skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your pain on this because i've been there. At the same time, deep down, I think many of us have also learned the truth:

If there is some startup providing some ridiculously awesome service and strangly isnt charging:

1. It will charge in the future, and even that charge may not be sufficient to cover costs (see: Quantopian recently, apparently could not find a price point which kept users and also kept the service)

2. It may get acquired, to finance long-term profitability (see: YouTube, WhatsApp, Instagram)

3. You may be giving up more than you thought you were (e.g., privacy) (see: like half the social media startups)

4. It may get acquihired, and often the product is sunset (see: Slide, Parse)

5. It may shut down (see: like 95% of your friends startups)

As a former founder, I can say most startups are just one funding round away from case 5 (bankruptcy) -- see MapR. In which case, sometimes you accept case 4 (acquihire) as a consolation prize. Many of us want to be the next FAANG, but reality strikes that obviously not all 100,000 startups out there will become a fang. Often, you teeter in case 1 (barely making it), and if that happens too long, you might go with option 2 (strategic acquisition.)

There are a lot of problems as a founder. Not all of them are actually about tech. I'll list some problems:

1. You are constantly questioning yourself -- is life just about eating ramen noodles and working? Did I really study and get top grades for 20yrs only to barely life? Mabye I can sell out. This should not be a problem post Series A, but is def an early stage issue.

2. You have liabilities - student loans, healthcare, rent, etc. Sure, you can couch surf, but should that be expected of people?

3. After marketing and ads especially, you often dont make as much as you think.

Sometimes you make a limited time bet, and if things dont catch, you move on.
Good to know they "care about my privacy" ... what a clusterf*ck of a consent mechanism and so much stuff I can't turn off.
The idea was for the shelf scanning robots to send messages when they found a low stock item or a mess, and then a human could just load up a cart with stock from the back room and head directly to the problem areas.

This would be in contrast to having people regularly walk every aisle and examine everything personally, going back and forth to get stock repeatedly. Much time was wasted.

As a former Walmart employee I was actually excited to see these proposed.

But now with so many people walking the aisles collecting items for pickup, I guess they’re just going to have them send “problem detected” messages instead of the robots. Which is fine I guess. Shopping there has become an even greater hassle with all the employees and their pickup carts, but that’s a whole other issue.
> Pretty sure. Nature, being unconcerned with fairness, has little regard for per capita statistics.

But nature also has little regard for per country statistics. Splitting China into two countries, isn't going to lower their polution.

Using per capita statistics at least allows us to focus on those that are emitting excessively more than others.
Interesting. May I also ask how many hours of sleep per day do you get on average?
You cannot do that on a nation by nation basis as you will just push the pollution to other unregulated nations - although if done globally, this might work.

Originally the thought was to do this on a product by product basis, but unwinding supply chains is effectively impossible.

Actually, it's still pretty tough because some countries buy and rebrand products to slip around tariffs even now.
On the Linux phone I have (pinephone) with the carrier I have (At&t) there is a script that can pull and send mms messages. There's work to get this integrated into libpurple sms so it you can use it from a shiny GTK3 app just like sms.

I think it would be good to point out that MMS often doesn't even work on android phones. So making that a requirement is a bit silly.
The things you'd need to do to get the world to accept a definition of "comfort" that doesn't include eating meat (vegan definition) several times a week, living and working comfortably climate control buildings and access to a wide array of consumer products would not be pretty to put it mildly.

Making people's standards of living go backwards make them shoot you.

Holding down people's standards of living makes their kids or grand-kids shoot you.

Policy sticks are a time bomb. Social solutions (convincing people to behave in a way that reduces their environmental footprint) only get you so far. We need technical solutions (more efficiency in the entire economy) such that people can eat fish or beef and drive in cars (or have access to functionally equivalent or superior analogues) at lesser environmental cost. The "western lifestyle" (moving target, I know) needs to scale because even if the west manages to reduce consumption enough to have a good impact the masses in developing nations are certainly not going to settle for the status quo let alone a reduction in consumption.
They do have the option to pick up option that has less attached taxes. Or not to buy something.
Not looking good.
Is the stuff about GHC's garbage collector still valid?

(I have no idea, but I found this https://www.well-typed.com/blog/2019/10/nonmoving-gc-merge/ "Low-latency garbage collector merged for GHC 8.10", which is more recent than the OP blog post)

Is the “backwards compatibility at all costs” point about Go still valid?
https://blog.golang.org/using-go-modules
...it seems like you can specify versioned deps now
ITER has a few places where test blanket modules can be installed. ITER will not be able to simulate the neutronic environment of a full reactor (and so will not be able to confirm adequate breeding), nor subject the modules to the cumulative neutron loading they will have to withstand.

For this reason, a Fusion Nuclear Science Facility has long been proposed as something that will be needed before DEMO is built. This could be a small, Q < 1 DT fusion device, as the goal would not be plasma physics related. It itself will need to breed its own tritium to operate long enough, so there's a circular dependency in the development.
Opium poppies for everyone.

(I'm for recreational legalization, even of drugs I do not intend to take. Just pointing out things folks gloss over when they speak of plants).
Late 70s DEC equipment visual designs were great.
I've only found a handful of references to it on the internet. Type safety is a huge advantage of Java; surprised it's not the default.

Kinda makes me wonder what else I'm missing though.
Yes, and it is backed up by CuZr. Replacing that CuZr with steel will significantly impede cooling.
I gave them a detailed report of everything, and the $5,000 USD, and the remaining 4,500,000 rewards points were returned.

The only compensation I received with this whole situation was the termination of my accounts, and a family members account being terminated as well.

It's very hard to know the reasoning behind the termination as they never gave me any information.
> You had me at whipper-snappers.

FWIW, that's where I left.
Traditional printers are commoditized. A few of the Big Brands, as you call it, have models that actually are the same exact printer with a different make/model attached to it.

That business has been in a downward spiral for years where the margins are tiny and they make it up on service/supplies. I'm not talking personal printers - the office sized 50 pages/min printer is what I'm referring to. Personal/Consumer grade printers are probably sold at a loss rather than a tiny margin.

Outside of 3d printing, what innovations would there be for a startup to tackle in the traditional printing sector?

Also patents aren't blocking, sufficient capital will get you a license if you want to leverage existing patents. I'm sure those Big Brand companies would take the money.
This is a good point as well: Sometimes, it isn't even the plant one is worried about, but pests that might come from other regions as well. Sometimes there are good reason to ban things.

I'm not convinced these apply to most drug producing plants.
I think the "virtual DOM" approach is more relevant part of React to look at to answer the question. The UI code appears immediate but on each invocation builds a data structure that represents the layout and references to data it depends on. The library consumes this data structure, compares it to its own internal, retained representation and adjusts the latter according to any changes that might have occurred. Input is consumed by the "retained mode" GUI toolkit, which triggers the immediate mode UI to re-render with return values from widgets adjusted according to the "immediate mode" result of the input.

The difference from React would be representational. In React you explicitly build this data structure as something resembling a DOM tree and handle input by attaching callbacks to nodes, but I think this representation is just convenient for web development rather than fundamental to the approach.

You might still need a way to manage updates to the state the GUI depends on and re-render when it changes for some other reason than an input operation.
Github is just one bottle in a room full of bottles https://alternativeto.net/software/github/
dang, once again, can you do something about this rancid xenophobia. It has no place in a serious discussion.

Thanks.
The state gets its payroll tax, being an independent contractor doesn't prevent that.

The drivers will get their benefits, prop 22 added benefits to them without making them employees.
Nope, Reddit’s political bias is very well-known.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PoliticalDiscussion/comments/3e897a...

https://social.techjunkie.com/demographics-reddit/

It’s not that there is anything particular about Reddit that attracts leftists, it’s just dominated by a young demographic that generally skews far left of the wider population.

> other words, if everyone is sitting to the left of you, maybe you're just sitting really far off to the right.

It’s not “everyone”, it’s just a simple majority of the users on reddit, which demographically is sitting to the left of the wider population.

So (setting aside the fact that a two dimensional political spectrums is bullshit) yes, I’m sitting on the right side of the curve in Reddit’s user base. But so are most professionals, parents, etc (I.e. folks over 25). And you only have to be sitting slightly to the right of the median before the vote ratio steam rolls you’re world view.

> and what you see as an enforced echo chamber is just the vast majority of users sitting in the middle of that bell curve doing their thing

That’s literally a fucking echo chamber. A community that has a voting mechanism that reinforces the views of the majority and suppresses anything unpopular with that majority group.
> It is nearly the size and form factor of the original SE

Not quite. The 12 mini is still closer to the 6/6s/7/8/SE2 line than the 5/5s/5c/SE1 line. It's nice to have the flat edges back though.

SE 1st Gen - 123.8 x 58.6mm

SE 2nd gen: 138.4 x 67.3mm

12 mini: 131.5 x 64.2mm
But now there is no official fork of youtube-dl, so development will either stop or be fragmented. And users will not want to trust any given fork, so downloads will taper off.

If the original creator endorses a fork, is he making himself liable? - not sure what happens if you repost after a takedown notice.

And the involvement of the law, and the publicity will lead overall to self-censoring, as most devs won't want to deal with this...

Doesn't seem to me to making things worse for the RIAA
That's extremely optimistic regarding the state of self-driving cars in 5 years.
They have linked economies. What China makes for US
they also use a version of that internally. So if US goes all electric car, China would follow suit, etc.
The point was, US can do this too.
Mosaic, an OpenFrameworks Based Visual Patching Creative-Coding Platform
Yeah I have a jvm jboss type thing that take 5 mins to startup, which is why I have that pubsub to self in the proxy so I can absorb delays in a managed queue. This of course relies on the upstream not being time sensative or needing a syncronous reply. However, nginx does start in 400ms on cloud run so it's clearly it's the cruft in the docker that's doing it and not the hosting

(code is here BTW https://github.com/futurice/terraform-examples/tree/master/g...)
When people talk about stopping or reversing the aging process, they're not actually talking about stopping or reversing time.
Good since, the Paris Climate accord is about taking resources from white people and giving it to brown people and not the climate.

Any serious climate plan shall contain 100% push for nuclear power to be credible.
How do you read so many papers? To properly read one I may need up to a day. If I read a few a week I wouldnt get any work done.
> The obviously best solution to keep track of inventory would be "smart racks" with RFID tags on each product

As someone who's deployed several industrial RFID systems: I doubt we'll ever see an RFID tag on every item in Walmart.

The first reason is the cost of tags: Even the cheapest EPC Gen2 RFID tags cost more than 1 cent - and nobody selling a 20 cent can of beans is going to pay that. Barcodes, on the other hand, come free with the product's printed packaging.

And the tag's performance varies - the super-low-price tags might work fine for cardboard packages, but not work on metal cans, for example, as sticking a radio antenna to a bit of metal and having it work is a complex business.

The second reason is reliability: Even in a highly controlled environment, where every tag is on an identical item and you're willing to spend 20 cents per tag, RFID is hard to get right.

One thing that causes reliability problems is RFID is tough to test. Reflections and interference patterns mean you'll get areas where reading will fail, even when inches away reading works very well - and if you move metal in the environment around, it all changes and the nulls move.

And that's before you get into having a thousand different products from a hundred different suppliers, all of whom now have to learn this new RFID technology.

Another thing that leads to reliability problems is simple mechanical matters: It's tough for an RFID tag to survive being in between two metal cans that bump together.

And if you're hoping to do something like detecting thefts, a system that is merely 99.99% reliable is going to generate far more false alarms than it does real alarms.
I was going to say "write ignorant comments on social media about the paper based solely on the title" but your approach sounds more useful.
You need less people, fundamentally. The total fertility rate is declining across the world luckily (except a handful of countries and Africa) [1], but everyone around now is going to have a rough ride until equilibrium is reached (sometime after 2100). Can’t grow your way out of resource exhaustion (renewables excepted).

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate#country-by-country...
I highly doubt that. As others have said, China has no plans to reduce pollution until 2030 (negotiated at the accord) and is currently increasing their polluting infrastructure.
Aggressive population control should be given high priority, yet declining population growth and fertility rates are always depicted as negatives in Western countries. In Europe many countries still have incentives to boost fertility.

It's high time we give up on the fantasy of an ever growing population as a ponzi scheme to boost the economy and finance public spending. We need to face the reality that we ought to have at the very least a stable population and reorganise society accordingly.

In relation to developing countries, any healthcare-related aid should be conditional to implementation of birth control policies.

Globally we really should have a target to reduce population by a few billions if we want to all enjoy life in comfort (~Western country level) on a thriving planet.

Edit: Judging by the reactions, the penny has not dropped yet for some... Hopefully it will before it's too late.
We can also just have fewer people: If you lower infant mortality, educate women and give them access to family planning, all evidence suggests they will choose to have fewer children.

It's much easier for the planet to support a high standard of living for four or six billion people than eight or ten billion.
Wow. Rising sharply, from what, 0%? Assuming the size of the US public markets is the largest in the world, and that we needed to take action decades ago to prevent climate change's worst effects, these statistics place the blame squarely on large corporations
Oh it certainly can get worse
It's pretty replicable - you just open the same document multiple times ! (Of course it's often easier to run out of screen space than out of desk space…)
How to manage styles in React Native with our useStyles hook
Since when were SGI or HP workstations open systems?

These things were the very definition of walled garden.
Perhaps this will highlight the massive security concerns from irresponsible automobile engineers and management. You can’t just have a key that basically reinvented RFID but throwing away every possible security choice. You can’t just have a public piece of equipment capable of exchanging information wirelessly. What were these people thinking? Were they thinking? Something’s got to change.
"natural self-regulation"... of human population, in the best case. But before we will extinguish all the biodiversity left. Future generations will see us as the stupid ones, killing the richness of the planet created after eons of evolution.
Important Factors in Web Maintenance
Undercut by the fact that they need to be „actively“ working. Waiting for the next ride is excluded. Not really minimum wage IMO
Although I agree, coding practices should be added incrementally so that they have time to become habits. Nobody can remember hundreds of rules while working on a code base.

This kind of notes are useful I think.
Funny that they are always quick to close your accounts and credit cards but if it's about mortgages/loans they leave those open.

If they write you off as a client for accounts/credit cards, why not also for the mortgage/loans?
(2008)

The problem isn't that people trust politicians too much - trust in the government in the US is at very low levels [1]. Calls for further disillusionment without any actionable points is likely to just cause people to disengage all together, which works out just fine for the people currently in power.

There are achievable goals to work towards, like non-FPTP voting [2] and more proportional representation. The single biggest problem with the US political system today is wasted votes and the spoiler effect. Allowing credible threats from third parties would immediately force the parties closer to the actual voter positions and remove the incentive to nudge voters towards increasingly extreme positions to keep them on "your" half of the board.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/04/11/public-trust...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24943441
> unions have compulsory membership

In EU, compulsory union membership is generally prohibited as violation of right-to-work and freedom of association.
It's almost like there is a playbook for this that just gets applied to things like asbestos, cigarettes, lead gasoline, DDT, sugar, climate change, COVID ...
> But when you're in a team, or worse, in a large company, it starts to be a problem that everyone can use their own style

I was in many failed or semi-failed projects and code style was never the problem. Yes, people do use slightly different styles, but style is really easy to enforce - there are tools to do it automatically. And even if somebody misplaces a brace or writes `map(_.length)` instead of `map(x => x.length)` this doesn't impact the readability as long people in your team know the language. If a project fails to meet the deadline because of the code style it is not because of people using different styles but because of developers bikeshedding about the code style in code reviews instead of doing real work.
Not GP but I do say the same, and yes it will be uglier than the first half of the 20th century. The fight for food will be very real and it takes away confidence from my family planning.
As someone else said, this could probably be done more cheaply and reliably with stationary cameras.
Don't be naive.

When they are done with open piracy they will move to other stuff.

Did you whistle a copyrighted tune in the elevator? You owe us money now.

(If you think I'm joking, look at Japan who jails musicians for 10+ years for playing covers at parties without paying royalties)
They do vote in the CCP.

The Chinese elected the CCP.

Beyond some rhetorical nonsense meant to soothe your feelings of guilt, shame, morality etc when urging for what will be a second Cold War, there is no practical difference between criticizing, railing against, calling for mass murder against, calling for its extinction, of the Chinese, the CCP, or China.

Whatever real world practical effects that happen on the world when criticizing each of those entities will be the exact same.
I agree, especially with risky parties like banks, or government institutions.

It's always a scary experience.

The funny thing is according to them I was the only contributor from 2016 to the end of 2017. So they must not get many reports.

Since then they did develop a disclosure program, but it would be great to hear from anyone else that reported things to them after the end of 2017.
Discogs is the only place I've been able to find certain LPs, I had no idea it was used as a data service as well!
Wherever you find embedded programmers, you find pain.
Pytorch Reimplementation of the Vision Transformer
So Tesla is being built in China? That's not what I've heard. In fact Tesla has shipped cars to China. Just look at the recent recall. China has their own versions of electric cars (see NIO as an example).
Github is part of critical infrastructure. It is bad enough it is blocked in Iran and some other countries.
Most things related to vitamin D are just correlation. If you are weak and frail you may not get out much and won’t have so much vitamin D. That doesn’t mean giving you vitamin D will make you strong. I heard that most studies don’t show benefits from vitamin D a supplements but maybe I’m wrong.
Such a weird thing to frame this in terms of the Blub Paradox. Regardless of what you think about the paradox, this is what it states:

> But when our hypothetical Blub programmer looks in the other direction, up the power continuum, he doesn’t realize he’s looking up. What he sees are merely weird languages. He probably considers them about equivalent in power to Blub, but with all this other hairy stuff thrown in as well. Blub is good enough for him, because he thinks in Blub.

It's very, very hard to argue Go is "up the power continuum" from Haskell, or that Haskell is a Blub language compared to Go. Everything else can be debatable, but surely not this.

He could have simply said "I was arrogant about Go, and need to look at it from a fresh perspective instead of comparing it to a language I'm more familiar with", no appeals to Blub needed.
What does the election have to do with it? As far as I know, neither major candidate has a realistic plan for climate action.
I'm sure people will start noticing the pattern with these platforms... any day now.
On a related note, if all of the frozen ice goes melty melty, Paris will be underwater. It’s at 35m, and sea levels could rise by 70m if Earth goes full thaw.
It seems one of the RIAA's jobs is doing unpopular things and taking the blame. The recording studios can keep them at arms length and stay reasonably spotless while they are the real responsibles for these actions.