skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, personally what I see is people comparing a group of developers that are adamant on never corrupting any data, where everything is secondary and will refuse to push any feature that may cause problems with a group that is adamant on increasing market share, if it's by doing a low quality MVP so be it, that I have seen corrupting data on production several times, and whose software still carries the scars from those MVP's errors.

Yes, MySQL is all featureful¹. The only thing missing there is guarantees that your data will stay good.

1 - Some of those are "no, we won't ever implement it" features that will do nothing but eat your data by design. Why would you ever want them in a persistence layer? Cache on memory somewhere better.
2018 Could Be the Year of the Angry White College Graduate – FiveThirtyEight
Agreed. If you're on Windows/OSX, it also adds a VM between your host and your code and file sharing has terrible performance.
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I just heard about MoviePass, but it sounds like it was a pretty sweet deal even before the $10 price point. What are other services that are really good deals but that we might not have heard about?
My examples are just 4 quick things off the top of my head, there are probably many more. I also don't see your point about the deaf person (they're still treated differently -- you wouldn't talk vocally to them).

I agree with your rule of thumb, but that seems like a positive description of the situation, not the normative one I'm looking for. You're giving me the conditions under which there will be outrage for discrimination (i.e., there exists a socially vocal/outspoken group that identifies with the quality being discriminated on). However, I was trying to tease out what the moral rule purported by such groups could be, since I see the "don't discriminate for how I was born" claim so often (and so forcefully put). I would suppose there should be some deep moral law being broken.
"Being right" gives you a high - that is why flame wars can be so addictive. Like cocaine it may give you instant gratification and pleasure but in the end it is not worth.

Despite the unfortunate redaction, I guess the parent is telling that if you find yourself chasing this kind of highs very often, you probably are basing your life on shitty values like "being right all the time".
Will it ever be able to run Adobe Creative Cloud programs?
I absolutely agree; this is why I prefixed with "Depending on the application". If your application doesn't run into the prohibitive language issues, then you can benefit from the ecosystem with minimum drawbacks.

It's also worth noting that these "prohibitive language issues" can be solved with code generation in the worst case, and while this is often unjustifiably tedious, it's still far simpler than basic C++ project management (maintaining CMake, integrating an editor into your project, setting up testing, cross compiling, dealing with templates and compiler errors, etc). And I say all of this as a former C++ developer. If you can make C++ work in the basic cases, Go's worst case is still far nicer for all but the most performance-demanding applications.
There's no hype in talking about mathematics!
>There aren't many sovereign nations that have been in existence since 1017 AD, so that sort of makes your question moot.

Sure. Which is why it's a bit ridiculous to say there has been a millennia of income tax we have been learning from.

Tax in general has existed - progressive income taxes, however, seem to be a fairly recent development. Purely in the administration sense, it would have been far more difficult to do in the past and as a progressive tax system does not actively benefit the people in power in a feudal or imperial government, it would be unlikely for a progressive tax to be implemented, especially one that exists in peace-time. In fact, feudal era taxes seem to have been actively regressive.

Removing a progressive tax system, something I believe is a bad idea to do, wouldn't roll things back to older systems of taxation. We wouldn't sacrifice the development of financial policies and tax frameworks, and we didn't arrive at the concept of a progressive system because of hundreds of years of failed tax policies. We have a structurally different government than countries did for hundreds of years prior.
I didn't know that, I'll check it out, thanks! :)
TIL Make is not used widely anymore.

I may live in a bubble, but my last use of it was… maybe 2 hours ago (to build someone else's project) and yesterday (to build one of my own projects).
An Introduction to Puppeteer and Headless Chrome
I prefer gold.
Lilium secures $90M to develop its electric VTOL plane
Hey,

I built DocumentDeck because I have a problem of managing all my papers
So the "things" here are links to various articles and essays. Some of them I recognize and there are definitely some good ones in there (like Fred Brooks' "No Silver Bullet").

This kind of list would be much more useful with more careful curation. Rather than just giving me 100 links in broad categories, write a sentence or two about why each article is worth reading. Maybe pick 10 or 20 articles to showcase, rather than 50 or 100.
Sounds like an interesting solution. The article does point out that this is very early, petri-dish stage, and that there is a significant problem in that the concrete could crush the shrooms when it sets.
$1.1 Trillion CISA “CIS” Center of Internet Security Code Exposed
+1

Projects like these are always welcome on Hacker News. I am saddened to see comments like the parent's (that are too eager to discourage any technical decision that does not conform to their opinion) popping up in this community often.

The very purpose of the "Show HN" prefix is to show off fun projects like these to the HN community and the more such projects we have (regardless of what technical decisions were taken to create the project), the better it serves that purpose.
Rolling brownouts (or even/odd licence plate rules and the like) only encourage inefficient stockpiling. People buying the bigger battery option when purchasing an EV (which is dead weight when not needed), degrading their batteries faster than necessary by putting their Tesla on max range charge mode all the time, because what if, and so on.

I'd say spot prices for everyone or a reliable fixed rate model, everything in between will turn into a negative-sum game. Exceptions only where discrete consumers are so big that their paid shutdown can be individually supervised and verified (aluminium smelters, ice storage cooling for datacenters and the like). You clearly would not want those to simply switch over to a fixed rate outlet behind your back in times of scarcity, they need to be verifiably off.
His argument, as stated, is a use of the Nirvana fallacy. But it can certainly be re-phrased and re-worked into something substantial. The general sentiment isn't completely without merit; people will always exploit loop holes in the tax system. But to say there isn't any point in closing this loop hole or that loop hole because people will just use another is an assertion, not an argument. You need to provide evidence to support this claim. Maybe those other loop holes are more of a hassle, or require substantial initial investment to take advantage of (like re-structuring your company to incorporate in a different country), or don't shelter as many assets from taxes. The point is, you need evidence to back up the claim.

> The qualitative fault I'm trying to point out is that trying to tax 'rich people' is a failed attempt because no matter how effective you can implement your tax measures, at the end of the day people can move to other countries and your own country starts to suffer more than it benefits from the increased taxes.

That's more of an argument against taxes in general, isn't it? You tax people high enough and they'll leave. There's a certain "sweet spot" at which you tax people just enough to provide good services without making people leave. I wouldn't dispute that. But for that to be a valid argument in this case, you'd have to provide evidence to show that closing these loop holes puts the tax burden of people above that "sweet spot."
Groovebook is another that comes to mind. They let you print a photobook with 100 photos every month for $2.99.
They do have the right to monitor, they just have to tell the employees that they are monitoring.
You assume there is a distinct boundary between work and personal life, like it or not (i profoundly dislike it) this is becoming more and more of a grey area.
Are there any other examples of a medium making this transition?
The third is that users are unpredictable and the best way to find out if you are on to a real business is to figure it out through releasing better and better products.

Not sure if that applies to ML, because they may think of themselves as a licensing deal, but who knows?
As far as I can tell Magic Leap is working on light field technology. Essentially the big problem with AR right now is that it only fools half of the human visual system.

Parallax is one way your eyes estimate distance. All the AR headsets have this down.

The other is focal length. Your eyes need to set focus distance properly for the object you're trying to look at. This is where existing AR falls flat. And why it doesn't quite look real.

The way to fool the focal system is through bending light. Much harder than two offset displays. Not sure exactly how they're doing it but it sounds like they're doing something with optical fibre to project images on the retina itself.

The second hard part about faking focal length is that unless you can manage to bend all the light coming from the scene properly all the time you need to have really good eye tracking. Not sure how they're solving this either...

Whoever solves the focal distance part of tricking the human brain will rapidly develop AR/VR that is indistinguishable from reality. I just wish magic leap would focus on regular headsets to make some money instead of betting all their billions on light fields.
Hacking Medium to create a self-hosted blogging platform
So the energy and insurance tycoons are the big winners?

Also - What makes you think poor people will make such practical spending decisions? I hardly believe they will buy insurance. More likely to buy nicer food/dining out/entertainment and nicer cars/clothes/signals of wealth. Again, this materializes mostly as profit in companies owned by the rich.
TLDR:

* the proposal is to mix the fungal spores when pouring concrete, in the hope the spores remain dormant in concrete pores. When cracks form and water/mositure seeps into the cracks, the spores germinate and produce calcium carbonate deposits that "fix" the cracks.

* The article notes that more research is required before this mechanism is proven to work; it has been showed to work in petri dish/controlled conditions

* Probably won't fix existing infrastructure as it requires to be mixed with concrete when its poured.
The law isn't analogous to code and doesn't work that way. "But your honor, their server sent me the data! Clearly I was authorized!" won't fly in the real world.

There's a pretty clear difference in intent from hitting the video page with a browser and hitting with a tool whose only purpose is to make a local copy.

There's also the TOS:

YouTube hereby grants you permission to access and use the Service as set forth in these Terms of Service, provided that:

You agree not to distribute in any medium any part of the Service or the Content without YouTube's prior written authorization, unless YouTube makes available the means for such distribution through functionality offered by the Service (such as the Embeddable Player).

You agree not to access Content through any technology or means other than the video playback pages of the Service itself, the Embeddable Player, or other explicitly authorized means YouTube may designate.
I am a blockchain

https://twitter.com/LIL_ICEBUNNY/status/887667332562202624/v...
Sometimes the mods merge the comments of a story and a close repost. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15137168

I'm not sure if that cover all your cases.
That’s true in the US as well, although the number changes depending on marital and dependent status (from $9,500 to $21,300).
The fundamental difference here is that MAFIAA engages in developing technical means to limit how you can consume media. No open source license cares about what you do with the source code on your own machines (plural); restrictions only kick in if you want to distribute code to other people.
If you agree with my point then it's not hard to see how postgres is more friendly:

You can write a function in python (or a number of other languages) and share code with your application, and use those functions almost anywhere in postgres (including unique indexes). That makes the unique indexes much more powerful, especially if you want to adapt to changes without rewriting all your data.

Or, you can use range types and an exclusion constraint to form a non-overlapping constraint that prevents schedule conflicts:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/rangetypes.html

There are tons of examples and others list them all the time. The problem is that a lot of people read past them because they don't see why semantics matter.
TheFatRat to Hack and Gain Access to Targeted Android Phone – Hack4Net
We can have a debate about what is reasonable in terms of music too. But once the copyright owner, be it a musician or a software engineer, decides on a license, we can't just violate his decision, even if we decide that it's unreasonable.

Speaking as a musician, I have posted my tracks on Youtube and supplied a link to download them for free on Bandcamp. But when I released a music with a label, I delegated all the distribution rights to that label, and they made a decision not to offer free downloads. I may disagree with their decision, but it's theirs to make since I signed the contract.
Rather regulation. Banks have been hit with multi-billion dollar fines because they conducted business with the wrong people. Closing "good" accounts is less risky than paying exorbitant amounts because you failed to do so.
Something happens later that I'm not going to say anything about. ;) Give it another try!
Thanks for telling me. Github issue is filed: https://github.com/hellerve/e/issues/10

Will work on it when I find time.
Wallet Hacks: How a Person Lost Over $300,000 in Ethereum Due to Simple Mistakes
Google has always struggled with the human element; you generally don't go with a Google offering if you need support.

Unfortunately, you never need support for cloud infrastructure-- right up until you really, really need support.
Yes. The question is access and licencing.
I would argue they are roughly comparable, not one better than the other. The risk profile is similar and the common CVEs are the same between the two.
That's only available on 7.0+ phones with hardware support (currently I think only the pixels?)
The author seems to confuse "potentially competent data scientist" with "10x data scientist."
The info on http://www.reactos.org/wiki/LiveUSB says "With current versions of ReactOS, USB support is not advanced enough to successfully boot, and ReactOS will crash when it begins loading system USB drivers." Bug here for example: https://jira.reactos.org/browse/CORE-7826
How's it work then?
Neanderthals were distilling tar 200 thousand years ago in Europe
Essential Phone First Impressions
Design and development in sync at the Atlassian Summit 2017
Machine Vision Decodes Honeybee Waggle Dances – MIT Technology Review
Well, I guess, the same could be said about FreeBSD vs. Linux (or, is it the other way around?)
Algolia/sup3rS3cretMes5age: Self-destructing message service
Switzerland is totaly legal if you don't sell it.

Personal use is allowed and nothing should be pay.

Only commercial use, need to pay for reuse, broadcast song.

This is a fair-use, blaming end-user people is so stupid.

Now Youtube, and all BIG one make a lot of money but are muscian more rich? NO, it's even more hard.

Are people still foled by major and music stolen by these compagny? Yes, welcome slavery 2.0

People that don't have money to fight now can just shut up against these big compagny even with small youtube channel you can see people stole video for each other, like the last one you get a kid stole another kid video after 2 days. He have stolen 40 videos, same content, same title, etc.

Do we agree to live in a such world, when you can't do something with value added? Sure we need to protect the right but in a same for every musician. Every musician should have the same right to protect their music but that's not the case.

Also I don't think we need to pay to give service. Example. I have a bar, people listen to some music ok, but why I need to pay? I make a free adversting of that music? It's not that enough? I don't earn money with that music, I earn it with the bar.

The same can apply with movie. We need movie that can come from another place that hollywood and there big industry of movie, they are all crap but sell because like pop music it's what generate revenue.
> - optimizer hints

> - optimizer tracing

Hints are bad. They always have been. If you need hints your query planner is broken.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/OptimizerHintsDiscussion

Even Oracle Tom says DO NOT USE HINTS IN PRODUCTION! Report the bug to Oracle and let them fix it properly.
Pipes and sockets on a local system are usually implemented using shared memory. While there are challenges to implementing secure* shared memory interfaces, it has been done (see eg. SEL4, QNX and many others).

* For example, DoS-safe
Haha wait though, why is good to "change the status quo" if it results in deep cuts to public school funding (in support of "school choice")? https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/trumps-first-...

Is this what you're saying?

To talk about my views a little, I disagree with the whole, "No Child Left Behind" thing and increased standardized testing. I think we need to worry more about kids getting into what they're learning and learning all the critical skills they need like reading comprehension, algebra/math, critical thinking, etc, rather than focusing on test results (which don't seem to support that goal).

Yeah, change the status quo, but the change she's supporting don't seem to help the issue we're discussing here - unless you have some contrary sources? Down to hear about them.
For reference, the ugly OCaml equivalent unikernel is:

let () = print_endline "Hello, world!"

(from http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/07/28/my-first-unikernel/)
Every flat tax proposal I’ve seen has either an income floor or a ‘prebate’ to counteract this. Generally they are set at an amount that actually improves the lot of the lowest income earners, largely due to knee-jerk reactions such as yours.
What the Industrial Revolution Tells Us about the Future of Automation
Does it run msys2?
I know of a least one major company (fortune 30) that requires solaris for several safety critical systems products (think, for example, but not necessarily, commercial aircraft control systems) with thousands of active installations all over the world. Without it, they can't maintain these systems.
Obligatory blog post: https://blog.algolia.com/secure-tool-for-one-time-self-destr...
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Well coin was always a misnomer and skeumorph, because chain of hashes is even less relatable.

But hey since it is a decade later now, and iphones no longer show pictures of an address book for your contact list, maybe we can also drop the -coin and -currency monikers and call it distributed hash chain accounting networks!

There is a known quantity of hashes.
Calhoun Who? Yale Drops Name of Slavery Advocate for Computer Pioneer
> It will be another checkbox on the contract.

In my experience, employee contracts are negotiable in practice. I negotiated limiting or removing 'non-compete' clauses several times in different companies. If email checks were important for me (they're not) I would negotiate this term as well.
There can be more to data integrity than foreign keys and transactions.

We have an application to track and distribute work to employees, there can only be one active work item per item type on an account - we use MSSQL for this and originally enforced this with a CHECK constraint, which ultimately failed, we switched to a partial index (CREATE UNIQUE INDEX ON activities(account_id, activity_type) WHERE activity_state = 0) which works flawlessly. There is absolutely no sane way to implement this at the application layer, and even then we have additional applications and administrative work that may access this database directly so we can't rely on the application enforcing data integrity anyway. MySQL doesn't even support CHECK constraints, nor does it have partial indexes - while even SQL Server has supported partial (filtered) indexes since SQL Server 2008 (nearly a decade after PostgreSQL implemented them, but hey, still at least a decade before any of the MySQL family will have them).

Should you put application logic in your database? No, probably not. But you should always make sure your database prevents ANY invalid data from being put into it, your little application won't be the only one touching that database forever in all likelihood.
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> just like there are multiple Linuxes

Are you talking about distributions or kernels?
Also based on the reality that we're requiring college degrees for everything, despite the fact that a lot of what's taught in college could easily be taught in a trade school.
I definitely see how youtube-mp3 would be infringement since they are the ones actually sending you the bits over a wire.

I have a hard time seeing how youtube-dl would even count as unauthorized copying. Not just in an "it's virtually unenforceable" sort of way, either.

If it's unauthorized copying to use software on my computer to download and store copyrighted bits that I obtained directly from the authorized source (in this case YouTube), then Google would need to help go after themselves, since Chrome is doing the same thing (as youtube-dl).

If I can create/use a CLI tool that (presumably) acts like a browser (youtube-dl) and you can't implement a way to prevent that, then that's your issue -- not mine.

Legally, I'm probably wrong, though, since intent is usually way more important than what you actually do (e.g. porn vs nude art).

EDIT: looks like others pretty much confirmed this thought process in the time it took me to write it.
If there was only one of pipes, sockets, system calls, and the filesystem, that would be fine. Instead there are all of those and more.

There's no fundamental reason shared memory should be less safe than sockets (say); ultimately it's just bytes. Shared memory has a bad reputation because of how it behaves when processes sharing memory run concurrently, especially if they're both writing, but that's not a concern when we're talking about a unikernel interacting with the host, because there's no need to have anything happen concurrently there.
Agreed. Certainly nobody should be hiring based principally on a candidate's alma mater. A candidate should be interviewed to find out that they know what they need to know and have the skills required. Really, college education is mostly irrelevant in practice.
I did not know that! Looks like[1] it went live back in July. I still wish they'd have used TOTP rather than this onetouch thing that's restricted to a single app, but just about anything was better than SMS, so this is a welcome development.

[1]: https://blog.namecheap.com/announcing-onetouch-2fa/
I do recall investigating them, but I don't recall my specific conclusions. It does appear that they're genuinely trying, and probably meet the specific bar I set in my comment. There are other bars that I fear would take this way off topic.