skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true.

Most of my cousins -- all female - stayed in my home town because it really helps having their parents around so they can work and not have to worry about childcare because they have their parents.

When I was growing up, my grandfather or aunts would come pick me up if I was sick, take me to doctors appointments, etc. My dad worked in a factory and it was harder for him to get off of work in the spur of the moment and my mom could not just take time off in the middle of the day as a teacher.

I've been married for a little while and have a teenage step son. We never really had extended family that lived around. We had to arrange our lifestyles to give us the maximum flexibility. My wife got a job that would allow here to be on the school system schedule and I have a flexible job that allows me to me work from home, work odd hours if I need to, etc.

We also are fortunate enough to have teenage sons. When we really just can't get to our son in time to pick him up or take him somewhere we just tell him to order an Uber. I wouldn't do that if I had a daughter.

I do see people in similar situations to ours who aren't so fortunate, when they need to take time off of work to deal with family issues, they have to use vacation or sick time or even worse take unpaid time off. If they had their parents around and healthy, it would make their life easier.
Music decoding is certainly possible without floating point arithmetic. The popular "MAD" MPEG Audio Decoder uses only integer arithmetic:

https://www.underbit.com/products/mad/
Hmm seems like Belgacom has had several visits from the NSA and/or GHCQ. The most likely reason for these friendly visits is that Belgacom manged(manages?) a couple of submarine cables in the middle east and north Africa. It's public knowledge that either the NSA or GCHQ had infected their core routers/switches.

When that story first came to light, what they didn't tell you is that the NSA was also in Deutsche bank and several other financial institutions. Perhaps they still are.
> most of us don't need daily showers

You must live in a cool climate. Your claim doesn't hold true for lots of places in the world.
The point of having a direct competitor to Amazon is to limit the possible actions they could do. Right now Amazon is well behaving and its supported by the customers. However, if Amazon were to change its actions, we would have a near monopoly that is not positively affecting people. Therefore, the theory of the author is to limit the power of Amazon by entroducing a competitor that would challenge the dominant position instead of waiting for the negative outcome.
Could summarize to Linux is more commercial marketing checkbox oriented now, whereas FreeBSD is the good old days of itch scratching.

For example, RAID5 hasn't been interesting to me as sysadmin for decade or more now for a variety of reasons. I did use it back in the days of single digit gig hard drives to create something useful sized, but its not the "right" way to do almost everything now except for the weirdest corner cases, that can be worked around in much better ways. Its something marketing can checkbox so commercialized Linux will NEVER remove it. I remember the good old days of having qty six two gig hard drives and software RAID5 on top of them. Those days aren't coming back, but they were good old days.

On the opposite side, the handbook is useful on a regular basis, so people often use it, and maintain the heck out of it, making it even more more useful, repeat.
>not 100% compatible

I would argue it’s the GNU tools that are not 100% compatible. The BSD tools are very much the same as they always have been in Unix of old.

GNU was in fact doing what we generally refer to as „embrace and extend“. And now look at how well it has worked: people refer to the original as „not compatible“

Of course it’s not so relevant as the gnu tools are widely available, but it’s in my opinion still an observation of note.
+1, this debate has been going on for a long while(6mo-1year?).

Claiming that you decided to change it out of the goodness of your heart seems a bit disingenuous. I get if you needed to clear it with the lawyers/business owners over that time but claiming it was changed on a whim doesn't ring true.
56 Bills Have Been Introduced in 30 States to Restrict Protests
I think it's unlikely that Facebook added the PATENTS file in order to make things easier for other companies and not for self-interest. It's an explicit patent revocation, not just grant. If I'm not mistaken, there was backlash against an earlier version of the file as well. Only later they tried to spin it as something they were doing for the public.
If anything it should be split into 3 companies - retail, logistics, and AWS.
Frankly the compatibility of the Apple II lineage more or less saved the company during the mess that was Lisa and early Mac.
When you compare Amazon to say Walmart or Google, I think the real consideration is that the later two have narrow verticals of dominance and Amazon's dominance spans e-retail, compute, storage, etc and is expanding. Having one entity control 60% of 50 verticals is much more dangerous for the economy anti-competitively than one company that controls 80% of say two verticals. The reason is simple they can use their multi-vertical footprint to apply pressures on a small competitor that a large competitor who was limited to a single vertical could not.
Comming from the other side I've dealt with a lot of companies trying to use Openstreetmap, and they are all really bad at it. Two things I say to everyone who want to import data to Openstreetmap. These seems to be very hard things for people to manage, do you have any idea why that would be?

1. just make it available for everyone to download, try to add as much metadata as possible.

2. make it clear what kind of license you have for this data
The mistake you are making is that you are only looking at the harm that monopolies do to their competitors. You should also look at the harm that monopolies do to consumers. If you are a monopoly you can effectively set the price of whatever you are selling. Just operating is using your monopoly.
The main Facebook app isn't React Native (though parts of it might be)
Am I allowed to invoke hypercubes because that would cut this knot nicely.
This article is written by someone who probably holds a short position in Amazon or was badly burned by such a position. There are companies out there with much more dominant positions in industries and few are calling for their end.
Note that the $/coin scale was exponential during the ICO and private. Essentially premined by well-connected vcs.

Similar to startups before reaching IPO but much faster.
ARC handles breeding by using FLiBe, a molten salt coolant containing lithium. No disassembly required to harvest the tritium.
How and Why We Designed Lucida (2014)
The MIT License, Line by Line (2016)
If we're honest with ourselves, most political beliefs aren't reconciled with data. We pick and choose what supports them.

Second, there's that temporary millionaire thing going on. If you're wealthy, the US is one of the best places in the world to be. You get to have your cake and eat it (healthcare, for example, is less of a concern). The legal system favors you, you can buy your way into media and politics. People see the freedom on the upper end and don't associate that with major limitations on the lower.
What do you have to do each month exactly?
PostgreSQL 10.1 silently launched at Amazon RDS
No announcement (and hence no URL), but you can now choose PostgreSQL 10.1 when creating a new instance at RDS. Alas, Amazon Aurora is still at 9.6.3.
Products are commodities and they often do not win on price before shipping. Shipping is the secret sauce. Their ability to ship at lower costs.

I used to prefer ebay, prices are better, but after 2day shipping, you cant go back.

I can start an online retailer tomorrow, but i cant ship a package for less than $3. China too. I bought an iphone case for 80 cents, problem there you have to wait 3 weeks but their shipping too also government subsidized.

You wont find any huge corporation that wasnt somehow subsidized with public money.
3 simple tricks for smaller Docker images
Knew a co-worker who'd worn glasses her whole life said her eye sight got better after she turned 50.

The optometrist told her the muscles around your eye weaken and don't squeeze your eyeball as well, thus changing the focal point.
No, this is a terrible idea. I'm a social idiot and even I know this is lobbing a grenade!
I think they were trying to say if you had a normalized database where instead of repeated varchar fields, you had a foreign key — that would act like a dictionary.

CREATE TABLE customer(
id SERIAL,
name VARCHAR(1024),
status VARCHAR(1024)
)

Vs

CREATE TABLE customer(
id SERIAL,
name VARCHAR(1024),
status INT REFERENCES status(id)
)

CREATE TABLE status(
id SERIAL,
name VARCHAR(1024),
)

It wasn’t very clear from the parent above, but I think this is where they were trying to go. The normalized version is smaller because you’ve swapped a repeated varchar ‘status’ for an int — so that’s effectively a dictionary. It’s not entirely correct, but it’s not that far off.
No, and I generally like jq’s syntactic choices better.
Most doctors are performing infusions with a loading procedure where the patient has six infusions in the span of two weeks. Then the patient is offered what they refer to as maintenance. The space between maintenance doses is a decision made by the patient. Some doctors prescribe additional anti-depressants to help patients sustain the effect until their next infusion. One of the problems with this treatment is that there aren't any studies that show this is effective long term.

I have had ketamine treatments at two different clinics and the procedure and methods varied. There were differences in monitoring and safety protocols.

Initial doses could run anywhere from $2100-$6000. One maintenance dose could be $300-$1000. Hopefully Rapastinel will be approved by the FDA soon and wipes out small industry that is partial to unproven science. Don't be influenced by the hype. Please try everything else before you try Ketamine infusions.

Edit: I also want to mention that there isn't any proof that Ketamine is anything but short acting. See this review by Cochrane: http://www.cochrane.org/CD011611/DEPRESSN_ketamine-and-other...
Ocaml’s ecosystem feels much better than Go’s. At least Ocaml has such a great package manager, better compiler, repland an allocation profiler. The only thing it lacks is multicore runtime.
:x is a shortcut for :wq. I wonder why nobody knows it.
I think you hit upon a really important idea. Amazon has been investing in itself for years, and focusing on longer term growth and success even at the cost of short term profit maximization. Which is... exactly what we as a society want. We want companies to think long term, to be investing in innovative new ways to succeed and relying on growing outward and always trying to be on the cutting edge.

All that stuff is great, far better than companies run by finance degree holding businessmen that haven't invented anything in 3 decades and keep existing purely through rent seeking or quarter-to-quarter profit pumping.

To bring Amazon down now, before its had a chance to reap the benefits of its prudence feels like the worst possible signal we could give the market. It'd basically be saying "Don't bother actually focusing on technical improvement, because if you ever do get really big as a result the government will step in and take it away from you".

Though the article does kind of share this sentiment, so kudos to Tom Harford:

>If that is a worrisome state of affairs — and it should be — then Amazon is the shining counterexample. The online retailer’s strategy is driven not by short-term profit but by investment, innovation and growth. If only there were a few more companies like Amazon, capitalism would be in a happier spot.

I suppose the core disagreement then becomes I don't think the threat of Amazon becoming abusive is worth the negative signal going after them would generate, and he does. I'd be interested in reading a 2nd article from him that delves more specifically into this part of the issue.
Would there really be any benefit from splitting up Amazon right now though? Assuming there were two symmetrical Amazons, both focusing on consumers, innovation, and growth, the only way I can see either being competitive is to cut corners.

In my opinion, there would be a much more compelling reasons to split up Amazon if they ever begin to focus on profits.
Right, jimmy1 comment about immigration breaking the Greece economy seems factually incorrect. While handling the immigration flow was pretty expensive (sources say a few percentage points of GDP) that bill has largely been footed by U.N and various donor organizations and countries.

But also your argument here is flawed (U.S immigration doesn't affect U.S GDP negatively, so that should apply everywhere), because it doesn't take into account that the immigrants arriving to southern Europe and the ones coming to the U.S. are vastly different groups of people.
I would assume that immigration to the U.S to a large extent consists of people wishing to work towards the "American Dream". Many of them have had to secure a job in advance to get a entry permit and so on.
While the people arriving in Southern Europe are a random bunch of people, typically from economically unadvanced regions - refugees fleeing wars, economical immigrants etc.
> Probably wrong: Expanding the scope of OpenStreetMap to include transient data. Too much other work to do, maybe later for this.

Isn't all of the data in OSM transient to some degree?

What's the threshold for when data is too fleeting to be worth storing? Days, months, years, decades?
maybe the article didn't lay out a case but that question should really be viewed from the perspective of more vibrant competition in the marketplace. We know in general that competition is good both for consumers and in the case of the technology sector competition is good for innovation.

I think the question applies to the likes of facebook (find me someone who is truly happy with facebook as a service, the whole world's social media needs cannot possibly be well served by the ideas of a handful of people in California), google..etc.

There is also the question of economic equity (geographic for instance), there is a direct relationship between the concentration of market share and concentration of wealth.
Finland now has a government program for doing such studies, called Kokeilun Paikka ("Place to Experiment").

They are using it to do a random trial of basic income. The results to date are ambiguous, showing both that it's hard to get a large n and hard to pick the measurement criteria.

Also: although I agree with the thrust of the book, there are additional issues for programs like Head Start: 1> it's hard sometimes to find or identify the kids who need it most, so by making it broader you improve your chances of reaching those most at need, at the cost of "helping" others who may not really need it 2> when you make programs universal, you get broader support than when you only extend it to those most in need. Look at the additional restrictions just placed last month on those in the US getting public assistance -- restrictions which make it hard for those most in need to actually get the benefit! This is why the New Deal extended social security to everyone and dressed it up it so that it appeared to be an insurance scheme you paid into: everyone would feel they "earned it" so nobody would want to cut it.

Thus in the US school meals are not universal or free, which stigmatizes the kids who get them. In most developed countries the kids all get lunch in school, which helps the nutrition of the poorer kids. Likewise, making public transport free would pull cars off the road, making drivers happier...but when they feel they are paying for "those people", voters typically hate using road taxes to pay for streetcars and subways. Perhaps the ability to tax self-driving vehicle fleets will change that.

This sort of goes back to the Finnish observation of the difficulty of making measurements.
Stories like this make me so glad that the software I sell runs locally, on the clients computer.

For me there's never been a bug so bad it couldn't wait until monday morning.
> That said, Commodore was not nearly as good at Apple and Atari at keeping backward compatibility on their 65xx 8-bits, and they did something weird with the Plus/4 type machines, which bizarrely had almost no compatibility at all. You could easily run software from the late 70s on a mid/late 80s Apple IIgs, or on an Atari XE.

It's interesting to compare the approaches of the Apple IIgs and Apple III in this respect. The Apple III had backward compatibility, but it was deliberately limited to a no-frills Apple II compatibility mode, supposedly because Apple didn't want developers to continue targeting new software to Apple II. Apple IIgs, whose "native" architecture diverges much more from the original Apple II, had better backward compatibility (thanks in large part to the 65C816's emulation mode and the Mega II chip).
> That's an understatement. Numerous studies have found that D.A.R.E. increases drug use

...which helps the prison-industrial complex (in California at least) and the DEA. This makes me wonder...
I work in GIS.

KML/KMZ is decently useful as an interchange format and simple rendering but almost all web GIS software has better support for GeoJSON. It’s richer and easier to work with.

I’ve never worked on a GIS system that used KML/KMZ in prod for rendering. It’s usually shapefiles, PostGIS Geometry, ESRI’s proprietary GDB feature, WKB/WKT or GeoJSON on the backend being served up to clients.

I have used it as a lightweight way to deliver simple data in the past though for use cases where there was no proper client renderer (we would just tell the end user to download google earth and open up the file)
I built this VS Code plugin to convert JSON interactively using JMESPath: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=octref.v...

Might be useful if you are testing API or playing with JSON data.
Quite far. Most cheap microcontrollers have no FPU an may not even have integer divide; PICs advertise whether or not they have a multiplier as a product feature.

Fixed-point is often a reasonable substitute for floating point, if you have enough bits; Doom uses it for its 2.5D rendering.

However, all your software has to be defined with this in mind. Otherwise you have to have soft-float in order to run it at all, which is horribly slow.
As I said in a prior discussion, a broad catalog plus pretty predictable 2-day shipping was a real eye opener for me.

I first got Prime mostly for the video because Netflix had just started charging for it separate from their DVD service. But I soon realized that I could order a broad assortment of items and get them before I'd probably have gotten around to going to the store anyway. The fact that I travel a fair bit and can reliably order things at a time when I'll be home is another big plus.
Whereas lots of other countries don't have them. Could it be that the US are prosecuting too many people? Too many things are illegal perhaps? The war on drugs maybe?

Perhaps, when so many people are doing something illegal that your criminal justice system can't take the strain it is time to consider what is illegal? Plea bargains on the other hand seem to be working around justice.
>I know it sounds strange, but if you can make it through the first month or two of not using body soap or shampoo regularly you'll be better off in all ways.

I've heard this before but I don't understand it. If I go two days without shampoo my scalp becomes extremely itchy and flaky.
FWIW, for smaller drive-by fixes you may press the Edit button directly on a file in some else’s repo.
Amazon has been consistently losing money on retail since its inception. If they raised prices, they would lose their dominant position. The main reason you don't see more competition is that retail (online or offline) simply isn't very profitable to begin with.
I apologise, it was below the belt. Given you are in Australia I knew you could take it ;)

I only know the situation through Dave Jones of EEVBlog fame discussing how _ridiculous_ your setup is over there. Genuinely made me appreciate BT! I have FTTC here in England, I get 70/15 more often than not. It's only a wee bit of copper but I'm with you. Something very pleasing with a glass rod shining internet in to your home isn't there.
Someone around that age at my workplace had a moment like that too, in fact he went from near sighted to far sighted and had to get new glasses.
They do, just add -site:gettyimages.com to your search.
May I enquire who your provider is? I believe here in England FTTC is maxed at 80mbps. I've very much like that to be wrong.
Probably, which is also an annoying heteronym.
FreeBSD outlaws virtual hugs
Californian Man Pleads Guilty to Identity Fraud Re Russian Election Interference
Ask HN: Lesser known things in your daily life to help the environment?
Prompted by this - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16395372

Other than the well known ones (use less plastic, bike instead of driving when possible, recycle etc) - are there anything else that you do?
I wouldn't be surprised if the shareholders eventually got their way and have Amazon split its profitable businesses (like cloud infrastructure) from the unprofitable ones.
All the current wifi chipsets require binary blobs. They are considered part of the hardware, they are running on the hardware, not on your cpu, they just aren't shipped on an EPROM, but the driver is loading it at init time.

The channel visibility is regulatory thing; if you see only channels 1-12 you have set it for North America, most of the world can use 1-13, and Japan also 14 (for 802.11b only).
Sure because those are examples of what you can do with the tech. You can't really make a website with Qt, so using... PyQt's website as an example for evaluation doesn't make a ton of sense.
Too bad that's not stated in the article. The way the article reads seems to imply a kernel OS.
Orthographic or perspective projection?
Quantum computer in a single chip, can you believe it?
The problem with nifty solutions to removing carbon from raw fuels resulting in carbon free hydrogen, is the best engineering solution to the remainder of the task list of transport, store, and burn the resulting carbon-free hydrogen, is to modify the hydrogen by synthesize up some carbon containing hydrocarbons to make some delicious hyper optimized liquid fuels, which coincidentally we have massive infrastructure to use.

Not as snarky as might sound. Given infinite fusion energy via the real thing or solar panels, truly pure synthetic fuel opens up some interesting ideas WRT catalysts and efficient burn designs to squeek out another percent or two of performance. Inherently zero (not low, but ZERO) sulfur diesel is interesting, for example. And no one says the carbon thats added has to come from underground; go harvest some trees that sucked the carbon right out of the air, then when you put it back in the air after a couple months of storage, nothing bad happened.
... is there a Mac app? Seems silly to leave Twitter over killing their Mac app if you go somewhere else that also doesn’t have one.

(Let me guess, it’s open so anyone can write a Mac app if they want! Yeah, well there are third party Twitter apps too.)
> If one thinks tulips are just like art is just like bitcoin is just like cattle futures, you may not be well-enough informed to speculate successfully in any of those markets.

It looks to me like the parent poster is just trying to explain the facts on the ground, not give investing advice.