skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make a good point. Assuming you are correct on the scope creep issues, ironically if they actually were a scam and instead of building out an entirely new studio, hiring hundreds of people (which is what leads to so many delays and complications) if they just funneled the money out and hired a small team of developers to perpetuate the scam they probably would actually have more concrete Development done.
I'm very peripherally following this story, mainly because it is the Duke Nukem Forever of this age, but my take on this is that after this much time and money how could he not have figured it out?

He's making vastly more money NOT shipping a product than he would have actually completing the the thing, it actually would make a great biz school study. On the scale of tech industry scams, it's also been overshadowed by the many VC busts that delivered even less and pulled in even more funding (looking at you, Magic Leap).
My vision of perfection is different from yours?

Engineering beauty is when form follows function. A hundred year bulb that will only be used for 5 minutes is ugly and imperfect

One that lasts 3.5 weeks is still ugly, but one that last 20m +/- 15 is beautiful, and one that lasts 10min +5/-5 is a masterpiece. An engineer still wants a safety factor, after all
One of my friends found a hidden camera in the bedroom, in an Airbnb "superhost" overseas (around 2018).

Despite providing a police report to Airbnb and getting a full refund, the listing was never taken down, the Superhost status was still there, and somehow the review she left was deleted.

I think it's pretty shameful and wish she went to the media about it.
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They are being devastated by COVID which could linger for a while.

Their biggest risk is regulatory and taxation. Many AirBnBs are illegal, and what will really grind government to act are the potential lost revenues.

I think they will do just fine, it's a matter of valuation.
Worse yet, they spent $4,000 on a game that isn't released.
That's a great idea! Unfortunately it looks like they've fully locked down their network since about 20:00 (EDT), so that will have to wait for tomorrow to try out.
The tech sector has almost never not been politicized, damn, are kids these days forgetting how much open source was fought for and defended?
Sorry, it's §25.2511-1(h) in Title 26 of the C.F.R., which contains regulations created by the Treasury.

In the spouse scenario, technically the withdrawals would be subject to gift tax, but the entire amount can be deducted if the spouse is a U.S. citizen. And the gift tax paperwork (Form 709) doesn't actually have to be filed (unless there were other gifts).
http://archive.is/RIO5K
Great Health Posters of the Past Are Appropriate Again in This Time OfPandemic
Remote coaching could be huge. The demand for human interaction has never been higher.
This is very clever! Also, take a look at Claim 2 of this patent[1]. Do you think these are similar enough to constitute infringement?

[1]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9881516B1/en

(Software patents should be abolished. I just like to point out their absurdity and how it's easy to independently develop a technique (steganography in a search engine result) that someone has already grubbed a "patent" on.)
> very fucking evil

Your abuse of words is a heinous crime against humanity.
The internal message to employees says:

> Investing in New Products
We are organizing a new product organization outside of Firefox that will both ship new products faster and develop new revenue streams. Our initial investments will be Pocket, Hubs, VPN, Web Assembly and security and privacy products.

This is very much welcome, and I look forward to more products with paid tiers. Mozilla Corporation must have ways to get revenues from end users through different means, and combining that with Mozilla’s vision is a good thing. If there’s one thing missing for me in this list, it’s an email service that combines the best of other paid email providers.
Throw January out the window. Answer this question? Is AirBNB a valuable idea? I think the answer is yes. Stocks go up based on future projections.

Even if they have to IPO, declare Chapter 11 in 2020, and reform for 2021 there's still a valuable company in my mind because the product is revolutionary.

Before COVID killed travel I would always favor renting a AirBNB for over a hotel. It was marginally cheaper and offered a better experience usually (in my experience).
Hope 2020 Delivers Historic Marathon of Hacking
The ship itself offers protection from the radiation. The pusher plate, all those bombs, that's quite a bit of shielding. The life system is of course a problem, but that doesn't change the fact that the ship would be pretty fast.
Bit of hyperbole there. This is a press release that their PR head pumped out in 5 minutes, using whatever techniques they teach PR heads at communications schools. Insert any company that can lay off 250 employees and keep ticking, and you will probably get about the same exact document from a similarly schooled PR head.
>He donated to leave the existing law in place that defined marriage as between a man and a woman.

This is wrong in every way that actually matters.

The California State Supreme Court struck down the law which banned gay marriage, and gay couples were allowed go be married. Many many gay couples were married during this period.

Eich donated to Proposition 8, a ballot initiative which provided an amendment to the California State Constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman within the state consitution, in effect overruling the judgement of the California Supreme Court.

It was not an effort to "leave the law in place", it was an effort to remove from gay couples a right which they had already been granted by the court system, and to freeze this into the constitution itself.

So imagine being a gay Mozilla employee and knowing that your boss not only wants to prevent you from gaining civil rights, but wants to remove civil rights which you were already granted.

> Hell, even Obama ran on keeping that the law.

DOMA is completely unrelated. This is about the California Constitution, not any state or federal law.
it's a spectrum, right? 'on-device' is a big claim with different implications if you're thinking about this as an NN problem or a privacy problem. Loading an image from the cloud = sending telemetry on your supermarket shopping to a giant ads company.
Hey Neighbor!

If you can get it... Cox has gigablast available here for about $120/month. I get about 800ish down and 35ish up.
When you say librarian, I think of a team member who knows the code base and reasons why the code base is the way it is.

Maybe historian is a better name though
I actually prefer the flat aesthetic of MS services, not sure what UX you're referring to. Yes the storage limit sucks but other than that Outlook and One Drive are not any laggier than Google's products to me and they have all the basic things I need (plus some ads, admittedly). Needless to say MS office is superior to Google docs.
Files on disk aren’t affected, the OS applies these patches in RAM only.

It’s gonna be very hard to check integrity of code in RAM. The complications include relocation table (applied when loading; see also ASLR) and global variables (modified as the software runs).
> Also, LastPass slowed my Android phone a lot.

Their Windows application was also painfully slow.

I paid them for years but I no longer trust them, it seems to me they are incompetent as an organization even if the people who work there might or might not be smart.
Can't they just jam the frequencies instead?
Ended up going to one drive when I saw how much resources google drive was eating up on my mac. Work pays for both anyway.
Yes,

SpaceX founded in 2002 and first reached orbit in 2008, so 6 years.

Tesla founded in 2003 and first deliveries was 2012, so 9 years.

Development of Star Citizen began in 2010 and it's still not even in beta.
Register Now for Culture and Code: Investing in Signals
>A state court

>Eastern District of New York

Ugh. Basic legal literacy can no longer be expected in the media?

EDNY is a federal court, not a state one.
Instagram faces lawsuit over illegal harvesting of biometrics
Not a "bare right to sue", but an exclusive license, or an assignment, could grant some of those rights that give rise to standing.
The Lucid Air is quite impressive:

https://www.motortrend.com/cars/lucid/air/2021/2021-lucid-ai...
I was on a plane that was struck by lightning once. It sounded like a bomb had just gone off. For about 10 seconds nobody on the plane made a sound as we all tried to figure out if we were screwed or not. After a couple minutes the captain came on doing his best Chuck Yeager impression, as is tradition, and explained to us what had happened and that there was really no reason to worry because it happens all the time and the planes are designed for it.
No, this uses steam to force hot water through the grounds and into the upper chamber where it stays and is kept safe from overheating.

It's fantastic and the only way I make coffee.

My wife likes Americanos so I add hot water to hers. I switch between shots and lattes.
I got Office 365 as I enrolled into university a couple of years ago in Australia, always thought most universities went with MS offerings.
Ramanujan’s Early Work on Continued Fractions
The semantic difference would be important in a song like Baby Got Back by Sir Mix-a-lot, which includes both speech quotes and imperial measurements.
The use case is tinkering. I think it’s pretty sweet to be able to build a super low cost cluster like this. Play with docker, k8s etc.
There is in ISO 8601: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_zero
I think the scam-ie-ness of it is more along the lines of predatory marketing.

They sell ship concepts for a lot of money. And are only now getting into the real meat-and-potatoes of the critical development. Things like server meshing, and appropriate object culling server/client side.

There are NO gameplay loops that don't involve a small variation of the following: Kill bounties / mine minerals / trade goods to earn money. Use money to buy ships. And even that is kinda bogus because your purchases may/may not persist between patches!

Any PVP is completely optional and not really a real gameplay loop.

Any group events are completely optional and not really a real gameplay loop. There are a few things you can do to speed up say mining loops by having a scout + cash maker(s).

There is ZERO logistics. There is ZERO economy (8 years in and they finally created money transfers).

Overall this is a project that has every incentive to keep developing forever and not deliver. Because of this they over-promised so so so much that it is almost impossible to meet these expectations.

Also development has been... insanely slow. Took them 7 years before they gave you a mobile respawn point on some ships. Took them 8 years to get aiming even remotely okay. Took them 8 years and NPCs still can't glitch out and stop moving/acting. 8 years later and only the latest top notch PC can even attempt to get 30fps in this game, and even then, not in most areas.

This has to be Fyre festival. The same thing happened there. "Just fund it, we'll figure it out." until... they couldn't figure it out. So they asked for more funding.
Update and new feature for Devserver: PHP 7.4.9 and a new php.ini manager
Then the financial settlement was just for kicks?
$1TN is just the last price multiplied by the number of shares. The amount Tesla raised was just however much they earned from the original sale of stocks.
Any Belorussian ASes behind it?
Rights are not granted by culture, they are recognized by culture. They exist regardless of whether they are violated.
I guess aviation is a very conservative industry and probably for a good reason. If something works and passed tests and FAA approved there are no reasons replacing that? :)
I think it was last year. There was no nominal typing at all, the unsound variance of arrays meant I couldn't really trust my types anyway, I wasn't able to treat structures generically as records the way I'd like (i.e. no shapeless equivalent) and of course there was no HKT.
Out of curiosity, is English your first language? I can see that it would be helpful for fixing the types of errors you mention, and the kinds that appear in your comment. Does it give suggestions for text boxes like in HN comments as well?

I have tried it and found nothing useful for me, but am interested to know why/how people use it.
This is probably not that article you referring to, but similar one:
https://www.sitepoint.com/the-cicada-principle-and-why-it-ma...
You should try PureScript, ReasonML or Bucklescript.

You’ll get all that (and more), and it’ll be higher level.

Additionally, these languages are designed to target the web, so they have a lot of libraries and bindings for JS libraries already written.
Thats interesting!

I'm an ADHD sufferer. And one of the things they about Ritalin is that it's a DRI (dopamine reuptake inhibitor).

More dopamine might mean you kinda feel more positive!
Well we are seeing major browsers limit control in recent updates, so that's the new major browser race it seems. Safari and Chrome are locking down what you can do with extensions, which limits what you can do to protect your privacy online.
Resource Collection for ML Data Preparation
Use a cheap blade grinder for a fine grind.

Add water until it reaches the bottom of the valve.

Fill and gently pat, but don't pack, the filter with grinds.

Screw it together and put it on something hot until it finishes gurgling and starts hissing.

Enjoy!

(I use one twice a day and have been for several years.)
Literally all the time.

I can count on one hand[0] the number of JS dependencies I've used in enterprise/large projects for extended periods of time where I've never needed to manually debug the library or read the source code. For enterprise software, sometimes the easiest solution is to directly hotpatch a vendored version of the dependency.

This is especially true with dependencies where bugs are fixed in major versions, but where upgrading and dealing with breaking changes would require significant code refactoring.

To drive the point home, I've been bitten by bugs in NPM itself.[1] Fixing that required reading through the source and manually swapping out one NPM's internal dependencies to a newer version.

And it doesn't matter if someone somewhere has had the same problem and posted it on the Internet unless I can find their answer online faster than I can fix the problem myself in my own library. Often this is not the case, filtering through issue trackers and trying to find the one blog post or comment that tells me how to solve the problem can be a big time sink.

[0]: Okay, maybe 2. But the point stands, it's not a rare or exceptional occurance.

[1]: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/18942
Clicked through fully expecting a treatment of the Plileas Fogg model, i.e. place your bet, then without further ado set off on your journey around the globe that very same evening, i.e. Just Do It.

Which is propably, all told, more useful advise than any number of overthought musings and bullet lists and schematics to bury myself in before actually, you know, doing it.
There's a fair middle ground when the dependency in itself doesn't have dependencies, and is small enough with a permissive license such that the entirety of its code can be dropped in to your project. Especially for very specific functionalities. I have used such tiny xml parsers, and I'm not affected by the fact that my copy is no longer the latest version. Its not so far from copying and pasting snippets of existing code.
I didn’t realize how shitty and dangerous they were until after driving it for a while.
Of the last $5,000 I’ve spent on AirBnB, not a single dollar was spent on a legal host.
Like Radio Free Europe is "real news"
Putting everything in the browser doesn't buy you anything unless your goal is to put everything into your web services. Meanwhile it incurs a lot of costs because browsers are designed for client-server, which in Google's case was the point, but in a user-focused device it's a liability. You saddle yourself with javascript instead of better languages, you end up having to reimplement things like local storage and data transfer between applications, a lot of interesting applications will need access to lower level networking than browsers normally provide (e.g. ICMP, UDP, multicast) or some other access to hardware (e.g. access to USB devices).

Why build a second operating system inside the browser instead of just using the original operating system?
Indeed, I'm not sure what part of oneself survives that long but that nickname did.

Have you been time traveling in a similar trajectory?

$nickname at free.fr
It is indeed out of left field, and that’s not any fault of yours. Thank you for taking the time to consider and reply.
> over time I've found myself more intrinsically motivated by building what I think of as well-designed systems. That, to me, is art. That's what I get excited about.

Me too.

But art without constraints is boring. What gets me off is building the most perfect well designed system possible within the constraint of shipping things that solve real problems for real people and the business.
Once again we are faced with limitations, restrictions, being the fruit of creativity.

Or maybe it's money and a gentleman's honor.
I think it's useful. Im not sure if any third party tools has a similar feature but definitely would be helpful specifically to those who are new to the product.

So you will have the option to auto stop services to minimize spend or terminate services if stopping will not reduce the bill (rds is an example).

User probably needs to be able to set priorities, locks, etc to prevent disruption of services in case they are using it for production.
I’ve always been profoundly “creeped out” by Dr Seuss’ books—the text and the illustrations, now as much as when I was a kid and part of the target demographic.
I’ve wondered this as well
I think Jeff Geerling answers this question succinctly in this video https://youtu.be/kgVz4-SEhbE?t=307 (starting at the 5min mark).

TL;DW - It's fun and you gain the added skills of managing bare metal with physical IO limitations.
Strong brews.
Compact and portable.
No filters or expensive grinders required.
Word Mover's Embedding: Cheap WMD For Documents
I switched from Chrome back to Firefox last year after a decade away and I am loving it. I dunno much about the internal politics at Mozilla (which seems to be a lot based on the little I do know) but I can say that Firefox is light years ahead of Chrome in terms of UX.
I’m surprised that no one has mentioned Opera yet.
My state doesn't require real id and I see no reason the get the realid compliant id my state offers. I have a passport, passport card, and global entry which are all federaly issued and "real" ids.

Why is it so hard to just travel with a passport or passport card?
Thoughts on Mailvelope? https://www.mailvelope.com
Using Derek Smart of all people as a source doesn't help. Guy is bitter, jealous and has a rather long history of crazy and putting out unfinished, mediocre games ever since BC3K.

Just look at the latest offering (removed from steam by the looks of it) that was a $99 early access thing started around 2012 I think: http://lodgame.com with a last update 2 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Smart
They didn’t start the ads on day one. Their first big push was the TV ad:

https://slate.com/technology/2009/05/google-s-first-ever-tv-...

The “try Chrome” ads for other browsers didn’t start for a while later after that IIRC.
What would you use then?
>Why oh why is it always "the family farm"?

Because when the income tax was introduced in 1913 it also was a small percentage of income only for the super rich (7% with the first 500K exempt, 1913's 500K was a bit more than 2020's 10M you suggested).
We have to assume something about the accuracy otherwise there might as well not be any numbers at all! What if it was +/- 100 K ?

Writing 2 extra decimal places is assuming the original values also have 2 decimal places with zeros in them.

It's reasonable to assume the digits the author gave are correct and there are no other unwritten zeros after them. Even if the scientists really did measure 110.00 - 155.00 K, the author of the source document decided to remove that information and we don't know what it "really" was so we shouldn't guess.
If you fly between states you're engaging in interstate commerce. So the federal government can ban it.

Even if someone offers you a flight for free, that takes away from alternatives like driving(which funds gas stations, hotels, restaurants, etc.). So your choice to fly affects interstate commerce, and they can ban that too.
So you're saying that I should implement my own ormapper just because my product is using a database?
And even this is not thee case, writing everything yourself will end up in your own hands. No Bugfixes, no patches or improvements without spending man work.
I've worked in such a company and it was a mess accompanied by dev leaders who's to proud of their code to allow any change.
TikTok and Its Side-Effects
> Or a learning tool to make computer science & networking concepts concrete and tangible?

That seems like a perfectly good use case to me?
The Most Overhyped Planet in the Galaxy
http://archive.is/tGtU6
I wish I could trade on climate model predictions. I think the notion that anyone can predict a chaotic system 15 years out is ridiculous, but i also think there are plenty of people who for some reason believe it can be done, and I'd like to take the other side of that trade.
> If you have an option why not stay anywhere in world and work vs. close by home? I expect we will see a big % of WFH markets be global travelers.

Well, if a business is allowing their employees to work from home due to COVID, they don't want them traveling off abroad and being classified as tax residents of various countries.

If people are moving to cheaper cities or locations in their own country, getting a long term Airbnb isn't very practical. Most will use whatever real estate listing website or service that is prevalent in their region.
The initial point was to build it just because, there was no real reason behind building it. But at this point, I've found quite a lot of use cases for it, specifically hosting web services for family and friends. In the process though, I've learnt to work under extreme resource/budget constraints and that alone has been invaluable imo.
Amazon’s Constellation of 3,236 Satellites Has Astronomers Freaked Out
This is a big vote of confidence in RISC-V for iioT and we can just hope they learn lessons from all the fragmentation and stand alone walled gardens that prevent FPGA development circles from taking off.
Kotlin isn't limited to the JVM thanks to KotlinJs and Kotlin native
Why does this post keep getting re-submitted?
Labor of Division (2010)
Free Indian Doodle Illustrations
A strange set of targets, moving between MMO currency manipulation to "pillaging the Taiwanese semiconductor industry."
Doesn’t it also have cardinality issues?
Yeah, makes sense, but this is still a pretty good approach. Inserting invisible or unusual Unicode symbols would prompt the scraper to carefully cleanup the read files (maybe even fixing these apostrophes as a result). Unusual whitespace is also likely to be removed and cleaned up.
On the other hand, these alternating apostrophes have a chance to stay unnoticed (or neglected), falling through the cracks.