skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The weaker version of this argument which is less likely to be downvoted is,

"A huge fraction of the pit bulls which are currently in shelters are not compatible with most homes who want to adopt dogs"

Pit bulls, whether or not they are inherently aggressive (and let's be honest, you get more aggressive pit bulls than Golden Retrievers), can do a HUGE amount of damage when they are.

Adopting a dog which can't be trusted around kids, much less other dogs (which is REALLY common for pets which end up in shelters), is simply a non-starter for many families, and I don't think it's reasonable to expect otherwise.
Plasticenta: First evidence of microplastics in human placenta [full paper]
> 3. Hit by car. Unneutered pets are much more likely to escape randomly and get hit by cars. Even pets that normally do not run away from their owners.

Is there evidence of a causal relationship here?
Are Codes of Conduct Changing the Diversity Stats in Open Source?
> As someone who is kicking himself every day for turning down a job with Roku a while back...

Same here.

I am not too bothered. Reflecting on the decision, I think the prestige of working at Google is the main reason I turned down Roku. And precisely because that Roku is a promising company, because they are focused on building a business, not building a prestige, for example, a fancy office.

That's one good lesson to learn from this event. Good enough for me.
Amazing stuff! And if you really have managed to solve compile-time memory management, that's super impressive stuff.
>For me it's hard to believe that 4k on 27" is not enough, I use 1440p 27" 144Hz display as daily driver and barely see any pixels

It's not just about "not seeing any pixels", and "barely see any pixels" is not the same as enjoying hi-res typography and fine detail.

27-inch 1440p monitor is about 108 ppi. That's hardly better from what we used in the 90s and 00s, dpi-wise. Sure, if you haven't used to hi-dpi it looks ok. But try using a 5K/27-inch monitor for a while and then go back to 1440p/27-inch to see the difference you miss.

Now, 4K hi-dpi (pixel doubled) on 27" is 1920x1080.

This makes pixels just fine and detail is great, but everything too large and cuts off screen space, as it's 33% less area than 1440p (which, I presume, you don't use pixel-doubled)

The solution is either 5K/27" (which gives you back the 1440p kind of screen space and UI control size PLUS hi-dpi), or using a non-doubled, fractional resolution, to overcome, (which is not optimal, looks fuzzier, and wastes cpu).
Disappointing for the thousands of engineers who spent their lives building that “equipment” and now don’t get to earn rent. Wonder if this will damage the motivation for the next generation of talented engineers.
It's a dying society that enthusiastically castrates its sons yet hesitates over its dogs.
There are so many stories about how flaming hot Cheetos came to be.
this is probably the best answer OP is going to get.

i doubt there was much logic applied, past the idea of getting rich, to the few thousand crypto currencies that were born in the last decade.
Crowdsourced Election 2020/COVID-19 Data
> make sure the floors shine and trust that hard work, and great ideas will make you deservedly insanely rich.

Generally someone who is known for doing a good job of whatever it is that they are doing and has a lot of initiative are going to have more opportunities than someone who doesn't really care to do a good job and has no initiative.

Showing up for practice doesn't mean you will be a great athlete, but not showing up is a good way to dramatically reduce your chances.
> Jeff Bezos studies other “great men” in history and imagines himself to be a kind of Alexander the Great. There's even a building on the Amazon campus called Alexandria, which was the name of one of the company’s early projects to get every single book that had ever been published to be listed on Amazon.

I'd guess the building is named after the Library of Alexandria – one of the largest and most significant libraries of the ancient world – and not because of a god complex as the story implies.
I don't think any body cares about that. Specially when you can collect the plastic balls (because it's in your pool) and recycle it (which I'm sure he did, I don't think he dumped it in his kitchen trash can).
He also uses biodegradable glitter.
> Interview with someone who got an internship at aws and is now parroting things they read online.

FTFY
No, that's just the fee. There is also a tax and it can cost a whole lot more than $5k.
Well, Termux [1] as a ssh client works well enough for the basics when I am too lazy to shift my 'okole to the office.

[1]https://github.com/termux/
Yes there was "a thing where the police arrested press on national tv". That does nothing to change the fact the "Freedom of the Press Foundation" inflates their "arrest" numbers by including journalists being caught up in "kettles" for a short time and released once they got around to checking for press. It is all in their data. They don't even try to hide it and do not see it as disingenuous to include them as arrested or detained.
For actual technical meat, see (pdf) below:

"Design choices for Central Bank Digital Currency -
Policy and technical considerations"

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Design-...
Why was the previous post flagged? This website permits upload and download of publicly sourced data.

Edit: I think it was because the title of my previous post matched the name of the website. Per the Hacker News Guidelines: “If the title includes the name of the site, please take it out, because the site name will be displayed after the link.” Fixed!
Here are some videos of everyday street life from a few different countries:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91w4GkdGfVA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u3IB3Jygus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnDxHTaeNX0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUcTGx-pfvI

You can browse more on your own, just search for random travelogues.

Why hasn't every place devolved into chaos? Why are some places better off than others? Why can't that success be replicated?

Even if dethroning the current power structure does not happen, the ordinary people can still live increasingly comfortable lives as to make the differences practically irrelevant.

Look at the comforts we have access to now. Unprecedented in the history of humankind. Sure, not everyone has a private jet, but everyone can fly. Not everyone can eavesdrop on any conversation in the world, but everyone can have conversations all over the world. We may not have access to military satellites that can peer through buildings, but we do have Google Earth.

You speak of factories and production lines. What if they're all run by robots? Or better, everyone has a 3D printer in their kitchen that can just build an iPhone 42 right there?

How about matter replicators? Cloning pods? Medical immortality? Terraforming and colonizing multiple planets? With everything powered by an endless supply of fusion energy.

Nevermind if all that will be possible any time soon. Cyberpunk gets carried away with pessimistic predictions. I just think there's room for a genre of fiction that runs with optimistic prediction.
I didn't even notice the total lack of bylines or masthead. I shouldn't have thrown in the "verging on" qualifier. It is just flat irresponsible to publish this in this manner.
Neutering a male dog can increase the risk of certain health conditions, including bone cancer, obesity, and hypothyroidism [0]. Not neutering is also associated with certain health risks as well. So it's not clear cut without diving into the research. But this is just to say there are health-related arguments to be made for not neutering a dog.

'Cruel' may be a stretch, as I know the procedure is safe, apart from some minor discomfort to the dog. But you are fundamentally altering your dog, and I just don't want to take it lightly. It will almost certainly change who he is (his behavior, energy).

[0] - Decent summary of benefits and risks, with paper citations at the end. I haven't done a deep dive of the science yet.
https://www.dogsnaturallymagazine.com/long-term-health-risks...
Just comparing modern main battle tanks that can have a change of making difference in the battle.

Russia has: 550 T-90's total. 450 T-80's active, only 170 upgraded. Few thousand outdated tanks unworkable condition. Then maybe up to ~500 T-72B3 (somewhat modernized and in workable conditions). Rest is just junk not touched or upgraded for 30 years after Soviet Union collapsed.

Poland+Germany together have 500 Leopard 2's. France has 400 Leclercs. Britain 200 Challenger 2's. (I'm not counting old but modernized tanks Poland has).
Totally agree, I find a lot of tech is like fashion - leaving and returning again later with a new cooler name.

just doing it because it made sense.

This ^^. Call it what you like - if it works, it works
> More and more, you’ve got 2-3 frontends (web and cross-platform mobile, or explicitly web, iOS and Android), and you want to power them all with the same backend.

RESTful APIs serving up JSON works for all 3, as does GraphQL [...]. This however is totally web-specific - you’ll end up building REST APIs and mobile apps anyways, so the productivity gains end up way smaller, possibly even net negative.

I bet someone will produce a native client library that receives rendered SPA HTML fragments and pretends it's a JSON response. They might even name it something ironic like "Horror" or "Cringe".

That said, an ideal API for desktop web apps looks rather different than one for mobile web or native clients. Basically, for mobile you want to minimize the number of requests because of latency (so larger infodumps rather than many small updates) and minimize the size of responses due to bandwidth limitations and cost (so concise formats like Protocol Buffers rather than JSON).

It is definitely possible to accommodate both sets of requirements at the same API endpoint, but pretending that having a common endpoint implies anything else about the tech stack is rather disingenuous. If you want server-side rendering and an API that delivers HTML fragments instead of PB or JSON, that can be done too.
Stellar is being sued too?
Yes because copyright law is never abused far far beyond the plain text reading of the law... never

/s
I don't like it particularly but let's be specific here. There is a threshold until which you don't get taxed. I remember it used to be about 90K USD/Year but I am too lazy to google right now.
Not sure but never crashed on my side. I'll try again tonight.
I'm not sure that the product the author describes trying to make is really any better than the top-of-the-line Logitech units that sell for $200. I have seen them in action, and unless you're pixel-peeping at 4k, their results are at least on par with a mid-range phone. Without investing $$$ in computational photography to clean up the images, you're not going to get flagship smartphone quality photos out of cellphone-sized assemblies, no matter how high quality they are.

A more interesting take on this space would be to try and offer the same quality as the mirrorless camera setup in a smaller and cheaper package. Upscale to a 1-inch or APS-C chip and a wide aperture lens, and you could get the blurred out background effect naturally, get an overall higher quality image. Without the need for a display and by offloading autofocusing compute to the computer, you'd be able to reduce the per-unit cost substantially below a standalone camera.

Another interesting product for this space would be a teleprompter-style monitor-camera pair that effectively lets you place the camera behind the screen. This allows the user to naturally maintain eye contact with the camera, which can marginally improve connection and trust with the human on the other side of the call. For, say, sales teams that may have to rely more and more on video calls, compared to in-person meetings, this marginal improvement could be worth a lot of money.
This advice will almost certainly result in no deal and leave all parties worse off.

Instead, I would have an open, honest conversation, listen from a place of empathy and generosity and seek a compromise.

The truth is, unless your cofounder has the right to terminate your employment, then continue working and try to create as much harmony as possible.

Co-founder disputes are awful and usually result in the death of the company. But being aggressive will only speed up the Demise not prevent it, and if the company implodes that equity is worth nothing anyway.
A paper on moral arguments regarding neutering

Robbing PETA to Spay Paul: Do Animal Rights Include Reproductive Rights? - David Boonin

https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
In the short term, the market is a voting machine. In the long term, it is a weighing machine. If there is "real" value there it will be reflected in the price and if there is not, that will be reflected in the price as well.

The problem is that humans are impatient and even "short term" may be a couple of decades before it all shakes out.
That movie is a travesty and the people who made it should be punished.

Soni's book is also pulpy trash which reads like a precocious high school student's book report, and manages to make Shannon ... possibly the least boring human of the 20th century .... boring. Gleik's book is reasonable.
Thanks for posting the original article. I remember it being posted earlier on HN. The second I saw the tweet about "Make sure they know a Montanez" mopped it, I knew it was the hot chip story, as that was a line I remember from the article.
Honestly, consumers want similar battery life too.

My current laptop is the latest XPS. What a fucking power-hog. Dell's done well at giving me OK battery life, but I pay for the power with pretty appalling thermals. I LOVE the idea of a fanless laptop that also lasts well into double digit hours. So much so that this is a non-negotiable requirement for me. Just like the Surface lineup instantly disqualified all 16:9 laptops from my life for eternity, the M1 has instantly disqualified shitty thermals for me.
They are running off to sow their oats.
> I'd love to understand the source of it.

I certainly don't hate Mark Rober and am not at all trying to reduce his success - so take this as one opinion in response to your question. There is something about his YouTube content I don't personally enjoy. It's a little hard to articulate, but to me it feels cheesy. I understand his schtick is creating overengineered solutions to life's little annoyances, but his on-screen persona seems put on to me. I get the sense he's a super talented guy who also has an amazing crew and network of friends. I just don't have a swimming pool or access to a trillion orbeez, so perhaps I am more drawn to normal engineers making youtube videos about them hacking on their raspberry pi.
They also teamed up with Crocs to make a chicken-scented line of shoes that look like a bucket of chicken: https://www.crocs.com/KFC.html
This will force investment banks to have an underwriting fee no greater than the expected loss due to the company not understanding "auction theory." Also, any investor that doesn't think they understand auctions can simply wait a day and receive the exact same opportunity that an investment bank would give.
It feels like there is something not being said. Your cofounder just randomly woke up and said you should resign? Nothing triggered it, no prior conflict, no warning? Seems odd to me.
Crypto currency n general seems like a great way to learn about and understand why we have the financial rules for so many other things that we do.
Is this the "the world is hard, best to not try and let our corporate masters think for us" post that's in every thread on HN?

A story can have good parts and bad parts. It does not make you a bad person to like the good parts. It does not make you a bad person to pick out the bad parts. It does make you a bad person to take a dump on someone's comment to "own" them.
By worse, do you mean his recovery was worse? Longer, harder?

I'm planning to make the decision by the time he turns 1, in a few months. While my dog isn't aggressive by any stretch, he is extremely high energy. I do wonder if neutering him will calm him down a little.
Racist people like you make peaceful protests and working for change against racism so much harder. You're just out for revenge and your rhetoric shows it.

Edit: I've had just about enough of people using "white privilege" to justify violence and blatant discrimination because "they haven't been exposed to enough". Its just another way to justify racism. Plenty of white people live in poverty. Its not ok in either direction.
That looks like a vulnerability in a V playground, not a vulnerability in the V language itself.
It is highly likely that there once were intermediate species. When examined in sufficient detail, the line between ancestor and descendant species blurs.
Sadly Soni's book is reads like a precocious high school student's summer book report, and he and his coauthor (who doesn't seem any more qualified than Soni is to write such a thing) manage to misunderstand a bunch of obvious things about Shannon's work and life.

The wiki entry on Shannon's life is more interesting, readable and accurate and wasn't written by soul sick former management consultants.
That's why it says commercially significant.
Well, I found it instantly this morning to quote the price, and just now blew my entire lunchtime trying t find it again.

Anytime I've bought them in the past, I just walked into a Home Depot and asked for "shower board, marker board, the cheap laminated particle wood". There are typically a few types, more like a board, so I ask for the flimsy ones used for cheap showers, and they take me to a stack of them in the lumber area. They are very thin, like an eighth of an inch. You'll need a vehicle larger than a sedan, BTW, this are BIG. But you can also have them cut for you, often no charge.
I'm not sure defining requirements by analogy is a valid process.
Along with gender, being human is a socially defined concept.

It might even be defined by social criteria, quite literally. Yet, Homo economicos is not the only social animal and not the only one with a social conscious either.

Actually, I think you want to talk about humanity as a whole, as an organism to draw a clear distinction, because the level of controlled organization is unparalleled.

In that sense I can agree with your sentiment, because I am not sure how much man's success is really controled and not just the result of sheer luck, despite horrible accidents and individual failure.

On another note, this isn't your websearch box. I went on to write an essay because I tried to take the question serious. This became invariably self centered and thus potentially dehumanizing to everyone else, trying to reclaim the terminus because failing to find an interesting definition which would rest on intricate topics in current research and traditional philosophy, I felt rather insecure, dumb and worried if a strong definition of humanhood would eventually exclude myself, whereas too weak a definition would have barely any utility to anyone. It is quite poetic, here's the climax:

"The collective memory greatly expands that capacify, so it can remain out of the question if an individual ape has a low mental capacity, if you won't ever find enough monkeys assembled around a typewriter as you can find humans in the market place trying to dictate the value of life."

To double down on that, let's say the appropriate question goes who is.... Whereas what rather goes along as relative pronoun to denote possession. What has a human, well, a typical human has many humans around them, above and below. Whereas a single human is practically dead, if not conserved in living memory.

Next up: Human rights for Artifical General intelligence and bionic hind brains for poor hackernews commentators, where to draw the line.
Yes funnily enough a Rails feature will only help those who code with Rails
Gold futures are very liquid. They are as liquid as stocks. Any commodity future is much more liquid than any crypto.
The nearly 1 second compilation is impressive, but why claim it has 0.2 second compile time when using a cache? It doesn’t represent the real-world time it would take to compile v or another program from fresh in order to install it.
Even more readable, the source article from three years ago: https://thehustle.co/hot-cheetos-inventor/
Children will also chase a ball into a busy street, or eat candy for every meal if given the chance. Maybe there's a virtue to knowing which childlike behaviors are worth keeping.
The backstory of Ken MacLeod's "The Cassini Division" involves an Earth with a practical socialist utopia, but the main action involves the unceasing war against the uploaded capitalist class who have taken over Jupiter...
You need to ask for lots of advice but ultimately you need to make your own mind up about the situation.

This is a hot potato, everyone is going to have an opinion. So for this reason you need to make your mind up.

Source: this thread - there's some very strong opinions here. Get some 121 advice instead, this thread is just guidance only.
I applaud both the janitor for his initiative and the executive for listening and giving credit where credit is due. I feel like in big companies today, including tech companies that are overly praised for their culture, there is little room for such a story to unfold. More likely than not, someone with initiative has donated their idea and strategy to the company for free, while someone else gets put in charge of executing it, and capturing the career benefits. It’s cynical I know and I’m sure there are counterexamples, but the vast majority of attempts at such initiative don’t go anywhere.
ETHE is backed by ETH. If ETHE gets sold, ETH gets sold - ~0.01 ETH per ETHE.
Can someone comment on how significant this is, wrt tech startups choosing if/when to go public? My understanding is that tech startups are primarily delaying going public, because of the compliance requirements, and the short-term pressures of reporting their revenues/profits. To what extent are IPO fees holding them back?
Lots of rails back end applications power SPAs on the front end. Sometimes for good reasons, often enough just because it was more "modern" - but much less efficient in terms of programming.
Have you given any thought to choosing a longer name for the lang? I really hate single letter identifiers. By going to 2 symbols you reduce term overloading by ~35x on average, ~3 you get 1,000x less namespace conflicts.

Though I guess "VLang" works.
>If every Apple stock holder would try to sell it today, the market cap would plummet.

This is often repeated but not necessarily true. I don't own a particularly large amount of Apple stock, but if the price dropped even a little bit, and if I knew the drop was due to nothing more than this weird thing where everyone was selling for some reason, I might decide to own more. If aliens sent out a mind control signal that caused every Apple shareholder to start selling, the buyers (whoever they were, maybe the aliens? ;) ) would compete with each other to buy.

To give you a concrete example, let's say I am the only owner in the world of a flying car. One day, I decide to sell it. 100% of the owners of flying cars have decided to sell, but the price would clearly not drop to zero! The idea that everyone selling implies the price will drop to zero applies to pure Keynesian beauty contests where 100% of the value is in owning something perceived to be valuable. For currencies that is completely true, but for companies that is less true.
I thought we were talking about hardware.