skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like the three “wheel” picker on iOS (used for dates, at least): for coarse changes, I “flick” the wheel a couple times and let “inertia” do its work, then I fine tune it when I’m close.
I love the comparison! :D It conjures the image of someone answering concerns about storage with “don’t worry we can just hide it under my bed!”
AngelList Roll Up Vehicles Discussion
We have an average of 40 days off in France and it is still not enough to sustain school vacation.
I agree that there's a really annoying trend where seemingly every website constantly spams popups to try and get your email address. Or browser notifications now. No, there's zero chance I want your news site or blog to constantly spam my email or notifications with updates. If you can't be bothered to put a website up saying what your site or service is about, I definitely don't want to get email about it.
Beliefs about abortion are not split along gender lines. This is mostly a religious vs. non-religious issue, not a male vs. female issue.
Is only a PhD is capable of recognizing libre software deserving of support?
While the article states that the market was liberalised in Germany, there has been little change at least for private households as far as I can tell. Chimney sweepers still come on short notice without having been hired in any way. What strikes me is that when the local cleaner changes the standards you have to adhere seem to change as well.
“You get a toothbrush and tie it to the end of a garden cane”

meanwhile, the rest of the world uses a, you know, toilet brush
But I have already solved the issue: I stopped using Windows.
Hi!

Biochemist with a PhD, leading a group for bioprocess development and scale up. Been following hackernews for a few years now. Probably found it via digg or reddit, don't remember really. The things I like about NH is the minimalist UI and very high signal/noise ratio in the comments.

I have also played with the idea to switch professions for quite some time, but my programming skills include only basic python and microcontrollers. But in the end I always realise I'm very good at what I do and have a PhD in the field so it would not really make sense to switch and start over.
I agree it’s especially disappointing knowing that it was the very stewards of the internet who ultimately turned it into an attention sucking money centric ad platform. For who else would it have been than those who wield the power to manipulate its fabric?
I don't trust any company that much. But in this regard, its even worse - Google makes it no secret that theyre collecting your data, while mozilla goes all-in on the privacy messaging and then pulls a stunt like this.
Wouldn't that be exponential vs polynomial?
Yes, and usually pretty bad salary. I haven't seen any comment mentioning it, but it's another way to get screwed when joining a very early stage startup.

The 1st engineers join pre-series A, get pretty low salary with the promise of making it big when the company goes public or is bought. Then more engineers come on board when the company has more resources after a few other rounds of funding and they get a salary much closer to the market.
> the founder is running the company into the ground.

Except that their definition of running a company into the ground is more about whether or not the company is track to be the their 1000x return or not. They push for high-risk, high-return moves, which are not the same thing as striving for a sustainable business. I've seen founders building companies that are stable and growing, and still getting booted by the VCs because they wanted to push for higher returns.
30 days ago I was an Apple employee
Iirc Excalidraw is built on top of Google Firebase. That doesn't make it less nice, but imo it shouldn't count as open source or self hostable.
Indeed, before coins (c. 8th century BCE) money was nothing but promissory notes. Coins were invented at that time, at least 3000 years after money, to simplify military logistics.
China's Xi vows 'reunification' with Taiwan
The earlier book-length biography by Norman Macrae is quite terrible imho. This new one (per photochemyn's comment in this thread) doesn't sound that promising either, unfortunately, and few of von Neumann's contemporaries are still around to talk to.

There is a German guy (Ulf Hashagen) who has done some excellent biographical research about von Neumann. I hope he writes a full length biography some day, since there doesn't seem to be one now. Meanwhile, the best overview article I know of is Stanislaw Ulam's profile in the AMS Bulletin published shortly after von Neumann's death, in the special issue devoted to him:

https://projecteuclid.org/journals/bulletin-of-the-american-...
The problem in CAD space isn't the tooling or design capabilities - it's the data model.

It is a freaking nightmare trying to unwind interlinked assets, class libraries, custom components, manually entered specs and annotations, and convert it into something resembling a database (of any variety, we went with a graph DB because it offered more flexibility ...)

AVEVA has a lot of the pieces for this, but they've never put it together into a compelling product.

Ripe for disruption, especially with ML-assisted design.
But they weren't protesting the proprietors of those businesses for complying with the law. They were protesting the law itself.
There are formalized approaches to keeping the server from knowing the password at any time: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password-authenticated_key_a...

SRP is one such system: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Remote_Password_proto...
The enormous amount of hydrogen made each year would like a word with you. Just replacing this is a massive market for green hydrogen. And it's a vital market -- the current world population could scarcely be fed without artificially fixed nitrogen by the Haber-Bosch process, which is the major use of that hydrogen.
We'll be updating the documentation with examples in a few weeks, once we release it.
No, it doesn't support distributed training right now.
Yes, this. I get the impression that VCs are mostly looking for either ultra-growth no matter the risks or a high-value buyout by one of the tech majors. If you want steady growth and modest profit, your interests will be misaligned and there will be trouble. I'd say, don't take investment unless you have both a plan for exactly what you want to do with the money, and a vision for the company's future that's well-aligned with your investor.
> AOT compilation has been available ... commercial JDKs, or try their luck with gcj

> OpenJDK and OpenJ9 offer free JIT caches with PGO data

As someone who never been exposed to either of those options, what kind of startup times do they offer compared to GraalVM? With GraalVM compiled Native Image I get same startup performance as any random Go program, would those offer the same performance when it comes to startup?

Is there any tradeoff regarding long-term performance for daemons and similar?
If they are out to get everyone and you are part of everyone, then they are out to get you. It's just logic.
Sweden-> Ireland (5 years)

Ireland -> Switzerland (3 years so far)

I wanted to switch jobs after 7 years, and got an offer from Google. They handled relocation to Ireland.

After five years, I wanted to leave, but didn't feel like going home. So I transferred within Google to Switzerland. Again, they handled relocation. Now I've left Google, after 7 years, of course.

No plans on going anywhere but back to Sweden. There's no rush, though.

Generally, it's been fine. I'm sure the locals make fun of me (at least two Gardai in Dublin Airport did...), but it's not been a problem. I stay humble, since I'm a guest. Learning new paperwork is probably the least fun part of getting to know a culture. Hasn't been too bad, in retrospect. Authorities have been generally helpful, if a bit square-shaped.
The benefits are unrealized fanatasies about freedom from government that will never, ever happen.

The government, tax, justice systems and regulatory bodies are made out of people, you can't fool them with some "haha it's not USD" technicality like a sovereign citizen. It's all the same at the end except for a bunch of wasted energy.
Funny how everyone seems to think DRM doesn’t work except the professionals actually applying it
I estimate that laws to prevent all forms of targeting advertising serve to protect incumbents (both corporate and political incumbents). That makes incumbent politicians more powerful (in relative terms).
The Moral Bankruptcy of Facebook
No, it's only one bit for the first character and one for the second. The case of every other character is maintained relative to the second character, so the parity there provides the one bit of information for each subsequent alphabetic character.
I thought so, too. But it seems it is more the other way around: Australia was doing fine (can sell its stuff elsewhere), but China needs the imports:

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3151549/c...
Unlike its ultimate successor in Windows NT, I feel like the story of the design and evolution of the Win32 kernel & the resulting triumph of Windows 95 as an honest-to-goodness protected memory, preemptive multitasking OS hasn’t really been told.
Seems cool, will be handy for learning Plutus.
I have been thinking about creating a forum or Wiki lately, could be a fun project.

If you do, please drop me a note.
Nowhere is it implied that this could be true.
It's not really arguable that without his early advantage Von Neumann would not have been able to achieve what he did. Something can be the product of many things, as I'm sure you've learnt in elementary school.

As far as Ramanujan, it's not arguable either that if he had been recognized early and given proper opportunities, he would have been even more prolific and have made even greater contributions. It took him 10 years for his genius to be recognized locally! And that was as a Brahmin to an urban family, imagine how hard it would have been if he was a Vaishiya born to farmers - he might have never been recognized, and we would have lost his contributions.

If you believe that without being 100% self-made you're crap, that's your point of view, not mine.

As for your edit, extreme intelligence is not really correlated to income. In fact, once you leave the median by a standard deviation, there is almost no impact anymore, and even less when you start controlling for social factors. What is moreso correlated is low intelligence and low income. Descendance is a much, much stronger impact.
Thanks for the reply! Sorry I don't have any great sources off the top of my head. It makes sense that you'd want to restrict the scope of the article to make it more understandable.

I've only been part of one startup, and it went nowhere, but it's very common (ubiquitous?) for prospective employees to be sold the "if we IPO for $1xB" line when that likelihood is laughably small; hence my suggestion to lower the expectations with some lower numbers.

But props for getting this all down!
It’s not controversial during WWII, the pinnacle of human conflict. The war effort was a goal of almost everyone active. The nuclear race was on and many had to flee Europe. Even in normal circumstances, culturally people just didn’t care as much about human life back then.

Criticizing that from the comfortable perspective of today or even halfway to the sixties, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. Also being smart apparently doesn’t help much in predicting the future.
My idea wasn't to redistribute the whole thing, but to distribute a patch that other owners of the game can use by themselves? Now that's a win.

I also love the idea of adding newer OS compatibility to old software, seeing old video games running on Windows 10 would be thrilling. Perhaps do the same for drivers of old hardware? Also a win, IMO.

Another big question, in these patches, can I do only the fixes I can justify? Or can I go wild and remove the parts I don't like? I'd love to remove telemetry from my TV and all those weird apps it comes with that are in Chinese and are unusable outside China.
You are changing the subject. If they are observing my private behaviour without my consent, I don't care what they are doing with the info. I want them to stop no matter what they are doing with it.
Well, the same argument applies to software, I already bought a copy videogame, so why should I be prevented from altering in any way I want?

There has been a huge corporate landgrab in software under the guise of cipyright
everything is closed source, apart from the building blocks that comprise it. all clouds are closed source, most of the finance is closed source, MacOS is closed source, iOS - too. games - closed source, critical infrastructure - closed.

okay...let's think. lets take for example postgresql. all right is opensource, we all love it. but how some company uses it - well this is not open source. only few businesses dare to be open source and typically open the non-critical parts.

why so much pressure on MS?

the idea that the world is embracing opensource is absolutely disconnected with the reality ever since the idea of open source came to existence.

once again - even when the building are open source, the way they are tied together is usually not. and their usage in business systems - also not open source. period.

there is fair chance, that whoever is reading this comment works is paid by a company that is using open source, but is not open sourcing.
Softbank et al isn't giving you anything. It's an exchange; and with that comes responsibilities, and so on.
Thank you for clarifying this. I remember it like it was yesterday. Big tragedy. People forget and move on, sadly. A lot of people were upset though and still are. This has to be something to "never forget". It has to.
Until companies begin just sharing specific parts of their server side logging. I can see a future where all the tracking happens in a fully server-side network of companies just sharing data back and forth or between a central database.
I got very excited that this would be about fountain pens, but I was delightfully surprised. Thanks Thevet, this was pretty cool.

> The preface focuses less on the individual, heroic explorer, more on collective expeditions and technical achievement.

Reading this reminded me of how pioneer expeditions can be compared to a lot of independent projects: how the beginning is a more unified team as there are many struggles to overcome that are plainly evident, and as time goes on, new faces and ideas appear, diversions emerge, and a more solipsistic way of acting takes over, as there are no more huge obstacles to unify everyone with. Only the strongest teams I have seen overcome this.
If someone reported it to UPS and they didn’t do anything. UPS would be complicit. Just like if someone sent a CDN a DMCA notice. Justice do prosecute the shipping companies for illegal materials that use their network.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/ups-agrees-forfeit-40-m...
U.S. Hit with 18B-Dollar Disasters So Far This Year
>I wonder if that would help the open source GTA remake case.

Doubt it because they were distributing the entire decompiled codebase. The part that was missing was just the game assets.

If they were just distributing a binary patch that fixed the game, then they would probably be safe.
Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose...
Created first release of `ftd`, a mark-up language for defining schema and data, and UI: https://www.fifthtry.com/ftd/

-- record product:
description: caption
type: integer

-- list products:
type: product

-- products: iPhone
type: 12

-- products: Google Chrome
type: 123

-- ftd.text: ref product.description
$loop$: products as product
size: 30
color: red

This weekend working on improving `ftd playground`: https://play.fifthtry.com.

Mocking playground in playground itself: https://play.fifthtry.com/?ekey=xzdf7HJFB6LxfpGER2X9Bg

Will be open sourcing it soon, have built it in Realm, a full stack web framework using Rust+Elm, want to use it as a demo to showcase some features of realm: https://www.amitu.com/realm/.
And some above ground waveguides alongside a main road near Ipswich - not sure if they are still there.
Firefox + uBlock Origin here.

Visible impact on page: empty right sidebar

Blocked requests:

- https://mc.yandex.ru/metrika/watch.js
- https://counter.yadro.ru/hit?unique_data_here
- https://yandex.ru/ads/system/context.js

Actually, it makes me wonder what's keeping these companies that want to serve ads generate JS dynamically server side and include the code for ads in the same file as the main application logic. Then, when you'd block the entire file from downloading because of it containing ad logic, the site would break, so viewing ads would be required to use the functionality.

I do feel thankful that toolchains like that don't seem to be in widespread use yet.
Put the comment in your freezer and defrost in 2030.

Tesla is currently old standard oil plus old Ford motor.

Tesla will make robots happen in Austin.
Ask HN: Would You Work for MongoDB?
What? Only 5% of the company took the buyout: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2020/10/08/5-of-coinbase-e...
It's not really a matter of paper work, you simply don't have the right to move to another country just because you feel like it. Whereas it's a key pillar of EU membership.

As a non EU citizen, immigrating depends on that specific country's requirements, but typically it would be a time limited arrangement, you'd need to pass a language test, find a company willing to sponsor the effort (so your residency is tied to that specific that job, and if you loose it you need to leave), that job would need to be at a certain level (e.g managerial level), the job would need to be in a field where there are national shortages, the sponsoring company would need to prove that it had made the effort to fill the job with a local first. If you're rich enough you can alternatively pay to create a business with maybe 100k capital and employ 1 or 2 nationals on a continuing basis and get your residency that way. Software developers no doubt have an easier time than most given the lack of software devs, but it's not a given by any means.
I was also put off from the article by the quote, but that's on me, not you. The article was great and I agree with everything in it.
There's no law, but do not accept an offer at a startup where the founders / leadership are not willing to explain this to you whenever you ask.
>It's a tactic I've been using for years now, and I've gotten thousands of referrals and confirmed purchases of products.

What website(s) do you run so I can make sure never to visit them?
There's simply a gap between the games and media one wants to play and the games and media one wants to buy. Whatever the reasons are (I'm not sure I'll like it, DRM or bugs might make the game unplayable, I'm unwilling to pay full price to have a look, I don't want to commit to a subscription, I'm an irresponsible freeloader...) piracy fills the gap in a way that is impossible with material goods, and it will always be so. There's no way out, and DRM just erodes goodwill. For example, I stopped buying Sony audio CDs, even from artists I like, after the rootkit scandal of many years ago.
The sibling comments go immediately to the evils or virtues of VC as though that were justification to stay small or go big, but this comment captures the vast majority of small business activity that produces thriving economies and stable lives for owners and workers alike. I have friends who opened automatic garage door repair shops. They are a two-state business and live comfortably and are engaged in the lives and wellbeing of their employees.

Disruption is glamorous but small is foundational.
Not sure why macOS (M1) is expensive here. For the hardware/performance/software you get it’s not really expensive if you compare the alternatives like surface or any of the intel based laptops. Sure, you can get a cheap laptop for under 500$ but that won’t last long either.
I mean you are dropping the whole colds are coronaviruses too part though. though, the "cold" has a bunch of possible viruses that cause it (something like 200 different viruses) with the rhinovirus being one of the larger ways since it's so resistant to being inactivated comparatively to sars2 which only lasts for a day to three as a fomite vector, is neutralized by soap and water or 70% IPA. If covid had a viral vector like a rhinovirus that can last for months on surfaces in wide variety of conditions on surfaces and also spread via aerosolized particles it would have been a completely different pandemic that would have been far more deadly.
You likely want connections that you can only develop there, but once you actually start, VCs don't care where you, just who you are and who can vouch for you.
This is just silly. If China 'reunites' the wayward territory, you know what the USA will do?

Nothing! There will be no conflict over Taiwan.
When I was 18 I started working on one very interesting problem. All my life I dreamed about solving that problem, but coudn't, because needed to earn money for family etc. Struck it rich at 52, and since then pursuing my goal, living around the world in 5 star all inclusive hotels.
IANAL, but there are two "problems" with this claim.

One is that "just create a bunch of shares and only give them to the founder" is true, but has tax consequences. (In your example, you just gave ~90% of the company to the founder at valuation $XM. Whether as options or as Restricted Stock, there's going to be a tax consequence to that either at grant or during vesting). A dishonest founder might do that, but they'd have to believe it was going to work out in their favor beyond just "I already have 40%, let's increase the value of the company".

Second though is that the Founders, usually as CEO and Board Directors, have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders. Even if you have full control of the voting rights, reallocating all the equity is a violation of that fiduciary responsibility. The injured parties have to sue you for it, and that might make the company equity worthless, but just because a company is private doesn't mean "anything goes".
When did you acquire or purchase the Facebook app?
Fuck Google:

• YouTube has deliberately crippled Picture-in-Picture and background audio on iPad/iOS for years, but apparently not on some Android phones.

• YouTube has AutoPlay (next video) but no Auto-Repeat. What the fuck?

• On iPhone, Google.com has Dark Mode option (without signing in) only when you Request Desktop Website, but viewing the default mobile site has no option Dark Mode.

• Google apps try to hijack voice dictation to their own servers instead of using the built-in iOS dictation.

• Signing into any Google app will also forcibly sign you into Google Search on Safari. You have to manually delete Google cookies to sign out of Search but remain signed in on the YouTube app, for example.

• iOS/iPadOS features like Dark Mode and Split View still not fully supported in some apps.

• “SafeSearch” (censorship) cannot be disabled in some countries (at least not without signing in, allowing your search terms to be associated with your account).

Really. Why do the biggest companies struggle so much with such basic UX issues? Serious question.
Good. Competition in this marketplace is always welcome and very good for customers.