skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tox is also worth checking out. Decentralized, supports video calls, and you're automagically given an ID without having to provide any personal data. https://tox.chat
If I have a good idea, it will be for a technical solution to someone's problem. I'll get excited about building that solution...but running the company and all the crap that it involves sounds like hell to me. A necessary evil. The "zero interest stuff" suddenly turns into the "deeply dreaded stuff".
> "you cant fight the system"

but we can die trying : ).
Intent is important, but if there is intent to inflict pain, either as a means or an ends, it is abuse.

Now, it's true that there are further meaningful intent-based distinctions you can make within the broad category of abuse, but that's somewhat beside the point.
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Most people's primary experience of lithium-ion batteries is in their mobile phone. From that point of view, they were already cheap and commonplace at ~the turn of the millennium. Most people's perception is that in the last 18 years they've got substantially worse. Obviously, the power and capability of the phone has gone up dramatically, but it's pretty obvious where the perception has come from.

I'd think the secondary experience is in laptop batteries, and I'd hazard a guess that there's a similar but less extreme story: perception is similar battery life (perhaps because most life extensions come from low-power modes, so anyone actually using their laptop doesn't reach the claimed numbers for modern laptops?).

Of course, a third major factor is that people tend not to notice incremental improvements as much as step changes, and tend not to "upgrade their battery" in a comparable way.

All told, in relative terms there's probably some truth to it; other technology has progressed faster. But I wholeheartedly agree things have got better.
Telegram app removed from App Store
Haha I'm not gonna spend $60/month on data for my phone. You can buy a new phone three times a year for that. But you've got a point, a lot of people do.
>In the upper class, oftentimes one person will pay for the check and it's awkward to object.

That's how it's in my country for all classes, poor or rich.

When friends go out, someone and pays for all the others (and someone might ask to chip in or pay themselves, but the first one doesn't take no for an answer).

Next time you see each other, the other person can pay, but no one keeps any very specific tally ("I paid 3 times, you paid 1") -- that would be considered tacky and cheap. That said, if someone systematically over many meetings never takes initiative to pay that the rest start considering them a cheapskate (but never giving specific tally or anything -- it's more from the feeling "never remember you paying").

Anybody insisting on splitting the bill, or obsessing over who ordered what, is also seen as a cheapskate.

That's how it usually goes among people with regular income. Now, sometimes, when the company is comprised of people that might be students, unemployed, etc, they more often agree to split the bill. But in this case too, obsessing over who bought what is considered rude, and usually it's just a simple bill/persons split that's paid by all.
Duplicate from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16281910
It sounds like your team is working in a pretty cool and unique space! Is there an email we can reach out to?
From what I understand you can see a decent improvement in speed by going 64bit on ARM because they used the crossover to dump a fair bit of legacy braindamage in the instruction set that was preventing them from making certain optimizations.

On the other hand, I look at the 3000 core figure and think that it's roughly on par with high end GPUs. The clock rates aren't terribly different either. The range of applications where this beats out GPU solutions is probably fairly narrow, especially given the terrible IO bottleneck on the RPis.

For comparison, a $7,500 TITAN X has 3072 CUDA cores clocked at 1Ghz. This cluster has 3,000 CPU cores clocked at 1.2Ghz. On the TITAN card all of those cores share the same 12GB of memory with 336.5GB/s of memory bandwidth. On the cluster every 4 cores shares 1GB of memory with (I think) 3.6GB/s bandwidth. Of course communication outside of those 4 cores is restricted to 0.0125GB/s at best.
A third of Americans are leashed to their companies by non-disclosure agreements
I wish these block storage services gave you some idea of failure rate/durability and availability. Amazon publishes some rough volume loss rates but not even Google tells you what kind of durability to expect out of a persistent volume. They all say they are tri-replicated, which semi-implies highly durable storage. What about availability?

Lastly, I'd love to know if DO/Linode have custom rolled their solution or are using Ceph or something similar. Not that I don't trust them, but they aren't recruiting the same engineers as Google.
I don't think it's the same as that.

Here's an X-Ray of the titanium bolt: https://img.jes.xxx/594

And here's a temporary plastic tooth that I had installed while the ceramic one was being manufactured: https://img.jes.xxx/741

The inner screw has a small torx head on it and is threaded up the inside of the larger bolt that is tapped directly into the bone of my jaw.
UDP works over virtually all NATs.
Tech in sports – audience reaction patterns to augment viewer’s experience
Please don't post these. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
This is a great overview. Some numbers from step 4 - size of data set, time to load index and space used on disk by that index+ES would be interesting to see. I have a feeling for small datasets postgres/mongo even sqlites FTS would perform better.
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Hmmm.. I think your first link is to the wrong hack. If everything were as you claim, the hack would need to precede the bank freeze in order for it to be in any way causal. I was originally writing this reply to refute your claim on that basis, but while investigating it I found that there was indeed another hack where bitcoin was stolen from bitfinex rather than Tether being stolen by Tether. Your article 2 cites the bitfinex hack as well. Furthermore, the IOU issued wasn't Tether, but rather some other token "worth" $1 called BFX. The rest of the story seems plausible, but it seems you have a mixup in your buildup and snag phases of the hypothesis (I'm not saying that it is outright wrong because of this though)
Terminal Recorders: A Comprehensive Guide
Strange that you don’t know “the left” means, but here you go...

http://slideplayer.com/slide/726731/2/images/1/The+Political...

I didn’t say billing fraud was a problem with government run healthcare, so I fail to understand the “as well” part of your statement.
I don't mind profit motivation, but (at least in Canada) it's combined with all sorts of protections that lead to zero competition and dramatically different costs across jurisdictions (which is Provincial). I'm in Alberta and a lot of procedures from check-ups to fixes cost 2x as much as next door in BC. A few years ago I "shopped" some dentists looking for rough estimates on a general visit (with the provision I wasn't going to hold them to a quote, just wanted to know how much I should be prepared to spend) and most looked at me like I was crazy.

Profit-driven without competition is the worst of both worlds.
Duncan Trussell Family Hour,
Its All Happening - Zach Leary,
Radiolab,
Tangentially Speaking with Dr Christopher Ryan,
The Dr Drew Show,
The Joe Rogan Experience,
WTF Podcast,
Ari Shaffir's Skeptic Tank,
MAPS Podcast,

These are all A+ Podcasts.
And a desktop app that isn't Electron trash.
Is Visa sponsorship an option?
I worked at BioImplant in Vienna.

We tried very hard to get even one sentence into the Wikipedia article, to no avail. The editors insist on secondary sources of information (articles in magazines or newspapers), which apparently must be in English. Sadly, all news pieces so far have been in German.

We were equally unsuccessful in raising interest among popular science journalists.
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This is a strictly on-site position, but we can help expedite the immigration process.
Multiple and optional GC methods, exception tracking, effect system, ability to generate C and JavaScript, C-to-Nim translation and wrapper generation.

Nim is underrated indeed.
You've been posting a bunch of unsubstantive comments. We actually ban accounts that do that because HN is trying for a higher quality level. Trying and failing, often, but we need to keep trying. So could you please not do that in comment threads here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Hey, I liked PHP too! But plopping strings from the HTTP request into the SQL query was icky. Is there something nice and modern I could use for stateless database-backed serverside apps with instant reload?
Speaking of new dentist tech, this is something that has been bothering me (reposting from my answer above):

I've been looking into root-analogue implants [1] - essentially a physical 3D-printed copy of the whole tooth, including roots. Unfortunately information is scarce (as you can see in that wikipedia page), it's not even mentioned in the main 'Dental implant' article. No drilling required, the implant is literally pushed into place after removing the tooth [2].

There is a single dentist in the entire world actively offering these implants [3], and going at it for 20 years. The idea and results seem solid, you can find several papers from other researchers confirming that it works. Last year a company announced a similar root-analogue implant (though titanium instead of ceramic) in the Netherlands, but haven't seen anything since.

Current root canals are filled with 'gutta-percha', a natural latex used since the 1800s, quickly blacken and are a common source of complaints. I have a single filled tooth and it seems to collect way more plaque than its neighbors. It really feels like an ancient tribal practice rather than modern medicine.

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

[2] (GRAPHIC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR1is1XxCLY

[3] http://www.bioimplant.at
In Rust, ordinary vectors are values
Minnesota vending machine sells Super Bowl fans premade snowballs for $1
why did you say 'the left'? why do you see the world as two opposing sides?
Bullshit for some people is the same as lying, where lying is binary and not shaded. Lying is a great way to end up on the evening news.
Just to make sure I understand, remote is available only for people who are in the US/have the right to work in the US?
Facebook’s daily active user base in the US &Canada fell for the first time ever
It seems they have calculated that they make so much money from having that 1 hypergrowth startup in their portfolio that it blows away a dozen total failures or even a dozen moderately successful companies.

Tricky part is that companies that have the potential for hypergrowth look awfully similar to terrible ideas that will clearly crash and burn.
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Plus the never-stated but not-quite-secret that uncontrollable factors like genetics and mouth chemistry dictate a lot of what's going to happen, regardless of how well you care for your teeth...
If you want a quick hack to be seen as high class and authoritative (and you probably do since this is hackernews) in any situation just follow this one simple rule: Don’t move your head around so much, keep it straight forward and still. If you must look at things, do so only by moving your eyes, not rotating your whole head. If you need to turn your gaze more, turn your whole body. Look at things with intent, and on your own terms.

Try it today.
Uber’s New Training Wheels: Testing Bike Sharing in San Francisco
Cloudflare now lets you run JavaScript on the edge
About half of Uber's users come directly from the Play Store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ubercab

Do you have any examples of companies suffering unfairly from refunds because consumer protection laws have made them mandatory for a long list of reasons in many countries for decades already.
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Ofir Reich on using data science to end poverty&the action/inaction distinction
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> Good example is GST. After it's launch several month's ago, almost every big/small industry is finding it hard to get the specific details.

I don't get what problems does industry have with regards to GST apart from simpler return filing and changes in rates. The implementation was itself smoother than expected. Just compare with other countries that implemented GST and you'll realise that it took almost 2 years for things to stabilize. Comparatively, the implementation and addressal of most issues took only few months! Today, Hasmukh Adhia also hinted at automatic preparation of GST returns and simplification of invoice entry by directly entering details into the system which is pretty amazing if you ask me. I'm actually quite happy with how GST has shaped. Especially when compared to other governmental bodies which have error prone systems. I have faced no issues filing GSTR-3B returns and with simplification of GSTR-1 and GSTR-2 I guess all worries are taken care of.
The new Star Wars movies have cemented that this is acceptable.
Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak ‘I don’t believe anything Elon Musk or Tesla says’
The “Human Uber” Service in Japan
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We are building a platform to help office managers run their offices seamlessly, to allow vendors to fulfill requests with ease, and to enable our employees to work more efficiently. We have a problem-solving culture that is based on making an impact instead of hitting arbitrary deadlines.

We take a generalist approach to hiring. We’re looking for smart engineers who are problem solvers and passionate about their craft - Doesn’t matter what language, just a focus on writing well-designed code (our stack is JavaScript, Python, MySQL, and PostgreSQL)

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Here's an example of the kind of company MBQ is:

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/managed-by-qs-go...
https://qz.com/1112199/managed-by-q-services-jobs-profitable...
Hm? Oil isn’t a communications medium.
I'm not sure the time thing is particularly true but you're absolutely spot on with it being a value of money thing. And you're spot on with your characterisation as to how it works.
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>UK citizens only please.

Sounds illegal.
>but now much of jQuery's goodness is native

Since I never really learned jQuery, I can't attest to how much of modern JavaScript is based off of it. But looking an a quick reference for jQuery, it's pretty obvious that a huge part of it did not become standard. So all of the time invested in learning those features is wasted. Any application using those features is permanently locked in to a nearly obsolete framework. And the owners of those applications is now forced to find developers who both know and admit to knowing jQuery knowing they'll be dooming themselves to supporting old legacy code.
Show HN: Guide to Mobile App Push Notifications
> Economic systems always work better with fully informed players.

Except in the current commercial environment, most information is shrouded by the industry and the regulatory processes systematically corrupted. Allstate in particular weaponizes [1] its claims process to low-ball claims, slow legal proceedings and starve-out claimants until they settle. We should be dubious social media information will be used fairly.

[1] https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/13/insurance-claim-de...
It's because you have been conditioned to have low expectations by web apps.
Try playing with __getattr__, I'm sure "_.method" instead of "_(lambda x: x.method())" could be a thing.