skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It's technology" means nothing. The wheel is technology. The only thing anyone's invested in is technology.

You need a thesis for why you think this technology is going to yield a return in excess of the S&P, otherwise you should be invested in a risk parity adjusted pairing of the S&P and treasuries. No thesis <=> reckless investment. More like gambling, tbh.

Unabashed FOMO is not an investment thesis.

I don't mean to be mean -- and I know they're not super popular with the folks on this board -- but this kind of thing is why we have accredited investor rules.
No C bindings so far. This is something I would like to consider doing at some point. Though when exactly it is done will depends on the demand since I have limited resources.
The one big rig accident that I know of personally was road rage - a car cut off a truck at at 3AM on the entry into Phoenix, and the rig got even by running the car off the road.

Now, that is entirely anecdotal, and I have no idea how common such things are, but these type of things would at least be avoided by self driving.
That looks like a suggestion instead of a block. If Apple had suggested to Facebook that it not criticize the fee, it wouldn't be as big a deal.
API Rate Limiting Algorithms Using Redis
Also pointers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5NszbIerYc
> I think occam's razor applies here. Either the aerodynamics of reasonably modern aircraft designs leave a huge amount on the table or this startup is telling fibs.

Aerodynamics of reasonably modern aircraft designs do leave a huge amount on the table. Generally for good reasons, though. The 500L is clearly almost entirely a laminar-flow design, unlike conventional aircraft (including the one you linked). Experience from gliders have shown that a small laminar flow design like this can have less than a third of the drag of what a conventionally shaped design of roughly similar size.

There are two major downsides to designing like this:

Firstly, the shape is entirely determined by physics, leaving very little wiggle room for manufacturing or practical concerns. Without modern composites, cost-effectively manufacturing the frame is impractical.

Secondly, the great drag properties are very dependent on the properties of the skin of the aircraft. Laminar-flow gliders can have their glide ratios halved after accumulating a few too many insects on the leading edge. If you want to fly very high, (as this plane seems to want to), better hope you have an amazing de-icing system, or even a very small amount of ice will trash your aerodynamics.
They do have a website. I would assume the problem is that nobody can compete with Amazons delivery network (and Prime) on price.
The coming collision between autonomous vehicles and the liability system (2012) [pdf]
Do it like in Germany. Just send out a letter to every citizen asking for money with some neatly hidden clause that you admit guilt of the supposed crime if you pay the fine. Doesn't actually matter if there is any meat to it. Some people will sign it simply because they can't afford a lawyer.
> The EU isn't the world police.

That’s not how the world works. Non US citizens have been arrested in the US for breaking US law when they aren’t in the US. Hell the US has tried to extradite people to the US who have never been to America.
I thought the rule was: If you can see it plaintext on the screen, it's not safe.
> Things as simple as font resizing are 30x slower than on a Kindle

It's not a constant factor. This is best understood as a bug. Here's what the reviewer demonstrated: If you change the font size, then the interface locks up and you can't do anything, until the backend has generated new page images for the entire PDF—no matter how many pages there are. He showed that, while it was fast for a small document, it locked up for about 50 seconds when resizing the font on The Count of Monte Cristo (a large novel, perhaps 1200 pages). Furthermore, he said that if, during that time, you changed any of the other settings (resizing again, changing line spacing, etc.), it would take another 50 seconds, and another if you pressed two of the buttons, and so on. It is very clear that no QA person (whose reports are heeded) tested out those operations on a decent-sized novel or technical manual. (If they tried Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire—not the largest book in the series—then, going by word count, it would have locked up for 20.5 seconds.)

A sane viewer app—one of which the reviewer demonstrated—would redraw the current page, then give control back to the user, while continuing to redraw other pages in the background. It's a bit tricky, because until you render the previous pages at some level, it might not be clear where the page break for the current page would be; but you could choose an arbitrary point, use that temporarily, and eventually correct it when rendering catches up.

The reviewer did show convincingly that the viewer app is very lacking in features or basic polish. (Another example: You can zoom into a page, selecting a smaller section of it to view. However, you cannot drag this view around the page; if you want to see elsewhere on the page at the same magnification, you must undo the zoom, then select a new region to zoom into.) This is odd for an e-ink device, whose homepage has a section titled "An eye-friendly reading experience: Comfortably read PDFs or ebooks for hours on end without backlight, glare, or eye strain."
Many people go to physical stores, look for a product they like, then search it on Amazon.
AI-Powered Image Enhancer
The slums, not as geographic location, euphemistically called "inner cities", but as areas of extreme poverty. They did not exist in the USSR, on the scale they did in US, period. There was no horrible segregation policies, women till 1980-s had a lot more rights, there were so many things not to like in the US and some other western countries to counterbalance the abundance of western supermarkets. Even today, I live in a big Central Asian city, and I see a lot less despair and disparity than what I saw in Philadelphia and NYC.

While it is true, you could not easily move out of a village into a big city, both my grandparents were from poor rural families, and both got PhDs and lived in major Soviet cities.
To be fair, we actually tried the side-chain model when the dollar was backed by gold :) the crypto folks are just speed-running the history of finance. I don't wanna spoil the surprise, but of course, it ended poorly.
In August and September 2019, when I was in Xinjiang, we went through several checkpoints every day. the locals were in and through in about 20 seconds, I was with my Chinese wife, she could pass through in seconds too, but myself and an Australian friend were processed manually every time, it too between 20 minutes and 90 minutes, depending on the staff there. The Uyghurs got much better service than we did. However, I will point out that, at all times, they were polite.

Also, at no time did anyone ever ask to see my phone, my cameras (I had three) or ask where we had been the previous night - we slept several nights in unregistered locations, once in a culvert under the road, once behind a service station, once on the floor of a shed next to a service station and once, in Dabancheng in a cemetery just off the road. No one ever questioned us or asked for anything other than usual passport details
Some do want that. But empirically, not enough people want it enough to support a lot of these places.
I think you are messing up the timescales. Beowulf is about a thousand years old, while dinosaurs lived hundreds of millions of years ago.
The borrow-checking and ownership mechanism is cheap, and it's almost never a significant part of the big compilation time encountered in Rust.

What's not cheap, and is responsible for long compilation times (the order is arbitrary, the relative weights are highly dependent of the code-base):

- size of the code generation units (the whole crate vs individual files in C)

- procedural macros

- generics & traits

- interaction between generics & LLVM IR generation (a lot of bloat is created, to be removed by LLVM later)

- LLVM itself

Most of those are being worked on, but in the end it's mostly a social problem: as Rust users are used to long compile time, many of them don't especially take care of it, and most gains in the compiler are often outweighed by people writing slower code. It's already possible to write Rust code that compiles quickly, if you pay attention. The culture is evolving though, and more and more library authors are now mindful of compilation time of their crate (and the tooling to diagnose it is also improving).

Key takeaway: Memory safety isn't what makes Rust compile slowly, “zero-cost abstractions” is.
Some people do. I collect antique books on natural history and science, so I very well know. But a lot of people do not. Thus the ebook.

Clothes are an entirely different thing to books
Marketing term. Real ruggedized items use terms such as "IP68" or "MIL-STD 810G".[1]

[1] https://www.milesdata.com/blog/ruggedness-defined-understand...
> canola oil, which is the "rebranding" it received for precisely the same reason

Do you have a source? Wikipedia lists a different reason, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canola_oil:

> The change in name serves to distinguish it from natural rapeseed oil, which has much higher erucic acid content.
My understanding is that modern archaeology is extremely meticulous about examining pretty much every aspect of materials found during excavations.

Here are some resources from Historic England on the subject:

https://historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/ani...
Small adjustment: a bit more than 200 years. The Brits burned down Washington in 1812.
Well we could call you retard but that would be rude.
Err. They took weeks to fulfill orders according to the article, and a lot of the purchases were unsustainable pity purchases.

This article shows they are just leveraging underdog marketing appeal.
C++ Lightweight, cross-platform, HTML rendering engine for desktop apps
Groupthink isn't the right term to describe a fluid group of Internet commenters that post semi-anonymously, and only on the topics of their choosing. There's no pressure forcing a common belief system, other than self-selection.
You are right, I don't think it was ever naive, or ok.
Thinking about it, what we used to call Trolls back in the day (1998 ish gaming community boards) were just annoying users. They were considered shitposters and bans were handed out swiftly.
At the same time I'd say the discourse online was more coarse, less aware of political correctness, or racial / gender sensitivities.
It's hard to think back to the mindset of my former teenage self, but perhaps what's known as 'trolling' today didn't even exist back then. I've never seen someone get doxxed on the forums I frequented. But then, people were also paranoid enough to not let themselves be doxxed, perhaps? This is all so long ago.
Yes, the quality of the prints stood out for me and I also wanted to know on which printer this was done.

The author made a casing for a Prusa MK3/MK3S. So I assume this was used.
That's against the Apple store rules as well.
Carbontracker: Track the energy consumption of training deep learning models
I agree that it's irrelevant information.

You can argue that maybe it's unfair to FB, but you know what's even more unfair? Consumers being caught in the middle of a fight between Apple and FB. Consumers being manipulated so big tech corp A can try and force a behavior change by big tech corp B by pissing off its customers.

At the end of the day it's a phone that you call people on. Let the people who have purchased that phone be.
I guess there's a good analogy connecting "floating the dollar" and "stable coins" somewhere. "These crypto coins are 1:1 backed with US Dollars! Except when we arbitrarily decide they aren't any more! Watch the invisible hand at work!!!"
“I don’t know of anyone who has come close to causing more material harm than Ngo did to the average American,” O’Neill said.

Noit trying to minimize his crime, but since he was reselling data from legit data brokers, would that not imply the latter are also “causing material harm to the average American,”?
Perhaps it’s built into a different perception of what a company is. In America, I get the feeling people think more of companies (large companies) as human beings with rights (but no responsibilities), and that’s far less than the general view in the UK where the view is often they are parasites with valueless shareholders.

I wonder if a company with a well known single owner (amazon/bezos, spacex/musk) is also thought of as a group Or a person subconsciously.

Two countries separated by a common language
As the cousin thread points out, possible translations are a bit like Helen vs #nofilter Penelope: they may be either very beautiful or very faithful, but unless one has been blessed by the gods, that or is exclusive.

Hipsters who prefer early Beoƿulf will enjoy http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=cotton_ms_vitel...

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24293894

https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bēowulf
But only on macOS.
That literally would be the one change that would make me adopt iOS, you know. I NEED userscripts.
Maybe in the Bay. But in the rest of the world, the average suit still considers developers to be nerds, only good for pushing the nerd-buttons.
Ah a public shell, fond memories. I used to have a nic-nac-project (now freeshell.de?) account some 15 years ago. It was my first exposure to Debian, which led me to order a free mail-in CD of Ubuntu Warty Warthog. These were different times.

Unfortunately public shells largely went the way of the dodo due to how cheaply you can get a VPS now (and not worry about resource quota, ulimits, local exploits or lack of root access...)
Apple owns the mobile-web Safari experience and penalises PWAs for exactly this reason.
Wind and solar tend to produce power at different times. The intermittency of wind + solar is much less than either alone.
This is uniquely precious and I wish there was RSS to subscribe to new entries.
Important gut bacteria may have gone extinct and we did not even notice
It's not incompetence, it's most likely just resource prioritization. There's nothing in principle stopping companies (not just ReMarkable) from having a separate landing page / marketing copy targeted at the hacker audience. With a device like this, it would most likely have a positive ROI. Just not positive enough compared to other things the marketing team could be spending their time on.
Keybase Commit Activity after Zoom purchase
I actually don‘t need a thesis, I can just expose myself to a new technology with a tiny portion of my net worth just like that.

If that doesn‘t fit your criteria of what someone can do, it‘s ok, I can live with that.
Yes, we have a solid wood kitchen table from Ikea. It's well made, I expect it will outlast me.
People don't want to hear this but Windows in 2020 is probably more reliable than desktop Linux.

Windows isn't what it used to be in 1999. And desktop Linux QA standards are nothing to write home about, unfortunately.
NSF awards $20M to launch AI institute
Node.js vs. Golang
I often see US citizens being very wary of the government. Would you care to explain why is that so?

In cases such as this one it strikes me as really odd: I would say that as citizens you have much more leverage over the government's actions than over whatever bank does (including handing over your data to the government). Thus, how is it better to have an account in some random bank than in the federal reserve (or whatever)?
It's funny, the biggest Danish multinational (by some measure) is a company that lets people build stuff themselves, and so is the biggest Swedish multinational. Is this something in Scandinavian culture? Denmark is also overrepresented in software tooling, such as inventing C++ (Stroustrup), PHP (Lerdorf), Turbo Pascal and C# (Hejlsberg), Unity, etc.

Even Denmark's actual biggest corporation (by market cap), Maersk, became big by inventing modular, stackable shipping containers!
I make no comment at all on TSLA.

Shorting a ponzi scheme in general isn't simply a bet that you have correctly identified that the scheme exists. It is a bet on /when/ the scheme will collapse.

Dotcom boom 1.0 was called a bubble (different name, same smell) by plenty of people who did their shirts on it. They were right. The valuations of all those dotcoms were ridiculous. I'm not sure many of those stocks are still around. Altavista, yahoo, bajizoobmalimba.com, walkyourdog.com etc etc.

Going long you can easily play the long game. "I'm not vindicated yet, but this is good, I can wait."

Going short is not a symmetric position the other way.
If they don't turn a profit it's only because they're paying millions of dollars to game developers to use the epic store and remove their game from steam.
Becoming a billionaire and trying to push the envelope are different activities, although sometimes they align. And as you describe, when a guy catches some important near term thing that nobody sees - that's where he finds billions.

But the unreachable areas are sometimes not that unreachable. Look at the space industry companies. If you ignore the flagship ones that popped up in a scale of mere years then moving out in your lifetime looks like a pipe dream too.
My main learning as an architect for over 10 years.

The best architectures come from teams not individuals. If you don't have buy in from the team, you will fail. Listen to them, some will need your help, some won't.

The boxes you draw on a white board won't survive 5 minutes when real development starts. Make sure you have used the tech yourself either previously or via a PoC before you recommend it.

Complexity is the enemy, make it simple. It's very easy to add complexity but almost impossible to remove it again once it hits production. Production turns software into concrete.

Document the team decisions in a architecture decision record. https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/architecture_decision... This will really help the next set of developer who are trying to figure out why you did what you did.

Setup your CI/CD pipeline very early on. Make sure testing is integrated including browser testing if applicable.
Fortunately, Powells is great for this. Whenever I need a book delivered in the US they deliver.

"In many parts of the world overgrown local busybodies have destroyed "high streets" in attempts to monetize drivers and pad their CV; driving people away. "

Not sure what you're getting at here but if you think you deserve free private car storage on public land you might try reading The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup.
The Polite Type – An initiative against online bullying
Equifax and Experian took our most personal financial information without our permission, made money from it and completely failed to protect it. These A-#&@# are the ones who should have gone to jail.
It's probably pretty easy to turn the touch off, by uninstalling the driver or something. My ThinkPad developed a tendency to sometimes do that automatically, and I had to restart a certain .exe to bring it back.
Making Buzzfeed.com Accessible
There are many other metals (of varying scarcity) just as there can be many other crypto-currencies. Both Bitcoin and Gold are the most popular of each type.

Bitcoin can be forked and has been many times but the fork with the most proof-of-work is generally considered the 'one true Bitcoin'. This proof-of-work (aka longest chain) metric provides a way to measure the relative scarcity of various cryptocurrencies.
Hi everyone, author here. AMA, I guess!
For future reference, here's a screenshot of the page: https://imgur.com/a/g51I1GL
On the other hand, their marketing copy isn't going to win them a thousand-device order from a large company, the way satisfying a hacker who leads corporate IT can.
I'm aware of sdf.org, and I haven't logged into it in over a decade :)
Unfortunately we haven't found a great way to price externalities correctly - whether the positive externalities of a local bookshop, or the negative externalities of online commerce.

Of course, there are negative externalities to local stores (people demand the right to drive there, for some odd reason, though Portland does better here than most), and positive externalities to online shopping (more efficient distribution, etc.) but regardless we do a terrible job at pricing them.
Doesn't seem legal in France, where there is the right to reverse engineer APIs for interoperability.
It doesn't phone home, but it does depend on access to the DOM for at least some of its functionality like being able to block particular elements in a page based on pattern matching. If the new API allows more or less equivalent functionality without having to give an extension access to every page I open I'm all for it though.
If they reduce drag, which is exactly what they are claiming to have achieved, that would reduce the amount of horse power needed to overcome that drag. Less HP translates into better fuel economy.

Basically this plane has the engine mounted on the back, which means center of gravity and wing position are quite a bit different. The nose cone looks very streamlined and crucially the wings are in front of the vortex produced by the prop. I'm guessing that that adds up to a bit of reduction in drag. The reason many planes have the engines mounted on the other side probably have to do with things like cooling, engine size, and other practical concerns.
Wow this is great.

> https://forum.ultralig.ht/t/community-language-bindings/20

```
Several awesome members of our community have created bindings for other languages!

Check them out below:

C# – https://github.com/ImpromptuNinjas/UltralightSharp 104
Rust (High Level) – https://github.com/psychonautwiki/rust-ul 21
Rust (Low Level) – https://github.com/psychonautwiki/rust-ul-sys 7
Java – https://github.com/Janrupf/ultralight-java 10
Go (High Level, Framework) – https://github.com/ImVexed/muon 22
Go (Low Level)-- https://github.com/raff/ultralight-go 19

Let me know if I’m missing any and I’ll add it to this sticky!```
Types of Technical Co-Founders
Not surprising. Haven't seen much if anything of him in the media since he announced Japan's complete victory over Covid 19 right before things started reopening.
Scots Wikipedia written by one American teenager, who does not speak Scots
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1319/
Well, I am trying to think back to my former self, back in those mid to late 90s days. It's hard to conjure up that mindset accurately.
However, I would say that there was certainly a lot of immaturity to go around. There was no doxxing, there was relatively little racism. But there was a lot of sexism.
I guess nerdy male-teenage dominated gaming forums of the 90s were places where women certainly did not feel welcome. I think re-reading what was said back then nowadays would probably be rather cringey. A lot of discovery of boundaries and exploration of social extremes occurred under the monicker of a kind of new-found freedom we'd been given as teenagers by the web. And that probably drove a lot of people (especially women) away. I think I lamented that fact back then, and I lament it now. It's always been my hope that I was part of inclusion rather than exclusion, but I probably failed at times, assuming an edgy 13-year old has no idea how to conduct themselves properly online.
Yet, back in the day I do not think harm was intended, even when harm was done. Nowadays I wonder whether harm is intended. I am no longer active on any communities really. I post so rarely. This is one of the exceptions, as I do find it an interesting topic. I would honestly love to know whether I actually hurt anyone online, ever. I hope I did not, but if I did, then all I can do is attempt to be more aware in the future. Which, naturally, 20 years later, I am and continue to be and try to improve. That journey never ends.
Not really though because Misumi only sell to companies. McMaster Carr sell to anyone.