skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on your comment you're clearly not a Stripe user, so I'm not sure why you felt the need to post this.

If visa/mc/amex are so much better, people can use them.

Stripe uses visa/mc/amex, it is not a competitor. You completely missed my point. Stripe uses visa/mc/amex to process credit card transactions, then when a refund is issued the CC companies return the charged amount to Stripe, but Stripe does not return the full amount back to the customer. They keep a percentage. This is what I consider "borderline fraudulent".

Charging a flat fee for a service doesn't seem that fraudulent to me.

But it is not a flat fee. They keep a percentage of the refunded amount. So if a customer bought a $1000 item, then changed their mind and cancelled the order 5 min later, Stripe would still keep $40 just for the fun of it. A small flat fee to cover network expenses would be more appropriate, not a percentage of the amount.
> The size of the EU’s combined military is already comparable to Russia’s for example

As an American, I’d bet on the Russians winning that fight every time. Size of force means nothing here. Likewise with the Israelis - they punch above their weight.

Not trying to put words in your mouth, as I don’t think you meant that at all, but I wanted to show that projection of power doesn’t necessarily equal headcount.

The French for instance, have nuclear weapons. If they were really about to lose their country, they could unleash some serious devastation.
I don't believe anyone here thinks France is an Academic backwater. France has had some of the most brilliant scientist/mathematicians since the 1600's.
Forget the business models. Duo and hangouts don't present me with ads for example. So that doesn't matter in any way in this comparison.

What google needs to do is to stop fracturing communication modes across every single conceivable strata they can identify.
This is bad.

One executive at Jio already confirmed they use DPI to monitor traffic on their networks, and their apps, be it their MyJio, JioTV, JioNews, etc. ask for almost every permission there is.

Also, it looks like the Zuck hasn't given up on his internet.org thing yet. He failed the first time, might as well join hands with a person who literally is the Government in India.

Can't switch to Idea because they were hacked by the NSA and they're about to go bankrupt, so I guess long live the Jio-Airtel duopoly!
My compliments on your patience in the face of some really vile personal attacks. So far as I could tell, you never lost your temper, and you gave far more grace than seemed deserved.
> Care for the open web, fear ie6, and at the same time enjoy firefox!

And remember: Chrome is the new IE.

(Since a number of people have misunderstood this quote in the past I'll explain it up front: 1. IE was in some ways technically superior to competition until they became dominant. 2. At the same time devs stopped caring about other browsers, and then 3. Microsoft lost interest in it. We are repeating this it seems, currently at step 2 for a few years already, waiting for Chrome to completely outcompete other browsers and for Google to abondon it like so many other of their projects :-)

Edit: I took the time to write down a slightly expanded version of the explanation above: https://erik.itland.no/chrome-is-the-new-internet-explorer-4...
For the sake of example, how was Soviet Science high school different from Stuyvesant/Brooklyn Tech/Bronx school of Science? (Just to name the ones I know of).
Startup School Triplebyte Mixup: Triplebyte Test with YC Interview Guarantee
Startup School Triplebyte Mixup ::: Triplebyte Test with YC interview Guarantee

Did Any Technical Cofounder do a TripleByte Test with guarantees to a YC interview if they passed the test?

I got an email saying I aced the test but got a rejection letter. Please comment if you have a similar experience.

These are Screenshots to the emails.

https://imgur.com/2OJNM9B
https://imgur.com/dkTtz0i
Small note: if you want ripgrep's output to match grep's, then you can do

alias rg="rg --no-heading"

It will still show file paths and line numbers. Those can be disabled too, with `rg --no-heading --no-line-number --no-filename`.
I find facebook the most friendly way to ask for support or interact with companies. Please keep it :)
Oh VICAR is not so strange. There was this "weird" habit back then that the file formats (IMG astronomical format does this too) would start with an ASCII-based fixed length header (or the header is variable size, but has a line of text at the start that states the size). Always a multiple of 512 or 1024 bytes too. And then in the header you can literally read (with your human eyes) the format used, how many bits per pixel, the lines width and how many lines and so own.

You can literally write a parser from reading a couple of headers. Of course, it's much better to be provided with software that can handle all the nuisances of the format without having to test it when something fails on you.
The farmer lies about death by carbon dioxide being painless. The chickens suffocated in intense fear, just like we would. Carbon :monoxide: and nitrogen are relatively painless.
I guess its just anecdotes at this point, not data. But all my peers and friends from different schools, were solving quadratic equations in 4th grade in USSR/Russia. This was early 90's. I then studied in Canadian and US high schools and it took me until 9th grade to start learning any new math again at school.
That's a good point. I'm regularly going back and forth between Teams conferences and Webex conferences and the Teams ones seem to take a quarter of the time to get started compared to the webex ones (with all the "are you on mute?", "I can't hear you" nonsense) and the quality tends to be higher.

If I could junk webex entirely I'd love it.
L4 vs. L7 Load Balancing
19 employees seems such a small number that you can’t but think they could have as easily not fired them and just cut everyone’s pay?
Have you considered moving to California? The economic benefit of states experimenting with laws is that you can choose what makes sense for you, instead of just accepting what's on offer in Seattle.
The list is not sorted by earnings but number of subscribers. So the 1000th most profitable content creator is unlikely to be on that list.

Also, they have three different fees. The 5% to 12% fees are on top of the CC fees and money transfer fees. https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360027674431

Ex: Someone with 500 subscribers at 3$ per month after CC fees on the middle 8% tier is 120$ per month to Patreon.
Any info copy and pasted for those not on FB?
>University on the West gets its money directly from students so they motivated to attract and keep as many students as possible - so books are entry level to do not scare students. Barrier here is established from "paying user" side.

I guess Western Europe isn't part of the West anymore.
Echo State Networks
There's BSNL. Their 4G services are currently better than Jio and Airtel in my city. And they provide better connectivity in rural and remote areas.
For your #1, why? Is your assertion that all the inmates contracted the virus on the same day? Isn't it more of an average?
Airtel isn't good either. There are no real options anymore. Bsnl is terrible where I live. For a lot of people, that's a reality. They can't move.
Will translate to a 9.99% equity stake https://finance.yahoo.com/news/facebook-invests-5-7-billion-...
No, I think the data is pretty clear.

Corona is just another seasonal flu, and prisons don't have enough ventilators to kill all their patients.
This is excellent and I enjoyed it deeply. Thank you for linking it. I didn’t agree with everything but I especially liked his focus on friends, family, health, and being true with oneself over the opinion of others. This VC seems very respectable.
In my experience, it's easy to think one has understanding without actually understanding. The process of applying that tentative understanding to a problem to test it is essential to figuring out what the flaws are in the tentative understanding so that real understanding can eventually be achieved. Once it gets to the point that a person can crank through problems without significant errors, then I think further problems don't do much good except as an occasional refresher.
For the last few weeks, I've been on a weekly 50 person conferences with people from 6 entirely different organizations/companies and it's been absolutely flawless. Presentations, slidesharing, filesharing, chat, driving somebody else's computer, the works.

I've never experienced anything quite like it even if on paper it sounds like half a dozen other conference systems. It blows anything else I've used out of the water.
Google wins victory royale over Epic Games, snags Fortnite for Google Play
Corresponding author here -- happy to answer questions.
I don't see how you can reliably deep copy any user defined class either.
Thanks for answering questions about this and being so open! In your top-voted comment, you claimed that this data will never be sold to advertisers. Are you now saying that you're unsure? If so, it would be helpful to update the comment, since it seems it's not accurate.

> This data has never been, would never be, and will never be sold/rented/etc. to advertisers
But they end up voting in left or right blocks. Since the amount of has been reduced by half you see it more often. John Tory appoints people to positions with higher status and perks (like head of the ttc). To get these positions you agree to support Tory's plan. The few who cross him will get no plum roles if any.
What should happen to the wardens if it emerges that negligence led to avoidable death/disability?
I was introduced to Dvorak and the New World Symphony through the anime Shin Sekai Yori (From the New World).

My favorite part of the New World Symphony is the largo, and found some of the background in this article interesting.

> Dvořák was also moved by the tale of Hiawatha, a founder of the Iroquois Confederacy. The largo is, in part, meant to describe the end of Hiawatha’s life. The old chief, weary from a life of labor, loss, and ardent service to his people, sits on the shores of the Great Sea Water and faces his own final homegoing.
That's totally fair. Lots of people I work with have a separate work phone. My point was, even without a dial-in number, the app works flawlessly on a phone.
How's the Carbon work, considering your app is 64-bit?
Stop spreading misinformation.
mesh wifi?
Previously: Patreon is about to eat itself

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19091955
Mech wifi (Eero) + ZeroTier.

Strong connection all over locally + secure connection to any box inside the house frmo anywhere without need to punch holes in ports/router
Thank you for feedback. Do you think $49 - $79 would be justified for a %100 practical course, with about 2.5 hours of dense (not sparse to fill time) material?
My i7 seems to work well enough in dark (but that was after it mapped the house)
First 3 years all students of all Sciences (Math included) and all Engineering specialties were getting the same (mandatory) set of courses. Only rest 2 or 3 years were variable.

As of Canadian Universities. UBC in particular.

Anecdotical evidence, but still.

Friend of mine, owner of small factory here in Vancouver, asked me once to assemble him software department specifically from Eastern Europe people. On question "why?" he answered - they are engineers first and programmers only second, and UBC makes CS people.
For an idea of what percent of employees this is: https://lambdaschool.com/the-commons/2019-a-year-of-incredib...

They added 125 in 2019, and there were 40 at some unknown time during 2018. That would mean at least 165. There's a photo which was taken sometime in 2019 while the 125 were being added, which may not include everyone. They may have also hired more in the first couple months of 2020. It seems they had somewhere between 165 and 250 employees. This would mean the 19 employees are between 7.5% and 11.5% of their workforce.
The Art of Code – Dylan Beattie
On MacOS, I definitely have an option to "leave the team" or "leave channel" either by right clicking on one or hitting the hamburger dots.
Why Jails Are So Important in the Fight Against Coronavirus
I stand by my answer[0] to that question.

[0]: https://qr.ae/pNrgmY
Life, part 2
That's not really representative. If you sort by publically available earnings, you can see 100 Patreons pulling in $10k/month, another 100 making $5k/month, then another making $3/month. the rest are private.

Assuming this is a representative distribution of the top 1000 (and I bet it's actually higher!):

- $10k/month * 300 + $5k/month * 300 + $3k/month * 400

- ~$285k/month for Patron just from the official cut

On top of this, Patreon probably has revenue sharing with the card processors for a small percentage of the fees (let's say even 0.1%), which adds a couple k.

Now people in the high-paying pro plans that get you the 5% rate (the lower end is 12% platform fees!) will pay $300/month.

that alone doubles their revenue, adding $300k/month _for just these first thousand patrons_.

So you're already at $600k/month in MRR. Hell of a lot more than a lot of "serious venture scale" B2B CRMs that are trying to be the next Salesforce or whatever but utterly failing at providing the value add needed to make big billings.

You might not need 300 people for it. And yeah it would be a lot better to make a lot of money. But they're being pretty successful at getting money here. And this is just assuming that they only have 1000 patrons (which is just false)
Choosing not to supply Client Subnet is entirely valid. Most services don't. But archive.is doesn't block those other services only Cloudflare. How "strange".
Thanks for feedback, I am considering both (a) Linux interface (b) Back to basics building at least a decent multitasking kernel with memory management.
It sounds like a good idea, but unfortunately it's mathematically unstable and doesn't form any sort of equilibrium (Nash or otherwise). Any participant can gain an advantage by grouping up with one other participant. Once everyone has grouped up into pairs, they will then group up again and again, ultimately creating a two party system.
I think Rust is probably a force multiplier here. The same program, IMO, would be harder to maintain in a language like C or C++. Although of course there are alternatives to ripgrep written in C or C++, so I'm not sure how compelling of an argument that is. But the force multiplier doesn't just need to make me more productive. Rust makes it pretty natural to factor things into libraries, and developing ripgrep over the years has caused me to produce many of them. Those in turn have been reused by other tooling, including rustc and Cargo themselves. That is something you don't often see in the C or C++ world.

As for Go, I don't know. The garbage collector seems likely to be a problem. Ben Boyter wrote about working on a similarish tool in Go and problems with the GC: https://boyter.org/posts/sloc-cloc-code-performance/

At the very least, such a tool in Go would probably require writing your own regex engine if you want to get comparable performance. (You can see how similar tools in Go, such as pt and sift, fall off a performance cliff as soon as you lean too heavily on the regex engine.) Or at the very least, contribute back to Go's standard library and make `regexp` faster. Whether it can match the speed of a Rust/C/C++ regex engine, I don't know. It's an open question I think.
I've got my Patreon set up to pay some folks I like monthly, and I can't even tell you who they are off the top of my head, but I decided that I wanted to budget $x towards supporting cool people and it's been charging me in the background ever since. Meanwhile, I can barely remember to pay my voice teacher every week and I go there in person (well, not anymore) and sing for an hour.
Prolog is a general purpose programming language. You can use it to implement provers, optimization problem solvers, or generally use it as a unification algorithm engine and database.

You could say prolog has branched many ways. There are many similar languages now which take some aspect prolog did well and made it better. Problog, Mercury, Picat, logtalk, Allego Graph prolog

There's also datalog, which is like the logic database subset of prolog. There's datomic, datahike, datascript, dlv, abcdatalog, racket datalog.

Then there's the RDF / Semantic web side, which feels a lot like datalog. There's many reasoners for triple stores which work like logic databases. RDFox is also a bleeding edge datalog implementation for incremental materialization, you can use it as a business rules engine as well as a database, it keeps recursively derived facts always up to date even as you add new facts. The biggest triple store implementation is probably wikidata.

AI / ML these days try to find patterns in data and reproduce those patterns reliably. Many of the use cases with prolog and prolog-like languages are more about feeding in known facts, and deriving more facts, implications, putting models that represent known and relationships and rules between facts and hierarchical state. Who ever finally makes an ML capable of general intelligence, I'm willing to bet they will interface neural network technologies with a modifiable fact database capable of generating models for the rules and relationships between facts and the hierarchy of those facts.

Probably a lot of this declarative yaml state used in devops these days could benefit from prolog-like logic for drift detection, alerts and recovering broken configurations automatically. Any type of big data DAG that has constraints of complex implications of specific paths can benefit from logic programming. If you have a complex knowledge base like a legal corpus, it can help massively narrow down research needed by asking simple questions that half the search space each time. People have used it for NLP for it's pattern matching abilities. You can reuse the same function against multiple patterns.
BSNL is about to go bankrupt as well.

They were offered the 4G spectrum at 2016 prices but even then they couldn't pay their employees' salaries anymore so the Govt. had to step in to pay for their voluntary retirement scheme, which 78,000/50% of their employees opted for.
Note that I don't mind conceptual depth. But if you fail to bootstrap then you're stuck. Calculation kinda helped me connecting the notation with simpler things and bring back confidence and gradual progress
But I thought Patreon never took more than a 12% cut...
European regulators usually have much more bite than class action suits. I'm hoping this will get their attention at some point.
This is great, I would love to be able to use this. Win98 always felt like a highpoint in easy to UI design.

I am not a CSS ninja, how easy would it be to make this responsive? The example do not appear to be responsive.
i'll have to look into the drive api. If easy enough, this sounds like a plan.
I wish government would stop these foreign investment sometimes especially into important pillars of the internet. I am okay with small startups getting investment but this is just bad. Jio is already terrible at tracking and they are the first ones to censor you when some high court cries foul.
For this thread, I just saw a thread that mentioned grep. At that point, I naturally gravitate toward it since I'm obviously very interested in the topic!
For 10 years I’ve had an automatic $2 monthly PayPal payment sent to a podcast I enjoy.
Funding Models and Progress
Why even allow grouping (politically) into pairs? The town could just ban non-politicians from expressing political speech entirely (as a social norm, not a law.)

Politicians could still speak politically in the form of campaigning; but they'd not be allowed to make reference to other politicians' positions on things; only to speak about their own beliefs on how things should be/how things should work.

For anyone who isn't an actively-campaigning politician, the only political speech you'd be allowed would be (private-ballot) voting. Anything else would get you shunned by the community.

(Yes, I realize how ridiculous this sounds.)
> They might forget it the day after the test, the might not know why they’re doing anything, but you can be damn certain you know what you’re doing if just for that brief window in time.

What was the point then? It's a complete waste of time in that scenario.
Death takes time to accumulate. If everyone caught it in the last couple days, we don’t spect deaths yet under anyone’s model.
Julia is a really interesting language that was designed around some people's dissatisfaction with the languages traditionally used in scientific computing. One of the core ideas is a high degree of modularity and composability. I think the way it's type system and multiple and dispatch work really nicely reflects a lot of ideas in mathematics and make it easy to implement and extend mathematical ideas.
... with guns. Just sayin'
Discoverability is a huge deal. Looking for new, interesting projects? You know where to go.

It's the reason Etsy is very popular. Could sellers open their own Shopify stores in order to have more control over their storefronts? Of course, but they lose out on the search feature that Etsy provides, as well as the trust that buyers associate with these larger platforms.
Using this to style my online resume next time.
This isn't even misinformation. It's disinformation: deliberately spreading misleading information.

https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/the-diff...
These articles are about rural roads, this has nothing to do with suburban development patterns that Strongtowns rails against.
Why is this even a thing?

This is a serious anti-feature as far as I can see.. can someone clarify otherwise for me?
I would add that the effect is even more pronounced in college sports (in the US) compared to pro sports, especially those that have a draft system (so the NBA but not Formula 1, e.g.). The persistent institutional/reputational advantages enjoyed by some of the top college sports programs really are perfect illustrations of the network effects you mentioned. I mean, just look at the rankings enjoyed by Notre Dame in college football year in and year out, even when they frequently get killed by lowered ranked opponents in bowl games.
Yeah, I think the closest you can really get is 1 car per family depending on the work/school situation but even that's kinda hard to swing. It works for me and my partner because despite being in the burbs I can walk to work so it works out being 1-2 rides a month which makes way more sense financially.
Many companies are using covid as opportunity to trim staff. Since everyone is doing it they are less likely to get scrutiny and coverage.
One would think Russia would have demand for strong advanced mathematics professionals, so unclear how failing students might help that. Missing something in the reasoning though, since I get that if you’re giving away something for free, you want to maximize the yield it returns, but still, it does not add up to me.

Further, reasoning that American schools get money might hold true for tuition based schools, but my understanding is that large percentage of pre-university mathematics courses are taught for free. So again, doesn’t make sense to me, because if that was the case, all schools would charge and majority of students would finish university to maximize the profits, and again, this does not match my understanding of how things work.
How many of them have been named "Duo" ?
With people using attempting to use trains to sink hospital ships, I think it's fair to say just about all segments of the USA are live in post Poe's law world. A while ago that final jab would have made it clear to all it was a joke, but now you really do have to add <joke> tags.
>(Bad for us consumers ofcourse.)

explain?
Doh! Thanks for the correction. I also had it in my mind that Truman did the Highway Act, but that was also Eisenhower. Shows how much I paid attention in history class.