skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This happens to me too, what a roller coaster experience. We have an initial conversation, I discuss how what I do can really help their business, then when it comes to the next step (typically pricing) they'll balk or simply go silent. I think people have a hard time putting money where their mouth is sometimes. I have no idea how to solve this - my rates are reasonable for what I deliver and I always come across both personable and professional.
Why can't email do this? Serious question, I've never understood why people refuse to use email for chat. Everybody has email, we don't need to convince people to adopt it or agree on a provider. It should be perfect, and yet for some reason we don't use it for this. Does anybody have any thoughts on this?
Does vue-markdown not work with Nuxt?

I use marked.js on my own site. Works fine on NodeJS or in the browser.
He mentions the Facebook court hearing where Facebook was suspected of doing this. Zuckerberg denied they're doing this and I wonder if this happened to Google users but they falsely accused Facebook.

The guy in the video is probably using an Android phone with that "OK Google" feature turned on. He's using Google Chrome and is signed in to a Google account. As scary as it is, there are simple ways to prevent this.
If anyone in the government is reading this, don't go with oracle please. Not an efficient use of money.
Could you elaborate on the "but something else" for lack of achievements? what are those and why are their lack a bad thing?
Is it ok if you could detail your "mechanisms" that you use?

Just trying to grok against my own which has worked for me for the past decade or so but am struggling with its effectiveness recently.
Apache RocketMQ – Distributed Messaging and Streaming Platform
Is that always true? Resolution of existential crisis always involve radical changes?
The Hero Jr. personal robot from HeathKit: a 1984 product way ahead of its time
It's not that simple. We are primarily on the Google cloud as well and while they have better primitives (VMs + networking + IAM + account management), they are worse than AWS at the rest.

Very few and weak managed service offerings, APIs are mostly in beta, SDKs and libraries are in alpha, support is overly sensitive, often wrong, and will take days to reply unless you select P1 priority.

They are the best if you only need strong IaaS or run on GKE, otherwise AWS is literally turn-key to run your business with every imaginable product available.
What percentage required of Alphabet+Amazon total capital would be required to just buy oracle and make java totally open source?

Edit: make _all_ products open source Apache license style
Can you prove your case? If you are correct it's just a matter of scale, it stands to reason that any large organization would be muscling in on the high-margin cloud computing business. That clearly is not the case. But I'm happy to see any evidence you have to the contrary.
This cube visualizes which of the 16,777,216 colors have assigned names
See the GitHub repository[0] for more information. Note that [R,G,B] vectors span 256 x 256 x 256 = 16,777,216 possible colors. This repository has named 16,880 of them, which is around 1 in 1,000. For every 1,000 colors, 999 still need names!

Or do they? How many colors can simply be represented as "a lighter version of X" where X is a named color? How many colors can we "eliminate" this way? Also, of these 16,880 named colors, how many of them are lighter or darker versions of the others?

[0] https://github.com/meodai/color-names
Ask HN: What's your work-life balance like?
The prices were set by the government, but different parts of the Soviet Union had different prices ([1], in Russian)

Belt 1: Moscow, Saint-Petersburg (named Leningrad at the time), republic capitals, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, closed cities ([2]). Those had lower prices, and more products available at the stores.

Belt 3: Far North regions. Prices were higher, but so are the salaries.

Belt 2: the rest of the Soviet Union. The worst option out of three. The largest.

1. http://russian7.ru/post/cenovye-poyasa-v-sssr-chto-yeto-bylo...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed_city
yes, why does anything exist at all? maybe it's something like a 0 mathematically? you can multiply it with any possibility and you still have nothing?
Wow...

Shooting to die == eventually will die...
would be interested in reading someone's experience comparing these against the bose qc20. i love my qc20 right now. They reduce a lot of background noise, but I can still hear people talking (slightly reduced, but still can hear a conversation). Is this product mostly just a rebranding of the qc20 noise cancelling tech, or is it a different experience?
Oh, of course Oracle is doing that, seizing on Trump's weird attack. Oracle the trash company. Surprise, surprise.
> Constantly is on his laptop

Not a judgement at all, but in the rocks paper scissors game of life, the iPad will always trump the book if the kids are given the option.

In our house the iPad and iMac are fairly strictly rationed. YouTube is never self directed, only family AirPlay time, like watching SpaceX launches and stuff like that.

The books just have to be put down at mealtimes. Sometimes I catch them reading under the table and pretend to be angry about it, but they’ve got me allll figured out, (and I love it).
I had an awful experience with TurboTax just a few days ago, and will probably never use it again. In the very beginning, it asked me to click on some some things to get a "life picture" and seemed the Free version was fine. Then I get halfway into it, and it says it can't continue unless I use Premium. When I was almost done it asked to charge extra for "audit protection" and I had a wave of anxiety sweep over me, and almost purchased that too.

It has been brought up a few times here: companies like H&R Block have lobbied to keep things complicated.

https://www.propublica.org/article/filing-taxes-could-be-fre...

Unless I have some special deductions to take care of, the government should just send me something like "we have received forms x,y,z from a,b,c. This is your AGI, what we/you owe. does this look correct?"
Finding and closing on good clients. Meaning those who see my service as an investment in their business with a good return for the price, rather than as a commodity.
I think "borderline" is what is now the sweeping diagnosis for everything that can't be boxed properly to any of the available shelves, and that one might be overused more. When you know some true BPDs in real-life, it's not fun at all - cut wrists, irreversible body modifications, constant threats of suicide, used as a back-up when important plans fail, use of other people for validation, inability to hold consistent mental state etc. Bipolar comparing to that seems pretty benign even if it's terrible enough.
pip, pipenv, pipfile, pipfile.lock, twine, project.toml, setup.py, setup.cfg, setuptools, requirements.txt... I'd prefer a proper package manager.
> Their goal is to make sure that the award process is opened up to more than one company

sounds reasonable.
I remember when I was young, it suddenly really hit me: I’m going to die. That means that for an eternity I’ll not exist in the same way I didn’t exist before I was born. How could that be?! I was terrified of non-existence, of the sheer length and breadth of it, and what it really meant. I can’t say that I’ve ever really gotten over it, but I live with it. At the time I could hardly sleep, I became anxious and depressed.

To me, that’s the ultimate face of an existential crisis; confronting the reality of what our existence is. We’re almost unbelievably brief sparks in an endless darkness that didn’t notice our arrival and won’t notice our departure. What does it mean? Nothing really.

For some I guess the solution is believing that they’ll live forever in one way or another. For me it meant not thinking about a grim reality that saps joy from life, and just focusing on the people I love, the time we have together. It might not be ideal, but it’s what we have. What is an existential crisis? IMO it’s what hits when you when reality starts to seep into you in some small way. Maybe it’s mortality, or the absurdity and arbitrary nature of human endeavors, or something else.
UPX just compresses the machine code on disk and decompresses it in memory before execution. WebAssembly executables are delivered via http and can just be compressed with gzip/brotli etc as part of the existing protocols, completely transparently to WA itself.

Granted, UPX is specialized so it might have a slight compression edge over gzip. But layering UPX over WA will require three passes over all the code before it's ready to start (1: browser downloads and executes UPX stub and compressed data. 2: UPX unpacks and reloads uncompressed code. 3: browser re-compiles and executes unpacked code again.) This would completely decimate browsers attempts to make WA startup fast like firefox's streaming compiler [1] that starts compiling it before it's even done downloading.

[1]: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/01/making-webassembly-even-fa...
I recommend using regular textfile storage with both of these, I had horrible corruption issues when using Dropbox for syncing. Lots lots of notes. Make regular backups!
Turtles Have Led Us to Their Secret Seagrass Meadows
Also: Unreliable power supply and internet. Corrupt customs officials. Petty crime.
Because so many other things come into email – marketing emails, notifications, work-related emails, etc. that people don't check it as often.

Texting and other chat applications are instant.

Email used to be a more instantaneous thing, but it has evolved into something that many people want to take a break from, so sending an email might mean that the recipient doesn't see it for hours or days.
"Пояс" here means geographical area of accessibility: on the north and Siberia prices were higher but salaries were also higher.

So the price included delivery cost taxes.

As of "at 13% humidity level":

Pasta is highly hygroscopic and being packaged in paper box can absorb a lot of moister increasing its weight significantly. Fair remark, isn't it?

For that matter: all devices sold in USSR were coming with principal schemas so anyone can repair and reproduce. Open Source at its best :)
Pricify.co track the prices of your product and notifies you when they drop
> "Bricking the phone” was a bug and was fixed.

It wasn't a bug according to Apple. First they said it was deliberate then after the story blew up they said it was a test feature never intended to leave the factory.

They never said it was a bug, the behavior was intentional.

> Disabling Touch ID is necessary to support the security of the phone. I don’t want a state actor installing a crocked module and use it to break the phone’s security.

No one is disputing that, why do you keep bringing it up?

Are you trying to downplay the fact that they are intentionally screwing over people who don't get repairs through them?

Why does swapping the Touch ID module necessitate disabling the home button as well as Touch ID in the iPhone 7?
What rational reason would a large organization with such sensitive information have to move to the cloud at all? This seems horrifically stupid from an organizational and informational risk perspective.
I'm told Oracle's RDBMS has top notch performance at scale - I'd be interested to hear some informed discussion on the topic.
a lot of the issues you list would likely be considered desirable features by DOD standards
High alert: NYPD counter-terror army hit NYC streets in wake of Syria strikes
I've heard IBM's Cloud is much the same.

The only thing it has in common with a proper cloud thing like AWS or GCP is the 'cloud' in the name.
The people shopping on taobao and the whole population are different

You cannot derive 40% from that.

Also there is obviously a fraud transaction business to boost the number. Alibaba, by not cracking down them, acting to benefit from that too.

As I said, data are not accurate. But that should be be drawn from wrong facts.
What? Java is open source and there have been open source JDKs for many years.
Show HN: Now live, what BTC should have been
I'm grinning. That does make much more sense.
> 3. "Git does not track historical branch names" - The example he provides here shows a visual graph in Fossil of the branch history. The exact same thing is available in Git via "git log --graph --all --decorate" or a GUI that shows the graph.

No, that Git command only shows current local and remote branch heads, not the branches to which a commit historically belonged. If you look at the link he posted, that git hub page provides that same info. AFAIK Git does not store this historical information. If you look at the example links he provides, in Fossil each commit has tags saying what branch(es?) it belonged to.

I do agree with the rest of your points. I use a combo of GUI for viewing current state and easily adding/removing file, I also use more complicated git commands when I need to do stuff that isn't easy in the GUI I use.
> Yeah but climate change. That wasn't really an issue in the 80s.

The foundational assumption of the modern scientific era (circa 1845) is that steam engine physics are a fundamental law of the universe. This guiding constraint is referred to as the "Laws of Thermodynamics"...

Today's scientists have better numbers. Dark energy and dark matter are their realization that something is wrong with 1845's understanding of the laws of nature.
I'll check it out. I live in Park Slope. What a joke. How about if you want to buy land, you make offers people can't refuse - that's suppose to be how capitalism works.
Forgot the password to the throwaway?
Tesla battery degradation, less than 10% after 160,000 miles, according to data
This is terrible. I did my grad work at Madison in Urban Planning no less.
oracle is completely unable to create an application that shows anything other than a database table or tables, yet all of their sales are targeted to business users not DBAs.
"A sixth-grader at one of his schools was frustrated that a passage on a reading test she’d taken kept repeating a word she didn’t understand: roog-bye. The unfamiliar word made it hard for her to understand the passage. When Rowe asked her to spell the word, it turned out to be rugby."

I wonder if the test conditions are to blame. In real life, if you don't know a word then you look it up in a dictionary. It takes a few seconds, and you always have a dictionary with you (a smart phone). If you don't know a concept then you can look it up in Wikipedia. Rugby is an unpopular sport in the US, so I think it's reasonable that a sixth-grader hadn't heard of it. For a general reading test, and not specifically a vocabulary test, I think she should have been allowed to look up a definition. Are dictionaries generally allowed in reading tests?
Both pork and beef dripping are common (though somewhat less so than when I was a child in the 80's) still in the North.

Spread thin on toast with a sprinkle of salt it is amazing and instantly takes me back 30 years to weekends at my nan's.
> much of a student’s college experience is reading uninteresting things.

Wait, what?? That was certainly not my experience, and judging by the barrage of texts I get from my now college-attending child, isn't his experience either.

He did find a lot of what he was given in his California high school was boring. Enrolling in it was a bit of a shock after his prior experience.
I use vim in a terminal after ssh-ing into my home server. I generally use one file for each project/tool and use grep to find stuff.
When I type information about a tool I'll try and put "tags" about it after/near the information and then search for those tags with grep and return line numbers for I can go look it up. I've been doing this for 4 years now and it works pretty well.
About the only good thing that could come from this is destroying the ability for the DoD to move anything to the cloud. Huge SaaS and IaaS companies are squids wrapping their tentacles around everyone's data and sucking the autonomy out of organizations.

An upstream connectivity outage should be nothing more than an inconvenience, not your lifeline to your lifeline to your only provider of your digital business process and records.
Well, I think it's true that traditionally folks trying to do rational drug discovery are better at targeting certain proteins (cell surface receptors; some enzymes) with small molecules than others. Also true that first generation of most drugs were discovered serendipitously and only later was mechanism understood. BUT - notion that we're at the sharp downward slope would be a surprise to most pharmas and biotechs. While there's more of an emphasis on understanding entire pathways rather than single proteins, it's still generally the goal to find a single place in the pathway where a small molecule (or antibody, or whatever) will act. It's also /really/ hard to disrupt protein-protein interactions, though it's possible.
> The long-standing view has been that the first few years of elementary school should be devoted to basic reading skills. History, science, and the arts can wait.

For a long time I've thought math education has this problem. Math as a subject is abstract and lacks context. Learning subjects like physics or computer graphics or robotics requires learning math along the way to get something done, but they come with goals and results and context that can be far more motivating to the average person than just learning the mechanics of linear algebra or calculus in isolation.
Because multiparty email sucks (CC/BCC hell), and the delivery is not particularly real time.
Anecdotally as a recent high school student I recall taking numerous standardized reading tests with less than accurate science passages.
Anyone using this ? What is the diff between this and kafka ? (Apart from the fact kafka is now widely known and used ).
If you’re using your last campaign as your starting point, why aren’t you just replicating it and starting from there?

https://kb.mailchimp.com/campaigns/ways-to-build/replicate-a...
> The downside to [the MIT] license is that it also allows the vendor to create a fork of the bootloader without giving the customers the changed source code, and unfortunately it is common practice for vendors to make use of this right.

One of the many advantages of the GPL over licenses such as MIT.
Interesting, I must have made the false assumption when I received the package and saw the Russian postage labels. Looking at some other eBay listings now, the connection to Gillette is apparent. Thanks for letting me know!
Very glad someone posted this.
I've unfollowed most real people on Facebook as it's all about the interest or location-oriented groups for me rather than pictures of people's kids or vacations. It's so much better this way.
And forgot to mention that there's all sorts of very cool new tools coming - one of my favorites is this one for targeted protein degradation:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28223226
Well, GPL is copyleft right? So I mean making the license less restrictive

https://www.google.ca/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/Android/comment...
Thank you so much for your comment! I agree that the Great Famine in Ireland was also man-made. It was not a divine and natural condition that Ireland grew potatoes- rather the English and Protestant Aristocracy used Irish land to graze cattle for beef exports to English markets. Potatoes were the wage for those Irish who toiled the land.

Once the famine killed the potato crop, as it had 6 times before in the 1700s and 1800s, the English deliberately blocked grain imports and relief efforts for the Irish Catholics. It would be intellectually lazy to suggest that this was not a terror famine- the English government greatly desired to see 2 million Irish starve or emigrate abroad. The English only wanted Irish land for grazing, not Irish labor or Irish voters to contend with.

However I must insist that the famine in Ukraine was man made. Stalin deliberately, once again, blockaded Ukraine from sea and land. Shipments of grain left Ukraine- shipments of food into Ukraine were blocked. Moscow deliberately engineered news and propaganda to convince the Ukrainians that there was not a famine in Ukraine, and that in fact there was a famine in Germany and the USA instead! This is all documented on film.

In Ukraine, Moscow would feed a horse before it fed a Ukrainian. One horse carriage operator told the local Western journalist, "Moscow gives us the grain to feed the horses. We need the horses to cart away the dead from the streets before anyone sees."
This was a superb Wikipedia article and clever name. I particularly like the Beatle's reference.
I see you aren't familiar with the DoD's (non-critical) infrastructure. Self hosted services go down for not insignificant periods of time not infrequently. Half the time if something goes down and the wrong person is out of the office, it doesn't get fixed until they come back.

I think fragmentation is the problem.

(Disclaimer: I've been out of the defense contracting business for some time)
> The Chinese government seems much more concerned about making their country and society better as a whole.

They do what is best for themselves, which at times means doing what's best for the Communist Party. Suppressing dissent, denying Chinese people freedom and self-determination is only good for the people in power.

In case someone wants to argue that authoritarianism provides better governance (which is BS anyway - if it's so great, then hold an election and people will vote for you; who are you to decide that it's so great for everyone else?), all the most wealthy, most stable countries in the world have those freedoms (Europe, the U.S.), including the most wealthy and stable parts of China (Taiwan and Hong Kong).
Uh, yes. Why is this relevant, though?
I stopped using TurboTax some years ago and switched to TaxAct as a less bad alternative. I didn’t believe them to be necessarily tons better than giving money to TurboTax, but I figured at least it wouldn’t just keep solidifying a market leader who was capturing a significant market based mostly around actively lobbying to keep it that way.

In the last two years I took a leap to CreditKarma’s tax offering. It is a bit basic and not quite as endlessly full featured, but it is simple, efficient, pretty quick and quite fast. It’s also entirely free. The first year I used it I ran my numbers in a competing product to check, I was self employed at the time, which meant my tax situation wasn’t exactly easy that year.

Anyway, the numbers lined up perfectly. So I used CreditKarma to file and have been happy with it ever since. Honestly at this point I’d pay for it, just to give them a more solid business model and development budget, but as far as I know they don’t even have a paid option!

I filed in February this year. It was easy.

I actively avoid Intuit products now.

(Though, pragmatism wins here to some degree: I did use their self-employment accounting tool for a few years even when I had switched away from their tax software. That tool makes it annoyingly easy to keep accurate books and Xero just wasn’t as good and simple at what I was looking for. If I was doing it again today, I’d definitely again look for alternatives. And frankly I think I’d find them now.)
by 2020 AMD will be shipping its third generation of EPYC...
It kind of shocks me that the DoD isn't looking for a vendor-agnostic implementation and then using the resources of multiple vendors. Not only is it key for resiliency from failure, but also it guarantees price competition, whereas being dependent on one vendor lets them jack up the price for all future transactions.
The ridiculous tax code isnt the fault of TT, even though they lobby to keep it that way. It's the fault of the cowards we keep sending to DC. Take it up with them.