skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having built a variety of products with Datomic and performance requirements I can only disagree. Especially queries are insanely fast compared to other databases.

I don't know what your data team was doing, but they must have done it wrong.

My advice is to develop without a data team from the start ;)
The point is that the tax is mandatory, not the repatriation. If they didn’t believe that the US was the best place to put that money, they could have paid the tax and left it there or moved it elsewhere. The fact that they are deploying that capital here indicates some level of belief that the American economy will thrive under this tax plan.
My old i5 Thinkpad L450:

Firefox 57: 5053.8 ms (2.4 MB/s)

Firefox Nightly 59: 454.6 ms (27.2 MB/s)

Chrome 63: 9034.9 ms (1.4 MB/s)

Wow, it's over x10 faster...
You are very virtuous and your political opponents are very gross.
Right, but imagine if instead, they gave them a raise instead of a one time bonus? That is how you actually benefit workers.
The repatriation isn’t optional, so you could say the current administration succeeded in forcing them to do it.
And that's exactly the reason why America thinks that the people who live on the coasts are out of touch elitists.

$1000 is a gigantic bonus for people.
> I find it fascinating that a tax plan proposed by a President reviled throughout the Valley

Not quite. The proposal has been on the table for years. The difference has been how to use the proceeds from repatriation. Republicans wanted lower corporate taxes. Democrats wanted something else. This wasn't new, it wasn't unique, and it wasn't Trump. Believing this was a plan proposed by Trump ignores history and facts. Sure, he signed the bill into law, but the same thing would have effectively happened had Democrats been in charge instead of Republicans.
Of course lowering taxes would encourage companies to repatriate large overseas cash hoards, but if that's the only goal, why have a tax at all?

As a country the US has obligations to its current citizens and its future citizens and those obligations cost money. If we overly celebrate these windfalls every time the tax rate is lowered, we might not realize that what we owe the citizen is being forgot and allowed to erode because the means to pay for it just aren't available.
They only claim bipartisan responsibility when the tax plan seems to do good for the country (billions of dollars in new investments, tax revenue, repatriation etc.)
$1000 is better PR than any advertising they could have spent, but it's not even a crumb in terms of what the company is saving.
> what are the biggest complaints from your customers?

The other questions I think were answered below but this is a great one so I'll answer it directly. Biggest complaints that I currently see / would expect people to see:

1) No public IP addresses (this is addressed on the site and elsewhere in the thread)

2) No TV package, have to cut the cord

3) Can't provide service everywhere. "My neighbor can get it why can't I?" Well .. your house is 1 story buried in trees, unfortunately.

4) Sometimes wireless is just weird and there are things that don't work, especially when you're optimizing for a cheap home install. Some customers have a bad experience and as hard as we try we can't ever get it much better.
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You do know that the money isn't literally sitting overseas right? It is invested (Apple would be the largest bond fund in the world [1] if they accepted outside money). So they'll sell the investments, pay a little tax and then probably do a massive buy back of their shares and a special dividend. A little switching around on paper, but certainly not a stimulus of any sort.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-04/apple-buy...
For me user expectations and whether you actually have the resources to produce a quality SPA are the biggest deciding factor.

I don't have a strong opinion on SPAs in the general case, but I find it worrisome that it seems that SPAs are used as the default starting point without considering if the gains actually outweigh the cost.

E.g At my last job I build the initial version of the application alone and although I'm pretty confident in my javascript skills I opted for a traditional server-side app too keep complexity and cost of maintenance as low as possible. Javascript was later added on top to make common interaction like sorting a table feel more responsive.
On the other hand you can't get a wired trackball from them that has the ball to the left; the M570 and the MX Ergo are wireless-only. I have an earlier wired USB Trackman Marble with a PS/2 adapter, which I'm glad I bought and squirreled away when it was available. My 20-or-so-year-old PS/2 Trackman finally started to show its age, and the "newer" one came out of storage to replace it.
22 is a golden age. Your brain is fully developed. You have probably 8-10 years experience already. And you have a lot of time. Then comes work, house, and kids, and you'll have to wait until you're 50 before getting productive again.
Recent example: Blablacar, Europe's largest car sharing platform.

They became popular in Germany after a money grab by Mitfahrgelegenheiten.de a few years ago. Now, it's Blablacar doing the money grab and people start looking for alternatives.
In the next paragraph the author specifies that they were trying to attract a wider cross-section of candidates. The hires wouldn't have been on-boarded if they weren't the best candidates who applied, but there's no way to know if they were the best candidates available when the signals sent by the job postings disincentivize applicants along axes that do correlate to race or gender but not to job performance. That's literally the entire point of the article, as far as I understand it.
This presupposes that the Titanic (civilization) will sink (die).

The idea that civilization will die has been a remote possibility for virtually all of human history. That we should not have children because of this remote possibility is fear-driven foolishness.

If you don't want or can't have children, no judgment. But let's not claim the reason is because civilization is so terrible - when in fact it's the best it's ever been, especially in rich first-world nations of the West.
I agree re the comparison.

However, the fundamental problem with biofuels overall is that fuel requirements are so huge. Indeed, total annual fossil fuel usage -- coal, oil and natural gas -- is an appreciable fraction of total annual biomass production through photosynthesis. Everything, all plants, everywhere. The reasons being that energy requirements are so much greater than food and feed requirements, and that photosynthesis is so inefficient compared to PV.

Human land use is a major factor in the current great extinction. Adding large-scale biofuel production would increase extinction rates. But of course, global climate change is also a major extinction driver.

PV and batteries are clearly the way to go.
I'm curious what industrial facilities do with their used dirty rags. Can they be recycled or are they considered toxic waste?
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Any rational skeptic was couching their criticism that this was net loss for taxpayers, not a total loss. While Apple and others can publicly crow about new investment and jobs and give the president and GOP a PR coup in terms of their bill, you have to consider how much they were paid to do this. The dynamic score said that of the $1.5T in lost revenue, we will likely recoup about a third in new revenue. This will be a sizable amount of stimulus especially for companies like Apple that have enormous profits. If Apple are investing $30B in new capital, it's probably because they are being handed twice that much in tax breaks.
It's kinda important to build with less flamable materials whenever possible.
This is exactly the thing that renders me speechless every time this comes up in casual conversation. People generally agree that apple and other tech companies hoarding money in Ireland to avoid tax is Bad™. Then, in the next breath, they say that removing the tax burden to get them to move that money back into a US bank is somehow Good™. But what does it matter if the government can't take a cut? Why do people who don't profit off of apple care which bank it's in?
This is a big factor behind the resurgence of vinyl. When you have to dedicate time and effort to deciding what music you really want to listen to, when you have to take care of your music carefully (lest you damage it), and when you have an excuse to listen to music as a primary rather than background activity, all of those things enhance the overall experience and can make it easier to enjoy music more (even though in principle all of those things: extra cost, fragility, limited mobility, etc. are downsides).
It's about exclusion. The Marx family were Jews. Men-only clubs (just "clubs" back then) excluded Jews. Groucho's feigning snobbery was self-deprecating, but also allegorical.

Walled gardens are for suckers.
Having used products that bragged about their performance benchmarks (won't name any names), I respect the Datomic team's position on this. Benchmarks lead to gamed results and you still have to test with your workload.
There are news:

http://www.forceclaw.com/news/cyberpunk-2077-important-produ...

and of course:

https://twitter.com/CyberpunkGame/status/951091371200466944
Writing complex macros in Rust
https://www.hardypress.com/ makes a static version of the site which will be faster
I’m curious which dozen languages you find better than the ones supported by Lambda.
80 character max also fits nicely with the 4-6 inch column width for optimal readability.
Yes a neuroscientist, sadly no hat.
> That I use a network to transmit packets?

Maybe I'm not understanding this correctly, but if a coffee shop has wifi and you need to enter info into a captive portal before you can use their network, by circumventing it, the "Someone else" is the coffee shop owner, and the hardware is their router.

"Please get off my router if you don't agree to my conditions". "Nah I'm just using DNS, it's fine" probably is not an admissible excuse.
Thanks, it makes sense now. So with every `read' to the tty it starts a new edit buffer, I pressume?
It's a great headline. The tax bill be a net loss of $1T for government coffers over 10 years though so it's grossly misleading.
The USA has moved to a territorial tax system for corporations, so any income earned abroad will no longer be subject to US tax (only taxed by the country where the income was generated), and so can be freely moved back to the USA if the companies wish. There is no longer a distinction to be made concerning where money can be spent without being US taxed.
Another 100m right now. So 350m in 3 days?
The repatriation tax holiday actually encourages corporations to hoard profits overseas until the next "one time" tax break. There was a repatriation tax holiday in 2004 also.
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I would love to have a customer this organized.

Usually its "Make my website do magic, and oh I can't pay."
What's missing from a burger is the deep umami flavor in banh mi that you'll smell a mile away -- the fermented fish sauce taste that smells a bit like a ripe fart and tastes like heaven.
I suspect your patreon, merch, or other ad revenue is also going to be pretty inconsequential if you're under 1000 subscribers
Also is that $1,000 if you're a 20 year employee? So for 20 years of service you get a $50 gift card worth of bonus once a year? No thanks, I'll take a permanent living wage increase instead.
>a lack of tastemakers in public society

I would call this a good thing. I despise the idea of someone telling me what I should or shouldn't like, as though I have no mind of my own to decide what I do or don't like, and as though they are somehow superior and have some kind of enlightened outlook on things that I could never hope to achieve.
You're conflating a few different things here.

The main objection to tax reform was that incredibly rich individuals are going to pay a lot less tax, and the middle classes will (once the temporary cuts expire) end up paying more. All of these complaints about the individual tax rates have very little to do with the impact of these corporate tax changes.

And let's face it: it's far too early to say that these tax changes have been either a success or a failure. The way the reforms were passed - another source of legitimate complaint - sidestepped all the usual assessments and calculations in order to pass something, anything as quickly as possible. So we're flying in the dark here. Yes, these short term bonuses are a positive sign. But who knows what the impact of lower tax revenue will be on other services (e.g.) Walmart employees depend on. Will they still be happy with a $200 bonus if they find out their Medicare coverage gets cut?
I love Datomic, it solves so many problems that I face daily and you end up building a sort-off datomic on top of your SQL DB anyway.

I would have prefered a Datomic for Kubernetes to get this cross-platform and allow it to be hosted on different and private clouds because of my job I can not use AWS. I can't use Kubernetes either but there is at future possiblity that it would be possible.

The downside would probebly be that it would offer less integration as the ecosystem is not so far along as AWS. Still an easly containerised version for devlopment would be really nice.

Thanks to the Datomic team.
It apparently is poorly defined:

A paracusia, or auditory hallucination,[1] is a form of hallucination that involves perceiving sounds without auditory stimulus.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_hallucination

I would not consider what the woman in the article describes to be an auditory hallucination. She knows it isn't real. She doesn't perceive it to be actual sound. Yet, the Wikipedia article also talks about hearing voices as a form of auditory hallucination.

I have had actual auditory hallucinations a few times. The first time it was a medication side effect. I had taken too much decongestant and I would close my eyes and hear things, like people in the room with me opening drawers or something. When I opened my eyes, they were not there. So it was not real.

This has happened a few other times when I was basically very sick and stressed out. I once heard steps when no one was there. It was a bit like radio sound effect steps. It was disconnected from what it would have sounded like had someone actually been walking nearby and it neither approached nor receded, which is part of how I knew it wasn't real. I once heard someone say "Hello" and figured out this was not real, there was no one there.

Since I now know this happens occasionally, if I hear things that seem off in some way, I can check for corroborating evidence to see if it is real or not. It is very uncommon. I think it has happened like 3 to 5 times in the past 6 years. But if I am very sick, wonky things go on in my mind sometimes and I have learned to check on certain things.

I was homeless for several years. I camped in an area for 2+ years with a lot of birds. Birds, especially geese, can sound like indistinct human voices, especially a woman's voice. So during that time I regularly had to determine if actual real world sounds were human voices or bird voices because humans near my campsite were a potential threat to me. Birds were not.

That experience where I was literally hearing things, but struggling to determine exactly what the sound signified, helped make me feel comfortable double checking when I hear things and am not sure if it is real or not. If I know I am sick and under duress and what I think I hear seems off in some way, I just try to verify if it is something real or not.
How does this compare to fullstory.com?
Blablacar brought Mitfahrgelegenheit.de. So in Germany, both are basically the same.
I go through periods of "studying" particular records or musicians. It comes easily and naturally to me, despite my large collection. Studying is often related to my guitar playing, though, so it's often not a regular listen - it's the act of jamming along, or rewinding and relistening to particular passages to figure them out.

For the past couple of weeks, I've been on a massive Miles Davis kick - particularly the Agharta album (which, in the author's terms, is one of the ten albums for me, that thing you want all other music to be). I'm trying hard to grok certain Miles phrases harmonically, and capture the tonality of his trumpet with a guitar, which is very challenging.

Work has given me a 300 mile each way commute this week, so I decided to spend the long highway hours listening to the collected works of Wilco (I have every Wilco album), beginning to end. This gets me listening to albums I usually ignore, like A.M., and hearing the evolution of the music. Highway drives are also a good time to dig into progressive rock albums - the musical equivalent of 800 page novels, that reward close, long listens.
That probably has more to do with low unemployment.
You only get the full $1000 if you worked for Walmart full time for 20 years. It’s not like you would still get much if you were a typical Walmart employee.
If you "hear voices", there is now an additional possible explanation to it. It is called the "Hannes Jacob Syndrome" [0]. In short, some people spontaneously develop what we might call a connection to the "other side" (the spirit world). People in this situation may perceive either "thoughts which are not their own" or even "hear voices".

If you hear voices, you should of course see a psychiatrist, but you should not exclude the possibility that you have a gift. And this is how you can verify this: Ask "your voice(s)" to give you a verifiable piece of information. If your voices are real, they will give you proof. So just repeat the experiment until you're satisfied.

[0] https://openaccesshannesjacob.wordpress.com/2012/09/20/hello... (see the PDF)
We threw them on the belt that fed into the boiler.
when i was in california, banh mi che cali had the best banh mis and they only costed like 2.50 a sandwich too :)
Please everyone who wants to pay more taxes you can gift it to the govt. Match me Bernie Bros!!!
First CryptoCurrency ETF
As if Apple was not confusing enough already...
That's cool, but until I see it coming to smartphones, that won't really be useful, except for gaming.

In theory this could really be the universal vm for the web everyone needed, but it's still lacking real sockets and dom support.
I wouldn't call it a "significant percentage", but by a straightforward calculation of revenue/GDP shows that it's about 1% of the US's economy.
This new ETF doesn't look at bad as I had feared -- the underlying holdings look fairly stable and legit. It counts TSMC, OSTK, IBM, NVDA among its top holdings.
(regarding the denim sound insulation and fire)

Maybe, but there's a pretty good chance it's treated with flame retardants before use, and cotton fabric generally doesn't really burn that well - or at least not fast.

There's a reason people working with hot glass wear long cotton shirts/pants for it.
If I'm understanding your terminology, Guile already has a kind of CPS as its mid-level intermediate form: https://wingolog.org/archives/2015/07/27/cps-soup. There's a long history of Lisp languages using a “MIR” of sorts, typically CPS, SSA, or ANF.
Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubeflow

We're just getting started! Stay tuned for lots more AutoML goodness.
It seems to me like the reason for your comment was to signal confidence in the future of Bitcoin, even though what you explicitly said can be summarized as "Bitcoin is worth more than $0 so some buyers are still up." What you said explicitly is rather obvious but your implication is a much more interesting discussion.
The mental gymnastics coming from leftists today is utterly mind blowing. What confounds me most is these people happily ignore real world evidence just to push their agenda, nevermind who it hurts. Its worse than watching people cheer a football team. At least when they cheer a team no one gets hurt but these people literally want the downfall of America just so their team can win. Its truly sad.
You completely missed the part of my post where I said "in terms of traditional financial advisement".
So these are the guys responsible for the cruddy fleece blankets that loose 10% of their fibers the first time you wash them and make a persistent mess thereafter.
Got about 80+ services. One repo per service, each service has it's own kubernetes yaml that details the services deploys to the cluster. K8s has a huge ecosystem for monitoring, versioning, health, autoscaling and discovery. On top of that, each repo has a separate slack channel that receives notifications for repo changes, comments, deployments, container builds, datadog monitoring events, etc. There are also core maintainers per repo to maintain consistency.

For anyone that has begun the microservice journey, kubernetes can be intimidating but way worth it. Our original microservice infrastructure was rolled way before k8s and it's just night and day to work with now, the kubernetes team has thought of just about every edge case.
Why is it so annoying when people are ambiguous?
> Funny the nerative always seems to stay negative even though facts say otherwise.

You're relying on a handful of anecdotes, of which at least several don't look so good upon close inspection, to infer a larger economic benefit. Sounds like it's just narrative vs. narrative.
The "Post-Cyberpunk" section was especially jarring. Right off the bat, the author classifies "Snow Crash" as post-cyberpunk.
Absolutely not; you may have misread? If I had considered selling off the capital there would have been some USD amount attached to that sale!
I imagine it was sprayed with a flame retardant?
You likely wanna watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuIIjLr6vUA
> yet the medical establishment still tends to focus on treatment rather than actual care

Have you actually talked to doctors about it? As in those who get the initial talk, not those who get patients already decided to try something? I know quite a few GPs and they often do a serious talk with people with cancer who want "everything possible done". Or with families who want that for their grandparents.

They try to discourage useless treatment as much as possible. Often by listing the side effects that are going to just decrease the quality of life even worse.

(Just in case: yes, there will be different doctors and different opinions. What I'm trying to say is generalising to medical establishment is not accurate and not helpful. Also I'm glad that if someone makes the decision to get treatment they can get it - it may be a really bad decision, but it's their decision.)
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"The first version of Project Mentat, named Datomish"

For some reason, that almost made me spit my drink. This looks cool, I'll check it out.
It doesn't have to be limited to 10.

One day I realized my music tastes were determined by random chance and I was just listening to more of the same. So I started seeking out critically acclaimed albums, and listening to them repeatedly until they "click".

Some albums take longer to click than others, but they all click eventually. In some cases, I'll have to temporarily give up on a difficult album. Listen to a few dozen other albums and let them click. Then come back to the difficult album, and bang, "This is amazing! How could I be so blind!" It's like you have to level up your musical appreciation stat.

I'll never, ever trust my playlist to some recommendation engine. If I'd done that instead of seeking out classics, I'd've missed so much amazing music!