skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, and once you have those in place you have a startup that eats money and doesn't necessarily make any money. The vast majority of software startups end up building something that nobody wants anyway, because if there's something that lots of people want, somebody has already built it.

Whereas if you open a restaurant, you can make solid projections where "If we fill every table, we make $Y. If we're 1/3 full, we make $X. We're unlikely to be less than 1/3 full", and these are typically completely reasonable because you can see how other similar restaurants have done. For a restaurant, having a similar restaurant be successful is a very positive indicator. For a software company, having a similar software company be successful is an indicator that the market niche is already filled.
Why do you find a nonstandard/large wheel problematic for bike touring? Just difficulty in finding replacement tires/tubes/etc?
If you are faced with an opponent that wants you dead, anything is justified, up to and including violence. Violence indeed isn't always the best way to prevent the rise of fascism, but it should always be on the table as that is easily morally justifiable.

"moderate to moderate" conversation is enlightened centrism. If you are up against an enemy that will use political violence the only recourse you'll have eventually is to do so as well. The sad truth is that political violence is in some cases much more effective than we are led to believe - read up on the rise of Mussolini for examples amongst many.

I for one will not entertain the idea of passivity in the face of evil just in order to maintain some absurd ideal of non-violence. Non-violence is a myth, as violence is inherent to the operation of the current system. All politics is violence, the question is only abstraction, fascists understand this and are not afraid to use it when it is most effective, neither should anyone truly opposed to them.

I will say that as it is right now I don't think that antifascist except in some very limited edge cases, simply because we are not at a level where it would do more good than harm. But there's always the risk that we could get there, and openly saying that you won't use the means necessary does harm.
But nor do the web pages people tend to read more these days than they read books.
That doesn't make sense to me, sorry. Got an article or something?
Can confirm, buying my significant other an iWatch cleaned up my call history from that point forward considerably.
"massive chunks of the OS were updated in Vista that took years to debug and smooth out to what is now Windows 10"

This is key, and also shows why, at least at release, the technical failures of Vista were what drove its commercial failure.

Part of it was the jump in specs - the infamous Intel chipsets that were Windows Vista certified, but couldn't run Aero, and in general the huge boost in requirements from XP.

Part of it was changes with in the OS, such as protecting the Program Files folder(s), and Vista's Shadow Copy system, which wrecked havoc with programs that stored user-modifiable configuration files (and more) in their install directory. Yes, Microsoft had been recommending against that for awhile, but it still broke a lot.

But as much of it was ecosystem readiness due to changes to changes to the driver model. There was some support for XP drivers, but it was still painful. I used Vista without service packs. It was bad, bad enough that I switched back to XP. Let's just say there's a reason that I didn't buy another nVIDIA graphics card for another decade.
> You need fairly specific geography for it, and it's a big civil engineering project.

You need elevation difference and fairly stable soil. Everything else is technologically solveable. It's a big civil engineering project but its a profitable one and not particularly challenging.
What could they possibly call the cops about? "This man keeps accepting our offers"?
One thing I've been thinking about recently is what would happen if government was automated. We now have better automation and computational capabilities so creating a government with programmed agents instead of politicians is a legitimate possibility.

Turns out Soviet mathematicians had similar ideas

> Economic reform became a pressing need in the mid ’50s, after Stalin’s rule had
left the country in shambles, the chain of supply and the agricultural sector nearing
collapse and a serious risk of another major famine looming. Amidst a very rapid
expansion of the techno-scientific sector, from the early successes of the Soviet space
program to the first large developments of computer systems and automation, several
competing proposals for economic reforms were presented that promoted the idea of
a “computational solution” to the severe mismanagements of the planned economy.

> The original plan of the cybernetics approach was to implement a decentralized
computational system, capable of processing feedbacks in real time and handle the
simulation of complex dynamics. In terms of providing a scalable computational
model, they mostly focused on Kantorovich’s linear programming, which seemed the
most promising mathematical tool at the time. As we mentioned, the scalability
of Kantorovich’s valuations is subtle, and we will discuss a possible more modern
approach to scalability in the next section of this paper. However, the most important
aspect of this proposal was the main idea of a cybernetic computational network and
its role at implementing a decentralized autonomous computational mechanism for a
communist economic system that would not require any centralized planning.
How can "it just got harder for Trump to brag about his SCOTUS" picks be construed as a positive statement about Trump?
Talking about what gear you each have. There is a reason that is most of the conversations on amature radio : it is the only thing that you can safely talk to strangers about.
Okay, suppose this works. And even turns out to have an actual impact, somehow.

What will be next?

Gas stations and steak restaurants (or whatever businesses are considered conservative/republican) refusing to serve democrat/liberal customers?

AT&T refusing Internet connectivity to abortion clinics?
What the GP appears to be saying is that undocumented (not "illegal" -- people are not illegal) immigrants as a whole are a minority group. This is obviously true if you just look at the world outside.
You forgot the translate to Finnish step
> It's still politically dangerous, and would earn a company a lot of enemies and mistrust

Yes, doing the right thing often is dangerous and earns you hatred from other people doing bad things who love the freedom of hiding amongst a herd of other equally guilty people.

The reason we have so much respect for people who take stand and do what they believe is right is because doing so is so hard. That doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.
That's not how it usually goes. It's more like: How many of you know that the team is working on something that will never be released?
Nope - but used by lots of blockchains for things like off-chain storage (since having a content-addressable handle for a file that can never change is super critical for things like smart contracts)
Neither my 16” MBP or my iPad Pro are too hot for lap use. Yes - the 5+ year old laptops you are clinging to were saddled with some occasionally hot intel CPUs but they’ve come a long way.
That makes sense honestly, B2B SaaS is lucrative, steady, and honestly probably moreso than a B2C business could be. Many of the big software players most people have never heard of.

As a consumer, you're almost certainly in a Salesforce system somewhere, but most people have no idea what Salesforce is.
Off topic, but would you mind sharing how you made the transition from design to product management? I'm considering making the jump myself and am curious about what the experience has been like.
Yes, it's common. It happened to me once and some of my colleagues as well.

I think they don't overbook as much as in the US. They try to avoid bumping off passengers, because the cost of doing it is much higher. They can't just give you an upgrade ticket. They have to reimburse all occurring cost and they have to pay an additional 250-600 EUR compensation depending on the length of the flight.[1]

[1]: https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-right...
Some of us appeared in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20335110
Lambdas, at least the JS ones, are Node.js based and not hard at all to migrate to an alternative cloud service. You can even use a framework that handles all the cloud-specific functionality for you and works across AWS, Azure, GCloud, etc: https://www.serverless.com/

The lock-in really comes from AWS-specific services. Redis, Mongo, etc will have the same API no matter where you're hosting them, so it's pretty trivial to point your client-side code to a different cloud-hosted Redis instance if you find AWS lacking there.
Thanks that was super helpful

A 3D obj stretched everywhere equally -- I suppose this is the same as the 2D balloon -- as it is also stretched everywhere equally

One says everywhere is equi-distant from the origin in a 4th dimension. The other also says everywhere equi-distant but from zero, but adds a topolgy with no edges

A 3D topology with no edges ofcourse requires a 4th dimension though

So I think these are really two ways of saying the same thing?

--

In any case, it really helped answer some other Qs for me

In a simplistic sense the differences in the Hubble constant, are of course a dimension. So adding dimensions as in string theory is a fancy way of explaining nothing. But I wondered... Is there a correlation between Hubble constant differences and 3D space?

If so, it would (in my unremmitingly small brain) show an interaction with dark energy a.k.a. this 4th dimension

A clearer way to say that: the skin of the balloon has a thickness, and differences in the Hubble constant are measuring that thickness

-- Your answer was awesome and super helpful -- Can you do it a second time? :)
Pretty sure you can call Julia code from python, and vice-versa.
seawater is saline, you have to be careful what you do with it because you dont want to literally salt the earth where you are (soil remediation friggin sucks).

seawater is also not valuable. You don't care about the water quality in the reservoir, you just let it fall back into the sea. If it evaporates you're losing energy but you aren't losing potable water that you sell, and it doesn't require a connection to a water distribution main.
US Supreme Court's Computer Fraud Ruling Has Big Implications for Crypto
It depends on if you're talking boot times, or program loading times. I agree, every computer I had until 2007 had terrible boot times.

But I've compared how long it takes to start Word on my Pentium II 450 MHz running Windows 98, with Word 2000, to my Core i5 2500 K (3.3 GHz) running Windows 8.1, with Word 2010. The Pentium II wins.

I don't how much of the difference was Windows versus Office, but it's a sad indication of the slowdown in software outpacing the speedup in hardware.
You say "essentially political reasons".

I and others say "humanitarian reasons".

I think that's the big disconnect here. You don't think ICE does immense harm (you're even willing to downplay it as "political" to not support them).

Regardless of where folks fall politically, I think they should be loathe to support an organization that treats folks so inhumanely.

And I think you're missing the point.

"We should absolutely be lobbying for hard changes".

Jeez, what do you think it is that they're doing? They're lobbying using the power that they have.
Adobe is on record that those are ports - the core of the app is ported, but individual features don’t all make it over, or make sense on a touch device so you u e a feature disparity.
Does this theory also apply to the computer terms "kill" and "abort", which are current ongoing traumas almost everywhere?

Does it apply to the use of "Hitler" in the name of a popular office party game?

Or one of HN's favorite terms "wage slavery"?
The reason is only lawful if you can prove that discrimination is not solely due to that protected class. In the case where a group can refuse service for any reason and is not required to provide that reason this is impossible to prove even if clearly obvious.
The key difference is that the most families with boys have several thousand dollars worth of LEGO that they can use with the robot.
Just what? That's so messed up. I didn't realize situations like this actually happen. I'm shocked.
What do you think is particularly novel about it?
I think that this was a time when lots of stuff was being invented, (and implemented for the first time) often by different people in different places at the same time.

Certainly Burroughs' implementation of VM is VERY different from what we normally think of as VM - but then their architecture (a stack machine with tagged memory) is also very different
every dollar has a purpose.. this isn't a ynab specific method.

ynab has written a number of articles about this technique.

here is one way i use ynab: what it allows me to do is gives me very good insight into the amount of money i need to save up each month for expenses that are due 6-12 months. i then take this money and place it in high-risk investment vehicles. sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes i don't invest.
Amazing book. The funny thing is I never expected to see it applied to software engineering - but in this context it's very appropriate.
Covid-19 can damage lungs of victims beyond recognition, expert says
I work as a product owner in a company described almost exactly by this article. We shipped our important feature last month and nobody's used it yet. We have a product team totally separate from the engineering department and they come up with the ideas that we build. My input on the product is valued only at fairly low levels, around detailed implementation (how buttons should work, whether users will likely figure something out). I really don't like it, but at my level, I don't know what I can do.

My primary approach to address this is to push for improved data analytics, starting with our tracking and pipelines. I do think a data-driven culture can help lead the team/company in the right direction, and that it can spread from my level. Progress is being made, albeit slowly.

Execs have some lofty goals of changing the paradigm, but I don't see that happening in the next 2-3 years. Any advice on how I can help effect meaningful change from my position? Or perhaps could I be better served working somewhere else, building better habits.
In computing, a blacklist is an access control system that denies entry to a specific list (or a defined range) of users, programs, or network addresses
typically you just disable the 2fa requirement until the issue is resolved.
> But even when you're gambling, why should you gamble by going long on an asset with a nearly guaranteed long term value of $0 rather than one with a neutral or positive outlook?

Because the odds on Hertz may actually be better than the odds in a Vegas casino and these people play that anyway?

Gambling odds are never in your favor--the house always wins.

Gamblers are always going into a situation where they are going to lose. The only difference with the Hertz situation is that if you can offload your stock to the next sucker before it tanks out, you "win".

That's pretty good odds for a gambler, actually.
Yeah, I frequently get all kinds of requests for /config.php, /admin/, etc.
youre doing the same thing. 4chan didnt create a "meme", the map youre seeing is from digitalattackmap.
Imagine thinking that someone is “on the wrong side of history”. Imagine how ideologically blinded one must be to say that about someone else.
This is weirdly wonderful.
Update #2 from T-Mobile's President of Technology (3:02 PM PT):

"Teams continue to work as quickly as possible to fix the voice & messaging problems some are seeing.
Data services are now available & some calls are completing. Alternate services like WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage, Facetime etc. are available. Thanks for your patience."

https://twitter.com/NevilleRay/status/1272650750665953280
Huh. HMRC in the UK realised they owed me money back in, IIRC 2018 and kept sending me actual paper cheques as their computer worked through consequences of the mistake year by year for the next few weeks. It was tiresome actually because I had to go to a physical bank, but I guess if it annoyed me that much I needn't have paid the cheques in.

They pay 0.5% (which is better than most of my bank accounts) on all sums they owe as a result of their own mistake rather than either your mistake or some third party screwing up (e.g. your employer fat-fingers paperwork causing you to pay say £1000 extra tax, you don't notice for two years, then you point out the mistake, HMRC are happy to fix it but won't pay you 0.5% interest on the mistake because it wasn't their fault)
Project Cybersyn: a project for automating Chile's socialist economy
I think two things:

- The battery packs are already created of modules.

- battery manufacturing capacity might be the limit to growth of tesla as a company (cars, trucks, semis, utility power)
margerine was invented during napolean's time as a more stable replacement for butter for the military, so it is likely your grandmother knew and used it. Mine did.
They provide some kind of mbox export. I wonder if that's something that can be hit on a crontab.
Glad it helped! I brain-pretzeled myself over soundness in this very forum just last year:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20196575
I wonder what the equivalent is for tech people. What is an enormous industry-specific business we have never heard of?
The Windows logo in the Start menu was a bit colorful in Windows 95 and NT 4.0 as well. I'll grant you that the logo itself is slightly different in XP, but it had been colorful for years by that point.
THIS.

I still have to think when I look at the control center on my phone, uh.. moon == Do not disturb, and is it on or not??
The faux-3d let you know. I also wish there was text under the controls.

I've resorted to turning on some of the contrast accessibility stuff to make it a little more usable.

And don't even get me started on the hamburger menu.
Correct, IPFS is not a blockchain - while both are merkle-dags ('directed acyclic graphs' of hash-linked data), blockchains have all nodes sync the state collectively, while IPFS instead shards state across the entire network (such that each node maintains its own filestore).
The Find My iPhone feature of the Apple Watch is the best thing ever. I don’t know why Apple doesn’t advertise it.
I must use scrolling windows differently than you, because I haven't clicked and dragged a scroll bar probably for years. The only thing I need a scroll indicator for is to see how far I am down the page, which I only do when I'm actively scrolling. MacOS disappearing scrollbars (which do not waste space when inactive, but pop in over content when you scroll) are my ideal implementation.
That's a great idea for the diagrams. I'm slowly working towards dumping schemas/types for the database in various formats over here: https://supabase.github.io/pg-api/

Once we've stabalized this we will start on git integrations - link up your repo for to keep everything in code - your types, schema, tables, functions, etc. We are also brainstorming ways that we can offer branching - since we give a full database server, we can possibly "branch" the default "postgres" database into various schemas which you can test with.

> ERD diagrams have existed for decades

If you know of a good open source tool which we should be supporting for this, let me know. Otherwise we don't mind building from scratch!
The article seems ti suggests calls and texts to T-Mobile are failing so customers from other providers are likely reporting issues unaware of the source.
I dogfood my product. I write what I need.

Works for me. Some folks like what I do, as well.
I learned Python on a white MacBook running Snow Leopard. Those were the days. I don't remember a single instance where it crashed. Super reliable.
It doesn't sound like any of the people here were charged because they knew about it and said nothing, -- they were active participants.

Your calculus will hold the day we start charging people that walk past conduct like this but, seemingly, today is not that day.
A Lightweight Alternative to Postgres
I think that by "Flash ban" Dotnaught means "Apple's ban on third party development tools" which was specifically intended to ban the iOS packager tool Adobe had started shipping.
Arguably if it wasn't for the weakness of corporate world right now this never would have happened. Indeed, the average American is much too busy with work in order to achieve this level of political engagement.
Literally wasted my whole day on this :(
> we all know the project will fail unless someone develops well-perfoming, human-level AGI before Q4/2020

This is hilarious, and makes me wonder how many similar corporate AI initiatives are under way in the world right now.
Do you remember the days when everyone had their own data center and setting up a server involving drawing up specs then putting in a PO then waiting for it to get delivered on a truck to be racked and formatted? AWS is magic and the price is entirely justified.
Since the model S is bumping up to 400 mile range right now, the smaller more energy-efficient model 3 would easily surpass it.

If 75kwh gets 322 miles, using dumb math gives 429 miles from 100kwh.

Now ludicrous... I wonder if the model 3's permanent magnet motors could handle it or would they need to be upgraded.
I would have thought of this one:

https://dilbert.com/strip/1998-03-17

My dad always disliked the strip you cite, because the change Dilbert expects is $5.25, but there's no way to provide $7.14 in a way that couldn't be trivially reduced to $2.14. If the goal is to make things easy for the cashier, he should obviously provide $2.14 and just keep the $5 he already has anyway.
After working for a company that spends millions of VC money on AWS per year I can also say that infinite cloud scaling is a myth. We had all kinds of downtimes due to AWS over the years.
Supposedly Aug 2019;

https://www.ecommercebytes.com/page/18/?s=ebay

Didn't see anything in there which would mess anyone's 'do. Though I suppose they may have removed the "offending" bits? It seems to be a pretty dry newsletter.
It is important to consider that Amazon probably still considers its retail business a growth business, and that it has not captured enough of the market yet to start raising prices.

I am pretty sure Amazon's retail business is going to completely dwarf AWS in the long term, because they are currently willing to break even on it (and possibly lose money) just to outdo the competition.
I did immediately wonder how Minix was written in Rust, since it predates it by quite a bit.
That sounds perfectly reasonable. The goal of hampering ICE is achieved, and collateral damage while inevitable is minimal.
Another issue I found while writing software that customer service agents used was we did not get feedback from CS agents without being deliberate, only from the managers of the users (CS agents). The managers were interested in other features like, time tracking, conversion/sales reports, while CS agents were interested (when we finally talked to them) about things that would improve their sales (ex: show available manufacturer rebates for skus to help make a sale)
Gonna need some heavy sources on that one.

I can make an ALU in an FPGA that only takes in one bit data and adds it. That would take the IPC crown. Is it a useful statement? No. Comparing ARM IPC to x86 IPC is far more complicated than measuring length.