skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm actually honestly interested in that last question.

The answer to your question can be calculated with a formula you already know. Perhaps the most famous formula of the modern era:

E = mc²
Super fucking slow and bloated, but its okay every once in a while some good content makes up for it.
Open Source Society University – Bioinformatics
But are the trade offs equivalent?

There is a reason folks flock more to SF rather than to nowhere state. If you save 10%, it is still 20k saved compared to 8k. If you lose your job, there are 10 choices compared to one (or none), access to cutting edge of tech rather than reading about it on hacker news and so on.
the secular world is simply the things that are not connected with religion, to talk about it as a "thing" that needs anymore definition than that doesn't really make sense. It doesn't make sense for "secular" to define itself anymore than that. There may be groups of secular people who develop the kinds of traits you are interested in, for instance secular humanism. But the "secular world" is just those things that are not connected with religion and secular things don't really anymore traits other than that.
Many would argue that Brexit was more about English nationalism than British nationalism.

What makes the UK very complex is the coexistence of two layers of national identity – British layered over English, Scottish, Welsh, (Northern) Irish. Which layer a person identifies with is very often determined by their politics, and sometimes also by religious/cultural background. (British vs Irish identity in Northern Ireland tends to correspond with Protestant vs Catholic religious background, albeit there are exceptions to that generalisation.) At the same time, given England is 85% of the population, the boundary between "British nationalism" and "English nationalism" is often quite vague. Its boundaries with Scottish nationalism, Welsh nationalism, Irish nationalism, tend to be more clearly cut.
About 43 megatons of TNT for one kilogram of cat annihilating with one kilogram of anti-cat. So about 200 megatons of TNT, four Tsar Bombas, for an average cat and an average anti-cat of 4.5 kilograms each.
I normally am very much against the "Legacy" thing, but definitely make an exception for Risk. If you want a copy of Risk that you can play forever and never changes, spend the $2 with your local thrift store or Craigslist seller.
dutch farming (especially kasbouw/greenhouses) are absolutely crazy.
in 2019, they exported roughly 95 billion euro's. And they are the second exporter globally. Mind you the country is absolutely tiny in comparison to the number one exporter (the USA).

[0] https://www.government.nl/latest/news/2020/01/17/dutch-agric...
Fair enough for some situations. I guess it helps that I've never had a job since school where I came in through HR as opposed to someone I knew.
I've never been to the 'Nordic' parts of the world, and the closest I have come to actual Winter weather is vacationing in some local mountain ranges that get snow. I have been suggested to see the Northern Lights, and it's definitely something on my bucket list. It would be fantastic to hike in an actual proper snowscape.
That’s a very western take on religion. Some have no belief in an end time with a static or cyclical world.

Sin/evil isn’t really a thing in many religions. Polytheistic religions for example can have multiple contradictory ideas for what the correct actions are.
British nationalism is built on building things up as British not tearing things down as unBritish.

“‘Cor tea and digestives on a rainy day, what could be more british”

National identity precludes other nationalities, which is largely the impetus for Brexit. Brits are not ever blamed for being unBritish, even if they don’t like football.
I have been pining for a first-class language support for recursion schemes after learning and using them. Supplanting naive recursion with structured recursion would be an interesting move for a language. Does it have as much potential as structured programming?
> It’s rare to hear someone accused of being un-Swedish or un-British—but un-American is a common slur, slung by both left and right against the other. Being called un-American is like being called “un-Christian” or “un-Islamic,” a charge akin to heresy.

People may be called un-American as a political weapon, but that's about all it is. People in politics use all sorts of childish phrases as weapons. In reality I've never been called un-American or seen another person called un-American, unless it was for humor.
Someone wrote that inanimate object. Someone likes that inanimate object. Someone thinks that inanimate object has reasons to be the way it is.

Attacking that inanimate object is not without emotional repercussions to those related to that object.
Money, medicine, “tolerance”, “racism”, politically incorrect language, natural selection, “the self,” public figures (CEOs, scientists, figureheads), celebrities, recycling, wearing masks, the super bowl, the oscars, the multiverse, the big bang, psychotherapy, anti-depressants, over-eating & dieting, conspicuous traveling, visiting nature, architecture.

You can throw those into the religious categories e.g. virtue, vice, deities, origin story etc.

I should also mention “original sin” – you can guess examples of those – in america that would be “racism”.

I’m not taking good / bad position just applying religious lens to secular lifestyle.
this did indeed help understanding and fixing the issue.
Ideas for funding further development of a domain-specific language (DSL)?
During the last ~10-ish years, I have been working (as a continuous side-project) on developing a domain-specific programming language, focused on making it easier to write a certain class of fluid dynamics simulations.

After a 8-month sabbatical, I am finally getting close to the point where I have a decent compiler for this language. Even at this earlier stage, the compiler is a joy to use (and I am trying to do as much "dog-fooding" as possible, in parallel to improving the compiler).

I want this to be an open-source project but, at the same time, I would like to find out ways to keep working on it and sustain myself and my family.

Target audience: By my estimates, this new language may be useful (for research, or at least for teaching) for ~1000 people working in this field (assuming that they will accept some small amount of learning, of course). It might also be relevant to a few HPC hardware-vendors, because I am generating accelerator-aware code from one of the backends -- I am fine if they use my code to showcase their hardware, as long as they give something back :). It might also be interesting for people who are just curious about this field.

So, my questions are:

(1) What are some possible revenue-streams for supporting the continuous development of a programming language, while keeping it open-source? I think I demonstrated by now that I am willing to work on this for free. However, it would be nice not to worry also about a "real" job.

The open-source part is quite important, because (more than funding) I want people to use this language. Also, I hope to attract some developers for things like IDE integration, making amazing (Elm-style) error-messages, etc. I am also doing my best to cover these areas, but worrying about these things is no longer a one-man job.

(2) Which open-source license would you recommend in this case?

P.S: I plan to submit another message here soon, to announce the official release.
I can't say it was the right choice but when Apple announced their dev tools, demands, and "App Store" I read it over and decided I rather not get involved with that.

I focused on web apps that can run on most any platform and while it's true they still have hamstrings I've not been feeding that voracious Mac beast and dealing with the frustrations of getting bit when I do.

That's not to say it hasn't affected me. It's affected all of us.
The logic to pick up passengers is the easy part of a real elevator. Some harder problems: a) Physics. How to drive the motors to move smoothly and efficiently to the desired floor and stop level with the landing. b) Safety and regulatory. There are lots of safety features that need to be implemented, e.g. control by fire fighters. c) Customization. There are lots of special cases, either for customer desires or laws in different states. d) Networking. How do you get the signals from the hall call buttons to the controller and from the controller to the hall lanterns? Tons of wires or a protocol? e) Diagnostics and failure handling. What do you do if something goes wrong? What do you log for maintenance?
I think the problem there is the assumption that the US government of today will behave the same as the government of 1911 or 1982.
Some Americans I know make a big difference between being a settler nation, like those who came to where there was no civilisation but hunters/gatherers, vs immigrants who move into the blooming civilisation
How do you explain the prefixed form in Latin (co-operatus) corresponding to the root form in other languages? Opus/operis is a productive form on its own in Latin.
Headline from 2031:

When the 'functional for-loop' along with
'mutable but immutable variables' were created,
pure functional programming was finally made
available for the masses.
Or play against them two or three times.
Unless that inanimate object was invented by a person or a group of people, in which case you are indirectly insulting those people.
I'm pretty sure dark matter just represents the part of the universe that respects the privacy rights of matter, compared to the intrusive light emitting matter the blasts its details out into the light spectrum for all the universe to see. Think of dark matter as an effective equivalent of the GDPR for matter.
Sensi Hack
> "What status do you think I'm trying to grab?"

The one where instead of saying "here's a good book", you side-eye your friends and say "OMG Becky can you believe it, they are reading Twilight! THEY think it's a GOOD BOOK! a-haw-HAW-haw-HAW!", where the purpose is not to enjoy whatever book you are reading, or to share good books with other people and why you think they are good, not to improve the quality of books in general or to observe and people-watch with curiosity, but to re-inforce that people who read Twilight are inferior and therefore your group is superior.

From a PG essay[1] "When you tread water, you lift yourself up by pushing water down. Likewise, in any social hierarchy, people [...] will try to emphasize [their status] by maltreating those they think rank below. But I think the main reason other kids persecute nerds is that it's part of the mechanism of popularity. Popularity is only partially about individual attractiveness. It's much more about alliances. To become more popular, you need to be constantly doing things that bring you close to other popular people, and nothing brings people closer than a common enemy."

The status grab is "I must be superior to those people, because I'm here, and they are there so I'm not part of them, and they are inferior".

> "The only thing that's going to happen here is that I get aggressively downvoted and the problems I'm complaining about will continue unabated, because mentioning them makes for "tedious reading."

That will continue regardless; a big part of your rant was that Dunning-Kruger dross about how people who write a comment on the internet without adding a pile of IMHO to it must be cock-sure idiots who don't know how dumb and wrong they are. If that's correct and they don't know how wrong they are, how are they going to identify as the target of your rant and change? If they are "soooo confident", why would they know to change their belief?

The only thing that's going to change it is people pointing out incorrectness in a way that helps (i.e. without closing off avenues to change with insults), or downvoting it to hide it so it doesn't spread. In the "be the change you want to see in the world" sense.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/nerds.html
and I forgot two qualities that are both states of being & virtues: love & happiness.
I'm not sure how denying facts is helpful in these situations. Environments that blatantly and inhumanely disregard mental health such as MIT, certain FAANG companies, the US DoJ, factories in China building phones insist that there are many factors in suicides when the circumstances are obvious; immorally deflecting blame, rather than introspectively remediating their own problems. Their very first course of action is usually to deny that the death was a suicide, once it gets out that it was, they deny any involvement or contribution whatsoever.
I don’t think you answered the ops question. Was there ever a time that you could develop software for Mac or particularly iOS and distribute it without paying the developer license fee?

To be fair - the Unix market is different than iOS apps. And on Windows, anyone could run whatever program… which caused a lot of problems and financial loss. And just because Windows or Unix used those models, why are they the one and only acceptable model?
> Imagine an ecosystem where apps were signed with domain validated certificates, which would be free (or very cheap), instant, and better than what we currently have, and it definitely feels like entrenched interests are working to keep things from improving.

The goal is to validate and associate a legal entity with a developer account, not a domain name.

In addition to being required to do such things in many jurisdictions for tax reasons, in event of subsequent abuse the stores want to ban an organization - not a $10 domain name.
Blaming the trend of declining religious faith in the American people is as easy as blaming replacement migration.

How about we talk about declining standard of living, wealth inequality, and rules that apply only to the working class while the political/wealthy classes live their best lives.

The existing system is broken.
under that definition, Buddhism isn't a religion - so it's clearly not a very good definition.
>Few people understand that most religions e.g. Judaism and Christianity have an apologetic discipline – a deliberate arm open to debate.

Open to talking about it, sure, but the crucial element that separates apologetics from real debate is that one side is forbidden from changing their mind. In religion there is a rule overshadowing the exchange of ideas that says, "no matter how convinced you are, or how weak your own case is, you should stick with it, because it's virtuous to stick with this belief no matter what."
This is recalling the old Linus debates, but the aggressiveness _doesn't improve the clarity_, and is basically upping the word count.

I'm not tone policing but contesting the premise that "aggressive tone" = "direct". For example

>(Windows took a different approach and got it right. In Windows, it's okay for multiple DLLs to provide the same symbol, and there's no sad and desperate effort to pretend that a single namespace is still cool.)

>(Windows got this right, where multiple DLLs can provide the same symbol)

There you go. Shorter, and not wasting 3 lines to express your feelings, and _you can still say Windows got it right_.

My feeling is that you can go in and describe a thing succinctly and to the point, and actually get your opinion across! It will be more effective, shorter, and your opinions are backed up with fact! No fluff needed.
> Python creators made a choice when creating python. The tone of the article makes it sound like this was an embarrassing mistake of massive proportions.

The article is talking about a bad decision in ELF and dynamic linking, not in Python specifically. The Python people just discovered that disabling that default behavior was useful.
> The iOS state has 65% of users

65% may be the shares in devices sold in Q4 2020, in the US.

From what I’ve gathered, actual devices market share, in the US, is closer to (and less than) 50%.

Doesn’t invalidate your points though.
> They killed the industry.

A bit dramatic for an industry that is very much alive. — at best they damaged it.
I waited for micro for twenty years. Hobbled with nano+config files, then ne, tolerable but not great. If it only had a menu like turbovision, I’d absolutely love it.
Eschatology doesn't just have to do with the end times. It is "concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul". Hinduism and Buddhism clearly address this. Confucianism and Shinto may be exceptions, and of course there are plenty others that I'm not familiar with, but eschatology is far from being only a preoccupation of Western religions.
I think OP’s point is exactly that a lot of secular ideology in practice doesn’t get debated discretely; most people don’t want to and have already ossified their opinions, even/especially if they don’t really understand why they believe what they believe.
Growing up, our mother would never buy sweet cereal, due to the sugar. On very rare occasions, e.g. vacation, she'd let us eat it. For the most part though, it was forbidden.

When I started earning my own income I went to a grocery store and walked up and down the cereal aisle, marveling at how, if I wanted to, I could buy one box of every sweet cereal on display.

I can no longer eat any cereal. At my age it no longer agrees with me, gastrointestinally. I miss it. Sometimes I'll say "f*#k it" and buy a box. Like a bottle of alcohol, it's wonderful going down, but the next day is filled with regret.
Private business owners can put whatever restrictions they want on their spaces. And parents can decide what rules they want for their school, that's why we have schoolboards.

I was just listening to NPR's Freakonomics discussion of the Cialdini's the science of persuasion, and in that book, he talks about people who will reactively rebel again anything, even if they know they are wrong and it is against their interests, purely because it limited my choice.

In other words, how dare you tell me I can't drink poison, I'll do it because you don't have the right to tell me what to do.

This childish attitude precisely describes your attitude in the previous posts where you admit to doing things even if scientifically wrong. This sums up to a T, the problem with reactionary conservativism. It isn't about doing what's right, what's ethical, what's scientifically correct, what's efficient, it's about "elites can't tell me what to do!" Hence you get stupid shit like people deliberately making the exhaust of their trucks put old huge clouds of black smoke, because it's a finger to the face of everyone else who says that exhaust pollution is bad.

The temper tantrum of the anti-maskers, the anti-vaxxers, is largely such a childish overreaction.
Ask HN: Datasets of Startup Valuations and Exits?
I'd like to (help a friend, of course) make an informed, interval estimate of the present value of an equity position in an early-stage startup.

I'm looking for a dataset of startups and their outcomes (IPO, failure, still going) and some recordings of valuations vs. time. Additional dimensions for each startup that would be nice:

=> VCs that backed the startup
=> non-VC funding
=> funding rounds & amounts & maybe leading VC
=> startup's founding date
=> industry, market, segment, etc.

Would anyone be kind enough to point me to a dataset even roughly resembling what I'm looking for?

Many thanks in advance!
You went on the attack vs. someone who pointed out that you were likely to follow in the footsteps of your parents.

It's not a social justice or caste issue to have a probability distribution that says, say, within the trades, that a plumber's kid is more likely to be a plumber than an electrician, and vice-versa of an electrician's kid, when the two professions are of equal status.

If there's a whole lot of people below the class of tradesmen who have no real path to moving up-- that is a social justice, class, or caste issue. But surely not all manifestations of not-quite-equally likely outcome are social justice, class, or caste issues.

> Though sure, please do go ahead and argue the things that I allegedly said.

Seriously, the rush to sarcasm/abrasive language is not helpful to actually figuring out what you're arguing or to having a productive conversation.
Apart from meditation and liminal dreaming, hot showers do wonders.
The "as far as we know" is an important caveat. The other forms of symmetry were once held to be true, until we learned otherwise.
Treating shell scripts as first class has taken me on a bit of a journey over the last decade:

- Learned from shunit2 that it's possible to write solid shell scripts, and that writing test code in shell scripts is hard to learn but doable. Bonus: I'd rather write the test script in a more easily debuggable language, such as Python.

- Bash has many more surprises in store for you than any other mainstream language. How $IFS affects things, how looping over files is either completely trivial (`for file in *`) or damn near impossible (`while IFS= read -d '' -r -u 3; do …; done 3< <(find … -exec printf '%s\0')`) based on the pattern you want to match, exit codes of arithmetic assignments, all the tricks to deal with not having exceptions, how `ls` is unsuitable for scripting despite being ubiquitous, locales, variable flags, and so on.

- `shellcheck` is fantastic, especially for including URLs to more information about each warning.

- Greg's Wiki[0], despite being hard to find in search engines, is the best place by far for learning about Bash.

- Writing a shell script to do some fast, asynchronous processing is maybe 30-100 times faster than writing the same in Python, but getting the nitty-gritty details right is about 30-100 times harder as well.

[0] https://mywiki.wooledge.org/
Yes translations pivot through English.
Hell No... I used to be attracted to it like a moth to a flame. Then after getting it I found out it's mostly useless. Most of the stuff I never used and the stuff I found useful was mostly covered with ugly logos so I did not use it. Also, getting rid of the stuff is a pain. I hate to throw out new stuff but I don't use it. And people don't want it. Then what?

For me, give me a free slushee or cookie and that will make me much happier.
I am an American, and I have known a number of immigrants over the years, one who won the lottery in order to come to the US. They have mostly but not all been from Eastern bloc countries.

Every single one of those people is grateful to have come here, is amazed that the people born here do not take advantage of their birthright of opportunities, and absolutely does not think that talk about the greatest opportunities is tripe or propaganda. They are also dumbfounded at the problems that we create for ourselves as a country. Yet, to a one, they all wish they could bring their parents and families here.
That's like, the difference between one ship full of Pilgrims and every subsequent ship, or between one wagon train and every subsequent wagon train, or between the people on the Mayflower and their kids (who showed up in a society that already existed).
These things typically fall under the umbrella of “culture,” of which religion is one defining aspect, to greater or lesser extents.
See also:

'California is not in drought'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27068716
The choice between “v” and “u” is pretty arbitrary. “V” was easier for inscriptions because of the straight lines but in Latin cursive “U” was used as a more rounded form that’s easier to write. What’s inconsistent with ancient usage is the mixing of V and U.

I’ve never understood why we kept V but got rid of J. It would make more sense to distinguish either both or neither.