skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hey, my service sucks and I'm not going to do business with you anymore! Cancel my service!"

5 minutes later

"So I spoke with the 1 other ISP in my county, and they charge even more insane rates than you. Thank god the free market allowed me to pick you and your superior service! LONG LIVE THE FREE MARKET!"

The fact of the matter is, there isn't enough competition in the sector for a free market approach to function. The government needs to go Bell Labs on the ISPs (and probably a few tech companies while we're at it).
For building large structures like this, we've found Makedo's are great. https://www.make.do/collections/all-products

The screws and screwdriver make it super easy to connect the cardboard together, and I've found the fit to be surprisingly sturdy. It's reusable and pretty quick to remove from the cardboard once you're ready to take everything down.

The saw, in my opinion, doesn't cut that well. Possibly still better than having the kids use large scissors or a box cutter though.
Bozoma Saint John Departs Uber for Endeavor
I'm not following your analogy about "the gun". Can you rephrase?
We have it in Romania too and it's great, very hard to tear and also waterproof.
Mutual funds / stocks / index funds.
Some notes about the upcoming WebAssembly support in Go
Cute PR move but what an indictment of American local governance
Interviews of EPA employees concludes agency on verge of regulatory capture
Can it give me a warning signal when I'm slouching?
Rather than inline-comments I've always had separate documentation. This helps prevent trying to cram all the edge case caveats and everything into the configuration file.
They have (had) scooters in Japan with stabilizers on the back do your noodles didn't spill during delivery.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/8c/f9/25/8cf9256a7ae56d1186cc...
Yeah areas like that have the best chance of succeeding because they exist in an already lively downtown so they don't have to create all their traffic out of nothing. A community built around a dying mall though has to create enough traffic to justify businesses opening there unless they're small and cheap enough to exist solely on the business of residents.
Net Neutrality doesn't apply to Web sites.
Carpenter's Pun Problem
The Amish manage to build large barns entirely like this in much less time than it would take the average construction firm. It depends heavily on what you're building on if you actually need a lot of those tools.

Just like if you're building a small tool to wrap another you might just choose to use bash over Java, it all comes down to what you need most commonly vs what would "be nice to have".
Yup, or you can go directly to Contributors (https://github.com/Hjertesvikt/peptide_PoC/graphs/contributo...).

But I'm looking for a way to cross-reference a few projects and see the contributors to both/all projects.
>MySQL isn't prone to "corruption"

Corruption in the sense of allowing data that is invalid ( clobbering valid data even on transaction error) is corruption by my definition.

>0000-00-00 will error upon insert by default since 2015

How many people have noticed they have invalid data only because of this change? how many people have avoided upgrading to 5.7 because of this change (and, admittedly other issues regarding the new revamped query planner which makes software like Zabbix slow to a crawl)... But, yes, it's a change in the right direction.

>MySQL replicas should be read-only

Ah, the old "it's not a footgun if you know better" argument.
Hey!

I'm looking for some feedback on my Graphivz editor. It has a language service built-in and supports features such as autocompletion and refactorings. There is also a graph preview.
This site uses a language service that is also available as a language server via LSP [0].
I'm open for questions and suggestions!

[0] https://github.com/nikeee/dot-language-server
I was wondering if it is going to accidentally discriminate against people with disabilities whose phone coordination isn't within the "normal" mean.
Just because someone has different political views than you it doesn't necessarily mean that they are dumb.
Recursive Lambda Functions the Y Combinator
Exactly. You would think an ad executive could boil down his message a little.
Here you go:

https://ymcaexchanges.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/five-dolla...
I do the same. In my case, an extended vocabulary would be counterproductive in business, as I work with people in a number of different countries. The dialects of English differ significantly across the globe. Also, people in some cultures will say they 100% understand items, even when they do not, so it is incumbent upon me in those cases to communicate as effectively as I am able.
> Japan hasnt innovated in 30 years.

Nissan has been leading electric vehicle commercialization for a couple decades now. They made and sold the first commercial li-ion pure electric cars in the US in the '90s, and hundreds of thousands of Nissan Leafs around the world. They're also largely responsible for the largest electric car fast-charging network in the world, the CHAdeMO standard, which has over 18000 public charging points in 51 countries on 5 continents. They've replicated their supply chain and production facilities for in-house EV battery packs, electric motors and EV vehicle production on 3 continents now (JP, US, EU). And their Nissan ProPilot driver assistance system, that can self-drive on well-marked roads today, promises door-to-destination self-driving by 2020.
Just a few cons....

The big players have drastically pushed up developer comp. The "maybe" money that might come from a best-case startup exit isn't holding up well against the RSUs of the big players. I have friends pushing total comp north of 400K / year at the usual suspect companies. Over a five-year-span-till-liquidity your "maybe" money is competing against a near-guaranteed $2M in comp.

Equity grants for early hires haven't kept up well with both the afore mentioned industry comp pressure and the drastically increased time till liquidity. An early hire employee will be in the soup nearly as long as the founders but with significantly less upside.

That said, working at a startup can be great fun. It's also a fine opportunity to learn on somebody else's dime.
I have a hard time saying crypto isn’t real because if I say that then I’m also suggesting that information isn’t real.. But, to some mathematicians and philosophers, etc, everything that is real is information. And some information can become more valuable than others. So I’d say that crypto currency is real. The information just exists in a digital form, which in practice is represented by the particular arrangement of physical matter, whether that’s the arrangement of ink on paper or bumps on a disk.

Last winter whoever held the information of 1BTC held the equivalent to 20,000 real tangible USD’s that they could take to the bank, exchange for food, etc. Today that same kind of information isn’t as valuable in the marketplace, but it’s still as “real” as anything once we get past the misconception that all things real must exist in one physical form.

TLDR; Is it real? Absolutely. Is it valuable? Right now it is.
> And the latter part have caught some people unaware, where a battery pack and a phone will ping pong who is charging who until both are dead.

Or, if you're really unlucky, it'll attempt to charge your wall. No, I'm not joking: https://twitter.com/chimeracoder/status/941820122406064128
Nice. From my experience I've found Parsel [1] (used by scrapy) to be an easier to use HTML parsing library than Beautiful Soup. That's just imo.

[1] https://github.com/scrapy/parsel
While Domino's shareholders are free to run their company the way they wish, I would prefer that they invest their capital toward developing yummy pizza that is less unhealthy instead of filling potholes and lobbying against proposed rules to post calorie counts, etc.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2015-03-03/junk-food...
> he is a talented programmer

Where do you get this from? As far as I could tell from their comments here, the OP is emphatically not a talented programmer?
I notice it more with the USB-C MBP, probably because of the thinness of the device, the number of the cables I have to dis/connect, and the fact I have to do it for both sides of the laptop.
>For example the Catholic Church doesn't support gay marriage or even condom use in AIDS torn Africa.

It seems like your criticism is something along the lines of "I don't like the choices they make" which when it comes to morality isn't a very strong argument. Below is an explanation of why they make those choices. Perhaps you can make a deeper criticism.

You have to understand that Christians in general and Catholic's in specific reason about morality differently. Something is moral if God has declared it so. Something is immoral if God has declared it so. The Bible isn't detailed enough to answer every question in life so theologians have thought up answers to questions like "Should gays marry" or "Should people in Africa use condoms." The general process is, do we have something specific God has said that applies? Do we have a principal that we have derived from God's words that we can apply?

For the gay marriage question, the Catholic Church has said that passages that talk about homosexuality interpret those that God says gay sex is immoral. Thus since gay marriage increase gay sex, it is also immoral. Thus it should not happen.

For the condom's in Africa question. Does God talk about using condom's? No. But, the Catholic Church has long held that the procreative aspect of sex is so central that you should not intentionally keep procreation from happening. Condoms keep you from procreating thus using them is immoral. Yes, the spread of AIDS is bad but the Catholic Church holds that you should never do something immoral. So even though using condoms would help the AIDS epidemic, that help isn't worth doing something immoral.
https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2015/03/25/why-your-netflix-tr...

Your comment is simply inaccurate and misinformed. Rely on data, not anecdotes.
That's a straw man. Just because GC is fast doesn't mean it can't be made faster.

> Go team at Google would have enough real usage feedback from running Go systems in their massive data centers. They most likely find it reasonable with all things considered.

That's not just an appeal to authority, that's a big assumption. As far as I know, no Go maintainer has claimed that they have gathered large amounts of performance data and concluded that a generational GC wouldn't improve performance.

Also, calling generational GC "Java GC design" is disingenuous. Generational GC long precedes the creation of Java, and is used almost universally. Common Lisp (various implementations), .Net, the Lua VM (and the LuaJIT VM), BEAM, SELF, and Haskell (GHC at least) all use generational garbage collection. In fact, the current Go implementation is the only GC implementation I'm aware of that isn't generational.
Think/Lightspeed C for much of it, using their object Oriented extensions.
Afrikaans speaker here. Might as well have been Russian. Didn't get any of it.
I don't think it's fair to brand people who want to defend themselves or their property as vigilante warriors looking for a fight. I've met many people who conceal that honestly hope they never have to use their arms but are prepared to do so if needed.
Oxygen would likely be too expensive to produce for internal combustion to be used (that said a greenhouse effect on Mars would be quite beneficial for terraforming so we might actually figure ways to do that).

However the availability of carbon in general and organic materials including complex hydrocarbons will be quite important for local manufacturing of materials such as plastics and composite materials.
>I don't want my actions to reflect badly on other foreigners in Japan.

too late
We have these all over my city in Canada. I'm not sure if they're exactly Little Free Library. I went to a small town in the country the other day and they had a "pantry" with which you could exchange preserves.
Think different.

If you care about privacy you should own a computer, not a smartphone.

People use this infantile language when it comes to phones, it is "our smartphones". As in, "our smartphones killed the people on MH 370 when a pallet of lithium batteries burned up."

Don't let people get away with that. It is "Verizon's smartphones", "Google's smartphones". They own them, they make you pay rent.
Xiaomi posts $1.1B quarterly loss ahead of much-anticipated IPO
Alternative Private Search Engines to DuckDuckGo
Investor: Facebook dismissed my concerns because I am ‘not nice’
With cats, like with dogs, recognizing conspecifics is most likely highly dependent on scent, a sensory modality whose richness in those and many other species we humans can hardly imagine.
Anyone willing to consider that maybe he's right about this issue?
So, 4 percent of people buying Bitcoin are doing so on credit. Does not seem so depressing. Normalize by the amount invested and it probably drops to less than 1 percent.
> keep 6 months living costs in cash

Well, I do. Just in case, yknow. But anyway I
use cards daily...
HN isn't an internet service provider so Net Neutrality regulations wouldn't apply.
My question is what's the core goal. Is the primary objective sales? Or is the primary objective shaming cities into actually funding their road maintenance budgets.
Which point precisely do you disagree with and how do you support that view? Simply saying somebody is wrong is easy.
I'd recommend to either go with an iOS device or wait until the Librem comes out.
Good stuff, thanks for the insight.
He removed the consumer protection. I now know with full confidence he will lie to my face just like certain other politicians. All of his words are now and in the future are automatically hollow.
"on the verge"
Lambda is not super expensive if you have only small amounts of traffic... it's actually super cheap in that situation.
Then use json5. Super weak excuse. Or use yaml or some other format and pipe it into some to-json converter.

Also, json has json schema which tools like VS Code support. They can autocomplete your config. Pretty promising over most other tooling.

But coming up with your own config has pretty much all the downsides. Yeah, you can invent some cuter syntax. But now your users can't even get syntax highlighting in their editor. Awful UX.
Back in the old days, the internet was run by government agencies and universities. Universities invented the protocols. Companies provided only the hardware.

Nowadays, companies run the internet and own our data.

Let's go back to the old model. Let universities research federated protocols/algorithms and such. Let the government own the fiber. And let companies build the hardware.
As a European: he’s right. You’ll love zero-rating. I do. :-)
The Fragile Generation: Bad policy and paranoid parenting infantilize
One counterpoint: 20-states have anti-municipal broadband legislation, because "reasons". I don't think we can really trust the states here to be looking out for the citizens.
Loudoun?
> Investing is not something that should be done on credit

I suspect you mean in the specific case of gambling on cryptocurrencies with consumer credit.

However, people purchase all sorts of investments on credit as a run of the mill occurrence. Houses, shares, forex. There are usually specific loose types for each investment type, purchasing a house on a consumer credit card would be fairly crazy.
> we are more heading into a Cyberpunk future where corporations hold the real power

I believe we're more heading into an Idiocracy future where corporations also hold the real power (e.g. "Carl's Jr machine: Your kids are starving. Carl's Jr. believes no child should go hungry. You are an unfit mother.")
I used to play a specific MMO which had to completely change its gameplay because scammers in the community were using stolen cards to buy bulk game subscriptions, lead to chargebacks and credit cards threatening to ban their primary means of monetization.
This is not true at all. First, many insects can fly very fast. Even honeybees, which are notoriously poor fliers in the insect world, can reach up to 20mph, carrying a load of pollen or nectar. Dragonflies can reach over 60mph, and some flies may be able to reach upwards of 80-90mph. Second, many of these insects have excellent visual collision avoidance mechanisms and the strongest fliers have exquisite control over their flight. There is a lot of literature on this topic.
Hey man, keep your head up. I understand how difficult it can be running a business especially in a foreign country. A good way to keep your cashflow positive is to get contracts and outsource them. You can email me if you need a hand as I am also a software engineer, I could be of help.
That introduces significant cost and complexity into their customer relationship, and that kind of public callout would also likely be negotiated out / disallowed in some hypothetical Netfix subscriber ISP agreement.

Edit: It also a gatekeeping hurdle that smaller businesses would have much more difficulty crossing than large established players.
We have a few of #2 we got from Amazon. You can still cut yourself but it's more of an abrasion than a laceration. It's great when you can find real tools for your kids to use and explore their ideas independently.
I think most tech people are, and have - do you have some new insight to add that is convincing?
He talks a lot about psychology. I found it an interesting read.
Cassius Coolidge's paintings of dogs playing poker
The Americas look like the 'old world' in this model, to my surprise, except Mexico looks new. Asia could use better lighting on the marble.
I don't know. However, I doubt anyone can come along at this point and beat FB, Amazon, Google, Apple and Microsoft, etc. without a major shakeup.
Casino chips, online gambling of just about any kind, stocks, money orders, lottery tickets, and mortgage payments all basically can't be made with credit cards.

There are some banks that have blocked pornography and medical marijuana purchases.

But basically, the pattern is clear: banks don't want to lend you money to make investments. Banning money orders is a natural extension of that because you can then go use that cash for the aforementioned things.

That makes a lot of sense, because if banks did want to make those investments, they don't need you. If a bank wants to invest in stocks, property, or a game of roulette, they can just go put their money there, no credit card customer required.

What banks can’t do without lending you money is get a little slice of your paycheck every month through interest payments. This is a separate asset class than things like stocks.
I can’t second this enough. Snow Crash and Diamond Age were fun page-turners. I slogged through Cryptonomicon, but beyond that I haven’t been able to finish anything else.

I’ve heard good things about Seveneves, but I’m a little hesitant to pick it up given that it’s huge and there are thousands of other books to read.
I can confirm your suspicions. My Xperia X Compact is barely holding any USB-C cable now (after just 1.5 years of usage). And I went through 5 or 6 USB mini to USB-C adapters from Anker in the meantime.

At the same time my nearly 4 year old Samsung Galaxy is holding strong without any wiggle room on the USB port.
It’s worth pointing out that trap choice is critical in terms of efficacy. Ideally you want a trap baited with Octenol and CO2, as traps without the bait are generally ineffective at population control. If you have a large body of standing water, you can also consider introducing Gambusia fish, which eat the larvae.
Interesting, becauee here in the UK, pretty much every pizza place is cheaper than dominoes. The only advantage they have is they tend to be open more often.
Sounds premature for either of the parent comments to be making any kind of claims to success, but I wish you all the best of luck.
sure, the wall is racist grandstanding, no argument from me there. I'm just point out that the other guy, who's condescendingly dismissing anyone to his left including mainstream economists as being driven solely by feelings, is maybe not 100% right that we should start culling the poor
> - If you lose your wallet/purse, you've lost your money in it (with a CC you can cancel the card and dispute charges)

If the government / bank decides to freeze your assets, you could lose (temporary or permanently) everything. And there have been precedents in my country where the government abused this power.

> - You have to carry around metal change, which is awkward/annoying at best.

Yeah, well, you always have the option to donate / leave the change. It's a minor inconvenience.

> - Transactions are a lot slower, since you and the cashier have to count/add multiple times. This is most painful when you're in a long line of folks all paying cash.

Even with contactless card payments, I didn't notice much of a difference in time spent. Perhaps on large sums, which are very rare for me, but I can count a few pieces of paper fairly quicky.
The Future of Machine Learning is Tiny
Traditional cotton notes are waterproof and I've never torn one (but you could swap it at a bank if you did).
> In your custom kernel project, your custom allocator() can return a buffer from a memory pool you handle yourself. Your custom deallocator() will reclaim that memory back into your custom memory pool.

You realize you're arguing that a custom probably buggy heap implementation isn't a heap right?
There are some hubs out there but they're more designed for thunderbolt 3.
> Your comment is proof that Domino's marketing team is pretty good.

No, not really - it's more an indicator of how a lot of people in the US (myself included) have no idea how our tax dollars are spent, if they are spent wisely and if we're even paying the right amount in the first place.

Its our own damn fault, really. We let government slide on a lot of this stuff because we can't be arsed to demand accountability. If we do, then the first loudmouthed activist, polemicist or even vaguely interesting squirrel that wanders by captures our attention instead. Sometimes even the vicissitudes of daily life are too much of a distraction.

I don't know that I'd consider this ad wankery or noble effort - at least someone is trying something.

However, I'll deduct points for it being advertising. That stuff can burn in Hell.
That's the old bill, from before they switched to plastic. The Canadarm is on the current $5: https://www.bankofcanada.ca/banknotes/bank-note-series/front...

Alas, we can no longer Spock our five dollar bills. https://m.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/08/26/spock-canadian-5-bill...
Like the show Continuum?
What you perceive as emotional venting I think is actually frustration that we are again seeing a media darling company making grandiose claims about its products while the experts on places like HN insist that those claims are dangerously exceeding its true capabilities. A person died as a direct result of Tesla's insistence that they can call it an autopilot/self driving car while knowing full well that it was not designed to avoid stationary objects in the roadway. Press F to pay respects.
As clarification, every company has 'innovated', but its obvious the differences between Japanese companies and the rest of the industry.

That is a very large scale 'car' innovation. At the component level, they are using the same stuff as decades ago. Maybe that is okay, but other companies dont do this.
I wonder though it the effect of the hormones they give to cows to produce more milk has a healthy affect on children.
What is a pbn?
Actually they couldn't care less if their customers go broke; it happens all the time. They just want their customers to take a long time to go broke, to make lots of charges (transaction fees), and to carry large balances (interest fees). When they're sure you're broke and they can't extract any more fees from you, they'll close your account and charge it off to a debt collector.