skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I built a dead-simple inventory/bill of materials database on LAMP for my small electronics manufacturing business.

I've considered making it into a SaaS product (sell your by-products!), but I keep dragging my heels.
The difference is that corporations closely monitor only their own employees while Palantir closely monitors EVERYBODY.

Corporations take an interest in tracking people only to stratify them into groups suited to specific ad strategies. The worst their errors will do is pepper your browser and email with bad ads.

Not so with Palantir when their tracking data can misguide police departments, credit agencies, and even your employer into making your life a living hell. Surely any company with that much power must be held MUCH more accountable than they are now.
"Driving in the US is like a mad max situation. Many unnecessary deaths are preventable. Road deaths are double the OECD average."

All of the recent discussion of road deaths and deaths per million miles, etc., usually have a clarifying post/comment which notes that these figures include motorcycles and commercial trucks ... which skew the numbers dramatically.

Does your own day to day (car) driving experience actually seem like a mad max scenario ?

Can you compare driving in the United States to, for instance, driving in Guatemala or El Salvador or Vietnam ?

I suspect not ...
It’s a chilling effect caused by overzealous moderation.

When Coinbase first launched, someone was having issues getting funds out of there. That person made a thread on HN, and the response has always been “HN is not a support forum for YC companies” by the moderation team.
Not seeing much in the way of automating bookkeeping so far. What are folks using to do that?
Love your #1. Care to share more perhaps an example what you mean by themes for different days?
I'm curious how you use pipes.digital if you wouldn't mind sharing!
I'm sure that's what most people could say about their time at, or on, Reddit.
> Of course, this all varies by task, but I imagine this is a big reason why 16:9 came about.

The other one is internal real estate. Wide screens mean wider keyboards and larger batteries.
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Just because Apple is the first doesn't mean there won't be others. Maybe others have not materialized because the upfront cost of updating clangd was judged too high.

JSON-RPC has several alternatives that very large software companies have vested interests in: gRPC and XPC.

You seem more knowledgeable of these technologies than I am, though. It just seems to me a good thing that 1) Apple, and consequently, all iOS and macOS developers will be using clangd, and 2) Apple is putting significant effort into improving clangd. I'm not sure why any of that news or optimism needs to be quenched.
Those statistics are over one's entire lifetime, though, a lifetime full of potential accidents. How do they translate to a per-trip chance?
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My mother bought one of these on my advice. It is, indeed a very nice screen. When can I have one on a Thinkpad?
Thiel is an exercise in contradiction. "In his view, the best way to avoid such scenarios in the future would be to provide the government the most cutting-edge technology possible and build in policing systems to make sure investigators use it lawfully."

Prevent the police state by building the police state.
I demand satiation.
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The most extraordinary effort performed that day was, judging from early reports, done by two passengers who pulled a dying woman's broken body back into an aircraft undergoing depressurization. That and figuring out how to cover the hole in the fuselage strike me as more "heroic" (a loaded term, maybe) than piloting the jet while it was down an engine, or even calming the passengers and helping them don their oxygen masks.
> The transactional DDL seems to be introduced in MySQL per 8.0 though

I thought so as well from the release note wording, thanks to theptip for confirming in the docs that DDL is not transactional in 8.0, just crash-safe. see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16876549.
Amazon's Aurora Postgres database does a similar thing: your master in one zone replicates to a disk that is in all the other zones. Unlike normal Postgres RDS instance it also auto-scales storage to what you use.

Amazon claims better scaling then ordinary Postgres for this.
Why do they have to choose only one? Just offer options for people who don't want widescreen.

This is hacker news. Surely here we can complain that they're not made for programming. I also do a lot of writing and extra width is utterly useless for that.
Thanks, we shared a same dream, pillow looks nice, stared.
Not really. For example, if Facebook Inc. establishes a "Totally not FB LLC" for the purpose of skirting GDPR, Facebook Inc. is still the data controller according to the law, as it is directing the data collection and purpose, even if "Totally not FB LLC" does all of the handling as a data processor. Except now the fine is levied on the total turnover of both companies, not just one.
Maybe not all laptops should be 4:3, but that doesn't mean none should be.

Many of us never use our laptops (especially employer-owned ones) for full-screen video, or have no objection to the letterboxing and slightly smaller video size when we do.

"Nearly useless" seems like a ridiculous exaggeration to me. I have an iPad (4:3) used for little other than video, and love it.
The focus is more on a central home feed which shows posts based community votes, very similar to reddit or HN
>What happens, for example, if someone is unemployed, then doing work for you and either gets sick on his own or gets injured on the job?

For the first case--nothing at all.

For the second case--generally nothing as long as the person is really an independent contractor.

In the US there are guidelines that determine whether someone is an employee or a contractor. For example is the person flexible to work whenever they want, or do they have to be in the office from 9-5. Does the person have to wear a uniform etc. Is the position short term etc...

So if someone were injured on the job, they could claim that they even though the company said they were an independent contractor, they were actually an employee because of xyz.

Most employers know this so they take steps to ensure independent contractors actually fit the guidelines for independent contractor. And in the case of paying a tech contractor for a few weeks, it's usually pretty clear cut.
This list of onboarding-reviews is still fascinating, years after it was produced:

https://www.useronboard.com/user-onboarding-teardowns/
> many times tests will be done with a base windows 10 install [without any updates/patches]

So, even without Spectre & friends, these benchmarks are essentially meaningless?
Yeah. This is no different for me being paid to write a book or receiving an honorarium for something while employed by someone.
I don't buy this for a second.

I'm suggesting that she moves so that she won't be homeless. If she were to move, she wouldn't need a dense concentration of microwaves and bathrooms.

She doesn't work, so opportunities to work are irrelevant, though, I wonder why a well educated person with a Masters degree couldn't possibly figure out how to make a few dollars here and there with online or remote work.

And several people in this thread have already explained how she could afford an apartment on her income, so pretending that doing so would be difficult doesn't make any sense.

Finally, I don't see the argument that living in an apartment in the suburbs would be a "worse quality of life" than living in an SUV in a Walmart parking lot and surfing the neighborhood for free microwaves and bathrooms.
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The problem with both yours and the parent's assertion is context. Newspapers are easy to move so the portion you're reading is in your field of view. Your monitor isn't and it's used for much more than just reading static text. 1.5:1 may be a good reading aspect ratio, but if you need multiple things with that aspect ratio open and on the screen at the same time then you need a wider screen.

edit: I just realized a 3:2 screen is basically two 1.5:1 "areas". There are some laptops that have a 3:2 screen mentioned in other places in this thread.

I do wish I had a better way of splitting content into readable newspaper style columns, though. Modern web design is pretty antagonistic toward this end. There was a MacOS app that used to do this[0], but it hasn't been updated in years and there isn't an alternative for windows.

[0]: http://amarsagoo.info/tofu/
Filming a scifi city with AR instead of compositing
hmm... I was expecting the answer to be zero.
And then hire Palantir to monitor the police as well.
I can't say that I agree with that. There are plenty of subreddits that are not the official ones that have great communities and do great things for its members... (/r/learnprogramming or /r/askamechanic and such)
Why do you want to work for a company that gives you days of unpaid homework? If you're given such a task, simply state that you don't think you'll be a good fit for them, and move on. It is an employees job market at the moment, and every tech company has several unoccupied openings.
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Drunk driving accounts for roughly 25% of the driving fatalities. Not sure how many of that cohort are victims as opposed to the drunks.
There are plenty of surmountable obstacles that are a waste of interview time. Why give a jr admin task that any teenager can do as a test for a professional programmer?
I don't read binaries so I don't particularly care how hackish the solution is as long as it works. There are benefits to wasm of course, but running C code in the browser isn't one of them.
Do you habitually post personally identifiable information of other people in your blog without their consent?
Frequency Illusion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases#Frequ...
Most of the time, it's at least a 2 hour drive, and can be a 4 hour drive in the right conditions.
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Well, it isn't where I live. Kids from about 1-3 years old get these little 'walker bikes' that have no sidewheels or anything (no chain or pedals either), they use those to learn balance, then after that they get their first bike (age 3 and up) which they usually can ride on right away. By the time they go to grade school they can cycle with the best of them.

Learning how to cycle at a much later age is far harder.
For the vast majority of their logistical staff, $3 an hour more would likely be a substantial raise. Or at least equal to an extra yearly raise.
s/shall/should rather/

This raises some good points, but that was to be expected as licenses are a tricky business.

I do think our profession needs more awareness of ethics, and a usage suggestion (rather than an order) in the license of software may be a good start.
But more scalable than Spanner?
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Yeah, I just Googled "EU population" and used the number Google gave, if I search "European Union population", then it gives 508M.
Does anyone have any idea when this will be available on Amazon RDS?
> and makes it a more dangerous situation

I would say that that is not the point though. More dangerous, more spectacular - what matters is that you have to fly the airplane. Whether the situation is more dangerous does not directly influence the flight characteristics, that's "meta", something you can think about later on the ground, "Wow, we were sooo close! If that piece had hit a few inches further left... or if xyz had also happened...".

> Does that make you a hero?

I don't really mind that question as such - but the hero worship that happens, which is so mindless. It feels all fake, like theater, like the media does it following an established procedure, unthinking. Are you a "hero" for being competent? I would have thought that word has an element of volunteering, going into danger when you don't have to (plus also being competent, i.e. succeeding).
An IP address issued by whom, exactly? Your ISP? A cloud provider? ICANN?

There are ways to evade this law, like the .bit TLD, but even that would require constantly hopping between IPs and providers. There is no way that I can see to deploy and maintain a stable service in this legal environment.
Sorry not yet. Hopefully ill be able to get to it soon. Please check out web version meantime - https://telescope.surf
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Isn't it sick that courts are happy to allow such legal trickery when it comes to tax avoidance, but not when it comes to avoiding other laws some people don't like?
How much of this is intentional on the part of the first-party site?

The article says:

> The following could indicate the first party’s awareness of the Facebook data access:

> 1) third-party initiates the Facebook login process instead of passively waiting for the login to happen; 2) third-party includes the unique App ID of the website it is embedded on. The seven scripts listed above neither initiate the login process, nor contain the app ID of the websites.

> Still, it is very hard to be certain about the exact relationship between the first parties and third parties.

But I can certainly imagine a situation where a site owner would inject a third-party analytics script into their site and have no problem with it including information from Facebook logins as part of the analytics data it collects.

After all, as a site owner why wouldn't I want my analytics dashboard (provided by a third-party) to include information like "percentage of visitors between the age of 18-25"? That seems like a useful thing to know, and the users who granted my site access to that info did so explicitly via a Facebook permissions prompt, so what's the issue?

The issue, of course, being that my site's user's data is now being handled by a third party. But I obviously had no problem with that when I decided to use a third-party analytics company in the first place; why would that change now?
How large is the "crowd" in the field (companies, research labs, conferences) ?
Orn someone who wrote a massively over engineered spaghetti mess instead of wrapping a block of code in a loop control.
I think ProseMirror potentially solves a similar problem, but is more efficient: https://prosemirror.net/examples/markdown/
(then click the WYSIWYM radio button).
ProseMirror's API became stable a few months ago; I recently read straight through the documentation and was very, very impressed (I'm a huge fan of the author marijnh's contributions to open source, and want to integrate ProseMirror into CoCalc and Jupyter notebooks soon). ProseMirror is of course very low level though...
That makes sense, but is Grasshopper really the kind of app you want to sync across devices? I sometimes work on mobile games, and we always have the issue of whether we should force people to login (and give us data) or play without the login. We obviously want the login to improve our chance to make money. But sometimes logging in causes users to quit the app. But we can let them play without logging in, and sometimes games do that to get players hooked and nag them to surrender some privacy later. But that is why we do it: to make money.
Actually, it's ever so slightly higher than 1/2 because there is a non-zero chance of them being identical twins. If we assume an identical twin incidence rate of 0.4%, then the actual probability would be 63/125 that the second child is also a girl.
It looks like maybe a factor of 3 or so energy efficiency improvement is available for desalination. Current efficient processes are around 3kWh/m³†. The thermodynamic limit is about 1kWh/m³‡. That can be improved a little if you pump more seawater, there is a tradeoff there.

Treatment of fresh water is around 1kWh/m³, so it gets into the ballpark for freshwater treatment, though I presume some of the freshwater treatment needs to be performed on the desalinated seawater.

This places seawater as an equal to river or lake water for watering humans, but still expensive for watering crops; at 1kWh/m³, there would be about $1.50 of water in a $3.50 bushel of corn.

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† wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desalination#Energy_consumptio...

‡ About page 12 of this presentation: http://www.nwri-usa.org/documents/Elimelech_000.pdf
> bought shares under valuation based on GMs market share

> doesn't grasp how smaller is the luxury market share

this is the investors tesla scam depends on. this and a million people thinking they could flip a model3 reservation for a profit.
Hey I am building daptin. I have chosen golang so that it can run on raspi (or any target).

I haven't personally tried it on raspi yet since I don't have one, but I invite you to give this a try

If I understand correctly you should be able to run the arm7 static build directly

You can find the docs here at https://docs.dapt.in

There is a nice dashboard accessible over the web which you can completely protect after signing up on it. Daptin is completely standalone and can work offline (doesn't load any asset from internet as such, everything is packed in). You can reach me out via my github profile.

[1] https://github.com/daptin/daptin/releases/tag/v0.6.8

edit:

a little bit more details of how you would build what you asked

- create a subsite exposing html form

- use js to call daptin api

- daptin creates a sqlite db (unless configured otherwise)

- share subsite address with users

- take dump from admin dashboard
Do you mean that Elm was not designed considering JS as its compilation target? Is Elm used anywhere else than the web browser?
Why nobody compiles to JS outside the web browser if it's such a good compilation target?

>> Also, "transpile" is just another word for "compile"

Well, I prefer to use the "transpile" term when the target is a high level language.

JavaScript is a high level language. It seems some smart folks decided that a new "language/IR" is needed (wasm) so that people can use other languages on the web. Now let's make this new IR a first class citizen on the web.
I’m sure it’s wonderful, but I’m not giving my email address to an RSS reader. Thats kind of the whole point.
> Widescreen is a terrible shape for code.

I beg to differ. I have a UWQHD and love it for code. I can have 2 sets of code side by side (or a terminal) AND docs AND the website I'm working on, all visible without moving windows. Possibly also messaging apps.

I cannot fathom how someone wouldn't be able to appreciate working on a UWQHD monitor.
This is basically a long ad, but I thought the idea and execution are quite cool and interesting.
Yeah, no idea why you're getting downvoted.

My father used to be involved in law enforcement(and still does a bunch of public safety stuff). As I was told you can train for something constantly and yet you won't know how you react until you're put into the situation.

In my mind, praise costs you almost nothing while saying "well, actually..." just makes it you look petty.
The article mentions that they'll still try to claim revenue through Ireland for non-EU users, but that non-EU users technically have an agreement with the US company.

So no idea, basically.
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Which is wrong. Video Games don't actually make very many kernel system calls. Meltdown / Spectre patches have virtually no effect on video games.

The majority of DirectX stuff in the innermost-loops automatically DMAs to the video card without even needing a kernel call. Video games care a lot about performance and did their best to never touch kernel-space anyway.

Compilers, Web Servers, Databases, etc. etc. were affected very strongly. Compilers open files. Web Servers open Sockets. Databases communicate with mutexes / semaphores. All of these are OS-level features and require a kernel-mode switch. Meltdown means that every kernel-mode switch clears out the TLB-cache.

So each time a compiler opens a file (MMap or otherwise), it basically loses its entire TLB cache. Every. Single. System call. That's why its a big deal for servers, but not a big deal for video games.
Thanks for making this very informative comment! It was very interesting.

Can you give an insider's perspective on graphene's supercapacitor applications, if any? What does it mean in practice?

I realize given your disclaimer at the end if there are those kinds of applications you will want to promote them versus listing shortcomings, but if you would at least allude to the shortcomings too I would really appreciate the honesty: I saw a lot of articles about its supercap applications when graphene began to be synthesized but haven't heard much since (and it's not in your short list in your first sentence at all).
How would you dispose of this stuff? I presume it doesn't decompose. Mind you, there's not high volume any time soon. I only curious about lifecycle.
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I've been a loyal user of Mailparser for years. They provide an email address where you can send any email (tracking, invoice, etc..) and it extracts data based on pre-defined rules.

Then, you use Zapier to do almost anything with that data: send it to a google sheet, use that info to trigger an email to your customer, etc... The possibilities are endless.

My favorite use case was to use it for tracking emails sent out to our customers. We would have fedex-generated emails from our 3PL sent to a @mailparser address, which strips relevant info from the email, sends it to our Sendgrid account, re-skins the email in our format and sends it along to the customer as us. Won't bore you with the details, but we had a unique challenge that required something like this.
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> Any new insight he might bring you can always incorporate with your own code

Only if the contract is signed.
Reddit wouldn't be so toxic if the vote counts were hidden, but echo chamber validation is the ultimate badge of honor there. There is so much in this document that applies to all things Reddit (please note that I wrote it inspired by my time on Reddit): https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/Avoiding_Tr...
> I'm a huge proponent of GDPR

Why?

From what I can tell it does three things. Limits the secret data collection market to the government and bad actors, limits new companies by creating an additional artificial cost of entry through regulation, and sets up infrastructure to allow government to block any arbitrary site.

Edit: Another tool given to them is the potential to destroy any small business anywhere on the globe. Think about that.
Did any company have the legal ability to resist prism?
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This confused me for ages. Only after reading your comment do I finally understand what happened here!
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Their 40% number comes from the paper I referenced (i.e. that’s the one the Darwin paper references). I completely agree with your point 2. I’m not sure I agree with your first point: I think it’s pretty reasonable for it to have been published in that venue.
Also, some public libraries have partnerships with them to provide free access to anyone with a library card.
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> You actually have to keep their account active and make it work somehow. If you can't...

If you don't, not if can't. If you can demonstrate a reason that that piece of information is absolutely necessary for your service then you can deny service if the person doesn't want to provide the data. Otherwise you could submit a complaint about any delivery service for refusing delivery if you refuse to give them your address.

If you don't provide a reason why that data is necessary and still require the person to give it to you, then yes, you're in for some pain.