skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dialing by voice? Surely the future is not dialing at all?

I can't remember the last time I used a phone number for anything. Contacting friends is mostly done via social media. Talking on the phone is done via voice or video via same social media. Contacting companies? Via e-mail or their own webpage with some kind of chat support.

I only have a phone number, so that people without smart phones (my grandmother) can contact me.
It’s true in general that economics, with patents being part of that, is the dominant influence on r&d resources.

However the effective research ban is by far the bigger limiting factor in this case, because it rules out most options before even getting started.

For example, it’s not unusual for unpatentable substances to be studied, in the hope that understanding the fundamental mechanism could allow a (sometimes) improved alternative to be developed that could be profitable.

There is also at least some research not controlled by big pharma that could have conceivably targeted these areas 40 years ago.
You're correct, I misunderstood you.

Column stores are great, for some tasks and have disadvantages in others. Redshift was I believe the first implementation at top of PG so it's doable, however not sure that PG itself is a good engine for it.

In our case, where we need to have access to multiple columns at once, column stores (including the ones that clump them as families/groups) proved to be slower and required more resources than the row-oriented stores.

I think this really goes case by case based on your needs. If we would benefit from column-oriented DB we would not chose PG/Citus but something else (probably would stay still on Hbase).
One way for that to happen is if party support is evenly spread throughout the region; then however you draw the districts the result will be the same.

In that sort of situation it doesn't seem to be reasonable to call what's going on "gerrymandering"; I think the finger of blame should be pointed (if anywhere) at the system of single-member-constituency plurality voting.
You'd be surprised how opinionated people can get about editors. Just because an expert is using text editor X doesn't mean it's the best editor for you to use.
Interesting points.

I was asking on HN to get a Bay Area perspective. Your answer sounds more Wallstreet'ish - no offense.

The dot-com crash happened because there unreasonable businesses like pets.com got millions.

The 2008 crash happened because poor people got loans on houses who shouldn't have gotten those loans.

What about 2018?
Karabiner was updated a couple of months back in the form of Karabiner Elements, a rewrite "due to kernel architecture changes in macOS Sierra".

https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements
1) Video game humor is typically way worse than the humor in non-interactive media (interactivity has a price).

2) Humor evolves/improves over the years

Combine the two, and you would be hard-pressed to find ANY game that old which is still considered funny. Maybe "Day of the tentacle" ? I'd have to load it up again to check. it stuck out for me.
Simply reaching huge numbers of people in and of itself isn't necessarily valuable.

They may listen to what you've produced and enjoy it. But are they paying to listen? Did they buy the track or sign up for a subscription? Are advertisers paying to be featured alongside the song, or to use it in their commercials?

If not, maybe your song isn't so valuable. If those listeners could easily listen to some other song for free, then maybe your song isn't so valuable.

And this is talking about the whole song. If you're just the writer, it's even more stark. How good of a writer do you need to be to write a hit Justin Bieber song? If you didn't exist, how easy would it be to find another writer who could write a hit for Justin or some other star?

I would guess that what's really bringing money to the table is Justin's star power, not the uniquely amazing abilities of a single writer. So 20% seems generous.
If writers are so opinionated about their works value, they just need to charge a fixed price. The allure of the possibility of writing a song once and having potentially massive perpetual income is why they like these royalty deals (and why said lawyer knew it was a good deal). But that's more of a lottery ticket in todays music industry. However, if you assign a price to your work you will quickly know what it's worth.
> so long as I'm non-commercial, I can just treat it as BSD 2 clause.

No, you can't, because if it was BSD 2-clause, you could relicense it rather freely. But you can't with this, because the commercial use limitation makes it incompatible with many licenses with which BSD 2-clause is compatible. (Including GPLv3)

Also, because you have to include the full license terms (including the requirement to secure a commercial license from the agent of the original licensor) with derived versions, well, if AD ever gets competition as a licensing agent (even from someone using a compatible pseudo-open license), downstream commercial users of software which has modules with different licensing agents face the prospect of having to secure multiple commercial license from different licensing agents to see the software.

For a non-commercial end user of only the “root” software, it similar to BSD 2-clause. For developers (even non-commercial), it's much more restrictive.
Intel pages says these 28-core hyperthreaded processors work for 8+ sockets. Let's see...8 sockets * 56 virtual processors per socket = 448 virtual processors potentially in one VM.

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/...
What if I did? Would that have validated my comments and prevented the downvoting?
Germany has a very clever system of electing representatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_Germany#Vo...

1. You vote both for an individual in your district and for a party.

2. Individuals win via a plurality of their district, like in the US

3. The rest of the Bundestag is filled up from party lists so that as much as possible the final proportion of parties matches proportion of party votes.

Applying it to your example and doubling the representative count, there would be 10 directly elected Democratic representatives. The rest would be distributed proportionately among Republican, Libertarian, and Green.

In practice you don't actually get the directly elected seats all coming from one party, so in reality you end up with a roughly 35%/30%/20%/15% breakdown in the end.

That way you can have some direct representation of your region, which I'd assert has some utility, without sacrificing proportional "accuracy".

(I'm skipping a couple subtleties here, but that's the gist as I understand it.)
I've worked in finance in a finance capacity and tech in a technical capacity. There isn't much of a difference (at least in the sub-areas I've worked). Getting a job is different than holding it. My impression is that useless people get culled MUCH more quickly in finance because the work is frequently more transparent to those in a position to fire you, along with the labor supply and demand in the two industries.

I think people are simply conflating GPA and intelligence. This is especially true given the study is from the NE liberal arts schools who funnel into finance regardless of their major. My math/econ double major was completely irrelevant during my 3 month training program where the brightest person in the room was an english lit major.
well there are so many companies out there, for sure this happens, someone sitting somewhere at a desk thinking... "i'm already making 200k but, i could definitely use a few more grand just to cover what i'm losing on taxes, damn taxes lol"
> Developing isn't a who-can-type-faster contest is who can solve a problem in a fast and simple way, typing/coding is the thing you do _after_ you solve the problem.

You're right, and that's the thing: emacs isn't better because it enables one to type more quickly; it's better because it enables one to do more. With emacs, a developer can build out his own environment, and he can share that customisation with others. As an example, magit is by far the best way to interact with git. Another example is org-mode. Another is gnus. Another is notmuch. And on and on.

Indeed, it's this emphasis on extensibility which is why I prefer emacs (which is better-extensible) to vim (which, frankly, has a better text-manipulation language).

There's simply no competitor to emacs when it comes to extensibly interacting with text.

Even if SublimeText, Atom, IntelliJ, Eclipse, Visual Studio got perfect vi keybindings, I do not believe that they'd be as extensible as vim, let alone emacs. Since extensibility is the quality which enables a tool to be used for more than its designer imagines, and since no designer can imagine all his users' use-cases, I think that this means that SublimeText et al. will never be all one needs.
Played DoTT when new, hysterical. Played recently, still funny.

That’s just me though.
> I only have a phone number, so that people without smart phones (my grandmother) can contact me.

And 2FA!
The Importance of Having a Mentor
Worth pointing out that, regardless of the context, comedy rarely ages well. For example, if you watch popular standup comedy routines from the past, they're often unfunny, even when performed by comedy legends.
Solar array installation and wind farm maintenance pay pretty well:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/business/energy-environme...
States can't use federal bankruptcy courts to restructure their obligations and are Constitutionally prohibited from 'impairing the obligation of contracts'.

How can U.S States dismiss debt as sovereign entities? They can probably refuse to pay it but the debt holders would have a solid case to get judicial relief.
By "text" do you mean "SVG code that is rendered into images the user can click on"? Because that's what it's doing: https://i.imgur.com/iqdZ8l4.png and I think calling that a "text based" game is wrong.
The convention in serious consulting is that a report printed without author names under the company's name is backed by the whole company and speaks for the whole company, which turns out to be the case here.
So to the downvoters, do you actually have a logical response, or just a knee jerk reaction?

I have been there, I grew up not knowing where each meal was coming from. I have lived next to and interacted with people who can't make logical decisions about what to do.

I have seen people pull themselves from there, to actually attain something worthwhile, (I'd like to believe I am one of those people), and I have seen and interacted with those who will use any excuse to avoid actually working, or bettering themselves.

So again, would you like to have a discussion about it? I'm more than willing.

I am disappointed about the downvotes without a good reason though, this is why we come to hn after all.
Construct a PyTorch Tensor
Resize to around 480px width and you'll see the problem.
I have similar feelings. My gift generates millions for someone else. I take home above median income, but I'm not getting rich. I'm working toward a plan. I wonder what his plan is?

It's interesting watching this comment section fill with bickering over what commenters think he deserves.
As an outside to the whole affair, i felt the overarching theme of the Clinton campaign was "mutated" gender politics.

But for most people outside the beltway and campuses, the economy and their daily expenses were a more pressing issue.

Thus that the Democrats decides to hitch their horse with Clinton, even though her campaign focus seemed off target or ill focused, and she already had a negative reputation from the Obama years, and being the wife of a former President, effectively sunk the campaign from the word go.

Even afterwards it seems like the main way Democrats can find to attack Trump is on trying to tar him as a misogynist. Of all the things that the guy can be attacked for, that is what they decided to focus on???
Ah, good old Shareware.
Best-practices learnt from delivering a quality Angular4 application
"Now imagine this kind of algorithmic enforcement applied to traffic laws"

We already have this in the form of red light cameras which have been shown to cause rear-end accidents at traffic lights:

"There have been concerns that red light cameras scare drivers (who want to avoid a ticket) into more sudden stops, which may increase the risk of rear-end collisions."[1]

"the authors of the study found a statistically significant, but still smaller, reduction in angle and turning injury crashes by 15 percent, as well as 'a statistically significant increase of 22 percent in rear-end injury collisions."[2]

In short, there situations where the humans involved would all agree on what a "correct" driving response would be, but the presence of the algorithm (the camera, the ticket, the court, etc.) forces another action - and sometimes that action can be bewildering to other participants.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_light_camera

[2] http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/study-red-light-cameras-ineffec...
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Videos%20favorite&sort=byPopul...
> Most [EU] companies hate exactly this kind of lines and they will ignore your CV

Disagree. Finally it depends on the content your actual achievements but the wording is totally fine + learned. Most EU companies shouldn't have any problems with this style.
LSL along with Manhunter 2 and Space Quest 3 have fantastic graphics. Something about them just gets my imagination going.
Read some of the research on psychedelic medicine, and come back to your post. People's lives have been changed by this, long term. Adults with autism, PTSD, substance abuse, end-of-life cancer patients with terrible anxiety.

It doesn't matter what the culture behind these substances is. They work for the people that need them. The results should speak for themselves.
Same. I remember being in the college dorms and hearing all the AIM notification sounds all up and down the hallway. In the summer when everyone had their windows open you could hear it all over the quad.
Some classes of problems are masked on a single system. For instance, failure of the networking card doesn't preclude the processes from talking to each other. A process that's running on a system that has hung can't make any forward progress so it doesn't care if another process it's talking to is in the same state.

Our desktop computers look more and more like clusters in their own right (how many SoCs are inside of your computer right now?). There's a lot of talk lately about having high performance and low power CPUs in the same machine working in tandem.

I figure at some point we will start formally treating desktops and laptops like small clusters, at which point these distinctions might start to disappear.
Digitally Guilty After Being Proven Innocent
There are some interesting points in the article's comment thread.

>>> Amir Epstein - Money for big hits is in streaming on DSP’s. Spotify pays $7,000 per million streams. That may sound like nothing, but when artists like JB get 100,000,000 streams (that’s a conservative number) that’s $700,000. And then there’s apple itunes, which pays around the same, and google play which pays a little more. And if you are lucky and getting decent numbers on Tidal, it pays $23,000USD per million. Not too shabby

>>> Anonymous (response) - That Spotify money you just referenced $7,000 per 1 million streams goes to whoever owns the MASTER. Typically the record company, NOT the songwriters. Do your homework

There is a pot of money out there, but you're unlikely to see it unless you're the one writing the record contracts.
I'm not in love with LastPass so am curious as to what you don't like about Bitwarden?
>Taking psychedelics as part of a religious ceremony or ritual to rid oneself of suffering is part of indigenous traditions in the Americas, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia/Oceania.

Could you link me to some research about this? I have heard this talked about, but I haven't found anything reliable.
Remember to turn off C++ exceptions or you'll constantly be breaking on `return UIApplicationMain(...)`

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/26127004/xcode-throws-an...
Fraternities seem to want to be so secretive about what they do and how they operate that it's helpful to use a different term that's more widely understood.

As for 'irrelevant connotations', I know you are saying that because of the implied violent and illegal behavior that takes place in a gang, but from the outside, it doesn't exactly appear that frats are immune to that either. It's actually quite amazing how cohesive the organizations can be once a woman accuses one of their members of sexual assault.
Ive been there. Years ago.

Back in '07 got laid off. Company shut down. Lots of us tried to scramble to get jobs, and all the quick low paying jobs filled up. I got into unemployment and started collecting the $207/week. And this, obviously, wasn't enough. It certainly didn't equal to the part that was taken out of my paycheck for "unemployment insurance".

2 weeks turned into a month. Which turned into months, then into a year. Then the '08 recession hit. I saw people with graduate science degrees working at McDonalds. There was no fucking way I could get a job, even with blanketing my resumes and filling out webforms that are never responded (Thank you for submitting your application. You will never hear from us).

And im still struggling with the $207/week. So I start hustling on craigslist, doing odd jobs. Of course I'm supposed to report this. Well, guess what.... I used this money to relocate myself to a better location, and got a job.

Ideally, if you make 1$ on unemployment, you are supposed to report it, and you get $1 less. And if you do work a low paying job, then you get worked to the bone for 30 hours, and get minimum wage which is $187 after taxes. And minus gas, minus lunch, and too tired to look elsewhere. So you hold out for a better one that can get you out of the hole.

Yeah, it's just a bad situation all around. And it turns everyone into criminals.
Side note - it's ridiculous how much space is wasted on medium blogs: https://i.imgur.com/Ac59Z2x.png
They really couldn't. People don't do things until pressured. Look what happened with Python 3. It took 10 years for it to reach Python 2 parity in terms of packages...
I don't. I'm merely asking for consistency.
To speak of dial pad redesign (with hints of patent pending) in the age of smartphones is necessarily as debilitating as any fixed layout from yesteryear. At least older devices had the excuse of being constrained by technology of the day, mechanically fixed, and/or limited in compute.

A few user-selectable preset configurations + strictly user-defined option is the only sensible direction. That this wasn't implemented 10 years ago suggests a bit about its pragmatic value.
I don't see the problem. If the axis of rotation is along the drive shaft (which is already spinning at hundreds of RPM), there's no extra gearing required at all.
Are you suggesting that giving the poor huge amounts of money in one lump sum will help them more than giving them a smaller amount each month?
And that therapist has access to 100% _pure_ (and unfortunately illegal) MDMA.

This is one of the great tragedies of the war on drugs: UN member states are bound to the convention under law, so until this unjust (and unscientific) barrier is torn down it will always be dangerous and difficult to acquire for therapeutic purposes. But things, thankfully, are changing for the better.
> Personally I’d prefer my language to let me fuck up.

And as a (completely hypothetical) competitor of yours, I would support you using a language that encourages you to fuck up frequently.
Oddly, I find them funnier--times change, tastes change.
For people who are curious, here is a dosage chart: https://erowid.org/chemicals/mdma/mdma_dose.shtml

It's a pretty normal dose.
>Oh you spent your day digging up roots? Why not lant something then?

I'm just guessing but the author may be referring to ginseng roots, which my low-income friends occasionally collect here in Appalachia. They could make hundreds of dollars in a single day.

Planted ginseng takes 2+ years until you can harvest it. I asked them about planting/cultivating, which they said wasn't really viable but they did try to harvest the wild ginseng in a sustainable way.
>and even work against collection of, objective data

The problem is that many times the data collected is not objective at all. Statistics can be twisted by even just the definitions of words used. For example, a CDC study on rape considered forced penetration, but not being forced to penetrate, as rape. This data was then used in a report that, among other conclusions, concluded that women almost never rape men. All the cases of women forcing a man to have sex were defined as not being rape, twisting the results of the study.

When you see someone against data collection, are they against using good objective data, or do they have reason to believe the data won't be objective and manipulated to push one side or the other?

All this being said, I think drugs like MDMA should be legal for recreational use, much less therapeutic use.
As someone who recently moved to this city, he's not entirely wrong...in 2 years and without ever going to the "bad" parts of mine, I've been mugged in broad daylight, my roommate was assaulted randomly for no reason after his car broke down, I've had a guy threaten to kill me and follow me around when he sees me, and I get a postcard in the mail every other week or so telling me about another one of the homeless guys within a couple blocks of me's sex crimes, which almost always includes multiple offenses and at least one rape. One of my neighbors had two guys come run up at her, grab her dog, and run away with it. I've had 0 encounters with anything like this in the suburbs.
Here's the most important loop that's been driving up staggering wealth inequality in our lifetimes:

- Corporations and the ultra-rich tend to be the ones who try to profit-maximize the most (because people who care about other things, don't work as hard to accumulate wealth, and because corporations that profit-maximize the best tend to survive and grow better)

- National governments since WW2 had done a decent job of redistributing wealth, but since there are increasing returns to scale on investing in tax avoidance/evasion, it is the richest individuals and corporations that are best able to avoid taxes and move wealth offshore

- It is cheaper and easier to cut a sweetheart tax with a corporation or a rich individual to temporarily attract capital to a nation-state than to generate wealth the hard way through education and infrastructure investment

So our global capitalist system for the past few decades has simultaneously selected for the most selfish, profit-maximizing institutions and individuals, while also setting up a race to the bottom between nations (and even cities and states -- see Amazon's bid for a 2nd headquarters or Tesla's Gigafactory) to see who can give the biggest tax breaks to those at the top.
Misunderstanding a New Kind of Gender Dysphoria
By the way... the person who wrote Turbo Pascal, Anders Hejlsberg, in fact went to Microsoft and was the principle architect behind Microsoft's J++, C#, probably the .NET runtime system. He is a lead architect there. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg

One of the things that I did notice in the 2nd edition is its preference to cite GCC in references.
Notice how I carefully avoided your strawman. There were several reasons for their action. I listed what I believe are the 3 main reasons.