skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No you have it backwards. Stripe Atlas only exists because registering a business here sucks.
I can start a business in the UK via the government website in a few minutes for a cost of £14/yr.

In the US I had to use a 3rd party service because the process is total garbage, takes weeks to complete and requires sending physical paperwork and checks to Sacramento. I have to register in both Delaware and my home state, pay minimum, mandatory taxes to both, totalling ~1000$/yr and pay $100/yr for someone to sit in an office and receive mail in case I get sued. I also have to file physical paperwork with my local city (despite no physical presence) and pay yet more fees.

It’s rent-seeking, antiquated multi-level bureaucratic garbage and there’s zero interest in improving it because that would cost money.

After all that I get the joy of filing taxes with all those entities, plus the federal government.
Also Winds of War and others. Yeah, the miniseries had its day but, especially pre-widespread VCR, depending on an audience to watch every episode at a scheduled time was a high bar. It obviously could work but it depended on having a sufficiently big "event" for people to schedule a week or nights on successive weeks around it--in a way few would do today.
You'll just end up with telemetry in the compiler you have to download to bootstrap everything.
This resonated with me a lot. Windows 10 is a bit of a mess but mostly still tolerable. Once it's EOL I'll replace my current PC (from '09) but I'll try to avoid Windows 11. The MS account requirement really annoys me. I'm currently playing with Pop!_os in a VM and like it so far. I also like that I can pay for it, which I plan to. Developing a quality desktop needs resources, paying directly is far preferable to me than paying indirectly through ads or data collection.
They're wrong, and the reason they believe it is because they're stuck on older mediums. In music, the radio and the record store defined the market. You had a small window so you invested big and mainstream stuff tended to be pretty good. Now music access is decentralized and you can chase a long tail of niche personal tastes. Music is incredibly healthy right now. There's so much great content going in myriad different directions, but you'd think otherwise if you're only listening to the radio which has tripled down on non-differentiating hyper mainstream blandness.

Movies are largely the same with streaming. The movie theater model is rough. Even before streaming the vast majority of movie tickets go unsold, and to many people there's a sort of social group requirement to justify going there. So you get mass appeal as a requirement. But the actual space of film has more richness than ever before. People who say the only films are marvel films just don't know about the other films being released.
The 3-2-1 rule might be a good starting point: https://www.networkworld.com/article/3527303/for-secure-data...
> ... but why invest in a language that is only spoken by 2 million people?

The classic chicken and egg problem
Not having to listen to people eat like pigs during the movie while I'm trying to enjoy being immersed in the audio of the movie (while some guy nearby very loudly assaults a giant bucket of popcorn over the next two hours). Because if they didn't consume two thousand calories during the movie, they might starve, seeing as the US has no other available food options.

The only way a movie theater experience can be consistently great is if you banish all food. Too many people lack even basic manners & consideration for others, they can't be trusted to not be inconsiderate idiots.
That's a misunderstanding of "inalienable" or "unalienable".

An alienable right is one which can be assigned to another.

Your physical, real (land), and usefruct rights (as with intellectual property rights) can be alienated in the sense that you can be deprived of them and then they can be assigned to another entity.

Inalienable rights can be denied to you, but cannot be made alien in the sense that another receives their benefits. Your own life, your own happiness, your own liberty, among other privileges you may enjoy, can be deprived of you. But nobody else can receive their benefits.

The notion of inalienable rights is not absolutely fixed. In 1800, you would have had an inalienable right to the function of your own heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, etc. With organ transplants, these are now alienable rights, as those organs (and others) can be removed and given to others, through advances in medical technology.
I fear the "for now" is shorter than we think.
Type safety, expressiveness, consistency. Once you use an ML, it can feel like all other languages are stuck in the 70s.
Wouldn’t this risk running afoul of insider trading laws, at least under some circumstances?
The problem with Java is that there's more to it than just the source code, and Oracle has demonstrated no qualms whatsoever about using essential but non-open-source parts of the Java ecosystem to push people around.
38 states is enough for a constitutional amendment. Makes you wonder.
It is funny that a man so obsessed with privacy, anonymity and his physical security still uses online dating apps.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/technology/how-to-disappe...
Why is it fiction? People who are rich enough to pay an entire yacht crew are not going to worry about $50K a year for a tutor to try and make their lazy waste-of-space child at least have half a chance of creating their own success when they are older.
We were there ;)
Copyright is different from licensing and is far more complicated that most people think.

> Why take a risk for some glorified text snippets?

Name an example where that was actually an issue. And I'm talking explicitly about single functions and even single lines of code.
Can you recommend some good movies from last/this year? Have been digging into old movies to get my fix recently thinking there wasn't anything good out.
What you've revealed in this thread is a callous greed and desire to exploit your employees. But none of us are impressed by that. Rather, what we want in an employer is somebody who will leave us alone and not harm the world. It is up to you to show us that you're a respectful and decent employer.

At the end of the day, it's not like you could write your own code. So you need to beg us to work for you, not the other way around.
You implied that your biggest fear is getting your crypto stolen which implies that you have crypto to steal. From your comment history someone could now attempt to find your real world identity: you use a Samsung phone, you went to engineering school, you run a website, etc.
I think I remember seeing a paper where they designed a metamaterial with vertical microstructures that passively lased input heat as narrow band IR within the frequency range that is transparent to the atmosphere. But I can't find it now, perhaps I'm mistaken.
First African American to Win National Spelling Bee Also Holds 3 Basketball WRs
End of the day the UI framework choices of the past on Windows has made a consistent UI an impossibility.

Too many parts of it from a different era that they can’t really update the UI for all seemingly built with slightly different tooling.

If there was someone with the vision to truly drag this OS forward they would be aiming to rewrite at least a handful of these tools to modern tech consistently each release.

Of course many users will scream because things are changing but honestly if they want to move forward they have to ignore them.

And by forward I mean forwards to being the best desktop OS. OSX currently holds that crown because they were willing to throw everything out.

OSX likely won’t exist anymore in 5-10 years the way Apple is heading so Microsoft actually has a chance here if they get serious.
>>Most coders are interested in learning how to code in a purely functional manner

I didn't realize that was true. Long time coders or newbies?
And a way to mitigate or dissolve Twitter mobs. I imagine pile ons could be identified?
I thought I just answered that, above?
This is, to put it mildly, insane.
Side note: modern electronic music sounds absolutely phenomenal when under the influence of LSD (or Mushrooms, or weed for that matter).

Consider: https://youtu.be/SD6GDiyHmbE?t=918
I’m not sure it’s a waste. Yes, CSS layout is complex, bordering on stupidly complex. But I’m not aware of any other reflowable layout system of comparable power. The sheer amount of pain it takes to wrangle something like CSS floats out of TeX—on a fixed-size page!—certainly makes me appreciate just how difficult the problems CSS solves are.

Though it sure would be nice if people were exploring other approaches to reflowable layout without tying themselves to CSS and modern browsers’ codebases.
It’s called a library in my idea of it. The sum of human knowledge, curated by experts in every field. I don’t think we can compute that last bit. We may not have to.
If you flag this, it's you admitting I'm right and you can't handle the truth and objective reality.

>Federal marijuana prohibition and the War on Drugs (yes including laws) is rooted in racial bias.

Somewhat of a myth, and at the end, the law is not biased or racist.

The Democratic party and gun control laws are also "rooted in racial bias". Is continuing gun control laws racist? Is the Democratic party racist?

>There are a HUGE amount of sources and you aren't acting in good faith so this is pointless. Some links below.

None of those links point to specific laws being racist whatsoever. One of you links literally agrees with me: "Athough there is no indication from case law and legislative history that Congress harbored a discriminatory intent when enacting the Anti-Drug Abuse Act"

>You might argue that the context around why these laws, for instance why there are specifically sentencing disparities written into law, doesn't matter because the plain text doesn't say black people shall have a 2x longer sentence. That's ignorant IMHO.

That's not ignorant, that's reality. They're not racist, your own source agreed with me. Meth also has 2x longer sentencing, is that a racist law targeting whites?

>Even so, racist laws were specifically written in plain text IN OUR CONSTITUTION spelling out black worth as only 3/5ths of white.

Are those laws still active? Oh, they're not? Cool, thanks for agreeing with me.

>Nixon's advisor has a 'great' quote plainly laying out the motivation and showing why context and the actual affects of these laws are racist.

These laws predate Nixon by decades. Stop moving goalposts and straw maning.

>you're being purposefully being flippant with a throwaway account so I'm not going to continue responding but go ahead and downvote again.

Translation: "I wasn't able to prove suburbs are racist, so I attempted to strawman and goalpost, but that failed, so I'm just going to take the leftists' exit and call you racist and leave."
Lots of parallels here as well between research/academia and consulting -- the senior PI is the name on the proposals to get funded but everyone knows the work is done by grad students at exploitative wages to keep research cheap.
> as in, "we quit en masse when our employer wouldn't let us stay remote, wanna hire us?"

Hiring entire teams together is risky. It can be difficult enough to integrate individual hires into the company’s way of operating, especially when companies grow quickly. A team that has already worked together can have a lot of resistance to changing their ways or integrating into the rest of the company’s way of operating.

I’ve been at companies that tried this in the past. The teams that came in together wanted to isolate themselves and operate independently, and they had little interest in changing anything or adopting the same tools that everyone else used (one team tried to refuse to adopt git because they all used and liked subversion).

Usually these teams were laid off together. A team that quit en masse because their employer wouldn’t cave to their demands would be even worse for trying to integrate with the company. You don’t want to bring in a group of people who tries to be the tail that wags the dog and will quit en masse again the next time the company doesn’t give in to their demands.
Wrt option (2), what do you think of other libraries like wxWidgets or GTK+? At least on Windows, the latter certainly doesn’t feel at all ‘nice to use’ (admittedly a subjective criterion), but I find I quite like programs made with wxWidgets.
Funny. The rating mechanism makes this equivalent to a reputation based prediction market.

These can also fail and are gameable.

The key assumptions are that people form social networks according to DeGroot process, which is not actually true. People tend to maximize objective gain not information/influence gain - usually objective is not stated and there are various ones, from knowledge, entertainment, desirability, clout/influence and power, even financial ones. Unfortunately, this does result in a divergent scenario.

As for feedback, current social networks have simplistic "like" system that only weights engagement in a hidden matter and generic desirability points with partial feedback scenario. Trying to get full feedback would require someone to be able to read likes of every user, not feasible. What could be feasible is guessing how "likeable" a post is - gaming the system.

That said, the paper is rather high quality considering its limitations. Interesting that essentially listening to a moderate number of curated but not isolated experts had best results.
(Top 5 interesting enough, this being ~33% of group.)

The trick is in identifying these top performers in a real multiobjective scenario, and whether the selection strategy still works.
It's not very clear from their docs, but it looks like tauri is mostly a way to launch a system WebView from rust and communicate with it via message passing. Doesn't really seem like a GUI toolkit for rust, since all the GUI stuff is going to be done in JS.
Pfizer creating booster targeting highly transmissible delta variant
From K-Pop stan to keyboard warrior: the activists battling Myanmar’s junta
The wells would recharge even without Earth's existing surrounding heat reserves. Moon (and Sun) induced tidal forces do manifest not only in the body of water but also in the Earth's crust, and the resulting tension/friction is quite a source of energy/heat.
This is awesome all my respects to the creators I hope it can be easily used to port models across to games will be following
(In Japanese)
The lesson:

Programming language adoption is based on politics, not technical merit.

This isn't inherently bad, but is important to remember.

Languages are successful due to the community that rises up around them, far moreso than anything inherent to the design or quality of the language itself.

Which can be correlated, but not necessarily so.
Honestly, you shouldn't have to wonder. The article is of poor quality.
Given the concerns regarding microplastics release from the fabrics we wear causing environmental pollution in recent years, it would behoove any respectable science journalist/publication to press for answers to these "common sense" questions.

Especially when they also seem so eager to mention

>"Ma and Tao are now reaching out to textile manufacturers and clothing companies to try to get their fabric on shelves. They say the nanomaterial-infused fabric should add only about 10% to typical clothing manufacturing costs. “We can make it with mass production, which means everybody can get a T-shirt … and the cost is basically the same as their old stuff,” Ma says. “It can benefit everybody.”"

Sure...and that's why stuff like PVC - one of the worst offenders of releasing microplastics into the water when washed - which was previously only used sparingly by professionals because human life depended on their using it but has sadly now come to be worn by a lot more people as a "fashion piece" way more frequently.

The full paper appears to be paywalled? https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/07/07/scie... . Here's the Abstract - "Incorporating passive radiative cooling structures into personal thermal management technologies could effectively defend human against the intensifying global climate change. We show that large scale woven metafabrics can provide high emissivity (94.5%) in the atmospheric window and reflectivity (92.4%) in the solar spectrum because the hierarchical-morphology design of the randomly dispersed scatterers throughout the metafabric. Through scalable industrial textile manufacturing routes, our metafabrics exhibit excellent mechanical strength, waterproofness, and breathability for commercial clothing while maintaining efficient radiative cooling ability. Practical application tests demonstrated the human body covered by our metafabric could be cooled down ~4.8°C lower than that covered by commercial cotton fabric. The cost-effectiveness and high-performance of our metafabrics present great advantages for intelligent garments, smart textiles, and passive radiative cooling applications."

Again, no mention of environmental impact.

Also I don't know if this common is material sciences or not, so bear that in mind; but that Abstract reads like a pitch to VC firms to fund their startup. Am I wrong?
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That’s definitely a downside. Costs can go up quickly from home!
We know that CI build efficacy drops with duration. People wander off to do other things, and either come back to it later than anticipated (all estimates are off by 2x, including estimating when I will check the build again), or forget entirely. Merge-build is one action, and making merges async increases the perceived build time. Perception of sequential delays is a fundamental UX concept. They are seen as a single, longer delay.

That’s not the only reason merges are synchronous, especially in the Atlassian world.

At scale, we have problems with build triggers from commits. Sometimes you have to fire manually.

At scale, tracking deployment failure is painful. The PR you merge may be in a different module than the deployment plan. So I need to merge a PR, then watch the dominoes fall. But the bigger issue is that Atlassian never finished getting deployments up to feature parity with builds. I have several dashboards that report build health, but deployment health is hard to track. It involves more vigilance and frankly it’s exhausting. Exhausting things get dropped every time people feel tired. To work around this, first you do alerts to team chat, then there are too many alerts so they go to their own channel, then people forget to check the channel, and we have a smaller version of the same problem and no solution.

At scale, I can only control whether MY code has enough tests to detect regressions prior to deployment. Breaking preprod impresses no one, even if automation should have caught it. That means a workflow of merge-build-test prior to moving on to the next task.
Impact? Sure. Especially given the controversy around how it's trained. I just don't know that I'd suggest it's changed software development as we know it.
OpenJDK > 11 has GraalVM inside, you can activate it with a switch.

https://openjdk.java.net/projects/graal/
From what I can tell, Patreon allows you to export customer contact info, but you can't take the financial relationship with you. They're not subscribing to you, they're subscribing to Patreon. If you want to leave for another service you have to awkwardly email everyone and ask them unsub and then resub somewhere else, which will probably not work.

Streambus seems more similar to substack/supercast -- you as the content creator own the stripe account, and streambus only makes money so long as you feel the service is providing a good value to you, otherwise you can leave any time.
Correction, you have to declare (or whatever you call "anrechnen") 1% of the company car that you are allowed use in your free time, which often works out cheaper than a privately owned car. In the end you pay at max 45% of the 1% for it, although 45% only applies to every € over 250,000€/year. For every € between about 60,000€/year and 250,000€ you are taxed 42%.
Spark is also heavily dependent on a bajillion other OSS libraries, many of which don't directly translate to C++ libs -- Apache, Guava, etc. It's probably at least 10x this line count if you include all the utilities they pull in.
> 9. If a minor dependent collaborates on my Personal Game as allowed in term 8, I agree to the following: Given that said minor dependent may hold partial copyright power for my Personal Game, I relinquish said minor dependent into the care of Amazon in perpetuity. I understand that I will still be responsible for said minor dependent's financial maintenance.
The term "I am here to find out how I can help you and your business to succeed." rings so untrue to me. I'd have to resist the temptation to roll my eyes.
When I was in college, cheating was already rampant. I ended up dropping out the semester prior to graduation, despite performing well, because I just couldn't muster the desire to continue. Part of that was because of seeing how many people around me were blatantly and consistently cheating compared to the work I put in.

Without the credential it's definitely created some challenges in my career, but I took the far more valuable /education/ with me into my career and have been very successful overall. When I look up most of my former classmates, they have not achieved near my level of success, partly because they failed to learn due to their rampant cheating. They may have received the credential, but they failed to learn anything they could take forward in life with them.

I'm of two minds on this. I think that rampant cheating greatly undermines student morale for those students that don't cheat, but on the other hand it doesn't really matter because in the long-run it cheats the student who's cheating, not the class. The piece of paper at the end doesn't matter.

All that aside, the way e-proctoring is done now, and new "advancements" with facial recognition being added into it, is horrifyingly privacy invading and often done in a way which is effectively malicious software being forced to be installed on a student's personal equipment. As a strong advocate for privacy and security, I cannot be anything but opposed to the way things are going. When I do remote proctored certification exams for continuing education, I've always preferenced taking them in a testing center kiosk specifically so I don't need any such software installed on my own computer systems.
>> Is this... what's the word... ethical?

> "Our investors think so!..."

Oh boy.
what if i told you that you can just ignore them. just like you probably don’t listen to taylor swift despite her being popular
I never claimed they had the same components, just that it's a stretch to think most people would obtain sufficient value by paying hundreds more.
@jahewson - you make an excellent point. I guess that's also why something like mainstreet.com exists. I've registered a business online myself in the US (Nevada) and it wasn't that hard but it doesn't sound as easy as it is in the UK. That said, I'm skeptical that the US is less business friendly than Europe overall.
And VSE, VSI, and Bayesian Regret are just reinventions of Social Utility Efficiency. SUE predates them all and has academic research behind it.
I cannot. It's a philosophical question of what is truth. I don't know if it is possible for a human to obtain 100% objective truth about something.
Cambridge, MA too!
> Honestly I don't think I can fault students who cheated during the pandemic, it was just so abnormal that most people did whatever they had to to cope.

Cheating is never OK. Look what that lead to. A few bad apples ruined it for the other students. People have to learn, that their behavior in such a setting does not only affect themselves. In this case it very negatively impacted everyone studying with them.
I've seen more stable behaviour on the -current/rolling releases of Unixen that this.