiki setup to a git repo and every discussion, every meeting, every project or note I took ends up here. Searching is easy enough and I don't have to worry about losing anything.

The last one deals with people so it requires tact. Whenever I'm asked to do a job that is a one off of something else or has additional work attached to it, I ask what the justification for the added engineering time would be. The point is to make me available for as much development as possible so if I'm stuck doing things that aren't actually needed it wastes resources. It also reduces complexity as there are minimal special cases for things.
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And those package repo sha256 checksums are signed and verified with ed25519 by usign and ucert (with a key built into the firmware)

usign: https://git.openwrt.org/project/usign.git

ucert: https://git.openwrt.org/project/ucert.git

Firmware releases are also signed with GPG:
https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/security/release_signatu...

openwrt/openwrt: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt

openwrt/packages: https://github.com/openwrt/packages

openwrt/openwrt/search?q="usign"
https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/search?q=usign
> Does anyone else miss Comdex? It seemed to be highly successful yet nothing really took its place.

They all do their own shows now. Back then individual tech companies were often small versus the giants of industry (eg GM, Exxon or GE), so they pooled together under one conference.

Microsoft's sales were under a billion dollars until 1990. Approximately the size of Splunk today, inflation adjusted.

Facebook 2019 is 30 times larger than 1990 Microsoft.

So now you have Salesforce Dreamforce, Oracle OpenWorld, Apple does WWDC and other presentations, Facebook has F8, Microsoft has Ignite among other presentations, AWS has re:Invent and Amazon does various other presentations, Adobe has Summit, Google I/O. And on it goes.
Bitcoin full nodes running over Tor can also be attacked similarly? I think yes however not sure and not every full node over Tor follows same configuration
It would be great to have a timeline as well: when does the project plans to superseed the current RLS? What's the goal for end of 2020?

At the same time I know how hard is to estimate projects.
The embedded images are ugly because of the downscaling (the URL contains &size=600).
That's right. Almost every weapon, especially nuclear, works best against civilians rather than well trained and well hidden soldiers.

And as far as I remember, in previous war nuclear weapon was used against civilians. Targeting large cities with high population density would be the most effective usage.
> Maybe it would expose you to information that's outside your own personal experience?

I've seen this stuff for DECADES. Another book is not on the menu. NOTHING has changed and pretending there's new insight is pointless.

> big companies also have the resources needed to invest in long-term R&D with potentially big payoff down the road.

Very few do this (AMZ is one, MSFT another). The exceptions do not make a rule, nor do they "innovate" (iterative improvement) as much as "experiment" to break into new markets. This is an important observation, which is a good indicator of the level of analysis performed.

It's important to note, innovation itself rarely lends to a successful company, which is a different discussion and necessarily colors the state of things.
Rewriting Array.Sort with C# Hardware Intrinsics
Maybe because that's a bad idea.

Unpopular != future Amazon. Sorry.
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I have not read this particular book yet, but everything I've read by Drucker has been thoroughly researched, well analyzed, and carefully written. Reading his books has taught me a lot about management, and has made me a better thinker.

Many management books are not worth the time it takes to read them. But in my opinion, Drucker is always worth the investment even if he turns out to be wrong about a particular topic.
Thank you for that clarification! I think the title makes more sense if you know about the novel prefix (which I didn't).
It's relatively low cost.
"In a knowledge economy, computers and networks are means of production." [0] In our world, datacenters and fiber backbones are the primary infrastructure upon which we depend.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Means_of_production
If keeping racists around was so good for business, then business culture would not have drastically changed in the last 50 or 60 years.

As far as US being #1 economy, that generally happens when the rest of the developed world is in rubble (post WWII). Men being sexist and racist was not necessarily a contributor.

Another trend was more people smoked cigarettes. Do you thinking smoking cigarettes means a more effective business?
Also, you won't find a link to the Open Collective project for rust-analyzer on the GitHub repo or website.

I'm also contributing to https://opencollective.com/rust-analyzer, I want it to be a viable project.
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If I have something I know can fail, and I want it to be able to, then calling set +e before it, and recalling set -e afterwards is the way I handle it.

But, in this case, because you're running it in a subcommand, you need to add pipefail.

set -euo pipefail

This way of making sure nothing misbehaves also locks out unset vars, which can be surprising, but also helpful.
Two thoughts:
1) I haven't seen any clear literature on efficiency of affordable servos. It seems like existing technology must be very efficient, given the pretty uniform torque/power ratio I've seen across the servo market.

2) One of the biggest financial roadblocks I've run across in robotics isn't about the torque available in affordable servos, it's about the ability to get force feedback. Servos/motors are useless for the large set of tasks requiring force feedback, without the additional complexity of building a current sensor and calibrating it. We need a cheap servo with integrated force feedback and an easy means of autocalibration (from a quick search, seems like this feature usually doubles or tripples the cost of an identical servo).
Indeed governments often asks for programs that are easy enough to create in a hackathon. The difficulty is integrating them with their current hardware and software setup. What I can do with Javascript or Python in a few days, might be a month in an enterprise Java setup where I need to run as a module on top of their existing application. Needing to integrate with existing SOAP based services etc, it might be even longer. So I'm pretty sure this story hasn't finished yet.
Actually no. If you work for, say, Facebook, and use your brain to do ML image recognition analysis, you get paid wages. They're good wages, but they're still wages and you don't get more unless the market decides that machine learning geeks need to be paid more. You don't own the means of production. Zuckerberg et. al. do. And nothing changes that, no matter how high your wages are and how big your brain is. If you work for facebook you get paid market wages and all the excess profit (and more importantly control over how new investments are spent) goes to someone else.

And the point of communism (informed by late 19th century industrialization) was that this imbalance leads to inevitable injustice as proletarian wages get pushed ever lower by increasing automation and centralization. It wasn't even wrong, really, though it doesn't have much relevance to tech jobs today.

But to confuse "a brain" with "the means of production" is fundamentally missing the point of the concept.
Thanks, I appreciate that you didn't just flippantly post this. However, I would say that citing the most extreme figure there without context is a technique of persuasion that pollutes discussion with hyperbole. I saw that number and it seemed immediately fishy. I still think so, but I won't get into all the reasons here because I don't have time. I really hate plastic bags. I've picked up hundreds of them off beaches worldwide. So we need to ban them and find an alternative--hey, like paper. Your comment inadvertently raised my hackles because it sounds a lot like you'd rather have BAU and plastic everywhere. (I hope not).
Same impression
I would be highly surprised if that's the way it worked at youtube because that's not the way it works in other players:

There's an takedown API/dashboard access to which is given to large content producers ( networks, large studios, transmitters, broadcasters, rights holders ). It is them who triggers the takedown action and selects the "reason"
which triggers an automated action by the platform. Most of the "content had been taken down by mistake" comes not from internal system but rather from other parties having access to the takedown API.
I'm not entirely sure if this is what GP was describing, but as a quick example, likely any that use the Django web framework. By default it puts the settings inside the repo, and at least at my work we just build off of that by putting multiple settings files in the repo and switch between them depending on dev/beta/live/etc.
> A piece of code looks error-free, then you fix an error somewhere else, reach the next compiler phase, and an error pops up where you just were.

Isn't this the case with all compilers? The most basic example being (for example) I have a syntax error on line 10, and that's the only reported problem, but then I fix the syntax error and now I have an error on line 200.

I agree it is a problem, the world would be better if all languages could avoid it, but I don't expect it ever to go away. Do you believe this problem is better or worse in Rust compared to other languages?
Scraping is getting data, which are publicly available. Using API is a) getting data behind login, which I am not sure if is covered by LinkedIn lawsuit, and also b) posting data to the app: likes, comments and so on.
In Chinese, people usually don't call Classical Chinese as 'Classical', instead people addressed it as 文言(Wen Yan), which roughly means the 'Written Speech' indicating it is special form of written Chinese, not spoken Chinese, which is often called 白话(Bai Hua, the Plain Speech), or Vernacular Chinese.

Since WenYan is created specifically for written and rarely used for speaking, there is a unique phenomenon in Chinese called "文白分离(Wen Bai Fen Li)", means the 'the Separation of Written and Spoken Chinese'. For nowadays Chinese people, it still requires intensive learning in order to read WenYan text from the ancient time as if it is a foreign language.
The shell is the true user interface to the OS. I like to think of writing shell scripts as having some mouse clicking automation tool on a GUI shell. It should be viewed as just as kludgy of a solution. But there really isn't anything more convenient most of the time. Shell scripts are to be called by humans to automate behavior they otherwise would have had to do manually.

An application should never rely on a shell script. If you have to execute another program, use the syscalls (fork and exec on posix).
Disclaimer: I'm the author of MoonScript

> Yes, the class stuff in MS is plain wrong

There's nothing wrong about it, I'm sorry you don't like it! I'm happy that you have your own ideas but to go around saying it's wrong isn't very cool. The system was very intentionally designed. Now that's it's been 9 years and I've written 100s of thousands of lines of MoonScript, the class has proved to be very reliable. It compiles to simple concepts that are easy to reason about when working with both large and small code bases.

> The thing is, the prototypal, copy-on-write nature of Lua object orientation

This line is confusing to me. There is nothing about lua that is fundamentally copy-on-write. That would have to be a choice the developer makes, but it would be hard to enforce with language primitives unless you're hiding data within meta-tables

I think you're getting hung up on details that have nothing to do with MoonScript: if you want a different language then use a different language. Don't go around saying it's wrong because it's not the language you want.
Case in point. CNN segment mocking working class people. https://twitter.com/DailyCaller/status/1221999373829144578
Mac Catalina restrictions appear to be the issue which where app launch checks were relaxed for a bit then made more aggressive very recently. We added an issue on the app project site to look into whether the app or just .net core or both need a macOS notice fix but there's a work around discussed here https://www.cultofmac.com/672576/cant-launch-your-apps-on-ma...
FYI, you write that the language is for "every man," which would be off-putting for some contributors.
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Yes, that's why these cost me a few weekends... if it's done in my Free Time(TM) they don't have to know about the unsuccessful ones.
Why not Upwork? Or investing some time in studying up on digital marketing and building your own products?

It isn't easy but you should be able to clobber $5/hour. Two questions which my customers have never asked me:

- What school did you go to?
- What country do you live in / are a citizen of...
> London sees itself as dependent on Beijing’s goodwill.

If only Britan could join together with others perhaps in a supra-national group of nations so that collectively they'd have more strength to resist large economies like China's.
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> The 'big three' were eaten alive by cars from abroad

GM wasn't eaten alive by foreign competition, nor was Ford. GM was eaten alive by extraordinarily bad financial decisions by management, not due to a collapse of their business. The bankruptcy put them back to profitability for a reason: they weren't in fact eaten alive. If the business had been destroyed by competition, they would neither exist nor have produced $30 billion in operating income the prior four years. Why did the bankruptcy get them back to sound profitability? Because they were able to crawl out from under layers of bad financial decisions from the past, not due to competition (the competition didn't end with the bankruptcy).

GM + Ford = $300 billion in sales.

That's what eaten alive looks like? Two of the largest automakers on the planet.
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Corruption is not how free markets sneak in, that's how they die.

Free markets don't exist in a vacuum. They rely on governments to maintain a state of fair competition. Corruption does not lead to free markets, it leads to monopolies and oligopolies.

It is true, however, that unchecked free markets often lead to this state.

Free markets rely on fair competition: you want companies to compete on quality and price and remove all the other factors, like nepotism, entryism or corruption. There is a competition in corruption, but a competition that is not in the public interest.

The company getting the big plane contract in country X should be the company with the best/cheapest planes, not the one able to send the hottest hookers to the crucial decision makers.
As soon as possible :)
I've been honing the iOS version and getting feedback but doing an Android version soon would be ideal.
Neural networks (deep learning)
You might not like China's internal policy but US foreign policy is not nice too.
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