skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know this whole capitalist system would be much easier if the government had “5 Year Plans”.
Some work in this area:

https://web.mit.edu/remy/

https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi18/presentation/dong

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3229543.3229550
Scientists are trained to accept a philosophical stance that regards particle physics are more fundamental than turbulence. Most have never critically questioned the meaning of “fundamental” in physics:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/turbulence-the-oldes...
I'm not sure I follow that statement. I can see an argument that text is not strictly better than verbal communication but, at worst, I'd say it's equal (for people as a whole, not for one person in particular). Some people are better at written communication while some are better at verbal.
Image boards are not devoid of moderation. They just don't go out of their way to censor political extremists they don't agree with.
So wait. You're saying a 5x increase in the amount of code that solves in a broader range of problems than just those init scripts, that doesn't seem ridiculous to me. What's the size of just the initd piece? Systemd is also significantly faster than the old init.d scripts to boot. Not sure how well it outperforms upstart & haven't been able to find those details.
I think the scientific questions are just bigger in HEP, even if turbulence has more interesting engineering questions. Those are just fundementally differ t to different people.
I'm about 70% certain that this is satire.
Sure, as long as we're not insinuating that's an inherently undesirable thing.

We're quite literally on a thread involving a product that collected tonnes of sensitive user data without a clear opt-out mechanism while failing to be an effective custodian, after all.
I think the reason is that math notation is used in context. Which is what explains the two different notations for calculus derivatives. They were interested in different things! Similarly in quantum mechanics (not my area) you may want to use bra-ket notation or matrix representations if you care about implementation details.
Getting fired from a job is a serious harm, especially because having your reputation shattered in this way makes future employers reluctant to hire you, since the same people will have no scruples about turning on them. We're talking about devastating life impact here. I don't think you should trivialize this as "what nobodies on Twitter are saying".

They're not being killed, of course, but I think the word destroy isn't out of proportion for having one's livelihood and reputation ruined. Otherwise you could just as easily say "Who is getting destroyed? Being put in prison for a little while is not being destroyed." That would be the natural next step, after all.
If it's inevitable (i.e. it's not a low probability event) how come all life on earth today comes from a single ancestor? Did all other life started on earth die? Maybe we didn't find them? Maybe it started only once because earth is a very unlucky planet, and other planets had multiple abiogenesis events? Maybe it's not inevitable and it' low probability but still not it's not out of question most planets with the given properties have life?
We've recently started providing reports on average customer support response times for 60+ bitcoin exchanges. During the most recent check at the beginning of this month, the average response time was 1.63 days (1-2 days). If there's an exchange you use that you'd like us to start including in our checks, please let us know and we'll add it to the list.
A less stringent and more immediately applicable rule would be to limit debt repayment to the expected lifetime of the project.

Plenty of ways to cheat, but is still a decent yardstick.
Rob Pike on implementing an APL-like language (2014)
> BaFin – their reputation as a financial regulator lies in tatters. The entire leadership of the organization should resign immediately. Merkel should launch a sweeping investigation.

We have a bunch of oversight organs that don’t do much overseeing and opt for overlooking instead :/
So does this mean a space elevator is out?
Please also let us know if there's any other types of reports about exchanges that you'd like to see. Cheers.
Not all of them avoided being killed ...

In general suppose an armed mob has some level of protection, for a little while, but I'm not sure it is much of a solution.
I really appreciate the feedback and will work to get over my "James Dean moment" and try again. (It can be hard to make the shift from HN reader to participant.)
I was also unsure if I needed to link to my site which has more background info but wasn't sure if that was entirely necessary. So your input is really helpful, thanks for your time.
I think this makes sense, and it is indeed a major contributing factor to the UX. The hunger for data from all the other players essentially hampered the product adoption.
No, but Google will happily run your gmail address forwarding to your real address. I've been on fastmail for many years now, but I still get the occasional gmail addressed email in my fastmail inbox.

I also use a lot of the other fastmail features, like mail aliases, DNS, and file storage and web site serving. I'm very happy to pay the money.
Bellevue is a city just outside of Seattle, Washington, USA.
This is what Windows Custom Power Plans was built for. Have a plan called "Docked" that disables lid close, and leave it as sleep in other plans. Custom Power Plans have been buried in Windows 10 as confusing power user/OEM features, yet they still exist.
No, they have not. Even without 230 this wouldn’t be libelous for a huge number of reasons. The bar for libel is not “someone is offended”, even if that someone is the president.

The contortions that people keep going through to find a way to make Twitter liable is both getting old, and frankly it’s embarrassing.
I basically agree with the sentiment that the 30% cut is justified in some situations. But, for convenience, some (many?) people will not sign up on the website, and instad just download the iOS app and do the signup and purchase there. They will pay the "Apple tax" for no reason at all, or simply because the App Store already has their credit card data. And this doesn't really sit right with me.
Even the Hangouts native app was a slow battery hog on anything but the absolute latest generation phone, so it's not a browser problem.
That was a nice story, I would love to know what happened in Enceladus.
This is satire, but will only come off that way for readers with a knowledge of color theory.
Only the Paranoid Survive by Andy Grove (Podcast Episode)
I use "Reader" on Android.

Make your content either plain text or HTML that doesn't require JS.
I'm not too familiar with day-to-day payments in the US (I'm in Germany), so please enlighten me if I have something wrong here. Is there an actual option I have as a consumer to avoid the fee when buying something?

My understanding: everybody pays the same price, independently of payment method. If the standard credit card interchange fee is 2%, then the vendor has to raise their prices by around 2% to make the same amount of money on the product. As a consumer, I would have to pay the 2% of the inflated price if I pay by cash (or debit card or something).

So I'm forced to pay by credit card with a cash back option or some other rewards to make back part of the 2% that were added on top of the original price.

I lose, if I don't play the game, and I'm back around a zero-sum-game if I do play along. In any case, the credit card company wins.

If the fees are capped, the vendor doesn't have to raise the price, and the consumer wins no matter the payment method.
As for gamedev talks (the topic that interests me) there will be:

1) Making games quickly in Nim with Nico (12:00 UTC) by impbox

2) Game Boy Advance Development in Nim (14:45 UTC) by exelotl

See you there!
Should Apple ban non App Store apps from Macs too? Doesn't your argument extend to computers? Why would phones or tablets be different.
Looks interesting but a long way from my wheelhouse.

I'd have been tempted to name it Wirth though given the source institution.
401k's are multi decade long investments and having some PE in the mix is not unusual.

Certainly all the big PF in the UK will have some PE - source I had an off the record briefing from a trustee on one of the biggest UK ones.
If somebody is able to take these compromises it is certainly senior software engineers. And yes, you can install any android app on lineageos, even if it does not have google services enabled.

I have a lot of trouble to force my mom (nearly computer illiterate) to live without google and similar stuff. But I bully mercilessly my co-workers for that. At least they agreed to use jitsi instead of zoom, so that's something
Computational overhead due to Docker under macOS
Little purple crunchy fellas? Yeah I've seen them out hiking in Oregon
I would not call it a drawback. In regular regression you make an assumption that x is known exactly, and all errors are in y. In Deming regression you make another assumption, about the ratio of their variances (δ). If you change units, you need to change δ as well, and then there's no difference.
Usually notations that have been here for a while are quite stable, but can still diverse depending on countries. For example in France you would write [2, 5[ for the range of real numbers between 2 included and 5 excluded, but in the US it's more common to see [2, 5)

Notations that are more recent are... all over the place.

But as parent said, good papers will always include a notation section to disambiguate. Bad papers won't.
> plenty of examples of forgoing technologies

I didn't say technologies, I said energy sources.

> batteries do not have to become as energy dense as diesel

We need a storage mechanism that allows the energy gained from renewable sources to power things without interruption.

Two examples illustrate the problem today - for renewables to power a cargo ship the battery load-out required to move that loaded container ship would materially reduce its cargo capacity because it's wasting so much space and mass on literally tons of batteries. Compare the capacity, speed, and installed power of MV Yara Birkeland (electric container ship) to the OOCL Hong Kong (diesel powered cargo ship) for an idea. Another example is Tokyo suffering a predictable 3-day cyclone every year, where 27 million people need 22 gigawatts of electricity. Imagine the battery array needed for that (with its inherent cost, maintenance, limited lifespan and acres of space in a space-constrained land). So these are two easy examples of why storage density needs to increase by orders of magnitude to meet the bar you set of 100% replacement.

It won't be Li-Ion, it has to be something else, but that "something else" doesn't exist yet and the track record of an annualized 5% efficiency improvement for storage tech (which is generous but imagine even doubling it to 10%) per year won't catch up in our lifetimes. The math speaks for itself.

> roadblock is not technology, it's proper carbon pricing

If it were just pricing, it presumes that I have equivalent systems to implement and I just need to pay a premium for one vs the other. But that's not the case as illustrated in the examples above (and there are many, many more - airplanes, continuous smelting) where the existing energy storage tech doesn't work. So technology is an enormous roadblock.

As to carbon pricing - carbon pricing regimes require world-wide cooperation. IF you can get that, it effectively means limiting fossil fuel usage, right? Otherwise why are we doing it?

So limiting fossil fuel usage in a situation where there is no suitable replacement as described above, ultimately means you need to tell some guy in India that he can't have an air conditioner and some family in Africa that their agriculture development programs need to take a hit for lack of synthesized ammonia. This is a very unequal proposition. Alternatively, you can preserve that growth rate in the developing world and tell people in the developed world that they need to rewind their lifestyles in all ways (housing, vehicle mass, etc) to the early 1960's, which is when the US last had a consumption rate at the level needed to impact global warming. This is probably the preferable solution, but how tenable do you think either of these propositions really are?

There are undeniable humanitarian costs - not just monetary costs - to reducing fossil fuel use today when there are no (at scale) suitable replacements.
OK, that's the third time I've seen "How to Invent Everything" recommended in 3 very different places. Ordered.
> instead do something useful

Can you present an argument for how a new super-collider is actually useful?
Some people don’t support supercolliders because they want us to “discover something greater than ourselves”, but they think there are better ways to do that, and money spent on huge HEP projects takes funding away from what could be more fruitful and interesting projects.
In my experience, the people most averse to writing stuff down are usually the remote engineers. Remote workers don't typically have the same cultural influence as local employees, so they tend to be somewhat alienated and therefore have fewer expectations put on them. I think this disincentivizes remote workers from fully assimilating into the culture and leads to less interest in communication. Inevitably, this ends up affecting their willingness to properly document.

Just my opinion built on my anecdotal experience.
> From a meta standpoint, it's interesting to me that the most vociferous deniers of free speech throughout history have made some version of the case "But they're wrong!" (You can add stupid, evil, whatnot. The point is that whatever they're saying, it should not be said because it is not correct)

Although you're talking about historical cases, perhaps some more modern cases against free speech would better update you as to the state of the arguments in philosophy. I have a comment with some citations here[0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23136757
Anything that would block sunlight for an extended period.
And their incentive is to capture as much of it as possible no matter how large the deadweight losses are; Free Software is a positive-sum game, and, unfortunately, proprietary software increasingly tends towards negative-sum games.
Not an email client like Hey, since it depends on notifications, which Apple doesn't support in PWAs.
Sam’s name is the heading of the page, in the title and the domain name. The blog doesn’t have an about page.

Twitter is asking you to login because you clicked the “tweet” button to post a tweet linking the article and tweeting requires a twitter account.

Sam Altman is the former president of YC.
For a researcher, this difference can lead to deep unhappiness. I moved from a research-heavy institution to a founder-heavy culture thinking the freedom and increased salary would lead to improved happiness, however this was very far from the case. After about 1 year, my CEO began to understand the difference and support me, however, the time and stress prior to that point was very difficult. It required Investor-level individuals with research careers to validate my perspective. Sam's post validates my struggle and I am happy to see it publicized by someone with clout. I hope more founders will begin to give researchers a bit more room and support.
My take is it is inferred box office receipts.

When they ‘four wall’, they pay a single fee to rent the entire cinema (the ‘small fee’ they paid to a friendly cinema owner.

They then ran 5 viewings.

So they are claiming being sold out for each of the viewings. (5 * seat capacity * ticket price), but didn’t actually pay themselves for all the tickets (no revenue - small fee = small loss)
So tell a user of an iPhone 11 Pro Max to get a $100 Android phone to use Hey?
This has to be a joke. If not, the writer seems to be confused by the difference between additive & subtractive color systems.

I admit to not really having any idea what they are getting at in their proposed replacement system and don't see any way it could be helpful in predicting how colors mix in either paint or monitors.
A little bit of plain JavaScript can do a lot
Can't think of a single company which did that and had any impact on me. I'm not able to read some news on a local foreign website once every few months and that's kind of everything.
Right? People always love to pitch for their ideal alternative as if these were either-or situations.

Funds for a collider - why not fusion? Funds for space exploration - why not end world hunger? Funds for astronomy - why not medicine? etc..

It happens every time a relatively big budget is discussed as if it was some kind of lottery where only one gets the jackpot.
It's only indirectly true that the App Store is a service to developers.

It's a very straightforward argument.

Apple has the App Store in order to keep consumers. That it helps developers is a side benefit. Apple would drop the store if didn't retain consumers on the platforms.
I just got a response from Microsoft: our Windows servers are rebooting to install the latest updates.
> Also, grape flavoured NERDS don't occur in nature.

Have you looked in the mirror?
Under this law, a host will be immune from liability only if they "assist government authorities to obtain content (i.e., evidence) in a comprehensible, readable, and usable format". A host that uses end-to-end encryption would not meet this requirement and would therefore not be immune from liability.
The cost for the nuclear modernization that is the backbone of the nuclear arms race Trump is starting has been estimated to $1 Trillion[1], that's a better comparison since it's also the cost of a multi year project.

[1] https://www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/USNuclearModernizatio...
Turkey is a major economy that can and has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on missiles, so not really.
Yes, but Walmart cannot stop another supermarket from opening in the same area, Verizon cannot stop you from bringing another phone to their network. Android allows other stores.
Cows? Oh wait, you've got me there.
Making something less expensive to advertisers is not my problem. People sucking up piles of personal information about me is my concern.

What you are missing here is by giving people the ability to advertise to New York Times users offsite takes income from the Times. If you read the NYT or you are the New York Time, this should be concerning. As a reader, you want the the value of their brand to flow back to them so they can continue doing better work.
This society seems to be on to something.
Please consider that when people put themselves at risk it's rarely just them.

There are collective costs to people getting hurt and needing to be saved, and it's not a black/white thing: we enforce safety belts, we remove dangerous rocks and trees looming on roads and so on all the time.

The bus was evaluated as an hazard that encourages unprepared people to do something and get hurt, it may be a bad call, but it's not just a restriction of "people should be free to choose".
But in Google's case they often do find oil, but then just dump it in the ocean. Lots of people used and enjoyed Inbox, Hangouts, Reader, etc, etc; but Google just discarded them anyway.

Spending years building something that thousands/millions of people end up using and liking, and then seeing it killed anyway, has to be discouraging.
> Shouldn't you have that sorted out before taking money from people?

I believe I have, though haven't done a great job of sharing that context! I've gotten input on our structure from folks w/ experience and legal background saying this is sound, but very much welcome additional input. I understand that ignorance of the law doesn't retroactively exempt you from the law. The more eyes we have on our structure the better; I suspect we will come under quite a bit of scrutiny as we make progress and would like to have our house in order when that happens.
Tried reading on mobile (iOS) and gave up because I had to keep scrolling to keep up with the animation pushing the text down.
First fact. There is no 'u' in color.
Can you prove that you will come across new theoretical breakthroughs with this research budget?

While I agree this is a huge expense, I do question the slippery slope of attacking research budgets. I wish more nations chalked this up as the 'cost of doing business'. Cutting research funding works well for election cycles, but doesn't do much for the folks down the road.
You kidding me? Energy companies would fucking love fusion energy as it'll still require power plants they get to control and power lines and all the infrastructure to transmit.
They absolutely fear solar energy though.
Bummed because his Pop Rocks buddy suicided in the rain.
VCs, too. Interesting how researchers are a bit more humble or realistic about achievements.
I have the exact opposite anecdotal experience. Remote engineers I've worked with have put a lot more effort into their writing because they understand that it's one of their only avenues to participate in the company communication culture.
"Investing" in publicly traded companies (most volume is just between people with no affiliation to the board and are not buying from company stock offerings) and especially holding an index fund is not really investing, in the sense that it does not allocate any resources intelligently or do anything to seed growing companies. It's simply an attempt to grow personal wealth that doesn't do anything to improve the economy. Many people deride HFT and day traders while failing to understand that just buying the S&P index is actually more economically harmful.

For all the faults in the industry, fundamentally, private equity provides a means to invest in private companies that can benefit from loans or funding rounds, while also offering a return on investment to smart private equity investors. There have been plenty of scandals with private equity firms taking advantage of bankruptcy laws in large companies, but the industry as a whole seeds companies of every size, even though you only hear about VC firms in the tech startup bubble.
I think the answer is "yes" although exceptions to the rule should be permitted. For example, if you split a long logger calling line into multiple shorter lines, it can hurt readability of the actual program logic a lot.

Having more or less everywhere 80 chars limit also makes it easy to display multiple buffers in my Emacs next to each other, which is not a must have, but nice to have.
You can buy a jet engine and build a 700mph drone that can carry a payload. You can also buy a laser gyroscope, or use open source code to build a SLAM system for guidance.

So yes, a consumer can build a guided missile.
How can you trust someone's spoken words if they can't write?

And what's the problem in your opinion with written iterations?

I usually attend meetings, hours a day, when I have to repeat the same concepts over and over, multiple times, to the same people, because they just forget what we established hours before.

There are people at my job setting up meetings just to "recap", which is a poor excuse for "we didn't take notes and/or we weren't listening and just said yes"

At least emails are searchable...
I believe the assumption is the fund manager is the kind of investor that will have the ability and resources to do proper due diligence before investing, contrary to the case of public companies that can sell stock to the average Joe
> Any dev worth their salt should know how to set up these tools from scratch anyway.

Yeah, I don't agree with that kind of gate keeping. I've known plenty of developers who are proficient with React, Redux, graphql, etc, but might not know where to begin when it comes to build tooling. Almost like they're totally different things.

And that's great that you trudge along with your own lesser version of create-react-app. I've personally built my own JS build toolchains and the second I used CRA I never wanted to look back.