skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
there is nothing Japanese

"Christian missionaries were among the first to introduce Japan to Western mechanical spring driven clocks. Francis Xavier, a Spanish Society of Jesus saint and missionary, gave Ouchi Yoshitaka, a daimyō of the Sengoku period, a mechanical clock in 1551"

Japanese looked at the internals and just copied made small improvements
OR

Maybe I'm just being an old curmudgeon. I guess we'll see.

When predicting the future, ego gets involved. We invest at least a little of our pride. We want to be right.

The problem is you could be both right and wrong at the same time. The outcome could be what you foresee, but not for the reasons you think.

What if Librem 5 will never be more than a fun developer's toy, but for other unrelated reasons? Sorry, that's cheating.
What is the best argument against it? And the whole JVM platform in general (Kotlin, Scala, Clojure...)
As someone who has set up a number of "simple" visualizing systems using the exact toolpath you mention (cron, shell scripts, rrdtool), I can say with some authority that getting them right was never simple.

And the load of dozens to hundreds of data points in rrd is shockingly large. Our infrastructure utilization dropped by 30% when I switched from a Graphite/collectd setup to gathering MORE data more frequently with telegraf and influxdb.
The person asked "what's it like living in east idaho" - and I answered based on some very detailed descriptions provided to me by people who've spent a lot of time there. I consider it an unavoidable fact that unless you are an ideological match with the majority of the persons who already live there, it's going to be a very miserable experience. Some of the social attributes that I described are statistically documented for that region in poll data.

Considering that probably 40% of your hn comments seem to be some variety of partisan axe grinding on American-specific political issues, maybe you might want to take a look in the mirror first.
Using first principles to become a better Product Manager
Yes I think it's both those things, and really a few different projects with overlapping goals:

Cree# itself as a general-purpose language based on C#/Java with Cree keywords

Ancestral Codes and wisakecak as multimedia versions of the language, what he calls the "digital storytelling apparatus." Here he's bringing in cultural logic from Cree, with programs as stories written to the Raven, as interpreter of the code, used to record and present stories from Cree elders, etc

And then the Indigenous Toolkit to help other communities build programming languages around their own traditions
Well right now you basically can't ever check for equality with floating-point arithmetic and trust that two numbers that should intuitively be equal are reported as equal.

For me, floating-point equality would be if there are any parts that overlap. Basically "=" would mean "to the extent of the floating-point accuracy of this system, these values could be equal".

If you're doing a reasonably limited number of operations with values reasonably larger than the error range, then it would meet a lot of purposes -- you can add 0.5 somewhere in your code, subtract 0.5 elsewhere, and still rely on the value being equal to the original.
The Pragmatic Programmer Quick Reference Guide (1999)
They could add a signature check to the wrapper script to resolve this concern.
> His Computers Will All Boot Super Fast

I'd argue that this is correct in spirit. Not because operating systems boot really fast, but because they have been designed to not need to boot at all. The only time I need to cold boot my computer or phone is after an update (which is maybe every 2-3 months?)

> He Won’t Go to the Movies

This is not TBD but straight up wrong. Pandemic notwithstanding, there is no end to movie theaters in sight.
Correct! I was referring to the disclosures of corporate officers not made by Delaware.
I'm not in finance, but my impression from reading literature from those who are is that no one uses vanilla B–S for pricing options. One reason is the volatility smile: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volatility_smile.
There is a TGV station in CDG.
With my new TV, I have a "modern" remote with few buttons because everything happens in the UI. When I watch TV I need sometimes to enable subtitles (only on non-French speaking channels). With a traditional bulky remote I had a subtitle button: simple and straightforward. With the new remote I must click on a menu, navigate through items, select subtitles, and close the overlay window. It's really annoying. I miss old big Sony remotes with a lot of options for subtitles, image ratio, sound, speed control...
There was that whole COD WAR thing which was pretty intense at the time, and fishing quotas have been a thing in The Sun for a while, but I agree it doesn't feel like a huge part of the general identity.
https://www.keycdn.com/support/png-to-webp

WebP could be a good option.
Please don't post flamebait or swipes to HN. It leads to tedious, nasty threads.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I worked on a relatively compact head mounted display that the company thought would be successful for 3D movies (this was 2005/6). They also imagined that users would want to watch this content while traveling on airplanes. We did some (cheaper) user testing by putting people in the back of a limo and driving on highway 280 in the bay area. One of the users had to pull over to vomit. He was an ex-fighter pilot.

I still question if VR will ever truly take off.
I agree largely with your response, but

> And where is the evidence that Colonialists had 'consistent, closer contact' in hew New World, than in Africa?

In Africa, Europeans died off rapidly due to local diseases. Consequently, the early slave trade was centered in the islands off of Africa itself, and mediated by a mulatto class who were less susceptible.
Attract Investors with Your Website
We're having a hard time getting investors for a hardware/music startup.

Our startup, aloom, is a smart light that visualizes the emotion in audio (music, gaming, tv) to create more engaging experiences, controlled by an app and its smart onboard firmware.

We have finished our first MVP of the app and have our smart light (the hardware) close to being ready for beta testing (like in a week)

My question is how important is having a good website that tells you about the product and our team working on it?
Do investors really take the time of viewing a website?
Are there better ways of getting investors interested in hardware startups than using a website as a representation of who we are and what we do?

The website is at https://aloom.io
I think the vast majority of ticket price goes to the studio. The theater makes money off concession sales.
> Another thing Draftsmen made me > realize is the actual art (or at least > craftsmanship) of comics

Reminded me of Strip Panel Naked.
Great video breakdowns of comic book story telling theory.
Racket: Languages as Libraries (2011) [pdf]
Anecdata, after a non-techy family member's phone stopped being updated, it had an uptime of over 2 years by the time it was replaced.

If more people had the option of long-term support releases and live kernel patching with computers, I would expect similar results with laptops.
With regards to optical disks, the number of movies available digitally is still much smaller than those available on media.
Ant wasn't bad, it was a big step up from using Make for Java builds.

Maven wasn't bad either. It tried to enforce convention over configuration, while also introducing a native dependency management mechanism.

Gradle was/is bad and serves no real purpose.
Let's not have a hellwar about this please. Anything so repetitive (and likely so nasty) is off topic here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
> Also Germany has double the population density, so even the less dense parts have more people.

That is not causal.

Some countries have a higher population density, but the population is mostly concentrated in one area and the low density areas are really low density.

I presume there is a standard way to compare density distributions between countries.
I expect it's not so simple. People aren't rational about pricing. I expect a lot of people would be outraged if you tried to charge more for a movie expected to have a popular open.

They already do a lot of price variation in the release process, by the time it gets to cable their marginal revenue is something like a few cents.
Just to clarify, The Force Report was the result of over a year of work by journalists that had to fight tooth and nail for every FOIA request and they freely acknowledge it is imperfect. To me at least it is something our government should be already doing.
What kind of disruption on the state do you imagine could come from “hackers”?
It doesn’t seem like Apple, but that would be awesome. It could be something for internal infrastructure, but the mention of ARM and SOCs seems to say otherwise...
> And as for the EU, sure it is a bureaucratic hell, but it’s core values are imo at the right place.

This is the most dangerous attitude you can take and an example of how fragility is built; when focus is on values/intent rather than outcome, bad things happen. See: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

Btw, to not be misunderstood, I’m not anti EU by all measures, rather against the governance structure and the increasing drive to going into a full-blown federation
Speed is fine, in the larger monorepo projects I have worked on implementing plugins using the worker architcture and paying attention to parallelism by splitting things into sub-projects appropriately always kept build time reasonable.

You are correct that the biggest problem is that many people treat it as a distraction/unimportant part of their workflow and then wonder why things go badly.

As the most senior member on most teams I am on I take it on myself to take charge of the builds, CI and other tooling to ensure this doesn't happen and all engineers are productive. Unfortunately that isn't a solution for everyone but IMO it's how it should be, you make yourself a 10x engineer by magnifying the performance of your other team members.
Say you have https://this.is-a-professional-domain.com/4Hhtqcf.jpg and you want that glow on a transparent background. In GIMP, I'd select the chip, Select>Invert, Color>Color to Alpha and it would just work. I tried to do it in Photoshop and couldn't figure it out.
The observer article on the blackout in Turkey caused allegedly by Iran is just an opinion piece and claims to be one.
I guess, most of it is true for poorer folks where children only get a smartphone or tablet instead of a PC.
There's at least one past discussion on this topic:

Is Passive Investment Actively Hurting the Economy? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11271758 - March 2016 (93 comments)

... but I'm sure there have been others.

Edit: ah yes - they've been "communist?" and "evil?" for a few years now:

Hidden Dangers of the Great Index Fund Takeover - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22085637 - Jan 2020 (89 comments)

Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20877700 - Sept 2019 (317 comments)

Half of US stock fund assets are now invested in index funds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20020997 - May 2019 (206 comments)

Are Index Funds Communist? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18934946 - Jan 2019 (31 comments)

Bogle Sounds a Warning on Index Funds - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18568088 - Nov 2018 (229 comments)

The growth in passive funds has caused markets to become more correlated? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18144394 - Oct 2018 (183 comments)

The Growing Peril of Index Funds: Too Much Tech - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16021681 - Dec 2017 (68 comments)

Are Index Funds Evil? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14993516 - Aug 2017 (5 comments)

Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14145308 - April 2017 (347 comments)

A Professor Who Was Right About Index Funds All Along - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12768319 - Oct 2016 (213 comments)

Are Index Funds Eating the World? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12368136 - Aug 2016 (156 comments)

Are Index Funds Communist? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12354590 - Aug 2016 (13 comments)

Index Funds May Work Too Well - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10009740 - Aug 2015 (198 comments)

Can You Really Game Index Funds? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9847706 - July 2015 (48 comments)

Index Funds Considered Harmful (Possibly Evil) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2258270 - Feb 2011 (18 comments)

Ask HN: Does an index fund count as diversifying? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1157620 - Feb 2010 (20 comments)
Hopefully there is an exit hatch for electric aircraft once they become a reality?
Twitter death threats are meaningless. You should ignore them. (2013)
A) Yes, it still collects sales tax on the purchase. (Sales tax is owed by the buyer, not the seller).
B) The company would still owe CA tax on the revenue from selling the phone.
C1) California would disregard the IP royalty, so no deduction for the Delaware shenanigans.
C2) Other states will grant the deduction...but tax the royalty on nexus grounds, and the subsidiary won't have apportionable expenses to offset the royalty income, resulting in a higher net tax burden for the corporate group .
One big advantage is the Gradle daemon, which (in return for consuming all available memory) saves you from having to spin up the JVM every time you build and can be substantially faster.

It seems someone has recently created something similar for Maven: https://github.com/mvndaemon/mvnd
I'd be interested to hear the answer as well!

I am neither an Unreal nor games developer, but in case nobody provides a better answer...

From what I've heard, what makes source control tricky for game development is all of the non-text files.

Git's distributed "everybody has a local copy of the entire repo" approach is not well suited for binary assets, especially large and frequently changing ones. Nearly any "modern" game development project will have gigabytes if not terabytes of these. Imagine you're a game coder and every `get fetch` grabs another 400GB of textures from the level designers.

Last I heard many game dev shops still used Subversion instead of git for precisely this reason.

There are also workarounds/extensions for git; not sure of their maturity/adoption.
Maybe they're homeless and housing prices are so high because of the fact that there are a myriad of people that make it a landlords market. Meaning, ample demand, minimal supply.

Homesless people fall in several camps. However, why is it that homelessness is a bigger issue in CA vs NY? Likely because CA has been lax on homelessness to a degree where aimless vagabonds and drug addicts think it's acceptable. It's not. For reasons economic and ethical. Nobody wants homelessness and nobody wants to be homeless. But from the outside looking in, when you tolerate it like CA does, it seems like a lot of homeless people are content with it. Which sets a precedent that being homeless is okay in those cities.
Eh, most of these were already true when he predicted them (in 2012).
This is why games and certain other types of coding use fixed point arithmetic.
> massively inconvenient

Combating climate change will cause massive inconvenience.

> So... do I have this right that I won't be able to fly from New York to Lyon, it just won't exist even though they both have airports? I'll have to fly into Paris and add 3 hours to my already-long trip and make a totally separate train booking, and worry about if lose the train ticket if the flight is delayed?

This is FUD. If you search airfrance.com for flights from New York to Lyon, the fastest connection you get is indeed two flights connecting at CDG (11 hours total time). The second fastest connection (11:30) is also a connection at CDG... taking a direct train to Lyon. Such flight+train combinations have existed for a long time.
Throw some biological matter into the sun, and it'll be sterile before it gets there. So technically…
I think of them as Hashtables minus collision handling.
That makes BS essentially a very expensive interpolation method, where you get to pretend to the auditors that you can hedge away your delta perfectly.
The vol smile is mostly a byproduct of greater demand for far OTM options to hedge tail risk, alongside more sellers for ATM options which depresses the middle portion of the curve. I am not sure why this is a problem
MiSTer is an amazing phenomenon. The MiSTer itself is just an Intel FPGA devkit, which many believe to be sold at a loss (because it's a training tool and not Intel's main source of FPGA revenue). The amazing thing is the aftermarket for addons. There are many possible combinations of addon boards that add RAM with deterministic latency, USB hubs, cooling fans, cases, retro controller ports, etc. All custom-made for this ecosystem.
The problem is solved in many languages such as Java by suffixing F to the numbers.
It is definitely much better since mid January with increasing satellite density. Getting the antenna to a really high position on your roof with no tree obstructions around is important. Right now it's averaging about 0.28% loss to Seattle over the past 3 hours. But there are still some very brief periods of 4-5 second hiccups. Based on the monitoring systems I have running, it's more like 0.00% loss for long extended periods of the time now, and then a minute or two with about 10% loss. I haven't tested it a lot for online gaming but realtime voice/video conference type stuff all appears to work normally.

There is presently a very big difference in simultaneous satellite density and lack of gaps at 49N vs 44-45N, however.
I think the phrase "the de-facto standard for estimating the price of stock options" is just imprecise. It's the standard for generating the statistics like implied volatility, etc. But it's definitely not used to estimate the fair price of a new option, there are much newer models and methods to do that.
Well, I'm a bit behind the times. I thought my son would never use a viola da gamba.
Yeah I just watched some videos that is extremely related by this modern homesteader (and YouTuber! -- apparently he was on the TV show "Alone").

He says "one of the best pieces of advice I've ever gotten is: Don't trade a gun for a snow machine". This is exactly what you're saying, and it's backed up by a lot of experience living without power and water!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH15Kua5P1Y&t=918s

He also says "everyone one of us has to decide when to jump ship on a technology"

He says canoes peaked in the 1960's, and you can buy a used one for like $125 that's the same as what you'd buy today for thousands. Same with hand saws. He maintains old saws and chainsaws and uses them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BH15Kua5P1Y&t=746s

when you look at any kind of manufactured goods a lot of things have reached their peak and are either poorer quality than they used to be or they're just the same quality as their peak

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I found this channel via a video about building an off grid cabin from scratch for a couple thousand dollars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOOXmfkXpkM

It's good -- a lot of it is built by hand with a hammer and nails. He even says load bearing screws are too expensive, and nails are better!

All of the advice reminds me of Taleb, because it's not necessarily trying to be "right", but rather distilling rules of thumb from practice.
No. It is externalities not properly being accounted for in the cost.
I did review this and my understanding is that for “self-hosted” wallet apps like this where the keys are on users devices and there is no custody, Signal is clearly not classified as a VASP/payment processor.

Care to point to the contradictory section? Because that would be drastic and contrary to anything I’ve heard.
I just bought a 2TB NVMe SSD for like $160. I doubt I will ever use a mechanical drive again for anything other than NAS setup.
NFT tulips – straight out of Shoreditch
> I'm not a lawyer but I can't see how having every court case public is a good thing.

Well for one, the US has a common law legal system, so it's entirely dependent on the public availability of court cases. In terms of fairness, I think the current status quo is (in this limited respect) very reasonable; you're entitled to absolutely iron-clad privacy in the interactions which you pay for, which are your interactions with your attorney. When you start making use of public funds by bringing your dispute to the courts, the public has a right to know what it's money is being spent on and it has a right to know what's going on in the community. The vast majority of legal disputes are settled in state district courts, which are local in scope.

I also don't think privacy mixes well with the degree to which the judiciary is uniquely unaccountable, though this is admittedly less and less relevant as time goes on since basically nobody in government is accountable for anything at this point.
In addition to large binary asset files, in Unity you have tons of yaml files that you don’t edit by hand. If you make a small change to a scene with the editor, it can change dozens of lines in the corresponding yaml file.

Now imagine 2 people working on the same scene. When you attempt to merge, you have to read and understand an auto generated file that was never intended for human consumption.

To a lesser degree, it’s analogous to using line based source control on a jpeg to handle merging edits made in photoshop.
Those vanguard fees that you reference aren't really applicable in a comparison with WealthFront. Those are one-time fees when you buy and sell shares, and only apply to a very small number of mutual funds (emerging markets bonds, international real estate, etc). Most vanguard investors don't invest in these funds or pay those fees, and I believe WealthFront doesn't even offer equivalent investments.

On the other hand, you pay that 0.25% fee that WealthFront charges every year, regardless of the performance of your portfolio, and it can pretty quickly amount to thousands of dollars per year.

Most brokerages (Vanguard, Schwab, Robinhood, etc) don't charge any sort of equivalent fee - they are free to open and maintain. And yes it is fairly easy to construct an equivalent portfolio made up of ETFs in a standard brokerage account. You would be losing out on the convenience of WealthFront's automated rebalancing and tax-lost harvesting, though.

Is the convenience of automated investment, rebalancing, and tax-lost harvesting worth paying 0.25% of your total account balance every year? For me, no. But I know some people who are really happy with services like WealthFront and Betterment. Especially for someone just getting started with investing, I would have no issues recommending those services.

Edit: also just noticed you are referring to a retirement account. In that case, WF's tax-loss harvesting feature would not be applicable (since retirement accounts are tax-free), so even less of an incentive to go with WF vs. DIY.
> However, if you're already arriving or leaving on a long distance flight, the whole overhead of getting to/from/through the airport disappears and those 1.5 hours start making a difference.

There is a workaround for this. For long distance flight, take a company where the international/local connection takes place outside France: KLM through Amsterdam, Lufthansa through german airports, Brussels Airlines through Brussels...

This is already what I always do when I have to make a long distance flight because Paris Charles de Gaulle airport is horrendous and Air France is prone to mass cancellations when there is a strike.

But this is doable because I live in Toulouse which has bad train infrastructure but is well connected to the rest of Europe by plane.