skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's absolutely not true. It's one viewpoint of a person with obvious liberal views - not all clients and employees drink the neoliberal Kool-Aid. In fact, many people outside of the SV would become more loyal to Basecamp and many suggested in comments on previous posts that the no-politics policy makes Basecamp a more attractive employer for them.
The GP shouldn't have gone holocaust but accusing them of anti-semitism is a serious escalation and not at all cool. Please omit such swipes from your comments here. If there's real evidence of anti-semitism, you should let us know at hn@ycombinator.com. But bringing something like that up frivolously, as ammunition in an internet spat, is degrading.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is anyone familiar enough to know if Arrow is also targeting usage by libraries like Lucene?
Yes, and those companies become living spinoffs of HBO's Silicon Valley.
I shoot (or used to) with a DSLR, but I have to say that mirrorless is just superior. Much less bulky, fewer moving components to break, better performance.

You can pry my shutter sound from my cold, dead hands, though.
It feels like you're adding about 30-50ms onto the base latencoes here. Are you/were you fairly far from any major internet exchanges when ISDN and ADSL arrived?
I can relate to most of this. agree.
Thanks @Nextgrid for this explanation. It's just weird for me when Firefox is making so much marketing about its privacy features, but most of them don't exist on mobile (which is approx. 50% of the whole internet traffic). For iOS I agree it's not their fault, but it's still a big issue.
As long as your country is offering something that 90% of Earth’s population lacks (access to high-quality free healthcare which is what people usually mean as “universal”) then, yes, you’re going to attract a lot of freeloaders.
Differentially Private Synthetic Data
Totally agreed. Look at Teddy Locsin, top diplomat from the Philippines. He's sick and tired of naval incursions by his ambitious neighbor so he went on quite a vulgar rant against them.
This is wonderful. The optional features include surround-sound music and a dry-powder toilet. Could almost be an April Fools article.

I can see this for hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, shockwaves from nuclear attacks.

Not so much for earthquakes.
Blockchain Is Not Decentralised
I have heard of some people that would just disable the antenna and haven't heard of starting issues.... but I have doubts about it being 100% effective. IE: Once I wrapped a wireless device in aluminum foil and it could still transmit... I think that to be 100% effective as a Faraday cage, it needs to be grounded too but of course it is a different story for an antenna but...
> In what ways could capital be made less necessary?

By reducing the cost of anything and everything that startups spend money on.

(And for the largest item in many budgets, namely employee costs... in the presence of an adequate social safety net, cash-strapped startups could pay employees in equity rather than cash, and they could stick around for as long as they thought it might be worth something in the end).

Somewhat separately, what struck me from the article is that Zhu's controversial moves generally didn't involve bad business decisions, but rather failing to impress investors at a moment when the company needed the money. It would be better if that need for money were reduced, and we could all see how this type of experimental style turns out.
Would you rather earn upvotes that are worthless outside of a single app? That's a genuine question.

It's not about valuable vs worthless. Both are valuable. "Cryptocurrency" just allows you to transfer or exchange that value.
I guess that's "worth it" for some people here.

The joke is, those people already missed out.

"Crypto", no way that moniker lasts, is already in the greedy phase. Stay back, especially if those crypto dreams include money you shouldn't gamble with (student loans, seriously, don't do it).
As an HN user, when I die my notes might just disappear with me.

My family probably won't be able to log into my custom made blog. It will go on for a few years then the domain will expire.

My phone which gets unlocked with fingerprint or a 6 digit pin will remain locked forever. My computer, also with a secure password and encrypted hard drive will remain locked.

All my accounts with secure passwords will remain unreachable.

My dropbox which contains all my unpublished notes and books will probably expire and get deleted.

I'll have to print some instructions and lock them in a safe for my family.
When all websites are tracking you and keeping tabs on your that's hardly decent
One of the questions used to screen blood donors in the U.S. is whether they lived in the U.K. in the early 1990s. If you answer "yes," you can't donate.

The reason is the outbreak there of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, aka "mad cow disease") and the human variant mentioned in the article, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (vCJD) which may lie dormant for decades IIRC.
What if the capsule gets stuck with the door on to bottom and unable to wiggle?
As an American living in a country where vaccine passports are being used, but not available (yet) to foreigners (apparently due to existing systems needing to be upgraded to handle creating ID documents for non-citizens), I'm experiencing first-hand the dark side of vaccine passports. Citizens have access to everything, and non-citizens (even being here legally) do not.

I know vaccines are available to everyone in the US, regardless of citizenship or not. But there are quite a few people who may still have difficulty or be unable to get a vaccine and/or vaccine passport due to their citizenship status. Any use of a vaccine passport system should address these inequalities before being enforced, but there are many conceivable reasons why that probably won't happen. And while the pandemic should be virtually over in the US in a matter of months, vaccine passports would probably stick around for a lot longer than that, exacerbating inequalities that do not need to be exacerbated.

Quite frankly, there are many "less restrictive ways" to encourage vaccine acceptance and end the pandemic without vaccine passports. You don't have to be conservative to see think that arguments that we need to keep stripping away Americans' rights, despite rapidly decreasing cases and deaths, deserve criticism.
Theoretically, yes.

With enough batteries and 2x-3x power production over demand you can have 100% renewable grid.

It might require to cut amazon forest and cover it with solar panels, but possible, yes.
There are already export regulations on AI in the US[1], Europe is proposing some heavy restrictions[2], and there have been local bans on some uses already[3][4].

[1]: https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/5/21050508/us-export-ban-ai-...

[2]: https://www.wired.com/story/europes-proposed-limits-ai-globa...

[3]: https://www.wired.com/story/portlands-face-recognition-ban-t...

[4]: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/facial-recognition-ban...
> Zhu believed "the company were too focused on sales and money at the expense of altruistic goals". Excuse me? You're running a company with other peoples' money at stake with the express understanding that you will seek to maximize their returns.

A guy has a cool idea, then he needs money to make it big. Some people give the money in the hope that they will maximize their return. The fact they give money doesn't give them total power.

I've been in that situation of having a cool idea with investor interested. Believe me, those with the money quickly think your idea is theirs and all of a sudden you're reduced to that : an initial idea, a starting point. As soon as money is put in, you basically don't exist anymore. I don't consider that a fair deal; it's a deal with vultures.

So, yep, Zhu got my sympathy.
Reporting like this infuriates me - it's nothing more than gossip when presented this way:

"He wore cargo shorts and a T-shirt to a meeting with Geodesic, a VC firm founded by John Roos, a former U.S. ambassador to Japan. An Iterable board member later informed him Geodesic wouldn’t invest, implying it was partly because of his casual attire. A person familiar with the firm’s thinking says Zhu’s attire didn’t factor into the firm’s decision"

So was it the shorts or was it not the shorts? If the reporter has a solid source saying it wasn't the shorts, then why bring it up at all, unless the gossip aspect of it fits your narrative...
And then when you look at the other end of the age distribution in those diagrams, you have a lot of women over 65 going without, AFAICS mainly because the older men they've partnered with are dead already.

Technically / logically / mathematically, the solution seems blindingly obvious: Women as a group could help not only (younger) men as a group, but themselves (later in life) too, simply by selecting their partners more from their own age range.
Your first sentence seems like an axiom.

To your second point, millions of people do still and have believed this: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism

‘I am’ is a fun one to think about :)
Everyone looks bad here, to me. Zhu seems like a weirdo (who thinks it's a good idea to try your first LSD microdose right before a big meeting?), but the investors also seem like they were manipulative and removed him for somewhat arbitrary reasons.
Hi, all. Author of the project here. Sorry to have caused some confusion: this is part of a research project, and it's not yet meant to be terribly legible to a public audience.

In the near-term, this project is about augmenting written texts so that readers can easily remember the key details. See https://quantum.country for an example or https://numinous.productions/ttft for detailed background and discussion.
As whimsicalism says, it's like Anki.

You get the question and then the answer; if you remember the answer, the question won't be re-asked for a longer time, if you don't, the question will be re-asked sooner.

It appears (?) to be a sort of global tool---you embed your flashcards into the text you are writing and the reader gets asked your questions in addition to questions from the math book they read last week or last month.
it's pretty clear to me. people coming from other languages are used to typing less characters and expressing their ideas like that, and they want to type less characters in go.

for go, a language that idiomizes variable names like `f`, you think that people would be more on board with fewer characters. There are many other areas where go has chosen to avoid tidying up the syntax/making lives easier in the name of simplicity, though I digress.

As for your earlier question of "why don't you pick another language," I think this is a silly question to ask. The vast majority of people working for hire are not picking their language. If you have a few hundred kloc written in go, I doubt very much people are in a position to casually introduce new languages, especially if they're trying to improve the current system.
> I do think this is about understanding, as it's not about syntax, or what feels nicer. It's about building blocks and what comes before what. Given the nature of the proposed library, to give the users an arbitrarily less abstract construct is a design mistake as I mentioned in another comment in this thread.

Per my earlier comment, it's only "a design mistake" if you assume that it's always better to trade readability for abstraction. This isn't always the case, and in professional software engineering it's often better to optimize for readability--rarely are high degrees of abstraction beneficial (of course, someone will respond to this with some anecdotes of the instances in which high degrees of abstraction are helpful, which is just an enumeration fallacy).
Hello, Modules
Think of the chaos if people didn’t feel safe driving their cars. You don’t need full control to achieve that.
Yeah, I saw that. I guess I'm a just a little disappointed that nobody at the TimescaleDB team saw through the process. But I understand if you have higher priorities.

I still wonder what other people are using to feed information into TimescaleDB. I'm wondering if I should switch to a different approach, such as using Telegraf but routing the data to something else that will push data into TimescaleDB.
The Linux Foundation Tab Report on the UMN Affair
Functional societies existed long before central banking and costless money creation
I saw that video as well and what struck me was that the treadmill detected a jam, reversed direction briefly (almost completely freeing the kid) and then resumed normal running (sucking the kid back in). In what world is it reasonable to have that sequence happen on a treadmill a person is running on with no human input?
> A carbon tax would be more popular at if it was redistributed to the citizenry.

The Washington state plan included this redistribution. People didn't go for it.
by then, it might be easier to retrofit them with solar panels and batteries, or H2 power to gas, who knows? Not joking, the lines and transformers are a very big part of a new plant cost, and you already have that setup in place.
I was conceeding to make sure I understood them correctly.

The problem is, if you have only two tones, the lower one is essentially the base frequency in my address. But I'm assuming you have somewhat of a natural buzz, or resonant frequencies from the environment that command the base frequency for you, so you can't take any two intervals and compare them as if they were relatively same. This should be relevant especially if you play them one after another to compare, no?
Too bad spheres rotate and occupants will be sideways or upside down.
I'm similarly confused. It seems to be a family of table encodings that sacrifice encoding simplicity for compactness. PyArrow implements parquet files for example, but also I think feather? PR for this project is a mess. Front page should be a bullet point list of deliverables rather than aspirations nobody understands
SpiderMonkey (Firefox JavaScript Engine) has a new website
Maybe being a bank is just more complicated today than it used to be
But isn't it the point to make, e.g., steel and concrete construction include external costs? Vs, e.g. wood? Or renovating buildings instead of tearing down and rebuilding?

You could also have tax paid off over time. E.g. a concrete building that lasts 60 years, vs a stick build that lasts 20. Bricks are frequently recycled, >100 year lifetime.

I'm open to hearing counter-examples, i.e., where there is an external cost to not manufacturing a high CO2 cost product. The examples I've seen so far are really arguments about competition with BRICS economies, and their bizarre exemption from controls.
The Curse of the A-Word
> Why is it frustrating when others point out

Because it's painful to be awaken from the "American dream".
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Even in simpler days 1980's when the CFO brought an off the peg Accounts receivable system, that caused problems with the billing system I worked on.

Eventually the system started writing broken BACS tapes and I had to fix the 6-7 months backlog of direct debits.

Neither the Company Secretary or I got even a thank you for fixing the problems.

Ok I did put Jack Scofield's (prominent uk tech journalists) bank account into the red :-)
that is true. everything is a separate dyno - means separate machine/vm to which you need to connect to. You get free tier for almost all databases and you only need to know how to connect to it, not tinkering with the storage, tune the parameters, scheduled backups, automatic scalability etc - that's done for you. it will become expensive once you go past free tier or the cheap tiers though.
As the article admits, they'll probably find someone to do this for free. And if someone agrees to do this for free, we'll, that's how much it costs.

I'm sure they'll get their money's worth.
Long story short: Apache Arrow defines a format for (tabular) data to allow efficient computation and easier interop and sharing data between different frameworks.
Why do you think Varna and Caste are the same? [1]

1. https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/questions/39862/are-varna...
Kotlin is great but it'll probably be harder to hire/onboard devs going forward.

IntelliJ is a huge productivity booster that helps with verbosity and the null issue.

Btw Java 9 introduced jshell which is an interactive REPL.
I don't understand your thesis. Only Americans care about race? Only Americans homogenize outside cultures? I mean you just rolled a country large enough to encompass 30 different European countries, where over 300 different languages are spoken into a single cultural belief system, but go off sis...

Your point: There are more races/ethnicities than skin colors would show exactly why it should be relatively simple to undertake this project: a black person from the US, Congo, or the Dominican Republic could all use the same emoji.

I get that you seem to be here exclusively to dunk on ugly American, but I don't think caring about race is something exclusive to the US. If you're from Europe, remember: we learned it from watching you dad.
Arrow itself is a standardised in-memory columnar data representation. The benefit of this is you can then send data between processes without needing to be concerned with serialise/deserialise. There's then a growing ecosystem around this, e.g. Flight for making the sending of data easier, DataFusion for querying, etc.
> working writers and have an immediate project they’re working on that could benefit from collaborating with an AI. If this sounds like you

Not sure. I'm not a professional writer. I just finished my first novel (in French) and am starting a new one in English. I think the idea is great and quite original but I struggle a bit with scene ideas and general structure.

I think what I'm looking for is a sparring partner... Maybe I just need to paint a face on a volleyball...
I was excited until I read your comment. I agree that’s a very important distinction.
I’ve been testing this new ad format for two days now (for my indie game). There is no way to target keywords, only gross demographics like gender and age range. So it’s yielding very poor results compared to keyword ads. Probably only useful for massive campaigns by apps with very broad appeal, not niche apps.
> > A few thousand were estimated to eventually die from cancer related to the incident.

> How many people could conceivably be downwind of a nuclear meltdown? I think it could be much much more than that. I can't imagine why we would not include the people who eventually die of cancer.

The several thousand figure does include the people who are predicted to eventually die from cancer.

Only 31 people died as a direct consequence of the meltdown.
Thanks! The text is still relevant but those demos are a little old. If you're curious these demos are from last week (using Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFFs under the hood to serve image data quickly):

- https://studio.unfolded.ai/public/9a2c5cd8-f0f0-43ce-b231-78...

- https://studio.unfolded.ai/public/96c70224-dd89-431f-ae7a-0a...

- https://studio.unfolded.ai/public/af792fd8-1990-4cdc-bf2b-99...
NuScale is the furthest along. Their design has been certified by the NRC, their first project is scheduled to come online towards the end of this decade.
It's pretty bizarre not to offer even a modicum of money, but I can see how the opportunity could be lucrative for an unknown or rising wedding photographer. If you can say you were the wedding photographer for "Love Is Blind" and use that on your web site, it might get you a ton more clients. They should do the right thing and offer the contractor money, but from what I've heard, that's par for the course for Hollywood and movie/tv studios.
I was there Jan 6th near the capital buildings. It was a bunch of spooks that created the violence and broke in.

This has been documented thoroughly. See the mini doc
“psyop the steal” which goes in depth on the spooks that were part of that action.

The most well known of these individuals was John Sullivan who’s video were used in the impeachment trial. He was there when Ashlie Babbit was shot. He was arrested twice, the second time turned in by his own brother for helping instigate the Jan6th action. Both times he’s been released without bail. His videos of the capital “riot” was sold to CNN and used in the impeachment trial. He’s open about being a Black Lives Matter / Antifa member. Which makes it not surprising that this individual is being protected.

Additional, there’s video (that’s been mostly scrubbed from the internet) showing video inside the capital building of individuals handing out the weapons through the windows of the capital building which were used to then break the windows from outside and attack the few cops that were guarding the front entrance.

Then the cops open up the doors across the capital building and people were let in.

This is all on video.

The January 6th insurrection was planned by insiders which resulted in a “Reichtag Fire” moment that torpedoed the planned challenge to the election results on a number of states with city centers that had disputed election results.

And now this “January 6th Insurrection” is being used to justify labeling entire swaths of the country as potential domestic terrorists.
> It sounds like unsupported assertion

Sure, the estimates range from 50% to 65% of all private wealth in the US being inherited by the 5% most affluent households [0]. This logically implies most of the wealth held by affluent households is inherited.

Certainly, those at the very, very top (ie. the literal top 10, like Gates, Bezos, Musk) of households are likely to have built their own capital, but I'd also point out that there are plenty on the top list that have inherited it, if you look at the top 15 wealthiest Americans, 5 of those arguably did not earn their wealth (the Waltons, MacKenzie Scott, and Charles Koch). [1]

[0]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2019/02/06/people-l...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Americans_by_net_worth...
IIRC, in California, ISDN only had a per minute tarrif (which would run at 2x if you used both B channels) and you usually had to pay your ISP more too, although I heard after 56k modems were widely deployed, you could use one B channel and usually get a 64k (both ways) connection for regular dialup cost.
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I have found that one general rule works pretty well. No ad hominem or insults. No insults to people, groups, or policies. Calling someone or a policy racist would fall under insults. When you eliminate insults, all of a sudden people are talking more about cause and effect. Frankly political debates become incredibly boring and the emotion disappears once insults are removed.

In my company I regularly remind our employees that we are not allowed to insult customers, ever. I even try to find the good in everyone. People have competing priorities, personal issues, etc. You never have the whole story.
Wonder if my parents would let me experiment on their Acura RDX :p
Just say “we’ll drop everything to get this fixed by the deadline, assuming the cause is not something outside of our control.”
Current US electricity. To decarbonize transportation and industry, we will need 200-300% more. That drops rooftops to 10%, and that does not account for night and winter (overbuilding and storage).