skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm telling you, nothing, nothing feels worse in the world when this person takes the idea and uses it.

This happened to me a few times early in my career. Then I realized the problem was me. I needed to decide if a great idea was something I was willing to take a big fat chance on, and do the things necessary to make it happen. So, the next big, cool idea I had turned into a business startup. I had to get money. I had to hire people. I had to write software. I had to forgo a personal income for a month or two. But it worked out.

> People say it is 1% idea, and 99% execution, but that's so wrong. It's 99% the idea, and 99% the execution.

Deciding to do may be the most valuable part of all of it. Without that decision, and the effort that comes with it, you can multiply the value of (idea + execution) x zero.
Many oses don't come with FTP clients anymore either. I don't think Windows still does. They removed FTP and telnet in Windows 7 IIRC.

Not that I'll really miss it in Firefox but still...
i guess buying "clouds" now is just as accepted as buying a domain. (note how on both, the term buying doesn't mean buying, but having the privilege to continue to rent)

i can see myself in the 90s cursing about all the lame rich kids just paying for silly domain names instead of using readily available IP addresses you needed to host already.
I'm not sure a waiter at a good steakhouse is making a good living. It's been a while since I worked food service, so I might be making some poor assumptions, but:

1. Most waiters don't get health benefits
2. Most waiters don't get retirement plans
3. Most waiters are at the whim of the restaurant managers
4. There's only so many tables you can turn in a shift, and tips average under 20%.
5. Most waiters don't get any PTO

Say you have a four-top that has meal service of $120 (booze tips usually go to cocktail waitresses, wine goes to waiter). An average section for a "good" steakhouse will have no more than 5 tables per waiter; otherwise service sucks.

So each table earns the waiter $24 in tips. With 5 tables, that's $120 per turn. High end steakhouses don't turn fast; again, the appeal is having a long, hearty meal. So maybe 2.5 turns on a good night. That would be $300 in tips. But then you have to tip out. Busboy gets $25 (helps you turn faster, helps with some service), dishwasher gets $10 (should get $100), hostess gets $20 (so your section gets sat promptly), and at least $50 for the line cooks who are the real stars. Now you're done to $195. That needs to be reported as income, so it gets held back by mgmt for tax.

You get 3 good shifts a week, and 2 crap shifts. After a week you've made $195x3 plus $125x2 for a grand total (pretax) of $835/week. So your gross is $44K. I'm ignoring the base hourly wage because it's usually nothing.

$44k isn't bad money. It's above the nationwide median, but considering all the downsides, it's not "a good living." If you get sick, tough shit you lose out. If the chef jacks up the menu, you lose out. And it's a young person's gig. People want their waiters to be young and attractive, not balding and showing grey hairs.
Oh good grief, why not use the same argument for heroine addicts? If someone you love is involved in something that is ruinous for them, you help them out.
For those interested:

http://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/
I think my tone was no different than naasking's.
What is rust most commonly used for? If Somebody learned to program with it, what sorts of projects would they work on?
Beyond crypto I: Gray technologies
No risk. Nobody have time to "do" your startup.

Do you have anything more than slides ?
“Money is our most valuable asset. Employees are ninth.”

“I’m afraid to ask what came in eighth.”

“Carbon paper.”
If "the simulation" and "reality" have the same properties, what would "being in the simulation" even mean? A thing/person/etc would "be" in both by definitions, be in neither by others, etc.
Large scale commuting adoption seems unlikely. Usually JR sells commuter passes at approximately 50% of price of daily roundtrips between destinations, for Nagoya-Tokyo on current shinkansen this will come to ~$2.5k/mo. No way this is going to be approved by companies even for middle management positions.
Exchanges already do KYC but they don't generally ask you to explain all the crypto transactions that lead to your deposit
It’s that it (currently) doesn't scale well, not like a SaaS company can, anyway. Treatment is a bit more involved than here's some shrooms in the mail, so there's profit to be made, and quite a lot of it, just not how VC investor have been operating. They won't get out of bed for a million dollar idea. Maybe for 10.
Ah, true... Given the double criteria for that (lack of pawn movement) it extends things a bit, but there would still be a finite number of moves.

However on an info it's chess board there would always be a unique board state possible. That doesn't by any means refute your point, only add a twist to things.
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> This has been tried many times, you are ignoring the reasons it did not work

It works perfectly for many tens of millions of restaurant workers in two dozen developed countries around the world.
This reminds me of utopian idealists who envisioned everyone growing their own cannabis once it was legal.

What they didn't realize is that few people want to put in the effort to grow their own plants. It's so much quicker and easier just to go to a store and buy them.

Another thing this reminds me of is ketamine, on which the patent expired long ago. So some profit-seeking corporation created esketamine, which is pretty much the same thing but patentable, and they got that approved for treatment of depression while cheap, generic ketamine still has to be used off-label (meaning that insurance companies won't cover that off-label treatment, while esketamine treatment for depression is covered).

Something similar is being attempted with psilocybin, where some company's thought up a more efficient way of producing it and patented that, and made (or tried to make) that the only approved way of getting psilocybin.

In both cases consumers aren't going to be making their own ketamine or psilocybin. They're going to have to rely on companies to sell it to them.

Sure, they could theoretically grow or pick mushrooms but growing mushrooms is time and effort intensive, so it'll probably only ever be a hobby among a minority of users, and picking mushrooms can be dangerous and is also time consuming. So realistically most users will just be buying those too.

My hope is that people will form cooperatives and non-profit organizations to provide these sacred and healing substances for people who need them, while making little or no profit but still keeping the process viable.
If I'm reading right, it looks like a company can become a "recognised sponsor," which allows them to sponsor as many of their employees as they want for relocation, provided they meet salary requirements etc. It doesn't look like there is a government-side discretionary approval like the US green card or (at least in the Netherlands) a quota or lottery like the US H-1B. There's a background check but that's it.

https://www.eubluecard.nl/dutch-program/recognised-sponsor

https://www.government.nl/topics/immigration-to-the-netherla...

If that interpretation is correct, then I think this is also "GitLab has the power/authority".
Love the logo, very Paul Rand. I hope that's a ~27.5º skew! https://www.cosmic-core.org/free/article-58-geometry-the-gol...
Also, one rarely gets to choose whether to deal with surveillance or not. Mitigations and education are therefore often useless and exhausting even if they work.
You either submit or forgo an increasingly large aspect of society.

For example, the DMV and payroll companies are selling our private details as we speak. Resistance would result in homelessness.
Are customers that aware of price increases? Unless you're eating out at the same joint every day, a 10% increase isn't very noticeable. Say you have an item priced at $9.99, bumping it up 10% makes it $10.99.

Restaurant sales are rarely made up of price conscious buyers. Sure there's a limit, but short of the blue light special crowd, most customers are eating out for either variety, social reasons, or being tired of cooking.
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Yes, they have. The problem with the far left is that they demand everyone have the right to do whatever they want whenever they want, free from judgment, prejudice, responsibility, repercussions, and accountability.

Problem is that is in direct conflict with actual reality.
Masters' degree students are 22-25. They don't go to college until 18, either, and even then they have FOUR years to figure out how to google starting salaries for their major. And if it doesn't look good, they have time to change majors, or at least stop digging deeper.
> For example, unused parameter warnings on virtual methods are a waste of time to deal with.

Why is that even a warning? If at least one of the implementers use a parameter and a warning is shown the warning itself is wrong. That’s just broken implementation of the warning?
> Since you went there... I'll remind you that children are renewable, whereas coal is not.

Coal is renewable, its just historically been consumed at a rate far beyond what is sustainable.
An example of an output constituting a covered work might be that if you use a GPLv3-licensed library to output a timezone database shipped with the library in a JSON format, because the content of the JSON output is itself a derivative of a GPLv3 work, not only an output, it would be covered by the GPLv3.

In order for NN weights to be covered, the weights would need to be in themselves a derivative of a GPLv3-licensed work.

Training a NN on GPLv3 licensed training sets would (IMHO) make it a derivative work, that's what a lot of the Copilot uproar is about.
No kidding. $9/hr with no benefits is literal slavery. If I can pay someone a days wages for the cost of my lunch, something is seriously wrong with our society.
In the US, copyright litigants can be entitled to attorney's fees and costs
> I've been working as a web dev for 15 years since graduation but I know my days I numbered in this field as it requires near perfect vision due to the UI nature and dealing with things on a pixel level.

Web dev is more than just placing pixel on the screen (and, is pixel level perfection is even a thing?). You could focus more on JavaScript if you are a frontend developer; you could switch to backend as well. I have been working as a "full stack" web developer for some years and I have never had to deliver 'pixel perfect' UIs. Hell, I even consider 'pixel perfect' to be an anti-pattern in web design because it leads to CSS like "margin-top: 13.123px; margin-right: 9.847px" in order to comply with the design.
We see that surprisingly rarely because the completely clueless tend to get saved by identity hashcode/equals. (and the lazy, and often even the pragmatic)

Wether or not you get to see code falling into the mutable hash trap probably depends a lot on culture and the hiring process/environment. Do people feel empowered to do the right thing? Or free to take whatever easy path that works for them? Or are they pressured/incentivized to aim for some superficial appearance metrics?
> the private sector profits by consuming a shared resource.

The public benefits from this privately maintained system. Irrespective of who profits, this is a service that I very much want, and I'm perfectly happy if Random Corporation XYZ makes a few bucks as long as I get the service at a reasonable price.
In a normal economy, most restaurants fail for two simple reasons; poor location and undercapitalization. If you sell a good meal, in a good location, people are very tolerant of price. Getting to that point is where 99% of restaurants fail.
Entanglement is only applicable when there is a superposition of conjugate pairs. Without it, there is literally no entanglement whatsoever.
This is fantastic. I wonder if they could partner with the Canadian government to make this easier for their employees who need to gtfo from their home country.
They could get away with claiming it'd be an 'alleged crime'. The police should indeed get involved if person A says to person B 'I am going to rape you' (especially after 'I know where you live'), but for sure I would want to archive (hide) the data for forensic reasons. In that regard, it might be stupid to signal the (alleged) criminal, whereas after they view the police report they may assume the evidence is archived by the police (unless notified otherwise). Still, by not doing anything they allow themselves being a platform for such criminal activity. Is that worth the payment of 20% of the monthly subscription? Apparently it is. That's an incentive problem right there.
No. Perhaps the fully automated/robotic type that McDonalds uses do, but any restaurant that is spending $50k per fryer is insane.
Out of curiosity, do you drink alcohol or smoke weed? If so, how often? I had horrible anxiety (and even agoraphobia) in my 20s and the thing that finally fixed it for me was quitting alcohol completely.

I experimented with all sorts of psychedelics in my 20s, grew mushrooms, tripped with friends, tripped alone, tripped in the woods, read the Doors of Perception, etc. I bought into the whole psychedelic culture and truly believed that they were making me “better” in some way. I actually felt a bit superior to other people who weren’t “experienced” like I was. But at the end of the day it didn’t really change my life or personality. I don’t regret having those experiences but the hype around psychedelics is totally overblown. Shrooms won’t magically fix you.
because in Israël's case, they've been at war repeatedly with their neighbors, so maybe they want to have good relationship to avoid further conflicts?
If anyone care to elaborate, does it only mean you will not be prosecuted if they find you in possession of psychedelics, or will this be fully legal where you can buy it from stores/dispensaries?
Germany does not appear to have statutory damages the way the US does, but they have something else that could work here. They seem to have three kinds of damages possible [1].

1. Lost profits due to the infringement.

2. The profits the infringer made from the infringement.

3. The amount the infringer would have had to pay to license the work to use the way they did it if they had requested such a license from the copyright owner.

The first one would likely not apply to something that is solely licensed under GPL, but the other two might, especially #2.

I'm curious how #3 is determined.

There is something similar in the US for patent infringement damages. That involves the court trying to determine what would have happened in a hypothetical negotiation if the patent owner had been willing to license the patent and the infringer had wanted to license the patent.

That can work because usually with patents you can compare to other patent in the same or related field that are about as valuable and have been licensed out. I don't think that there are a lot of open source world class chess engines that are dual licensed for proprietary use that a court could use for comparison.

[1] https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=cef58d76-21a2...
Not just memory safety. Rust also prevents data races in concurrent programs. And there are a few more things too.

But these tricks have the same root: What if we used all this research academics have been writing about for decades, improvements to the State of the Art, ideas which exist in toy languages nobody uses -- but we actually industrialise them so we can use the resulting language for Firefox and Linux not just get a paper into a prestigious journal or conference?

If ten years from now everybody is writing their low-level code in a memory safe new C++ epoch, or in Zig, that wouldn't astonish me at all. Rust is nice, I like Rust, lots of people like Rust, but there are other people who noticed this was a good idea and are doing it. The idea is much better than Rust is. If you can't do Rust but you can do this idea, you should.

If ten years from now people are writing unsafe C and C++ like it's still somehow OK, that would be crazy.

Imagine it's 1995, you have just seen an Internet streaming radio station demonstrated, using RealAudio.

Is RealAudio the future? In 25 years will everybody be using RealAudio? No, it turns out they will not. But, is this all just stupid hype for nothing? Er no. In 25 years everybody will understand what an "Internet streaming radio station"
would be, they just aren't using RealAudio, the actual technology they use might be MPEG audio layer III aka MP3 (which exists in 1995 but is little known) or it might be something else, they do not care.
Isn't it the non-local hidden variable model? The idea that if local hidden variables do do not explain Bell inequalities, make the hidden variables non-local.

I think this model kind of works and some scientists are working on it, but it is not the preferred interpretation.
Precisely what I'm arguing is that we should stop destroying access to all information except the most popular—I'm astounded to find that you disagree! That is not an impasse that can be resolved by data.

Popularity is not a valid measure of value. The July 02021 issue of People magazine sold 3 million copies, in a single month, and is almost completely devoid of value. (Maybe in 02068 it will provide valuable insights into vapid 02020s US popular culture.) Amazon tells me Claude Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication is outsold by 185,210 other books at present, so perhaps it has sold 100 copies this month, but it is the foundation of data compression, error correction, and significant amounts of artificial intelligence work. One Hundred Years of Solitude has sold about 50 million copies—over the past 54 years, so perhaps it sells 80,000 copies a month, 40 times less than the July 02021 issue of People. (But probably less; it probably doesn't sell as much as it did 30 years ago.)

40:1 is more than the ratio between the number of HTTPS servers and the number of anonymous FTP servers.
Anecdata: when I worked at a US tech company, one of our teammates got transferred to the Netherlands because he couldn't get a visa renewal in time. I believe it's a common country to stash anyone who's having visa issues.
This is phenomenal work. A genuinely modern take on MUDs of old. Is multiplayer already implemented? I'm weirdly interested in starting up a good old MUD clan/guild again on an all-player killer server...
Look at low code tools. There's money, market demand, and many tool vendors.
To respond to applications. Even when you have good leads it's 3 months to get a second round of interviews. I'm not so comfortable that I can choose to not work in between moves.
> I don't get why reflection isn't an observation/interaction there either.

I know this comment is going to get lost in the noise, but that is a really excellent point, one of the best that has been raised here so far. This is a point that is often glossed over, but it is actually really important, and quite challenging to explain without getting deep into the weeds. The answer is that passing through a half-silvered mirror is an observation/interaction, but it is special because it can be practically reversed by using additional mirrors so that you can get back to a state where you can no longer tell what the outcome of the "measurement" was. All measurements are reversible in principle, but some are irreversible in practice because the number of things you'd have to reverse is just too large. And in particular, by the time a measurement has affected the state of any macroscopic system (like a ball) it is absolutely impossible to reverse in practice, though not in principle. This process of becoming irreversible-in-practice is called "decoherence".

See [1] for a more detailed explanation.

[1] http://blog.rongarret.info/2014/10/parallel-universes-and-ar...
That's not memory-unsafety. Memory-safety means avoiding bugs like buffer overflow, ROP, etc.
because when someone goes out of the way to give us a phone with mainline and a qwerty physical keyboard like we have been asking for ages, nobody buys and they go bankrupt?

https://www.gsmarena.com/blackberry_key2-9187.php

:)
Yes and no. Yes, if there are clouds, optical telescopes can't see through them. That's why the really big scopes are built high up in the mountains above clouds. They are also being built in the dry desert air to prevent issues from humidity. With AO (adaptive optics), any atmospheric distortion can be compensated and removed from the images. So in some cases, we get better images from ground based scopes than space based. The size of the primary mirror is a huge factor. This image is a favorite of mine that shows the size of various famous telescopes[0]

It's also possible to build larger telescopes on the ground. It just makes more sense and cents to build on the ground than into oribit. However, something like James Webb needs to be in space due to the type of research it is doing. Also why it is getting sent so far away rather than a closer orbit like Hubble.

[0]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/96/23/15/962315f7e4d4f4191de2...
There was a period of time where I brought NDAs with me to network events.

Not because I had something to hide, but so I could whip one out when someone was evasive about what they were working on.

I wasn't very popular at the time.
back with links. seattle-focused. seattle's consent decree is not about correcting investigatory malpractice, but simple excessive violence and racial bias.

aclu has a timeline https://www.aclu-wa.org/pages/timeline-seattle-police-accoun...

federal oversight means the consent decree is subject to national politics that may be alternately undermining (executive branch republicans promote impunity) or disinterested (executive branch democrats fear criticism of reform efforts).

the decree is also affected by national events and attention. the late nationally-motivated police reform efforts are running into roadblocks as officials claim those goals conflict with compliance.

https://crosscut.com/2020/06/debate-over-policing-seattle-co...

https://crosscut.com/politics/2021/05/where-seattle-police-r...

notably, an internal police watchdog body created by the consent decree and charged with investigating officers, may only recommend action to the chief, who can simply reject it. the watchdog body is staffed by police and not civilians. there are some examples in the timeline above but here's one from last year.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-p...

and the police union is effectively able to write law that undermines oversight. the union contract actually supersedes city law on police accountability. this is a failure of the city council but was agreed upon by the overseeing judge.

https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2018/10/17/34045061/cpc-thr...

after nearly a decade of effectively resisting federal oversight and reform efforts, spd has developed an attitude of total impunity. a protest marched to the SPOG office last year, and at no provocation was dispersed with teargas and impact munitions as officers blasted a pop country song over loudspeakers. https://www.thestranger.com/slog/2020/09/08/44432799/police-...
I'm Confused, what would the lower 3% tax be on if not profit?
So what you’re really saying, is that you’re happy with the results and rate of gentrification occurring.

Don’t take this as an insult or anything, it is what it is.
Humans need food, water, and shelter to survive. One can define an absolute concept of "paid well" meaning that these needs are met within a 40-hour work week. It is sad to me that this goal is considered a utopia by many.
I would also be interested in seeing what this number was over the previous 5 decades. My guess is that it’s not changed much. This doesn’t say anything meaningful other than that it’s a bad metric, but it has a whiff of plato complaining about the youth.