skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The united states is a profund tragedy of commons
It is easy to conceive that we would responsibly organize to police fire corridors in forest regions, removing all dead and fallen debris by hand. We could plant trees, berries, herbs and flowers, to make the forest more meaningfully enjoyable.

And in some parts of the country, some of this does happen. Some lands are managed and the debris put into bio-fuel systems. But the same cannot be said of those poor souls who live around or near the 60% of land which is under control of the tyrant- lambasted in the media, ignored in the statehouse.

Every year now it seems, massive forest fires sweep through regions on the west coast, as quickly and as pleasantly as the winter rains. Efficiently and directly, from the western US coast alone, as much as 1/26th of all human global carbon dioxide production enters the atmosphere*(0.68billion tons california alone, 26gt globally estimated production. GT= 1 billion tons) Every year, more carbon, more handwringing, and more sitting around deliberating over how to punish everyone else. Every year more fires. The fires spread. Billions of dollars in insurance money, federal expenditures, and new investments infuse the region subsequently. Everyone breathes deeply. This is normal. This is catharic. This is natural. This is the way of the forest. Everything will be ok. Because we can rebuild, and rebuilding is always healthy, we are healthy. Why, it's practically japanese.

The private forest owner, whose livelyhood comes from his forests NOT burning, is blamed. The wealthy are blamed for suppressing socially oriented thought.
But let's be honest. The private offices at the statehouses have a revolving door, and the private citizen is a tourist and an exhibition there, not an integral component of society. It's terribly sad, and there's no political theme that can change this. Everyone, for election, rebrands as citizens first, and the moment they sit down, the lobbyist replaces them. We may as well elect the lobbyists.
I measured Trichrome, which is the separate APK where the actual rendering engine is stored.
I had to create a deb for a web app, it had to setup and populate a DB (from web sources), and manage updates for this db when you upgraded the deb. It had a build process of static files that couldn't be vendored. It has a lot of configuration to be entered prior those would happen, using debconf. It had to vendor a virtualenv. I had dependancies on 2 other web apps that had the same story, and they shared some config files.

I didn't chose this architecture. But I was tasked to package it so that people could just "apt get install stuff" and start using it.

It was HARD.

The tech is very old school, it doesn't give a lot of feedback, it's hard to debug, documentation is sparse and examples in the wild are not up to date, not to mention the state of tooling. And you do all that with shell scripting, the worst language for the job. Sure you can use anything else, if you like zero doc and example.

Then we had to distribute it.

Well, turns out creating an APT repo is not so easy, either.

Now, we did all that by cutting a lot of corners, zero red tape, and only us to please. Also, the consequences of not using best practices, or worst, breaking something, were few.

On a team of 6, only 2 were really understanding what was going on. The rest were lost, awaiting instructions from us because they just couldn't picture were their work would fit in this blob of bash workflow. Now that I'm gone, I have no idea how the team is going to maintain the thing.

I can't imagine doing the same thing with the level of road block working for something as sensitive as the official debian repo would bring.

If debian wants more contributors, they have to make this stuff way, way more accessible. And be friendlier with people telling them it's hard.

Every time I raised the topic, somebody came along to say I shouldn't be doing x or y. Or just that I shouldn't be packaging something and just publish it on the debian repo, letting the debian maintainers do the packaging. It's not going to bring me to work with the community if the first taste of it is the demonstration they completely ignore their shortcomings.

And I say that while I've been typing apt commands for a decade now. I'm also french. Debian is, with VLC, Libre Office and Firefox, one of the 4 pillars of FOSS for me.
Have done so personally.
Yep it's very easy to tear down a straw man of your own creation. Meanwhile I'll keep writing useful tests that validate my code and prevent regressions.
Looks like archive.org itself is offline now.
Firefox on my mac is over 200MB. Is it smaller on Damn Small Linux?

And yes, there is clearly only an incentive to care on Android. The automated tooling to track Chrome binary size only works on the Android build.
Great comment! Can you share some information about the toolchain used around S-expressions this way? Did you really write literals in that way without quoting, etc.?

I like S-expressions (data and/or code in S-expressions) a lot and would like to use it more.
A JavaFX based vector editor component
A yacht was probably a bad example.

A better example might have been to get an extension to your factory or a new machine. Something clearly more of a reasonable business investment than a yacht.

If you got Stalin's attention, you might have been able to get it right away (or go to the Gulag right away..) But that's a very special case, and in general dictatorships don't lack for bureaucracy.

For a more benign version, look at getting anything done in the military or a very big and very top-down company where in theory the CEO reigns supreme.
I can't tell what your point is. A Google new grad employee who joined Google in 2012 would also have a decent chance of being a liquid millionare in 2017, and it was never illiquid).

And snapchat is an extreme outlier. Even among unicorns it had a high valuation. There are currently 3 us software companies with similar pre ipo valuations: stripe, airbnb and palantir.

Which is to say, if your company is the next snapchat, you're break even. Anything less, and a large tech company is a better investment. Betting that your company is the next snapchat, even if it's already a unicorn, is probably a losing proposition, and it's almost certainly losing of you're not already a unicorn.
or also no commas at all
Probably some grad student pipets a precise quantity of scorpian semen onto a slide, perhaps with a dye to aid the process, and manually counts the number of sperm with a microscope.

Human sperm tests are done using a similar procedure depending on what you are looking for.
Debian cares a lot more about licensing than Nix. Debian also has far more developers than Nix, I imagine, and processes that have probably existed for longer than GitHub itself.
The intention of this clause is not explanatory, it is restrictive. Congress is only empowered to secure exclusive right to writings and discoveries for the purposes of promoting science and useful arts—no other purposes. In other words, this clause exists specifically to enable the type of inquiry you reference in your last sentence.

Without this clause there would essentially be no restriction on Congress’s ability to establish monopolies.
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Yes those 50 companies are very recent in SV history. Hence we need to look back farther to see the change, because our standards were set many decades ago.

And whether a company goes bust post IPO isn't really the issue here since liquidity is what we're discussing.
If read this correctly, it does hold in very narrow sense, when compared within hominid evolutionary path only.

In general size of brain is proportional to body mass, more sensors bigger brain, has nothing to do with intelligent effective behavior, to large extent, arguably.

To best of my knowledge there is no known method that would estimate minimum amount of neurons even for simple problems, let alone complex one, however there is convergence of some form cerebral cortex between species, but octopi break this model to large extent (might we wrong here). Things get even more complicated when you account for space between individual neurons.
Single rotor controls are much, much simpler.

At least it does not require a mandatory PID control to not fall out of the sky.

Very little math involved in control of a helicopter. A 3 actuator type with 1 actuator for each axis basically has no need for any control signal manipulation, and can be made fully analog.

And a helicopter can be made more or less statically stable by pure mechanics, and aerodynamics.

P.S.

It doesn't seem that the drone in question exist in anything, but CGI at the moment.

P.P.S.

And quite unsound CG at that. On some of their CG shots, a swashplate actuators are attached with their axis coincidal with that rotor..., and a tail rotor control yoke not attached to anything...
State of the art in academia, which is largely location agnostic.
This is actually not true for the majority of the world's legal systems.

Previous verdicts are something that matters for a _Common_ Law legal system, which is only a small part of the world's legal systems. (See the pink countries in the world map referenced [0])

The majority of the world's countries follow a _Civil_ Law system, where verdicts are based on the court's judgement against the written law, civil law is a sort of descendent of the Roman law system.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law#/media/File:Map_of_...
Create a Rust GitHub project in no time
This seems quite low for the amount of criminal activity to be exposed. You'd also have a monopoly on the crack so it's not like you're just going to accept the set price.
indeed! really nice.

In the past I have just worked some hairy logic on a spreadsheet and just manually migrate it to code / nested conditionals.

This other article [1] shows some really cool ways to writes decision tables using structured editing UI. I wish structured editors where more commonplace!

1: https://medium.com/@markusvoelter/the-evolution-of-decision-...
An administrator spying on other users on a shared machine is not a legitimate purpose (though, yes, it is a fairly obvious risk which no one should be surprised by).
Ask HN: Why is Peleton worth over 20B Dollars?
Pelleton's market cap is currently at about 25 Billion Dollars.

That is about the market cap of Ford (currently 27 Billion).

Peletons revenue will be about $2B this year.

Fords revenue will be about $150B this year.

What is the market seeing as Peleton's future that it values Peleton at $25B?
JSON is by far not the universal exchange format. There are plenty of use cases where JSON is not well suited, such as:

- regular/tabular data where JSON fails at processing speed and/or compressibility. One of the most efficient ways to store for instance a table/array of numbers is packing them as binary IEEE754 stream.

- encapsulation of other code. Ever put HTML in a string within JSON? It's terrible to read and maintain for a human due to all the escaping. If you ever embedded SVG into XML/HTML or XML/HTML in JSX, you know how easy it can be if you don't have to break your head about escaping.

- Obviously there is a need for binary json (there exist a lot of proposals/standards). That's quite similar to protocol buffers. The reason is always something about performance.

- Also there are folks arguing since decades about JSON vs. XML vs. YAML vs. TOML vs .... There are lot of different opinions, and it is hard to say some is superiour to the other.
I really liked the perspectives on the four obligations every day.

Planning

Context sharing

Coaching & Culture
Which is not easy.
I’m no googler, I trust Huawei more than google
They are not. No such product exists.
I think a pretty good example of why this isn't work is visible in the LinkedIn inbox of nearly every software engineer (and probably other specialized people). People with an HR degree become tech recruiters and they often really suck at it on two fronts: spotting the right candidates and explaining the job. All they do is target as many people as possible and hope someone bites.

A really had thing for someone without actual work experience in the field is spotting the difference between: someone with the exact right experience, someone with the wrong experience but a valuable set of skills and personality to learn, someone bullshitting their resume and talking like they understand the tech stack and someone who seems to have the right experience but is actually a bad fit.

For a staff engineer it's critical to be able to spot knowledge gaps in teams, explain complex technical issues to business people, spot opportunities for the implementation of new tech and estimate the complexity of implementing it, etc. No matter how good you are at communicating, you will be unable to do this without actual understanding of the tech stack. Just explaining why last week it was ok to hire a react dev to fulfill an angular vacancy, but this week you really need a dev with super specific knowledge to fill an urgent need is hard to do without understanding those technologies.
> One of the beauties of having an unwritten constitution and instead an approach that vests the constitution in a Parliament, as we do here in the UK, is that nothing ever ossifies.

Yes, but it's a bit scary at the moment.
ok rip me i'm dumb
Short sellers, especially public ones, have a critical role in our equity markets. They remind me of defense attorneys. It's a sometimes thankless job and nobody likes you for being too good at it, but it is absolutely vital to keep the system healthy. Kudos to these guys for doing the fucking work.
Nice typo. Superbowel.
Look, it’s fine if you’re pro nuclear but why not be pro nuclear on its own merits? Your argument would be so much stronger without the parts disregarding wind and solar, as if energy sources are mutually exclusive. I urge you to do some more research on modern renewable technologies, specifically with regard to baseload and not see them as just an enemy of nuclear energy.
What is the salary incl bonus for a "staff engineer" at heroku? I find that titles are meaningless and in the end it also boils down to show me the money.
It can be done, but culturally the projects are too different.

There were valid reasons for the hostility. Bringing money into the equation completely changes the dynamics of an all-volunteer project, and splits the developers into the gilded minority and the plebs who slave away for free. Plenty of volunteer organisations have been torn apart by the resentment and infighting that can result.

* Which developers are eligible for funding, and which are not?

* The organisation is no longer flat; some people are effectively profiting off the backs of the majority

* The meritocracy is lost; do the "paid staff" have more of a say than the "unpaid volunteers"

* Are "paid staff" even volunteers any more?

The vast majority of Debian developers work full time on their day jobs, and contribute to Debian as a labour of love in their spare time, or as part of their work for situations where organisations sanction Debian work.

I used to work 8 hours, and then come home and regularly work 4-8 hours on Debian. Every day for nearly a decade. Totally unsustainable, and I'm no longer an active contributor. But for people who are contributing that much, for free, you can see why there would be concerns over the effect of a paid class of contributor to the organisation as a whole.

None of that is to say it can't work. FreeBSD is smaller, more tightly-focused, and has a culture of corporate contribution. Paying people to write specific features delivers results on a schedule. I donate to the FreeBSD foundation for that reason. The developer culture seems to be much more tolerant of this (though I'm not a FreeBSD insider, so don't know all the details).

FreeBSD is vastly simpler to contribute to, so I can participate with vastly less commitment. Contributing a new port or an updated port or bugfix is simply a matter of attaching a patch to a bugzilla ticket. Maybe it's not so much of an issue because there's already a clear separation of core devs vs casual contributors. And that's OK.
How feasible is it to make the GitHub link a bit more prominent?

Didn't realise there was one until reading your comment, then had to manually search the page (Ctrl-F for "github") to find it in the footer. ;)
Google "Fed Put"
more like a gitlab clone than github clone.
I’m not really drawing a big distinction between public and private equity.

My entire point is that equity should be valued at something above $0 even though it’s hard to do so, it’s worth the effort.

Stripe, Airbnb, Snap - if you’re in the bay it’s obvious what the successful companies are and you meet people working for them.

I’m just pushing back on the “treat all equity as $0” advice.

Private company equity has risks, but huge reward and that payoff is real and it happens.
Python now includes pip itself in the standard library (which is a spectacularly poor decision IMO).
Well, they especially shouldn't be able to do that, but no, companies should not be able to hide anything at all. (If there's anything that shouldn't be public (eg security camera footage, billing records), the company as a whole shouldn't have access to it in the first place. Ideally them shouldn't be allowed to collect it at all, but there are obvious practical issues with applying that universally.)
> .hotel and .hotels

Did you mean: .hoteles and .hotels? (.hotel was not there as of 2020-09-11T07:10Z)

Amazingly enough, they seemingly had enough intelligence to determine that .hotels and .hoteis (Portuguese for ".hotels") are similar enough and warrant the exclusitivity [1], but not for .hotels and .hoteles. At the least .hotels is not yet delegated but merely proposed and only passed the initial evaluation, though.

[1] https://icannwiki.org/.hotels#String_Similarity
This article gave me a fair bit of nostalgic feelings. So much so, that I had to go and dig out one of my first university assignments from seven years ago[!], writing a simple Linux Shell, where I actually had to use "decision tables". In my case I remember thinking about using an automata for a grammar to prevent my code from becoming an unmaintainable, unexplainable, SEGFAULT-y mess.

Most important of all, I remember the lecture assistant telling us that we "won't pass the assignment as long as I can bring your program to SEGFAULT."

Many of us struggled, SEGFAULT after SEGFAULT, with uneven quotes, pipes inside or outside quotes, double bars, double ampersands, etc. As the days progressed, many code-bases became more complex and more fragile as we tried to deal with the pesky inputs of the lecture assistant. When our turn came up, we all grinned while the lecture assistant tried in frustration to bring our shell to SEGFAULT. I remember pointing out "those inputs are not supported by the grammar, and walking him through the bits I list below". Those were the days, oh man :)

---

struct listNode {
char *token;
int type;
struct listNode *next;
};

...

#define M_BEGIN 0
#define T_WORD 1
#define T_QUOTE 2
#define T_BAR 3
#define T_AMP 4
#define T_NL 5

...

int validateInput(struct listNode * head) {

unsigned char smpshGrammar[6][6] = {
{0,1,0,0,0,1}, // M_BEGIN
{0,1,1,1,1,1}, // T_WORD
{0,1,1,1,1,1}, // T_QUOTE
{0,1,0,0,0,0}, // T_BAR
{0,0,0,0,0,1}, // T_AMP
{0,0,0,0,0,0}}; // T_NL

struct listNode * iterator = head;
int validInput = 1;
int previousState = 0;

while(iterator && validInput){

if(DEBUG) printf(" Debug Information > Validating transition from Q%d to Q%d ... Possible:%d\n",
previousState,
iterator->type,
smpshGrammar[previousState][iterator->type]);

if(smpshGrammar[previousState][iterator->type])
{
previousState = iterator->type;
iterator = iterator->next;
}
else { validInput = 0; }

}

if(previousState!=5){ validInput = 0; }

return validInput;
}
> reason about equity comp on a per share basis
The one reason I find this highly skeptical, is that this is in some sense a made-up figure. In Options, It's an estimate of a per share once the company goes public. In other cases, it's something the founders have estimated based on market potential and other things.
> He was a computational god

I stopped reading there.
Being pretentious.
I tried looking at commit history for few repos and was prompted login to view them. Not sure what logic in deciding you had to login to view commit history. Especially when you can clone the repo to local and view it there.
It’s not something inherent to music or musical creativity. Classical music follows the same pattern as writing, with the greatest work produced mid to late career. Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner, Bach, take your pick. So it’s probably just explained by the youth culture around popular music and bands, as other commenters mention.
Can someone please indicate if there is truly some kind of AI magic going on here?

TT claims it's a 'key magical ingredient' - and apparently acquisition talks are held up ostensibly over 'access to training data' etc..

But I find this maybe hard to believe.

TT learning is pretty good, but I suspect an algorithm could do it, or possibly some basic ML, not necessarily needed Deep Learning.

I suspect the 'Deep Learning' they use may not even be very sophisticated, but provide cover to radically inflate their ostensible value to CEO acquirers who just love the concept of 'real AI' often irrespective of it's material value.

I'm just suspicious there isn't really much there, and find it odd that an entity like Microsoft would be intimidated by trying to do that piece well.
This link + Safari Reader Mode is good
This is probably anecdotal, but I can recall a huge amount of my collection pretty much instantly when someone asks me which records I have by artist X, or which records did I buy in 2019.

I used to be the same, but then with CDs. I could still remember where I bought a particular album and the emotions first listening to it.

I probably had ~1000 CDs. Of some single artists I had 50+ CDs (e.g. Frank Zappa and John Zorn). Two years ago I put an ad on a local site that someone could pick them up for free, except for stuff that is not on Spotify et al., like most John Zorn.

To be honest, I haven't regretted it for a single moment. It became annoying every time we had to move (takes a few boxes and they are very heavy). It takes up a lot of space, in our previous house I had already put half of the CDs in the basement. I wanted to rip the albums in FLAC format, but always gave up after 40-50 albums, since it was so much work.

Now it's one less thing to care about. I have pretty much every album in my pocket through Spotify. It's much easier and especially more affordable to discover new music. And if I want to 'connect' to an artist, I can go to a concert, buy a t-shirt, of subscribe to their mailing list.
We have some CD's to use in the car, said car does have bluetooth but the signal isn't very good.
I wonder if the author has ever heard the aphorism, "Perfect is the enemy of good."
Unpaywall is very helpful! However, even for direct PDF links, publishing platforms will often do things like check for a session cookie; if you don't have the correct cookie you get bounced back to the landing page, where you need find and follow another link. This isn't super complicated to work around (persist a cookie jar, use a headless browser, etc), but it doesn't work out-of-the-box with our crawlers, the same way crawling youtube doesn't work out-of-the-box so we rely on the youtube-dl community.
>What is the market seeing as Peleton's future that it values Peleton at $25B?

The stock market doesn't care about Peleton's future in general.

It cares about Peleton stock's short/mid term future.

The valuation basically is about how desirable the stock is and how well the stock is expected to do - doesn't have to be connected with actual Peleton performance, hype will do just as well, if it raises the stock price. And indeed, it has already brought the cap to 25B, so it works!
They collect hoards of data, and it's accessible by the CCP.

This could be very bad for so many reasons.

We need new regs for the new world order.