skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Major version bumps were never a problem. Semver-wise, the only conceivable problem is in introducing backwards-incompatible changes in minor or patch version bumps. By bumping the major version, semver-wise it just means "be aware that your software might break if you upgrade blindly to this version." No one will die if you expect problems but end up having none.
Hey HN. Founder of Failory here. Thanks so much for the positive & constructive feedback on the post.

We aim to keep publishing more of these researches in order to make it possible to learn from other startups' failures.

If you have any comments or feedback, you can drop me an email at nico[at]failory.com.
I have you ever worked as a freelancer? I have and so do many many people I know. Go to a bar with all your freelancing friends and play this drinking game: take a drink every time your client has shafted you.

You will be drunk very quickly.

https://vimeo.com/22053820
How are landlords not a minority? Are 50% of people landlords? (Asking seriously - I don't understand what definition of minority is being used here.)
Nah. CA funds healthcare, environmental laws, a great public university system, CCPA etc and in general enacts many pro-people laws. Many of these are then enacted nationally. So its disingenuous to characterize the state as obstructing progress when its clearly done the opposite.

The comparison I like to make is with TX. If Texas was even moderately liberal/centrist and enacted commonsense policies (Medicaid expansion, State taxes to fund healthcare education etc) it would do a LOT better. Now, Texas HAS been successful despite its Government doing nothing/actively getting in the way.
Just remember that you might be displacing poor locals from getting the treatment instead. Poor countries have bigger shortage of good doctors and they prioritise foreign appointments due to getting paid more than the local prices.

Edit: This is true for India which is a top medical tourism place:

https://www.orfonline.org/expert-speak/implications-india-me...

https://scroll.in/article/931857/with-20-medical-professiona...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC404528

http://www.who.int/hrh/resources/16058health_workforce_India...
To me it's Alastair Reynolds, and then everybody else.
When I read "Revelation Space" it was, er, a Revelation.
In addition to the many books R.S. universe (spanning across great swaths of time) there is also the fun Revenger series, and several non-canonical short stores, etc.

Of course, Ian Banks (RIP) is also great fun.
It's universally faster if you compress threaded, and otherwise it's generally still a win.
I'm a big fan of KDE.

I use Kubuntu on my desktop and pretty happy with how it feels very standard and functional, yet very customizable.
GPT-3 is going to change the way you work
Of course, my bad.
> Why is OCaml (or some other language of ML lineage) not a more accessible platform for web development

"Web development" is a grueling land war that requires massive investment in foundational libraries and fairly sophisticated tooling just to do a modern "hello world" app. Any language/platform that isn't explicitly dedicated to "web development" will always be lagging many generations behind those that do (i.e. rails and waves hands javascript).

I agree with the sentiment that Rust and OCaml aren't really peers. More generally, the urge to transition to Rust in general application development is as puzzling to me as it is to your parent here: it has unique benefits for systems programming, but that absolutely carries costs for a ton of non-systems contexts where you could just as easily use OCaml, or (modern) Java, or ...
I've thought about it a few times, I'm so far from that ecosystem that I know nothing about it at all
The difference here is that the nerd monkey didn't build the machine. If it breaks, the creator needs to fix it or no one gets the benefit. The creators and maintainers are the ones, ultimately, who stand to obtain power over the ones who can't create and maintain.
Don't forget the stigma that public transit is for dirty poor people. Rideshare is a bit of a classist thing.
I fifth the tutorial request as well!
Is SPAC the New IPO?
I’ve previously heard that claim about Brexit, but not about the other three.

Even then, despite being so Remain-y I moved to Berlin, I don’t see how Russia made enough of a difference to count as successfully interfering compared to all the decisions taken by Cameron up to the day of the referendum itself.
most of what people need cars for is shopping, a problem that is more efficiently addressed with delivery.
So if I prompt it with sexy Spock, do I get TOS slash stories? There are a few genres like that which have significant internet (and only internet) presence.

How about creepypasta?
"As employees they would have to work set schedules and shifts, would not be able to work for multiple app-based companies and would have reduced earning potential — and many jobs would actually be eliminated." (https://prop22facts.com/lyft/)

Is that something mandated by California? As far as I know, everywhere else I've been, work-schedules and anti-moonlighting are restrictions placed by the employer, not the state.
Hubble data brings up, as I would expect, data from the Hubble Space Telescope. Not one of the first page of results points to anything else but HSTS information.
I think what the GP was getting at was that having a sizable population of people living within the de-facto boundaries of a state who are unable to vote (in this case, because they lack citizenship) makes it less democratic.

That's a slightly different problem than the fact that democracies can be terrible if the voters choose terrible things.
It’ll be curious how censorship will work when you can access the internet with a small antenna(easily hidden) anywhere on the planet.
Yes, I typically (but not always) included a high level summary of the story in the prompt. And sometimes, when I knew what kind of story turn I wanted (ominous, funny, extraordinary) I would prompt it with something like “and then something ominous happened:”
The problem is that a significant chunk of the community believes that it's not hate speech but simple hyperbole in response to uni-directional injustice.

It's easy to string match, bans/deletions can be instant and abrupt. They see the quick removal of their post and compare it to what they perceive as genuinely hateful posts that stay up because the post cleverly avoids violations that are easy to include in content policies.

Check out the "men are trash" question here https://www.theverge.com/interface/2019/10/3/20895119/facebo...
When you said

> i would love to be able to say the same for my daughter.

I thought you were expressing support for no longer hiring white men, which is what the thread was about? I think that's immoral.
Am I an employee of the bottle machine company if I deposit bottles I find? Do they owe me healthcare and a minimum wage if I took more than an hour to find so many bottles? How is uber any different?
givewell and 80000 hours to start. Soul searching to really get to the bottom of it.
Solving the General RCT2 Maze Problem with Sympy
I think you have it backwards: I blame the billion dollar companies for being heartless. The government works to prevent exploitation of the poor.
Can somebody post a link to the actual Dockerfile in the article? Being breadcrumbed like that is plain rude.
The people who become obscenely wealthy in this country become so precisely because they have so little regard for others and almost no comprehension of the long-term impacts of massive inequality (either to the nation or their own physical security). And the system has become so perverse and adept at indoctrination that these people are heralded as heros when they drop a few crumbs from the table.
> So now ridership is way down, and the finances look worse, but at least they have more time to repair things..

A boon! Finally the Red Line can get fixed.

> I dunno where Metro goes next, TBH. I just wish it was efficient, reliable, safe and ubiquitous. Building institutions like that is hard.

It is safe, efficient, and ubiquitous. Outside of the public transit systems that I used in Australia (esp. Melbourne and Adelaide), there are few systems that compare to the DC Metro. I'm from Fairfax and used to ride it into the city all the time, and when I was stationed at Bethesda I would ride it across the city to see my folks on the other side of the river. It ain't Tokyo, but it's pretty good.
This is exactly the same situation as in IT with "colored bits". Bits don't have color of course, they are just 1 and 0. So when you have a sequence of bits on your storage and it happens to be a sequence legally owned by someone (DRM), what happens? Could you have randomly clicked on a keyboard all day and generate exact same sequence as some corporation is selling for money? Maybe. It is possible. But would court agree with this? No. To the court bits have color, even if they are the same it does matter how they have appeared on your storage and why. And the same exact sequence of bits acquired by different means would be treated differently by the court. So most likely court will force Brigade to return the money, at least I think it is logical to do so.
Not really, it depends upon the cost of not using fertilizer. The 10% emissions could be better in immediafe emissions again than having to farm N times more acres to get the same production.
I agree on the "can't install apps from outside the app store". That's probably the best way to fix this.

As long as Apple controls the app store, this will always be an issue, and it doesn't matter precisely what the % cut is. The reality is, very few people would argue that Apple "deserves" some cut of app sales for developers who choose to use the Apple App store. But it's impossible to disentangle this issue from in-app payments. If in-app payments are royalty free, then every app will become "free" with an in-app purchase to make it do anything at all, to game the system. But if Apple gets a cut of in-app purchases, there will always be this grey area of "what if I purchase a subscription using another website" or "what if I use a free app to access my paid Netflix account", and so on.
try them both out, I think you'll find the differences in feel and use readily apparent :)
How will Black Friday 2020 look?
Seems like enforcement is lacking, or why else there is this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites ?
You don't even necessarily have the option to shop for service in the USA.

Earlier this year my family had a medical emergency that resulted in us being billed a truly staggering amount of money for services that were technically elective, somewhat unproven, and not necessarily even recommended by the standard of care, and for which the actual sticker price varies wildly from hospital to hospital. But, when an emergency happens, you don't get to shop for hospitals, and you more-or-less unthinkingly do what the care team recommends, because there's simply no opportunity to stop and do any sort of cost/benefit analysis. As luck would have it, we ended up at a hospital that both tends toward the more liberal end of the spectrum in terms of what they do, and tends toward the more expensive end of the price range.

Fortunately our financial hit won't be too bad, because we have decent employer-provided insurance, and that cushions the blow quite a bit. If there's a silver lining, it's that we hit our out of pocket expense limit in the first part of the year, so we basically get everything for free for the rest of the year. But that whole situation is also a big part of the problem. We're nominally in the driver's seat, but, in practice, we really aren't in charge. Because we don't have access to a lot of the information necessary to make informed decisions, but also because we've been insulated from some of the major factors that might motivate an informed decision.

Social criticism in the USA tends to revolve around the "theater" metaphor. We have security theater, we have hygiene theater. I would characterize the underlying principle of the USA's health care system as agency theater.
Good riddance. Hopefully this leads to companies that are less vampiric in their exploitation of labour. Congratulations on California for being courageous in this aspect.
According to the Hebrew Bible, a wife of Moses was from Sudan. And there are many references to a "Kingdom of Kush" which is taken to be where modern-day Sudan is. So at least 3500 years ago, we have some evidence of a thriving civilization there.
The last cab I was in, the driver was asking my girlfriend how to get where we were going (Chinatown in LA from downtown...not exactly challenging), which she didn't know because she doesn't drive. He was rude to us both the entire time, and then when we got out, (even after she left him a reasonable tip), he called her a "fcking btch" and sped away. We tried complaining to the cab company a few times but nothing came of it. I've never had an issue even remotely close to that in Uber/Lyft, but have had more unpleasant than pleasant experiences in taxis all over the country.
I guess they hired a personal driver or spent hours a day in the public transit system.
There is a long Wikipedia article at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

The most mind boggling aspect of this for me is the single photon version, which is under the "Interference of individual particles" section of the above article. The point is that you get an interference pattern even when only a single photon at a time is sent through the slits!
It had better be good for the price, lol:

https://www.amazon.com/Accelerando-Singularity-Stross-Charle...
<N. Africans have entered the conversation>

You do realize that slavery, racism and every despicable thing imaginable was the normal state of humanity for 99.999% of our 200,000+ year history? How many languages have names for a group of people based on some common attribute of that people, far before the 17th/18th century? A lot.
The guy who owns the company ends up owning the machine, not necessarily the guy who made the machine.

It takes a certain amount of backbone to maneuver yourself on top of the monkey pile. Being a clever slave who can make useful machines for your better won't accomplish that.
Maybe it’s due to where I live, but I’ve never understood throwing money in to roads and the like as stimulus. Construction crews are already busy all the time, and a company isn’t going to hire another 100 untrained workers to tackle an additional project and then fire them again.

I remember one local road being resurfaced during the 2008 stimulus that was perfectly fine before. It was just an easy road for them to shut down.
From the ruling that the SC upheld:

"To dodge the shareholders' taxes is not one of the transactions contemplated as corporate "reorganizations."

And from the SC ruling:

"The whole undertaking, though conducted according to the terms of [the statute], was in fact an elaborate and devious form of conveyance masquerading as a corporate reorganization, and nothing else. ... [T]he transaction upon its face lies outside the plain intent of the statute. To hold otherwise would be to exalt artifice above reality and to deprive the statutory provision in question of all serious purpose."

If there's no business purpose beyond tax avoidance, the government can indeed hold you to the higher tax rate. I don't think that's what happened here, i think there are legitimate non-tax reasons for Uber/Lyft's structure, but it's not a completely unreasonable take to disagree with that.

And even if not, the government is free to change the law to fix things, which it did.
You might want to consider doing some research before just mindlessly dismissing what other people say.

“Mobile sources of air pollution from cars, trucks, ships, emissions from construction equipment, and tire and brake wear on roadways are the biggest root cause of poor air quality in the city, and addressing these should result in positive air quality trends.”

https://sfgov.org/scorecards/environment/days-epa-air-qualit...
Endured.

Worse, the financially better off using the paid services allowed the public services to become more responsive to the poorer members of this demographic. So now everybody will suffer.
I dislike the moving of the goalposts about what is "worker exploitation". The workers aren't being exploited, they're working. Worker exploitation would be forcing them to work 80 hours a week without the ability to say no.
The road to hell...

...is paved with (IMHO) an irrational support for billionaires getting richer at the expense of the exploitation of the commoner.
I always though pipe operators are under-rated and under-used.

In elixer that could be
Because before people owned cars. SF especially can no longer support the level of per-capita car ownership it had pre-uber/lyft.
When i could "see" my visual blindspot.
https://lasikofnv.com/try-these-3-fun-tests-to-find-your-vis....
Wait hours for a van to maybe show up.
Under federal tax law if you're an employee it means you have a schedule. And if you're getting paid by the hour by Lyft you can't double dip and also get paid by the hour by Uber.
Is there a better way to grab a reference to the subtraction operator?
Yup basically.
My point is more that prudent and pragmatic judgment is nearly impossible, if your goal is to be seen as a neutral platform for a large collection of communities.
I don't think it's an anti-moonlight clause, I think it's saying that you can't do what many drivers do now, which is sign on to both apps and wait for a ride to come in, then sign out of the one you're not serving.

If you're an employee on the clock, you can't be on the clock for two different organizations at the same time.
Honest question: have you been on SF muni?
Sure, and Nginx as well. JetBrains are in Eastern Europe, Nginx is sold to West, wonder why?

Or you can list graphene - a really nice, to say mildly, achievement. Guess why it wasn't announced from Russia but from UK?

Russia is being seriously held back by the autocracy. The whole world suffers to a degree, which explains animosity... Of course Russia suffers the most, but such things are hard to change. Ukraine and Belarus going the long and troublesome road now, while we here keep disagreements about good and evil.
Sure. Two things:

1. Almost all colleges and universities use debt to finance capital projects.

2. At least some endowment distribution is tied to restricted gifts.
So I tried a thing in python3.

>>> max(float('nan'), 0)
nan
>>> max(0, float('nan'))
0

Numpy works though

>>> np.maximum(float('nan'), 0)
nan
>>> np.maximum(0, float('nan'))
nan

Edit: Fixed numpy example.
Most is too strong, but a fair number of the ones I watch do. The creator is upfront about the sponsorship so it is clear. Generally this means a big announcement and then future videos show the product. Wd40 sponsors several that I watch, and following the sponsorship the channel was careful to point out they were using Wd40 for whatever. (in most cases the video would have been about them using something before like wd40 before the sponsorship, but the what may have been hard to tell)
"It has been stated that a text coheres only if the world around is also coherent."

Further reading: https://www.lhn.uni-hamburg.de/node/69.html

That you'd ask yourself if this reply is coherent is a function of your own mind seeking meaning from what appears to be unresolved processing of a response you received from the owners of a phishing website. Given you used to frequent said site and received a text you deem similar when questioning them about BLM, is understandable, given that the narratives and subtopics generated are still in flux, history is continuing to be written and the echos of the past keep crowning into our collective reality by the mere attention placed upon them.

A world where one loves themselves completely and thoroughly is often seen as incoherent due to the limitations one finds themselves confined in--usually in the form of narratives, beliefs, values aka the "already dead driftwood" of the mind--by taking themselves to be other than what they are, the past self in cahoots with the present self vying for the spotlight of consciousness, really just another form of communication, really.

Where it breaks down and a text seems incoherent is when such attention is placed upon a text... perhaps you've been looking for incoherence ever since you received that response on that website you spoke of and couldn't bear the mind to let it go, so you carry it with you everywhere, perhaps not realizing that this gets triggered every time a text taps on the walls of your own self constructed limitations--in this case it's one of inner reflection and unconditional love for oneself in a world where everyone and everything is interconnected.

That or you can call me a bumbling idiot.

May you be Loved. <3
Yeah this sounds cool. Essentially you could design a large spacecraft and put a fusion reactor in it (we will have viable, positive yield reactors soonish). It should be possible then to power a fusion drive as well by building a sort of "half-open" fusion reactor chamber into which we dispense some of the plasma without any pressurization. It should essentially cause a massive explosion, that if somehow controlled by magnetic fields, should yield an enormous forward thrust.

Technically, does it even matter how fast we eject? Shouldn't relativity allow us to reach speed of light with any positive thrust velocity? If the speed of the shuttle was of any concern, that should directly invalidate relativity, since passengers would suddenly not perceive any acceleration anymore, even though nothing about the spaceship and its physical reaction has changed.
Is the PC the real next generation winner?
The linked article also makes a comparison with the ISS solar arrays, which provide 120kW of power. They're not the most efficient panels out there, but it's hard to make up three orders of magnitude.
> I think part of the problem in the US is that the current status is so bad, that everyone has a different proposed solution.

“Everyone has different solutions” as in the two parties, both corporatist through and through, are only willing to offer solutions that nip around the edges of the problem with ridiculously complex regulations that ultimately result in less competition and higher profits for healthcare conglomerates.

Single payer in the vein of “Medicare for All” is popular for voters of both parties. It’s just that our representatives represent us in name only.

> Single payer is also seen as too paternalistic by a large minority of the US, so there is that as well.

Again there’s a disconnect between the discourse you can see on corporate cable news and major newspapers and what people actually think and want.

That said, the corporate media and Dems/Rs have been very very successful in 50 years of messaging that everything the government does = bad, inefficient, rationing. And everything corporate = dynamic, efficient, desirable. Almost everything that can be privatized has been privatized via crony capitalism, but they can still say “govt has big budgets, shitty results” when it’s their privatization that is the exact reason for the decay.

It’s depressing how effective it all is.