skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have a source for that? The closest I could find suggests otherwise, but admittedly I haven't yet found a more relevant document on policy:

> No compatibility for API and ABI is guaranteed from one to the next major release, though an effort is made to make the upgrade process and source code changes as untroubled as possible.

https://wiki.freebsd.org/VendorInformation
Oh, I sold my car a couple years ago so these features aren't as useful to me now
Thanks for the work. It's quite some materials to compile. I love how you organize your thoughts and knowledge together and I've just started doing that too.
Being OK with not being extraordinary
I would argue you could write an informative title, and reserve the problematic text for the article text, where you can explain why you are doing that. Just like the comment you were responding to I can't imagine screen reader users are super stoked by how "appropriate" this title is
... the problem being that birds can approach the turbine from either side.
> The point is that as a scientist your code is a tool to get the job done and not the product.

Everything you say is as true for experimental equipment and mathematical tools. Physicists are fantastic at mathematics, yet are one of the most anti-math people I know - in the sense of "Mathematics is just a tool to get results that explain nature! Doing mathematics for its own sake is a waste of time!"

The equation is not the product - the explanation of physical phenomena is. If the attitude of "I don't need to show how I got this equation" is unacceptable, the same should go for code.
I do research for a private company, and open-source as much of my work as I can. It's always a fight. So I'll take their side for the moment.

Many years ago, a paper on the PageRank algorithm was written, and the code behind that paper was monetized to unprecedented levels. Should computer science journals also require working proof of concept code, even if that discourages companies from sharing their results; even if it prevents students from monetizing the fruits of their research?
I beg to differ. One of my most vivid educational experiences is of my teacher calculating approximate square root on the side of the blackboard when he needed it for something completely unrelated. To me it felt like he was riding a unicycle or swallowing a sword.

Seeing that the audience was perplexed, he reluctantly took a five minute detour and explained Newton-Raphson algorithm, at which point the unbelievable circus trick suddenly became trivial.
We certainly do care, thanks for bringing this up! You can either report it at the main contact page[1] or within Webex Teams app (Help > Feedback) or Webex Meetings app (Help > Send Problem Report).

[1] https://help.webex.com/contact
not sure why every driver isn't already using another mileage tracker app, at least for occasional trips to keep Uber accountable. theres dozens of those in the app store...
Network effects. The value of a job board is the amount of companies and potential workers that use it. Being tied to his digital nomad community brings in a supply of workers and companies that work remotely.
Agreed, which means that right now Keith Packard is about the only person or entity keeping X alive. Red Hat have washed their hands of it. When the legacy versions of RHEL that still use it go out of support, maintenance on Xorg will pretty much grind to a halt. It is a moribund project, and that presents considerable risk.
> What's the next step, make your title bold or twenty lines long for an unfair click advantage?

Hm. Not a bad idea.

Files away as an Unethical LifeHack

You can expect a bold, Cyrillic, ZALGO!͇̺̫̞̤͇̼͋̆̂-fied post about my next paper shortly.
Fisherman shocked to haul in long-nosed chimaera
I really like how you distinguish saving nuggets from complex mental constructs. That's a super valuable call out.

Regarding mind maps: I've personally found them useful for thinking in the moment and brainstorming. They were also helpful for studying for a test back when I was in school (and the concepts it had to include were limited to a single chapter)

They're definitely less useful as a way to transmit information to other people though.
Brilliantly, so far among the examples I can think of. n=5.
If I use any prime video apps.. they think I'm in Canada(which I'm not).. and only gives me Canadian selections(which are horrible)..

if I use prime video in a browser.. it works fine..

I have no idea why it does this and support has no clue.
TL;DR: he (ab)uses his inbox as a task list
> Ignoring beliefs for the moment.

Same.

> Personally I’m of the opinion that historically marriage is Disease control.

While I don't disagree that this is a benefit, marriage isn't necessary for this to occur - only fidelity. Plural marriage would work just fine in this context, as would polygamy/polygyny.

Marriage is, at its root, a means of ensuring the generational transfer of wealth: it means that the person who possesses capital in the society (typically the man) can pass their wealth on to their children. It also provides some assurances to the legally subordinate partner that they will not be destitute should the other die or abandon them.
> But on the other hand, reuseable code, dependency management, linting, portability etc are not that easy problems and something junior developers tend to struggle with

On the original hand, these are easier problems than all the years of math education they have. Once you're relying on simulations to get results to explain natural phenomena, it needs to be put on the same pedestal as mathematics.
I think the policy is that they’re first adding fiber to these regions, as people living in larger cities / more populated areas typically already have access to fast cable internet.

Or is this something that you guys did totally independently?
Agreed. Sorry, I took your previous comment as arguing against the comment it was in reply to.

I was quite keen on chrome apps, as they allowed you to share the chrome browser runtime in a similar way. If you add a native desktop shortcut, and use the chrome-hiding features then you can basically replace electron with a shared runtime. I have a dim memory that it may have been killed/hobbled now though...
Siggraph 2020: Nonlinear Color Triads for Color Distributions
Ah okay, that makes sense. I can see the use case.
I use Unity every day at work. This is a mixed bag for me. Unity gives google a run for their money when it comes to abandoning old features / letting them rot.

The editor is kind of crashy, launch times get unwieldy fast. Sometimes there's subtle differences between build version and running in the editor, and solving the disparity is a death march.

All that said, it's still one of my favorite environments to work in. I wonder if I have Stockholm syndrome.

Hopefully all this public money will get them to make a saner serialization format for their scene files. Unity's relationship with version control is... tense.
‘ғ‘ looks slightly weird though.
I think code is remarkably persistent in the scheme of things. Try reproducing a wet lab experimental technique from 5 years ago.
I'm bookmarking this!
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Industries Beyond Gaming: In industries beyond gaming, we estimate the market opportunity for our Create Solutions and Operate Solutions to be approximately $17 billion today, based on the number of software developers, architects and designers our solutions could potentially serve.

There is a graphic I stumbled upon years ago - I haven't been able to find it recently - that described Facebook's gameplan - 10-20 years out. It basically described how the focus of the platform would evolve with how effectively users would be able to share their lives with their network, in progression with technology, or - more specifically - the price of bandwidth. Let me explain:

FB early years was very text-centric. I recall not "getting it" because it was effectively a tricked-out twitter. Kinda like Asana vs Clickup today - more features doesn't directly translate to "better". I of course didn't factor in the "network effect". I digress. Early years was text-centric.

When internet speeds picked up (without much of an increase in price to the end user), photos became more of a focus. The Instagram acquisition happened around this timeframe

At the time I found this graphic, The same price/data speed phenomenon was in effect and FB was transitioning to video as its core sharing focus. Facebook acquires Occulus, which leads into the last part of the graphic -

VR. I remember MZ's Mark Zuckerberg's virtual Puerto Rico jaunt. New tech is often akward, but knowing Facebook a player in an industry typically "beyond gaming" is in line to blur that line, is one good example of the viability of Unity as a real revenue producing entity.

This is getting a little long winded, but I think this next part drives the point home.

I'm a real estate agent, and I used to work at a brokerage called Exp (NASDAQ: EXPI). Their pitch (to agents) is that they are a "cloud-based brokerage". While not required - there is a Club Penguin-esque "world" you log into, make an avatar, walk around and an attend meetings in auditoriums. Its very cheesy, but as mentioned above, all new tech is cheesy. Check out Exp stock performance this year. Unity is in a prime position to work with companies in "non-gaming industries" looking to keep current and move with the pace of tech
Yeah, and also if Uber was doing this intentionally, they could’ve just as well lowered their $/mile rate if that’s what maximizes profit.
I'm in the same boat. Currently looking at houses but largely content with out roughly 1100 sq ft two bedroom apartment for a family of tree. I wish I could find houses where the layouts are as thoughtfully planned as our current place. It's so frustrating to tour a house that's on paper twice the size but manages to feel smaller. Like I can fit more stuff in the house but it's not any more livable.
My wife used to use Skype a lot back in the '00s, particularly for international calls (she actually had setup a paid plan with a dial-in number in Mexico that connected to her and a dial-in number in the US that connected to her mother to make cross-border calls extra easy). I remember using the app on my iPhone to call home from Morocco as if I was making a regular call. Then they had an issue where their iPhone app would run in the background needlessly and such down battery life. Add in T-Mobile offering free international calls and roaming and I can't remember the last time I used Skype. It is still installed on my phone and hasn't been off-migrated so I must have clicked on the icon accidentally sometime in the past year or two.
Every thought about giving and taking advice I’ve ever had
This was front and centre of the press releases about the Linux distro at the time, it’s the only reason i know what it means :-)

When warty or hoary were released, Shuttleworth was mentioned on BBC news for his sponsorship efforts (although they spent as much time talking about his outer space shennanigans as they did linux). I cant remember if theres a connection between Mark Shuttleworth and Elon Musk (paypal - am i just making that up?) but they always stick in my mind together for some reason.

Typing all this has triggered a memory i’d forgotten - a podcast series from around this time. 4 British chaps, Jono Bacon was one of them. I can’t remember the name but it was fantastic entertainment, lots of laughter but it was a podcast about linux. Ubuntu featured heavily. They disbanded some years later.
But growth is already slowing from 2018-2019 vs 2019-2020 period.

40% YoY growth for SaaS is par for the course, and the revenue figure is a bit light.

Not necessarily a home run in the public markets though if there's a time to do a tech IPO it's now given the frothiness of the market.
> Since dedicated boxes are cheap, I'd just buy 5x the CPU resources that I reasonably need and call it a day

This isn't the case when your baseline is 6-7+ figures worth of machines
It’s policy, the towns already have Ziggo so they already have fast internet. Rural areas typically don’t have that yet.

At least, that’s how I understood it.
It sounds like you might be looking at this with a little bit of hard-sciences, logocentric tunnel vision. In humanities, 99% of all claims one makes will be actively contemplated, to see if the argument holds. Even in cases where the truth seems totally certain, among reasonable people you are more likely to find "we should remain skeptical, critical, and open-minded about unverified truth claims" than "yep, that thing that seems certainly, definitely true is completely true."
Out of any software tools I use frequently, Unity is the one that brings me the most joy.

Any reasonably complex interface is essentially a game whether it's a music composition app, simulator, MMO or even a basic form.

The basic abstractions of entities and components sometimes feel like they could apply to any software project. It's seamless to animate something, add physics, style in ways that would seem mind boggling in other environments I've worked in like Python or Javascript.

You can learn so much going over basic Unity tutorials on Youtube and disassembling Unity games on Steam.

The asset store has many people aggressively experimenting with better user experiences for doing certain tasks whether its character skinning or node based programming, many of the best assets end up added to Unity by default.

Unity is not mostly used for mobile games, some insanely complex games are made in Unity. You can check out this list on Steam https://store.steampowered.com/curator/31285130-Unity-Engine...

Unity ML agents is the single most exciting ML project out today which helps you create the most complex Reinforcement Learning environments you can dream of.

Unity ate the indie game market but I think they will also eat Robotic simulations, Animation, interior design, VR, Web apps and Desktop apps.

Can't wait to buy shares.
I dunno, man. The Anti-Butt Brigade must not be the most consistent bunch.

Re: a modus viviendi, though - I'd rather not see Earth become a sex tourism location for the local star systems. After a few generations of selective breeding, we'd all look like Kim Kardashian.
Maybe it is the font and not the size. I don't know. I just know that I'm having a very hard time reading it.
oh yea totally, Jerry Seinfeld is known for being a mouthpiece for cultural propaganda /s
It's just another type of test harness.

It's Debian Live, so you can extend or customize it to suit a particular need. That it is ready to run and leaves no trace adds a lot of value.

You may not win a bounty from a vendor, but it's pretty trivial to take their app, add it to an image and expose potential vectors.

Your own PIR may benefit from the forensics tools (without the lead time of getting them working).

It doesn't deliver any 'security' on its own.
Forget 10 year old code. Try to get your 2 year old javascript + webpack + react set up running...
Berlin reports rise in fatalities as new bike lanes fail to keep cyclists safe
I'm kind of baffled by the concept of radar astronomy. Apparently this is one of two radio telescopes that can do radar astronomy [1], but I'm shocked it works at all since the inverse square law leads to such a falloff in power as distance increases. On the other hand, even radio amateurs can achieve moon bounce, so if you consider the enormity of the dish it makes sense that it can hear the radar bounce from much further away. The wiki says Arecibo was used for mapping rings of Saturn and surface features of Mars. Bonkers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_astronomy
>"Someone will demand support and we do not have time for that",

Well ... that part isn't nonsense, though I agree it shouldn't be a dealbreaker. And it means we should work towards making such support demands minimal or non-existent via easy containerization.

I note with frustration that even the Docker people, whose entire job is containerization, can get this part wrong. I remember when we containerized our startup's app c. 2015, to the point that you should be able to run it locally just by installing docker and running `docker-compose up`, and it still stopped working within a few weeks (which we found when onboarding new employees), which required a knowledgeable person to debug and re-write.

(They changed the spec for docker-compose so that the new version you'd get when downloading Docker would interpret the yaml to mean something else.)
What subreddits do you frequent? I've yet to find any that match HN's comments and content, but I haven't tried super hard.
UK has loads of camera surveillance, it didn't really help with the crime rates. Seems better to avoid people getting into crimes. Meaning: reduce the difference between super rich and very poor, ensure people have the ability to have a good life (basically: afford to start a family), etc.

Anyway, that's what helped in NL.
While you're running experiments, it doesn't matter, but publishing any sort of result or using your code in parts of other publishable code IS production code, and you should treat it as such.
reading most of these comments, its clear and odd that people view "going public" or filing an S-1 as a coveted position, something that someone "deserves" or "doesn't deserve"

and to me that is a very odd side effect of companies not going public often
Yes. That's how you login with Google, LinkedIn or your enterprise account.
> The root reason is fear: fear that you're complicating their process, that you're going to interrupt their productivity or flow state, that you're introducing complication that has no benefit.

Yes, but how does it compare to all the complicated processes that exist in academic institutions currently? Almost all of which originated from academics themselves, mind you.
Sounds kind of mixed to me. What's going to enable them to turn an annual loss of ~$150M into a profit?
How do you know it won't give you results? Maybe it will find a bug that would have resulted in an embarrassing retraction.

Maybe it wouldn't find any bugs, but give confidence to and encourage other users and increasing your citations and "impact".

Maybe it will just save you 48h later on when you need to adapt the code.

Software engineering has generally accepted that unit testing is a good practice and well worth the time taken. Why do you think science is different?
In 2017, I worked for a company that used Zoom for the sole reason that it was the only similar app not blocked in Oman, Pakistan, etc.
If anything, it proves how ineffective standards committees are. Similar to the standard library proposal which seems to be not yet implemented.

Still better than C++ standard people who try to cram infinite complexity into 100 layers of templates every three years for sake of adding a feature as library instead of language feature, with utter ignorance towards debug build performance, compile times and error messages. I have lost respect towards them since I read a C++ performance report and didn't see the mention of inherent STL inefficiencies.
the whole React thing got so ridiculous that you almost cannot call yourself a full stack developer if you don't use it on the front end.
>If you look at the statistics for first marriages the picture is less depressing

Sort of depending on where you are in the world. Statistics for First Marriages is still quite depressing in many developed places, especially in cities.
I agree, except that AFAIK "tags" in git are not fixed, they can be deleted and re-created to point at a different commit. Hence I prefer to use (short) commit IDs, since changing them is infeasible.
> the distinction between "production-ready" and "science-ready" code

In the first case, you must take into account all (un)imaginable corner cases and never allow the code to fail or hang up. In the second case it needs to produce a reproducible result at least for the published case. And do not expect it to be user-friendly at all.
What's a spiked incel?
> The physical layer of the internet is a margins game and it's getting harder and harder for large organizations to compete

This is only true because AT&T arbitrarily decided it so.

AT&T could easily make more money by offering a better internet service. They just willingly gave away their market to Comcast, and have decided it was easier to compete against Comcast in content than compete against Comcast in infrastructure.
I use it a lot for hobby projects, and have used it and Lumberyard in a serious capacity.

Whew boy does Unity absolutely put Lumberyard to shame. Unity, for me, is absolutely busted but also extremely approachable and generally good to use.
In my circle of acquaintances, the distinction lies not in what the money is funding (e.g. health care), but in where it's going:

Health coverage goes to some entity that isn't the government and is usually optional, so it's viewed as a benefit and taken into account when computing total compensation.

Unemployment insurance on the other hand is taken out of every paycheck and handed to the government without an opt-out. Yes, of course you get something for it; the whole point of taxes is that society gets something in return. They're still taxes.
Off the top of my head, Numbers 19 applies for caring for the dead: https://biblehub.com/niv/numbers/19.htm

Menstruation is in Leviticus 15: https://biblehub.com/niv/leviticus/15.htm

... in fact, most of Leviticus is about "clean" vs. "unclean".
> Are the LEOs getting bonuses for raw number-of-arrests?

There may be a subconscious bias here... if you spend your entire year looking at murder suspects, you probably see the guy on the other side as just another scumbag... and probably want to make sure the victim gets justice (even if it's wrong)
The nearest thing I know of in the US to the Oxfam shops are the Carpe Librum pop-up stores in Washington, DC. They will operate for a few weeks--occasionally a few years--in a building that is awaiting redevelopment. All books/tapes/cds are donated, all staff is volunteer. Working near one is a standing temptation to purchase piles of books. I guess that the Friends of the Library shops one sees at Montgomery County libraries are comparable. Neither has much reduced my urge to shop in the remaining second-hand bookshops.

"[Graham Greene] and he remains one of the few serious literary figures who also understood the glamour and romance of the bookselling trade." Take that, Larry McMurtry! At least one other moderately known author had a used bookstore in Washington, DC, years ago. And Nancy Mitford worked for Heywood Hill in London for a while.
Nit: implementations of Monte Carlo methods are not necessarily nondeterministic. Whenever I implement one, I always aim for a deterministic function of (input data, RNG seed, parallelism, workspace size).
It always runs if you used the same computer with the same environment you last time ran it. So yes.
This is the same as any other argument against testing. Unless you are actually selling a library, code is not the product. Customers are buying results, not your code base. Yet, we've discovered the importance of testing to make sure customers get the right results without issues.

If you want your results to be usable by others, the quality of the code matters. If all you care is publishing a paper, then I guess sure it doesn't matter if anyone else can build off your work.
Understandable, WordPress is a nice piece of software, just a bit overkill for my purposes.