skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have different ideas of success. My idea of a successful startup is not that it must reach unicorn status, but that it either has a successful exit where the founders and early employees comfortable enough that they can spend time on their next startup adventure; or that the company survives and continues to grow.

You place a lot of value in unicorns, but there are downsides to shooting to be a unicorn too. If you make it there you may be fabulously wealthy, but you'll have so much investment that most lose control of what they created and many succumb to bad investments that have so much dilution the cap table becomes upside down. Also most who aim for unicorn status ("I want to be rich!") fail. I'm ignoring bubbles, because if you have something that has no real contribution but rides/sparks a fad, then you can still get a lot of investment during a bubble - don't know if you could get to unicorn status though.

As for those companies not being capable of being platforms for hate speech: Minecraft obviously, Spotify is music so that should be a clear possibility, Telegram is messaging so that is also a possible. The ones that are financial apps are unlikely hate speech platforms, unless they allow comments or reviews.
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If you are interested in getting to know a bit more about topic maps, you could do worse than reading these two articles:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/aa480048(...
https://ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.html
If you're not fearful and nor are most people you know, who are you claiming is fearful?

Personally, my behaviour patterns have changed. I'm more aware of when someone I don't know is near me. When I hear about the vulnerable people in my close community who suddenly have to navigate the world with significantly increased risk, I feel worried for them.
But they are usually in unrelated fields.
Randomizing religion: The Impact of Protestant Evangelism on Economic Outcomes [pdf]
Commodore reported 7-year record revenue/profit 4 years before going bankrupt. https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-financial-history-1978-19...
A lot of those 50% off used bikes are probably stolen which is why they are so cheap. Bike theft is rampant in a lot of cities and it is trivial to export them to other places to sell them.
I cannot imagine how painful those years must have been.

The moment I learned my macbook didn’t have a home button I was searching for how to emulate that.
> I also wonder how much is invented, and how much is simply copied

Well, the average human probably does not excel at this metric either
It's not uncommon for great literature to also seem long, dull, and badly written. And everybody is entitled to their taste. I don't like lots of great literature.

But Tolkien is uncannily like Shakespeare in that it appeals both to people who come looking for Dungeons and Dragons, and also to academic literary scholars. There are academic conferences, and one literature professor has been doing a close reading of Lord of the Rings as a podcast for five years... and has only made it to the Council of Elrond. (https://mythgard.org/lotro/exlotr/)

For that matter, many people find Shakespeare long, dull, and badly written. I think Tolkien has a chance of being remembered as long as Shakespeare, and revisited in every generation the same way. We've already come a long way from the hippies seeing psychedelia in The Hobbit (which annoyed Tolkien no end). I don't believe Tolkien is quite so flexible as Shakespeare, but his work was consciously written to harken to very long traditions of English literature (going back to Anglo Saxon), and that could give it durability.

That is, by the way, an excellent and insightful review. Thanks.
Had my volume turned up, Christ this nearly gave me a heart attack.
For post-Tolkien fantasy with little or no Tolkien influences or tropes, the most obvious recent example is Game of Thrones. I suppose it's arguable whether it's High Fantasy, but looking at the character arcs of John Snow and Daenerys I think it clears the bar.
Can the German economy pull Europe out of the coronavirus crisis?
To maintain old releases, I just cut a branch before I tag.

Merge to master, short-lived feature branches, and when it's release time, git checkout -b v1.5, git tag -a 1.5.0, and then cherry pick bugfixes onto that branch when it's time for 1.5.1. If you need more time to stabilize for 1.5.0, just add some time & development between cutting the branch and tagging it.
What choice? Repressive governments typically have minimal difficulty getting Silicon Valley to repress their subjects on their behalf.
GitHub dropped support for IE in July 2018: https://twitter.com/michlbrmly/status/981855020948877312
One can use SharpShell for this to do it in C#. Development and deployment remain unwieldy though.

https://github.com/dwmkerr/sharpshell/issues/197
But keep in mind, the VAST majority of those people have only toyed around with ML libraries or frameworks on the most trivial data. There's A LOT of script kiddies right now, that just copy/paste the same tutorials, maybe even publish yet another "How to classify MNIST dataset with NN / SVM / Naive Bayes / etc." on medium or whatever, just to come off as authority.

So while there's a lot more competition, the majority of these don't even meet the minimum standards to get called into interviews.

If you have solid work experience to show for, then that alone should differentiate you from the the masses. Again, a lot of these people have NEVER worked with anything relevant, and can only show you a bunch of tutorials they've followed. IF lucky, they've actually taken on more exciting datasets from sources like Kaggle, and tried to come up with something.

edit: Not to mention the data - I get extremely impressed when someone actually shows a project which involves them collecting data from the wild, wrangling it, and then doing meaningful work.

Too many beginners only work on neat / ready datasets. You'd be surprised how many candidates get completely blindsided when asked to do some trivial tasks on pre-processing data.
Well, in some domains there are big changes, due to hardware working differently. When doing number crunching nowadays cache locality is king (cache is 100 times faster then ram). So one should start from the memory layout of the data (data driven design?).

It even lead to Stroustroup saying in a talk that one shouldnt use linked list at all, but instead vectors, because even when linked lists should shine, they do not anymore.
Hindsight bias.
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"These dudes literally converted some poor people in the Philipenes then saw if Weber was right about the Protestant Work Ethic." -- https://twitter.com/prof_gabriele/status/1275028181955854342
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I don't think they were any less focused on business aspects -- other than reliability, most papers and articles seem to focus on bringing costs down.

If anything, I think the Greenfield nature may have more to do with it. Today, we take it for granted that software is really expensive to make, to the point where we don't always question the basic patterns that make it so expensive. In those early days, it was far from obvious that software would be expensive.
I don't know the difference.
I learned myself python, Pyqt5 and postgreSQL in a relative short period, mostly by examples and documentation online.
Got a little knowledge from my past by learning and programming in Clipper and QBasic for my last company, long time agoo (1997-2002). Now i am retired and i like to program in python (My age is 75)
Nope. When you're at the bottom of the page, you should first have to call the elevator. Then it should stop at all those levels at which other people have also called it before coming to your position. Then you get a chance to be kicked out for being overweight.
As most I have only anecdotal evidence for border police differences. But I do still sometimes think about how it once took 4 hours of queueing with no toilet no water and a sign that said no mobile phone use to get in to the US at Newark (after thorough passport examinations), while in Iran that same year there was no queue and a smile and a wave. I am a white Scandinavian.
A lot of good info here: https://youtu.be/tIuj-oMN-Fk
I was very impressed, but two clicks later landed me here:

https://read-the-samples.netlify.app/sample_1792

This reads exactly like bad plagiarism, with the word count padding repetitive phrases and too-on-the-nose facts. It's not generating, it's memorizing.
We can skip the formalities then!

Please state your full legal name, date of birth, current address of residence, bank account numbers, credit card numbers, email addresses, passwords, your favorite type of pornography, and your mother's maiden name.

Thanks in advance!
But it did in NYC. The freezer truck outside of my local funeral home only disappeared about 2 weeks ago.
> the writer is hardly going to say its gonna be a hatchet job,

"We have some allegations to put to you and we want to hear your side" would be one way people know it's going to be a hatchet job.
It also doesn't avoid preconceptions directly. It just initializes random ones.
I noticed that too: bot traffic even though (at that time) my site was linked or mentioned nowhere on the www. I guess the search companies crawl the WHOIS records for new domain names and send their bots over, even if your site is nothing but a blank placeholder page. :-)
Yep, only people to suffer will be the little ones whilst the larger players get to be piggish on the fat margins.
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Just use a perfectly efficient solar panel
Also every critic (hell, every person with a social media account and too much time on their hands) will endlessly berate you - and you see it too. Critics have also learned that, unless the film/book/game/etc is absolutely breathtaking, bashing and looking for any little thing to pick apart gets more attention. The easiest attack to make is, “this [media] is just a poor man’s [other media].”
Hey HN!

I’m Miles, co-founder of Splitgraph along with Artjoms (mildbyte). We met back in 2018, when I reached out to him after reading his blog on HN and realizing we lived right next to each other. Neither of us had a “real job,“ and we both wanted to build something truly innovative and cool. We tossed around a few ideas, but ultimately we couldn’t resist the idea of building “GitHub for data,” which seemed like an obvious gap in the market. After nearly two years of development, we are finally ready — and extremely excited — to share it with the world.

We are not the first to notice this gap or try to build this product. So we wanted to make sure we did it right. We made sure to start from “first principles” and really analyze the problem space. We ended up realizing that it’s not strictly Git or GitHub that people want “for data.” Rather, people just want to be able to work with data as easily as they can work with code. They want to experiment, build and maintain data without needless overhead.

Tools like Git and Docker are ubiquitous in any software engineer’s workflow, and we took a lot of inspiration from them when designing Splitgraph. We thought about why people like and use these tools, and tried to translate their benefits to the domain of data science. Our core philosophy is to stay out of the way, and work with existing abstractions instead of introducing new ones. You can version your code with Git without switching filesystems. You can build Docker images without changing your code to work in Docker. Our goal with Splitgraph is to provide an easy path to incremental adoption, so you can introduce it into your existing workflows where and when it makes sense.

Splitgraph is powered by Postgres, and provides an easy way to build and share versioned datasets, along with a whole bunch of other benefits. We encourage you to read the landing page which (hopefully) explains it well. The documentation goes into much more detail, and if you have ten minutes and Docker installed, you can try Splitgraph for yourself. [0] If you work with data, we really hope you’ll give Splitgraph a try.

We’re here to answer any questions, and we’ve also created a Discord server [1] to hopefully build a bit of a community around Splitgraph.

[0] https://www.splitgraph.com/docs/getting-started/five-minute-...

[1] https://discord.gg/eFEFRKm
"Trolling" has very little to do with Sadism, psychopathy, narcissism, or machiavellianism.

An troll has there priorities, they target a certain group of people just to get a rise out of them.
> VSCode Plugin Support

Given this, and that there's at least one vim plugin for VSCode, is Onivim a serious alternative? How does VSCode+vscodevim compare to Onivim?
Maybe. Bit of a crapshoot between both approaches - I don't think Scott think it would blow up quite like this?

Scott is not afraid of being outed to nerds at all, but to the PC mob (sure, there's an intersection... let's replace git/master anyone?). It wouldn't especially be negative right now, but it means that his blog would be forever linked to his name. And one day is blog would attract unwanted attention (as it has in the past), and his name would be linked to it.

Also, even if wasn't for this, I think he's right to make a stand for himself. He had very little leverage here, and "deleting" the blog (it's still archived) was a bad move that makes the NYT looks bad if they go and out him.
> I don’t think games are well adapted to open source.

Not as end products, but it's pretty insane how much is available these days as far as free engines and tooling. Both in terms of beer (UE4 is free for all but the most successful of projects) and libre (Godot, LÖVE, loads of others).

There are also tons of classic games that have been rebuilt from their assets as modern open source engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engine_recreation...

And, finally, there are also a small number of pure OSS labour-of-love titles, like the incredibly ambitious 0ad: https://play0ad.com/

None of this really disputes the notion that commercial game development is not (and has never really been) well suited to open source development. But it's nonetheless interesting to look at how these things have evolved over time.
> new: https://github.com/torvalds/linux

Looking at the repo's main page on a smartphone. The top "box" listing the latest commit message says:

"torvalds committed 20... [...]"

What the ...!!!

I don't know if that was a "streamlining" or has been always like this. Still, makes me wonder at how the UI team prioritizes their efforts.

I don't depend on using GH UI much, so will figure my way in the refaced UI at some point. But I can relate to the sentiment here that the refacing is just the recurring "design tax". Like the cars from 2015 look "so dated".

What's the deal about the round corners? I thought the straight ones were proclaimed the "right way".
OK, but how does that hold any other aspects of these devices back? Remove the baseband processor and you've got an iPod Touch, or a small iPad. It doesn't fundamentally change the device or really open up any new avenues not possible with a baseband processor.
Those people already know his real name.

So the extra danger from that direction associated with the NYT publishing his real name in an article about SSC is that they might read that article, discover that Xxxxx Xxxxx who treats them for paranoid schizophrenia also has this blog that says yyyy yyyyy yyy yyyyyy and that zzzzzz zzz zzzzz, and then go after him (using the real name they already had).

The harm there isn't zero, but I think it's much less than the harm that results from giving his real name to people who already knew about SSC and hated it for some reason.

(Also, at present at least, it's easier to go from Scott's real name to his blogging pseudonym than in the other direction with a couple of minutes and a search engine. Neither direction is terribly difficult, but that's no reason why the NYT should make them both easier.)
Not disagreeing with you, but "criminals" is not a Boolean variable when you have power over those who determine who is and isn't a criminal.

Facebook (and other big social media) has a lot of power over those who define and enforce the laws, both within the bounds of the existing laws, and within a grey area where they'd be technically breaking the law, but nobody would want to enforce said law on them due to potential repercussions (Facebook could instantly shut down a lot of politicians' careers by just airing their dirty laundry, on which Facebook has a lot of visibility due to its omnipresence).

Those who make the laws rely on Facebook to succeed in their own personal interests (getting elected, which means money & power).

The problem here isn't just Facebook, it's the people that are supposed to be drafting & enforcing laws in the best interests of society are instead doing so to pursue their own personal interests instead. Facebook is just coming along for a free ride - can't really blame them.
If they started a Manhattan Project for AGI, would we know by now? Or only after it explodes?
"to what extent are they actually being used for good? Stuxnet is the clearest example I know of these tools almost certainly decreasing a threat to US citizens"

By this logic an equally good use would be to sabotage American military-industrial complex thus reducing threat to the citizens of many countries around the world.
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Netherlands is 7000km off your guess.

Jimmy Kimmel Can You Name a Country? strikes again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRh1zXFKC_o
No, I'm talking about internal services that aren't directly exposed through AWS API. This represent the large majority of the internal codebase.
Note that the person I was responding to was talking about 10s of people, you're already pointing out it's hundreds or thousands.

My point is merely: don't think you're immune just because you're young. More young people have died from this than most people think.
Just because there is no privacy does not mean we should give away our privacy easily.
But it's also a massive increase in scope, and will likely make the end product less appealing/interesting from a nostalgia point of view.
I immediately spot one huge issue with this

> The production branch is essentially a monolith – a single long-running production release

It assumes that only one version is deployed at a time, so you can't really service version1.0 after you shipped version2.0.

Having multiple independent maintenance branches for production is critical for any branch pattern that should apply to both web software (normally single deployed version) and e.g. Desktop (normally multiple deployed versions).

Th
This is a wonderful admission by Facebook. So any one of the millions of companies who have had their copyrights or trademarks infringed by fraudulent Chinese advertisers on Instagram and Facebook should now be given FULL access to all advertisers personal details on Facebook including the complete historic library of ads that have ever run on Facebook since, by their own argument, “You don’t know who to sue until you’ve got the Whois information,”
> How would the devs pay their bills?

Why, they'd offer consulting for a fee, of course! On such things as how to most effectively level your char, or perhaps they'd sell you a neat yet overpriced user manual that they wrote for their free software, or perhaps they'd offer printed maps for a price. :D

Jokes aside, there are loads of ways to earn money off free software, though usually you'd have to accept competition. I agree that it's probably not viable for a game, however, though there are some open source game projects out there, such as UFO:AI.[1]

[1]: https://ufoai.org/wiki/About
... but there was a reason, sort-of, for the rise of Nazism. Maybe I understand it badly, but things weren't great then. Now, there aren't really... problems on a comparable scale.
> We can cast it to an IWebBrowser (a remnant of when Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer were welded together)

Aargh. For a while I maintained an app which embedded IE (technically "IHTMLDocument2") on Windows CE, which meant dealing with a lot of this madness. It spawned all kinds of background threads and didn't take kindly to being interrupted, and control over it was limited - ended up drawing a window over its control bar and passing clicks through ourselves.

He mentions "the cultural defeat of Microsoft", which is absolutely right; developers no longer choose the Windows platform, they are only ever forced to by circumstance, and have developed tools like Electron which allow them to ignore the platform entirely.

For whatever reason, the "developer community" of Microsoft was very weak, at least post-dotcom era. You couldn't find many people talking about it openly to learn from. And only recently have they responded to that, especially with Roslyn and the buyout of Github.

https://www.devever.net/~hl/windowsdefeat
Like an e-bike then?
Ask HN: How do you grow demand side for a Marketplace?
We have recently launched a Live virtual travel experiences startup, that uses 360 degree camera to give all around views.

We have grown the supply side and have 20 tours available across the world, adding more weekly.

I would love to know your opinion what is the best way to tackle the demand side now? We do some social postings and approaching people on media who asked relevant questions, few small blogs do a writeup.

Thanks
Couldn't you circumvent that by selling a really expensive bowl of fish soup or something like that? Or just say that you prostituted yourself?

That you would need to open a business is probably something most countries require though.
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Wow that was a fascinating read. Thanks for sharing it, I’ve never seen a take quite like it.
3 months of lower activity is not killing people in those 3 months.

Any effects will be felt on a much longer timeframe.

Most office workers have very sedentary lives anyways, that didn’t become significantly more sedentary when they replaced their drive with a walk to another room and working in an office with working in that room.

Throw in the fact that they are likely cooking more because restaurants and all were shut and not just having lunch delivered to their office, they may even be getting more activity in.
At 30% reduced size. The true comparison would be at the same file size, which format is able to squeeze more perceivable information into the same bucket?
1. Open source the client but not the assets

2. Open source the client and the assets but not the server

3. After a delay, open source everything but still charge for playing on the official server where there is already a thriving community

Although there is not necessarily much of a benefit.
I'd challenge that assumption. The BBC has arguably become much more of a state broadcaster than a public interest broadcaster in recent decades. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n24/owen-bennett-jones/c...
Damnit GitHub. Why mess with perfection? Also, does nobody on their design team use an ultra wide monitor? Why break the container on the navbar? Now I have to love the cursor for what feels like forever to change repos.
It is long, dull, and badly written, but there’s clearly some magic there; why else would millions of children and adults take to the books so deeply despite those flaws?

And this was true even before it had the movies to drive marketing. My mom picked them up at a yard sale when I was nine or so, and without even knowing they were famous, I devoured them and then bought every other Tolkien book I could find. Now I can’t imagine how I made it through them at that age, but something was captivating.

I couldn’t, by the way, make it though any of the other books, so my appetite for long and poorly written books only went so far.