skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I will tell you my thinking, and you can decide whether to call it 'lazy'. The styles are 'revealing/sexy'. There exist clothes for men that fit that description, but they are less popular. Because they send out a message most men don't want to be sending out. (I guess most women don't either, at least not all the time.)
That’s interesting because much of the thesis was rooted in behavioral economics. The faculty that turned it down initially were in the economics department
Do you really need top notch people? Or do you just want them? Start lowering your expectations.
Btw, just because people are immigrating, it doesn't mean racism is low. Economic opportunities and better quality of life might be the main drivers, even at the cost of facing discrimination.

Most of the French immigrants are from erstwhile French colonies like in the case of Britain, racism and exploitation of their homelands didn't stop them from moving to seek better life.
Cutting off your nose to spite your face. Destroy the company and then it's worth nothing for anyone. How does that make sense? Founder was better off just quitting and starting a new company from scratch.
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Programmers are much closer to electricians than they are professional football players, though. Athletes and actors have star power, and considerable individual leverage. Tom Cruise is definitely in the Screen Actor's Guild but when's the last time SAG did anything for him? They're there to make sure the lowest end gets their $2k/week.

I get your point and it's a good one, I just think when we're talking about literally 100-200 people negotiating 8 and 9-figure yearly contracts it's an outlier (to say the least).
Darktable is great by the way; nothing's perfect, but its indexing and navigation is faster than Lightroom and the filters are basically what you use. I've also heard good things about RawTherapee.
The uptime on that machine is longer than the time between new versions of windows. This is an example where software isn't like disposable plastic.
You can look at the RSSAC002 data as well. It doesn't count bandwidth, but it counts lots of other stuff.

https://github.com/rssac-caucus/RSSAC002-data

You can also click on the "RSSAC" button on root-servers.org to get the YAML straight from the root server operators themselves.

Most of the root server operators have anycast instances deployed in organizations that host the servers for them. So there's not an easy way to measure bandwidth utilization because many root server anycast instances are hosted in organizations that may not, or could not, report that bandwidth utilization. Look at the map on root-servers.org to see how dispersed around the world these things are.
> Isn't that democracy everywhere though? And it's still better than any of the alternatives by a significant margin.

Yes it is. Which is fine for something like a country where I don't have any hope of negotiating with the government individually, and where I don't have any choice in which country I'm part of.

But I'm not sure it's what I want for my job, where I can already negotiate directly with my employer, and where I can leave for other options if I don't like the offer. I'm trading one master that I need to persuade and negotiate with (employer) for two (employer and union leaders and their majority block). That sounds worse not better to me.

A union is great if you're part of the majority. If you're part of a minority in some regard... then yikes good luck.
I did not. Maybe I was being weak or maybe I didn’t want to try and make them look bad in front of their peers but I did not bring up any of the previous conversations during the defense
This is basically the same thing, except cancelling based on pick-up location instead of destination. The app apparently doesn't always tell the driver exactly where the pickup is- it only gives the direction to drive and the next turn or two. It only gives the exact location once they're close to it.

This is to keep drivers from cancelling based on an out of the way pick-up location.

When they call, it's almost always to get information that the app won't give them.

I've gotten burned by both.
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> From what I heard France has strong worker protection laws, even stronger than Germany. Do you think this is/could be a problem for startups?

Yes, France has strong worker protection laws, but if someone is found to have been abusively fired there’s a cap on how much they can sue for. The amount is based on how long they’ve been with the company. For example, after 2 years, the amount is 3 months salary, after 5 years, 6 months salary. The complete table is here: https://droit-finances.commentcamarche.com/faq/54743-bareme-...
> That means taking 1000 images, in 5 seconds each, would cost us ~$0.08 for each run. It’s literally pennies.

You have to multiply theoretical AWS invoices with the correction factor 341235 (subject to change) to have the correct price.

You could of course check the amount of data and computing power yourself but you could also count grains of sand at the beach.

I think the name is badly chosen because it obviously only works with stateless calculations, but the service seems to be quite decent.

Don't go to Amazon and read the product description, it only lets you want to shoot yourself. Probably written for marketing instead of developers. Anyway, the service still looks interesting.
The Kindle's SDK is called the Kindle Development Kit (KDK).

http://kdk-javadocs.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html
France does have a strong defense and aerospace industry indeed. That's maybe the only thing that's still alive and doing well, propped up by military budget and large companies. Military related work is one of the rare domains that can't be externalized.
Great marketing, branding, and PR. HN commenters so often claim to be fully immune to advertising but they fell for this one hook, line, and sinker.
>posthog.com

lol really?
Firefox - July 2020

Mutt - July 2020

Gnumeric - August 2020

Vim - December 2019

OS - Ubuntu, April 2020

They might not have had big rewrites, but they are still under active development (I actually run slightly older versions, but nothing older than 5 years)

The code I use which isn't under active development is stuff I wrote years ago, but showing its age -- one uses flash to deliver video for example. Last update was a specific view for a blackberry, which gives an indication on the age. That view didn't support video as we didn't have 3G in the fleet.
SQL is the API for data.
HOAs differ vastly in quality due to lack of regulation and a wide range of community challenges and needs. It would be good to get a broad survey of folks in HOAs instead of relying upon anecdata but the lack of regulations make reliable reporting on this surprisingly difficult.

I’ve known some folks with HOAs and I see an inverse correlation with HOA dues and satisfaction which is usually correlated with HOA responsibilities and enforcement. I know folks with a $50 / year HOA and the HOA I was in was about $400 / mo for a condo that was maybe $1800 / mo.
I find it extremely puzzling to counterpose the predictions of disease experts, politicians and economists with regard to COVID.

Disease experts are very cautiously optimistic over a period of years. Economists are in sharp disagreement whether we will see a quick or multi-year recovery, with a few dissenters pointing out the the economic effects could last decades. And politicians seem to have unbridled optimism, which to an outsider can only be explained by access to a persistent vault of champagne.
I've been thinking for a while that the only way to get a decent desktop experience on Linux is going to be to start from scratch. The graphics drivers and Wayland are probably adequate. But absolutely everything from there on up - window mangers, GUI toolkits, applications, configuration tools - needs to be written from scratch by people who know what they are doing and can build all of it as a cohesive whole.

This would be a huge project, and i don't know who has any incentive to do it. It's hard to imagine that it would be possible to make a business out of it.
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Contracts are only enforceable (a) if they are conscionable, and (b) if they exist.

Is there a contract saying the user must carry the tracking app everywhere they go?
Are there no programs like this already? In the UK we have systems like https://www.waitrose.com/home/inspiration/about_waitrose/abo...

Expensive though
"Building a Great Product" is the number one reason startups fail. There is nothing wrong with building a great product. However, if no one wants to buy your great product or if it costs a ton of money to get people's attention for long enough for them to understand how great your product is, then you will not be profitable.
Based on the anecdotes I have heard, I think it does exist. I had met couple of guys who had worked in France based companies and they did tell about feeling very isolated there.

In contrast, even with all the racism around Brexit, one of them loved living in London and would sing praises of the inclusiveness he felt in and out of office.
I've long thought that Western science rediscovers what Eastern mysticism has known for ages.

(That being said, this is no slight against Western science - it's discovered a lot more as well!)
That's how most job queues work (typically for processing periodic, asynchronous and heavy tasks, e.g. emails, ..)
I had their rejections in email. Ultimately, the committee brought them around and accepted my thesis so I didn’t feel it was worth burning those bridges.
So you clearly didn't read what you were purchasing. As a (previous) Adobe CC subscriber, this was clear to me when I purchased (that I'd be paying for at least a year). That's really on you.

When it comes to subscriptions I have mixed feelings. Like if you agree to pay for a year (for example) then (IMHO) you should do that.

On the flipside, much like the model for gym memberships, companies can make it incredibly difficult to cancel a subscription. They deserve to be punished for this. Newspapers and magazines do this too. I realize a certain percentage of people will keep paying and not use the service (which is the ideal customer for a gym) but, for me, it means there are many things I will never buy because I don't want to deal with this (eg subscriptions to The Atlantic or the New Yorker).

Other comments here allude to Adobe's bad behaviour beyond the initial year (eg not allowing you go to month-to-month). I have no sympathy for Adobe here, particularly when they seem to be in breach of local laws by doing so.

To me the gold standard for subscription services is Jetbrains. The cost per year goes down over time and when you cancel you retain a version forever.

I personally prefer the subscription model for software compared to the previous large sticker prices for Adobe Photoshop. Outright purchases create bad incentives for companies (eg shortening the lifecycle such that bugfixes and minor features are only available via a paid upgrade to the next version). Subscriptions have a cheaper initial outlay (making them much more accessible) and they mean your software gets continually updated without version fragmentation.

Unfortunately companies also decide that a "reasonable" price for a subscription is the retail price in one year. It's not.

So anyway in your case, you are technically in breach of your purchase agreement and Adobe would be well within its rights to chase you for the full amount via disputing a chargeback, through your bank or CC provider or even through small claims court.
I keep losing to lousy AI with my F-16C in DCS World all the time. :^)

No, seriously, this is sort of impressive. I don't like the taste of this being mostly relevant for war (read as: potentially killing people) but it's a technological advancement nevertheless. What exactly was the input for the AI, though? Just imaging or complete virtual situational awareness? Also from what I've taken from the video the challenge was to just point the nose vector at the contender as long as possible. Not sure if that is even relevant for a AA dogfight anymore these days.
I'm debating doing something similar for Japan. It's always nice to read how it is around the world.

In Japan, it is "Fairly" easy, provided you know Japanese and Japanese Culture.

For "hostility" a-lot of it comes under not knowing how to do things the Japanese way and finding an office location. Though there are government city sponsored incubators.

Mostly though, it's an excuse to just pay money to get a visa and residency, that can turn permanent.
See my comment above but in short in the UK I believe the systems and controls that you describe already exist https://www.waitrose.com/home/inspiration/about_waitrose/abo...
A bit oversimplified in my opinion. Sure, SaaS only works as long as it is online, but with reproducible builds and versioned dependencies most software can still be built for a very long time. So i think for OSS the argument is not really valid.
I mostly use Windows. Most software written after 2005 just works.

Not everything, e.g. I have a flatbed scanner in attic which requires me to fire a WinXP virtual machine (I use it couple times a year), because there’s no drivers for Win10. Many low-level OS-related utilities are broken as well.

However, majority of software works. For lulz, I once to tried to run a binary of pinball from Windows NT4, worked fine on modern Win10.
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I don't know about the money they spent, but I believe thinking about it as a free product isn't the right approach. It delivers data & insights and gives them (some) control over the platform that powers their core business, much like Android gives them (some) control over the mobile platform. That's probably well worth whatever they spend on it.

With Firefox and Chrome (and Chrome forks that aren't independently developed, but mostly kept close to the source with some added functionality), they're offering all the options on the market (except Safari, but it's not an option on the global market, only on Apple), if you want a Browser, you'll use something Google-controlled, one way or another.
"When started"? I don't think it was ever really considered BS other than maybe specifically western medicine in the past max 100 years. Doesn't it make sense that with the progress medicine has done in the last century that we would scrutinise methods which couldn't be scientifically proven?
Would have been nice if the article could have embedded a video towards making a statement of ease of use of peer tube :)
> Neither of those groups have decreased individual leverage.

Huh? Sure they do. The MLB negotiated agreement is terrible for top performers, who are paid close to the league minimum salary for the first three years of their career, and an arbitration-determined salary for the next two.

As soon as the union-negotiated common salary time runs out, top players’ pay jumps several times.
Product is definitely the most important, but somewhere in the piece it talks about how marketing and sales become unnecessary, which is so dumb. Once your funnel is optimized and working well marketing just becomes free money as every cent you spend turns into dollars on the other end. But for most companies where there is a lot of room to improve on the product, spending on product should have more returns than spending on marketing.
sad that really is bad
Agreed that "Kushi" is a slur in 2020 and should not be used.

Never heard the connection with קוף before, though. Who are these some people that point this out? The linked article does not draw a connection between these two words because they ostensibly sound the same (barely), the only connection is that Yitzhak Yosef used the term כושי and in the same sermon compared black people to monkeys. The conclusion is that he's a racist and uses a comparison that I'm pretty sure is not restricted to a particular language.
umm...why? Its worked well for me, over 10 years now.
Thanks! I'll get to it later : )
While kids are less likely to get sick from it (less likely doesn't mean zero cases or even deaths btw), they can sure as hell spread it. There was some research suggesting that they're spreading the virus as much as (or not detectably less than) adults [1]. Yet at the same time, there are also some indications that kids might be less likely to become infected [2]. How that will affect school reopenings is anyone's guess.

[1]: https://zoonosen.charite.de/fileadmin/user_upload/microsites...
[2]: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0962-9
I saw the page and assumed the AI had boundaries on maneuvers that reflected the real-world boundaries on those aircraft.

Otherwise, the AI can easily win -- fly at light speed to behind the opponent, fight, fly at light speed away. The only thing to do with a simulation like this would be to put boundaries on the simulator.
Basically a proxy to the real credit card - then you can switch it off.
Indeed. Reminds me of the Machine People and Hesperus in House of Suns discussing how they can push the limits of the spaceships that humans physically could not survive.

- House of Suns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Suns
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Profitable, yes, but considering what time scale? Profitable for six months? Profitable for two years? Five years? Ten to twenty?
How is this terrible? Isn't this pretty standard in all big languages?
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Completely true, many old homes in Madrid are freezing in the winter. New homes are more regulated in efficiency, however. I lived in a new A-rated flat with sophisticated central heating and thermosolar, paying 500€/mo for the actual home and about 10€/mo for heating.
You have a "Request Demo" button on your homepage. Who's going to give those demos? Who's going to nurture past demo requesters to make sure their level of interest only goes up after the demo, not down?

You mention an "Enterprise" option on your homepage and pricing page. Who's going to do demos for all the stakeholders, uncover the company's pain points and goals, handle dozens of questions and objections, fill out security surveys, follow up to a bunch of times to make sure the deal is signed, and so on?

Who's going to ensure you have a pipeline of enterprise deals to hit your revenue goals?

When you're brand new, have a small team, and hardly get any enterprise leads, it's easy for the CEO or CTO to do all of that. Don't assume you can continue doing that forever if you have any ambition to grow.
"suspension" is was one of many terms schools use to intimidate students and create an illusion of power.

A tier-3 private liberal arts college has no power except what they trick students to giving them along with the $50K/yr (!!!) tuition.
There are automated threads on or about the 1st of each month for folks looking for work. Lots of people looking for neat projects and that startup experience.

My contact info is in my profile as well, I might be interested!
Not the one you responded to but:

I don't know enough about airplanes to say if the MAX could have certified as it's own type. I'd like to hope it could because if not then that would show a very sorry state of affairs indeed.

But the big issue with the MAX is not that it handles differently, it is that Boeing lied to everyone about that fact.
Then they made another semi-unforgivable error by masking the handling with software, ok, but didn't even take the most basic steps available to ensure some redundancy in that software.

It is just so very very bad engineering and mindset that it's hard to describe.

Would I fly on a MAX if and when they get clearance again?
Maybe after it's been flying for a year or so, and depending on what some trusted people and institutions say about it.
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>slim down the bureaucracy and the taxes for startups/spinoffs.

It's the opposite of what i wrote (eg massive bureaucracy, "normal" taxes) ;)
It was a typo, I meant 40k costs 80k, and according to the simulator it's 72k (company pays 72k, employee gets 40k). It doesn't include Syntec as collective agreement but I don't think the results would be much different. So my bad, but still not far off. This level of fiscal pressure is on par with Scandinavian countries, to put it in perspective.

That's absolutely bonkers for a startup that is actually starting, as there's little to no cash flow.

Note I'm not defending lowering taxes, but in other countries companies have exemptions and/or reductions according to company age, revenue or activity sector (e.g. https://business.gov.nl/subsidy/tax-relief-new-companies/). That encourages companies to actually have a chance to take off and continue paying taxes, rather than suffocate them from the get go.

In France, the most I've seen are reductions applicable to taxe fonciere for new company, which is a tax too small to even matter.

Of course, if you have the contacts willing to invest, my whole point is moot.

> that is the first time I heard Sophia Antipolis being the « Silicon Valley of France »

Come over and they won't stop telling you :)
I have a company. Our first employee (twenty years ago) had a serious MUD addiction. While a decent and hard-working fellow, he couldn't resist playing his MUD on the job. That was easy enough for him: one of his many terminals was dedicated to it and he would enter a command every few minutes or so. He got a couple of formal warnings before refraining from that behaviour (or he got better at hiding it). Before he came to work for us he had flunked university, and I am pretty sure MUD had to do with that. People who knew him before said he always hung out at the college computer club instead of attending courses.
The boundaries are on the human body, not on the AI. So it's more about speed and certain turns etc.
Or maybe he meant to say rare event is still rare. Sounds a lot less alarmist too.

The whole comment is hyperbole.
Huh? I just said that would largely not be considered tolerable. Imagine working at a food court as a flex hours worker and jumping between the KFC counter and the McDonalds counter during the same shift. That might maybe sort of work if only one person does it, but that scheme is going to fall apart on the first lunch hour if all your employees are flex.

What employer would allow that?

Of course an employee can work at KFC and McD simultaneously if they can make arrangements to not have shift conflicts, and likewise one could hypothetically be a Uber employee in the morning and a Lyft employee at night, but why go through the trouble of working effectively full time but only getting redundant part timer benefit packages?
You have it backwards. You're Peer A in the example. The copyright owner joins the swarm, pretending to be a normal peer, and starts downloading the file from participants to prove that an infringement occurred.

This works because most P2P systems have a way to enforce that swarm participants contribute upload bandwidth, which also puts them at risk of a copyright lawsuit. PeerTube specifically uses WebTorrent, a WebRTC-tunneled version of BitTorrent, so it has tit-for-tat rules. Someone using a modified download-only client in the swarm will get a terribly slow experience unless the swarm is absolutely massive.
Great work, Alex and team!
The lie we tell ourselves is that the quality of code matters to non-engineers. It seems it doesn't.

The most uncomfortable truth of our field is that there is no floor for how bad code can be, yet still make people billions of dollars.

Because that's the outcome everyone else is seeking - making money. They don't care how good the code is. They care about whether it's making money or not.
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