skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, in the most trivial and banal sense possible, it is: there's now another message app that wasn't there before.

I tried to unpack why this phrase is overused. I think it is because it's one of a few things that both sounds lofty when used in a pitch, and wiil always be true.

It's also a great dodge of considering the type of change (changing the world for the better or worse?) or of that change's magnitude (substantially changing the world, or just a little?). To some of a crowd, having heard the above, they will assume things about "changing the world" that may make further probing on those points at a high level sound like duplicate questions, and thus surpresses the chance of getting them. Useful for someone trying to peddle crap.
Those are the parts that roll up into this thing we call "music" but that is not what music is nor what it is about. Your air conditioner, for example, has a rhythm and a pitch to it's sound, but no one would ever call it music. Your cooking timer, another example. Jonathan Peters defines music as "the universal language of emotions communicated through intelligently ordered sounds consisting of rhythm and pitch" so to answer what music is about: It's about conveying emotion.
They also create several workstations used quite extensively in the video editing world, along with other power-user oriented industrial uses
> Ex Googler says founders need to stop using the word disruption

i'm a bit unclear on the relevance of 'ex googler'. apparently the author of the wired article was once employed by google, but that doesn't seem germane to the piece.

edit: looks like the title was updated.
No, influenza is a virus and is unaffected by antibiotics. OP is misinformed.
If you're a magit user please keep contributing, so the author can get paid better for his year of work that benefits all of us.
Thank you. I remembe having to balance a B-Tree in my DB final. 5 nodes deep. Had to show all of the work. I think it ended up with 20 some revisions based on all the insert and delete statements.
> The GM union dues

Somehow, you've turned a blind eye to the fact that your own source states that the US national average for union dues are $377 per year.

Let that sink in for a minute. The average union within the US receives only $377 per year.

That's about $32 a month.

So, the median wage for workers in the United States is around $3400 per month. And somehow a $32/month fee is made out to be a deal breaker?

Is that what's stopping you from being repeatedly screwed over by employers who spend more on professional services dedicated to screw employees over than adjusting salaries?
But its more true of some than others.
It would just be a double bribe paid to the same people no?
Ask HN: Can you still go to the front page with great content alone?
I was reminded when I read "Better Ways to Read Hacker News" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15310291) that I get almost all my content from HN from hndigest.com, an (awesome!) email that links me to the top articles. I basically never interact with the front page at all.

I've also noticed recently that it's becoming very difficult for submitted content to get any votes on the new page, even if it's a damn relevant and thought provoking. I'm not just thinking of my own content that got no votes :-) But I also realize that I'm part of the problem... because I only read the stuff that's already gone to the front page.

In previous jobs, I worked at companies where we could say, "we just posted to HN - take a look and consider voting (from LTE!!!)." This content frequently went to the front page. Content where we didn't send this Slack message did not - ever.

I'm wondering: with all the passive readers, and potentially more content getting submitted generally, is it still possible to get attention on HN with a great idea alone? My personal conclusion is that it isn't, so I've largely stopped posting unless I'm supported by other humans who promise to cast a few upvotes.
It turns out that covering basic preventative care for "free" actually creates better outcomes. People feel obligated to go for the checkup when they've already paid for it, or more accurately are not discouraged from going because they can't afford it this month. Preventing disease is a lot cheaper than treating it in many cases, and creates a better quality of life for the patient. This is one reason countries with socialized medicine fare so much better on their health outcomes at lower cost.
What's the downside of not being able to hit F1? Taking the keycap off is simple and effective.
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The higher end HP Z series workstations are incredibly solid and popular (if a bit pricy) especially among people running heavier engineering software or high end video editing. And everybody I know that needs a portable machine to run AutoCAD on has a Zbook.

But this is about HPE which is the company that sells Servers, networking equipment and enterprise "Solutions", not the company that sells computers and printers.
My first concern is whether Pipewire plays nicely with PulseAudio and Jack? If I install Pipewire will it break applications that expect to work with PulseAudio and/or Jack?
"Overuse of pesticides leads to tolerance"

Dicamba is a herbicide, not a pesticide.

Using Dicamba or Glyphosphate leads to less herbicide use. Because the soybeans or maize has been modified specifically to tolerate dicamba or glyphosphate and that those herbicides kill pretty much anything that is green, they don't have to use a lot of it.

If we didn't have broad spectrum herbicides, farmers would have to use many narrow spectrum herbicides to kill weeds of different varieties. More herbicide, not less.
Okay for those that do not get it.

1. It’s a bank.
2. Banks lock down their computers.
3. So you cannot install other software to fix this in software.
4. You do not have access to the system low enough to rename / remove the winhelp.exe crap.
5. No 3rd party hardware is allowed in the bank. So no bringing your own keyboard.

All the time we get into this threads on HN where the techie goes well you could just...bla bla bla. In the real would of corporate IT everything you say is a non-starter.
The cloud market is super competitive right now. HP tried to develop its own OpenStack based cloud but AFAIK it didn't turn out very well at all.

I'm wondering what their strategy is going forward. Are they still in the cloud business or are they gonna stick to the hardware/server side of things.
You're right, changed to HPE.
Author here, I read HN and other distracting sites in the bed or from the "gym" room where we don't have a chair or a couch – only a yoga mat. It's not comfortable to sit there for more than an hour.

By the way, I also have a "walking treadmill + wall shelf" setup to watch TV series from my laptop on the go.
Any recommendation for a good tutorial or introduction article about magit

i use sourcetree, and i like it a lot, but with all the positive talk about magit, i need to try it

i now only use emacs for org-mode and this mode is also by far the best personal todo list i used (i.e. if you dont need any social, sharing features found in web todos, org-mode is the best there is) .. so i know emacs can be very good
I have never seen in London a car driver run a red light but I regularly see cyclists blast through a red light at > 20mph and it is always the ones on fixies or racing bikes not actual bikes built for commuting.

I have also seen bikes blast through pedestrian refuges during the rush hour
Also: https://userstyles.org/styles/browse?category=ycombinator
No.

That is a completely backwards way to see things. Consider this: Flint, MI had a widely publicized water crisis due to cost cutting in water treatment and supply. Due to these cost saving measures, over 10,000 children got exposed to high levels of lead. Again, I repeat: this was due to cost saving measures from a financially bankrupt city/state. At the same time this happens, companies are allowed to generate millions in profits from these very same resources?

You say Nestlé selling you bottled water doesn't impact "an African kid getting water", well excuse me but it very well does. If the state charged a fair price for the water, fair in light of the obscene profit they are set to make from processing that water, then those millions in revenue could be used, oh I don't know, to properly treat water so tens of thousands of children don't get poisoned, maybe.
Hi Alan, Here is my latest attempt to realize some of those dreams in a browser using JavaScript (not in the Lively Kernel or Amber way, but a more browser-native way even as some elegance is lost): https://github.com/pdfernhout/Twirlip7

You can try it here:
http://rawgit.com/pdfernhout/Twirlip7/master/src/ui/twirlip7...

Or also here on a shared experimental server (with some more context on a click-through cover page):
http://twirlip.net/

Anyway, still plugging along on moving the dream forward in my spare time. Thanks for sharing so much good software and humane inspirations with the world. Nice to meet you in person at OOPSLA 1997. Cheers!
> Uzbekistan should separately recover that money from the Karimov family.

I'm not sure you appreciate the extent to which the Karimov family are the state of Uzbekistan.
I think HN needs to consider segmenting, like Reddit does with subreddits. This would give more content a chance to get to the front page with a relevant audience.
So optimize away the chores?

In my case, marrying a woman who wanted to be a stay at home mom worked pretty well. I'd rather be working than doing chores, she'd rather stay home and feel productive cleaning the house, and we're both super happy.
Hi ThomPete - thanks! The videos at the bottom only present the app functionalities - nothing more really. But about the span, we use the same dimensions as conventional piano, meaning that octaves size aren't wider.
HP Inc has around 49k employees (consumer computer / printers), Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has 195k. According to Wikipedia.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Inc.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hewlett_Packard_Enterprise
> 80% of antibiotics used in the US are given to farm animals

These antibiotics are not the same ones used to treat human infections, and the correlation between the rise in antibiotic resistant infections and antibiotic use in livestock does not indicate causation.

> Bird flu or swine flu has a decent probability of being the next epidemic because of this practice.

Influenza is caused by a virus, and is unaffected by antibiotics.
Hololens uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry which is already more accurate (just watch a demo), so more accurate GPS won't have an effect here.

Photogrammetry is what humans do, and it doesn't cost billions of dollars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System#Deve...

http://nation.time.com/2012/05/21/how-much-does-gps-cost/
Like the sibling said, you could bake the stats into member fields to cache the values. I'm guessing it wouldn't caused any real slow down, but I can understand the concern. Would also help for repeated calls to the same stat.

Though, I would also think a general .stats method would make the most sense. It is quite often nowdays to want a lot of stats.

And again, I am not arguing that the new lib shouldn't exist. I just question that example.
A site dedicated to this kind of thing (to save archive.org some bandwidth) - http://gen.lib.rus.ec/search.php?req=nuclear+war+survival+sk...
My concern would be that as they look to carve off the less profitable areas of their enterprise divisions, that the HP/UX team (as a smaller subset of the overall quoted number of 5000) and in turn the HP/UX product as it stands at the moment, could potentially be marked to suffer the same projected fate as Solaris.
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it's neither the first nor the last chat app, i believe - so how would you say the world changed?

(note that i don't use whatsapp and am not all that familiar with it. mostly i'm aware of it due to an interest in erlang.)
You are right of course. The frustration comes because people with adult ADHD have likely had a lifetime of this suggestion, and a lifetime of failing to stick to such modifications, often to the point of developing comorbid issues like low self esteem. When medications finally open the door they have fruitlessly banging their head against, it's frustrating to hear people espousing that, actually, behavior modification is all you really need, even if it is not intended as such (though often it is).
Like many, HP didn't know what openstack is for (on-premise or public cloud)
Doesn't adaptive immunity come into play here, though?

The goal of the antibiotics is to prevent the infection from killing you while buying time for your immune system to kick in and handle things.

Secondly, why would a second course be more harmful if the duration of the two courses combined is less total time than the initial prescribed amount?

If you feel better after 4 days of antibiotics, stop, get sick again and take 4 more days of antibiotics, you're still only dosing for 8 days. That's far better than a default of 2 weeks (14 days), and only barely worse than a 7 day course.

Now factor in the number of people who would have been just fine after 4 days, with no re-occurrence, and I'm really struggling to see why your advice is any better than: Treat when sick, stop when well. Even if you get sick again: treat when sick, stop when well.
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> seem strictly worse in every way than wired.

The same as wifi, right? Strictly worse in every way. Except for the not needing wires way.
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Ask HN: Where can we get a community to upvote questions anonymously?
We run a small community where we have weekly AMAs. Most participants shy away unless there is anonymity in question asking.

We also want the others to up/downvote questions. Google slides is extremely buggy. Know sites/forums/hacks to make this happen without code?
I would deeply miss them if Uber went away. Speak for yourself. I prefer not to overpay black cab drivers with consistently bad, racist attitudes. I think in a fair world the taxi drivers should be available for those that want them (like Mercedes Benz Uber Black options).
Two nines isn't very many nines. I've had problems with PA 100% of the time. Must be me, right? The only PA solution I know is purging it from my system.
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not just livestock, one of our most powerful antibiotics (tetracycline), was used en-mase to wash down produce such as grapes.

still, things like antibiotic resistant gonorrhea, syphilis, and tuberculosis scare me the most, and they have nothing to do with livestock.

we are in a bit of a catch 22, we want to treat these diseases, but in doing so the diseases are getting stronger in an arms race against our technology. meanwhile our bodies de-evolve due to its dependence on our technology to defend it.
Here's an idea: use leaked data that has become publicly accessible to find real constituents of every congressperson and then impersonate those people to complain about these bills enabling identity theft. Best done by snail mail, with a CC to the "victim".
The Fitbit app lets you take a GPS track using the phone's GPS (as the Charge HR doesn't have a GPS chip). It's not step-based.

Standing still for a break still makes my mileage go up, and I can see the blue dot on the map in the Fitbit app jitter around a little - a few feet here, a few feet there.

Here's an example of the generated map: https://imgur.com/a/yoqei

(That's a ~5 mile hike in actual mileage - and you can see the issue very clearly between "miles" 4 and 5 on the map, where we likely took a long break, and in the longer distance between the downhill miles as we were moving faster)
Any carefully written C program that doesn't use certain C99 an C11 things can be said to be C++.

My language implementation compiles as C and C++. Every so often I build it as C++ (like before releases) to check for regressions and flush out any issues caught by the C++ compiler.

I don't think of it as "written in C++", though it is not technically a false statement.

All Scheme programs are really written in Common Lisp; they just need a suitable library of macros and functions ...
It's not about age it's about risk/reward.

A youngster has nothing to lose if it starts a 1000 hour project. In the worst case scenario it will be a very good resume that will get him hired.

For an experienced professional that is already making good money from it's current job/business and has a family to sustain, losing 1000 hours on a project that can get him 0 in return is simply not viable most of the times.

So youngsters are much more likely to experiment more.
My work laptop is a HP and actually not that bad.
I don't think he was saying it's sole importance was employment. If you had read the sentence in a more critical manner, the purpose of the corporation is to generate value. They can't provide employment to citizens, tax money for the government, or help in charity work without generating monetary value for it's products or services.

The New Deal(s) did not really do the above. Although it really provided value in the form of infrastructure as well as employment to citizens it had to take money from people as well as borrow large amounts to do it.

Hating on corporations and trading them for the government as a pseudo-corporation is just as bad. Sounds like a comment dripping with naivety from a college history class as if it's a final 'gotchya' against someone who is looking at the situation from all avenues.
It depends on the issuer. Dutch banks by default block all transactions outside of the EU (specifically targeted at countries that still use swipe transactions). That pretty much completely eliminated skimming.
Previously there wasn't a WhatsApp app, and now there is! World changed. :)
Thanks for the mention and the description of the features and benefits of Matrix. It sounds like music to my ears! I did hear about Matrix probably a year or two ago, but didn't think much of it at that time. I tend to look these up once every several months or so to see what's available and what improvements have happened. I'll have to check this out again.
For those of us who hate OS X and prefer to work on Linux, the HP Spectre line runs most modern distros just fine out of the box.
I think it's more important to take the content of the linked website into consideration.
> and require a certain amount of real political coverage in the media

"Require" and "free press" don't go together unfortunately.
There is too much good advice in this article. ;) By that I mean all the advice is great, but it's very difficult to change multiple habits at the same time, especially core habits like eating and sleeping and entertainment and work. Whenever I do that I revert pretty quickly. Changing one thing at a time and figuring out how to remove the friction from that one thing has been my path to success.

For work hours, a simple work timer is what does the trick for me. I use Toggl - I have no affiliation, I dont know if it's the best, and I don't necessarily recommend it, but it does make it easy to keep track of how many minutes a day I'm sitting at my desk, and to assign those minutes to various tasks. Just having a metric for work hours is a big change and has helped me stay more focused.
You're being pedantic, but your pedantry is incorrect, so allow me to be pedantic in correcting you :p. The output of all pure functions depends on the function and its inputs; this isn't more true for compilers than, say, addition. The problem with Trusting Trust is that the function isn't practically inspectable, not that the function is impure. A trusting trust compiler is still pure.
Freight startup Flexport soars from ‘unsexy’ to $800M valuation
Someone else gave that link: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/over-400-london-cab-dr...

Over 400 that same year he quoted.
> The belief that we need to grow is carrying us toward disaster.

I can't agree with this more.
My mistake. Animals are stuffed with antibiotics but you're right that swine and bird flu are caused by viruses. This article explains why factory farming is dangerous with regards to bird flu:

> The conditions on these farms greatly contribute to the creation of deadly pathogens, including influenza viruses. Here’s how it works: Wild aquatic birds are the primordial source of all influenza A viruses — the ones that have the potential to cause pandemics. However, people rarely become infected directly from aquatic birds. Usually, an intermediate host must be involved. This intermediate host provides the right biological setting for the virus to transform into something that can easily infect a human. And that’s where chickens and other farmed animals come in.

Most avian influenzas are mild, low-pathogenic (i.e., not very lethal) viruses. However, once they enter poultry factory farms (through insects or workers carrying the virus, for example), they can rapidly mutate into highly-pathogenic (very lethal) viruses, even over very short periods of time. Since 1990, outbreaks of highly-pathogenic virus subtypes have increased substantially among farmed birds compared with the years prior to 1990 (3, 4). The intensive confinement of birds has been found to facilitate both the increasing frequency and scale of these outbreaks (3, 5).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aysha-akhtar/bird-flu_b_279813...
Can you explain what you mean? What is OpenStack for?
Check out the documentation from Swift's Piksi receiver project for a good introduction to existing technology:

https://www.swiftnav.com/sites/default/files/whitepapers/loc...

The technology in good receivers like the Piksi is slowly drifting into consumer-level hardware. You need to correct for such errors as:

1. Jitter in the code phase vs. phase-locked-loop. As the article describes, most existing codes are long and slow, with bandwidths on the order of 300 m (specifically, 1.023 MHz). The receiver can measure the exact time at which this code changes to get your existing resolution, but the L5/E5 bands are at 20 MHz.

2. Integer offsets when interpreting the carrier frequency. The above slow codes are transmitted on a carrier at 1-2 GHz, giving much higher resolution, but there's no information in the signal as to which particular node of the carrier frequency you're observing. Comparing to a known location, and improving your guess over time, can let you make use of this information.

3. Unknown, slowly drifting ionospheric delay. Typically fixed in industrial or agricultural applications by using a base station and radio link to tell your remote link that the base station (which is bolted to a big chunk of concrete) is now reporting that it's 20 cm from where it was an hour ago, and the remote unit should probably just adjust any measurements by that much.

I only have enough knowledge of the system to be dangerous, but I've wondered whether it would be possible to correct for #3 at a consumer level with a phone app. If you had thousands of phones cooperating in a city, at any given time many would be stationary, even charging or on wifi, and you could theoretically trade off roles as reference base stations and remote receivers. I think it would require a lot more low-level access to the GPS chip than generic Apple/Android phones give you, but it's an idea - feel free to take it and run if you like it.

To answer the basic question - common NMEA protocol returns GPS data with latitude formatted as DDMM.MMMMM (Degrees, minutes, and decimal minutes) and longitude in DDDMM.MMMMM format. Four digits of precision get you a precision of about 1.6 meters, depending on where you are on the Earth, but that doesn't mean you have that level of accuracy.
this shilling is really disgusting
HP Z800 workstation is great for me, though not video editing.