skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This idea reminds me of an installation by Julian Charrière I saw http://julian-charriere.net/projects/tropisme
- 59% of adults in 2012 take prescription drugs.

- 15% are taking 5 or more

- "One likely factor driving the increased use: obesity."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/1...
I'm opening a hn karma for karma trade marketplace to help us unionize commenting.
New notifications are nice, but I would honestly prefer no new features and instead focus on bugs and performance.
No, there would be no silly certifications or centralized point(s) of control. If you buy a new phone your trust starts at 0 your mobile provider (that you pay money to) could start you off with a little trust, but start spamming servers / phone numbers / emails and you get locked out. Because the WoT is at the networking layer if you start spamming signal to the tower you're connecting to you're effectively treated the way we treat people that operate jammers now: Jail time.

The WoT has a concept of "depth" or "importance" so even if all of your closest friends are angels that live in Toronto and follow the law, and even if you're an upstanding netzien, you can't just call Vladimir Putin's phone number.

That there is some measure of non-connectivity is a feature not a bug. We'll be able to start running our own email servers again! We won't have to worry about telephone calls from awful marketing companies! It won't be a utopia, computers will still get hacked and your keys will be misused until they're detected and replaced, but at least we won't have to worry about Grandma get swindled out of her inheritance.
What about harder disabilities? What about multiple disabled people in one vehicle (Prague public transport can handle only up to 2 at a time, and their space is combined with space for child strollers and standing people)? What to do when the vehicle is full of standing people? What if the bus stop is too far away either at origin or at destination, or if you need to change vehicles during the route? Have you ever tried it, have you seen how much physical effort it requires?

And let me correct you: the majority of disabled people with more serious disabilities sit at home because going outside and getting to the bus stop is too hard for them.
No, I wish we didn't spend trillions of dollars on killing machines for no reason. It's pretty difficult to confuse that world with this one.

Your magical phrase "zero-day" doesn't "win this argument" for you... You're imagining some Stuxnet-level pyramid of remote BIOS and NIC firmware hacks when we all know this was just a poorly configured firewall. That's why "TOP SECRET" exists, CYA.
Computers have one huge advantage over humans: they can process a lot of information very quickly.

Humans have one huge advantage over computers: we pattern-match instinctually, building mental models of our surroundings.

Tesla is taking advantage of the first fact, but by avoiding LIDAR, they're falling victim to the second fact.

We humans don't have LIDAR, so it makes sense that a car without LIDAR should be able to match us, but we have brains and visual systems that far exceed anything available today or at any point in the near future when it comes to pattern-matching.

40,100 vehicle deaths in 2017 in the US, most of them the result of distracted driving. It's a shame that Tesla's system performs worst at exactly the point that humans need the most help.
Although composer was inspired by npm - they are not identical. Composer always just works for me. But with npm I always end up in some strange dependency hell. Add the fact that JS standard library is lacking in some basic functionality and you end up with a ludicrous amount of dependencies.

In short, give composer a try if you are already building apps in PHP.
Is softbank the new Yahoo? I remember back in the days when every startups revenue model was "eventually sell to Yahoo"
Sure, in hindsight, 3 bytes is an abomination to us today. That was almost certainly not apparent to developers at the time.

MySQL added its three-byte utf8 support in mysql 4.1, first beta release in April 2003 [1]. Meanwhile the utf8 standard originally permitted up to 6 bytes per char, until officially changed in November 2003 [2].

Unicode support in web software -- and even programming languages -- was still rapidly evolving in 2003. The MySQL team probably just made a bad guess along the lines of "the standard allows 6 bytes but that has terrible perf and memory implications for us, and most people only use 3 bytes, so let's limit to that".

While I've lost track of how many hundreds of times I've had to tell coworkers "use utf8mb4 and not utf8 in mysql", I don't begrudge the mysql dev team for not being clairvoyant in 2003!

[1] https://lists.mysql.com/announce/161

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#History
> spaceX is reliant on taxes

How is that an argument? There's plenty of companies that service only governments, and as such are entirely reliant on taxes. Sounds like a perfectly real source of profit.

> Boring is reliant on taxes.

TBC is self-funded and has been all this time. This is literally the first commercial thing TBC is building, and even this they're financing themselves. So this is simply untrue.

> Tesla isnt profitable

I'll give you this. I'm curious if he'll be able to make it profitable like he's promising now.
The documentation is fine but IMO written more for developers. We do need more mathematical-based introductions which introduce the right packages for working mathematicians. I am a working mathematician myself and find Julia to be the perfect language for it because its abstraction is on actions instead of on data representations which fits things like functional analysis extremely well.

Things that are OO based like C++ and Python are pretty bad at representing math because they put forward an idea of the actual representation (the object) as what matters, instead of the actions it performs (the function overloads). This may be good for some disciplines, but in a mathematical algorithm I really don't care what kind of matrix you gave me for `A`, I just want you to do the efficient `Ax=b` solve and have the action of the solver choose the appropriate method to abstract away the data. In Python you'd have to tell it to use the SciPy banded matrix solver, in Julia your generic ODE solver will automatically use the banded matrix solver when it's a banded matrix. This then allows for a composibility where the user overloads the primitive operations on their type, and your generic algorithm works on any data representation. This matches the workflow of math where an algorithm is proven on L2 functions, not on functions represented with column-wise indexing and ...
Don't they also have female hormones in them?
I’ve even disabled badges for most things, including anything social. The badges are too enticing.
AFAIK in Germany you are required to allow others to lay stuff in the hole if you dig the street up. So if fiber is not placed in there, that means no one is willing to pay for just the fiber, which is only a little part of the cost of doing full FTTH. Oh well, if the distance was more than the 5 or so meters recently in the neighborhood, I might have considered just placing an empty pipe with fan-out/splice boxes at the ends into the hole. But for just 5m it's hardly worth the effort.
That's true for the E91 protocol, but for BB84 you only need a (public) quantum channel through which Alice can send states to Bob.
I think if this tech proves to somehow work (aka actually reduce expenses by at least 10x) the real play becomes PtP tunnels that don't follow the traditional "heavy rail" subway routes, but connect to those stations for transfer.

This also could really only be the long time play anyways - it's the only reason using autonomous battery powered model X's as the "cars" makes much sense.

I think it's an interesting idea, Musk obviously likes his sci-fi. He is basically attempting to implement packet switching for human mass transport vs. the current circuit switching we have.
The author doesn’t seem to like fiscal deficits either, though, as they too can lead to asset bubbles.
Why not just have a configurable threshold (say, 2 years) where if the promoted person is determined incompetent in their new role, they are bumped back down to their previous role (keeping their same pay) where they are more efficient/competent.
He has revolutionized payload delivery to space w/t significant cost savings, pushed most of the major auto manufacturers into converting their product lines mostly/entirely to electric, and is slowly building out models of what battery storage grid-load-balancing looks like all over the world (which will be essential as we transition to irregular flow clean energy sources). How you can possibly say these are PR stunts is so far beyond me I wonder if we inhabit the same planet.
Just from a bit of googling:

>Researchers find that nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half receive at least two prescriptions, reports CBS Atlanta.

>Researchers from the Mayo Clinic, a non-profit medical and research center, report that antibiotics, antidepressants and painkiller opioids are the most common prescriptions given to Americans.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/study-shows-70-percent-of-ameri...

Since antibiotics have depression as a potential side effect that boosts the number.
We've updated the title from “Usql: Universal Golang CLI for SQL Databases” to the original from the linked page.
Because murderers, kidnappers, and murdered victims also use phones. The article includes commentary from an Indiana State Police task force which claims to have used information from warrants on phones to protect children in some manner.
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The Blue Line isn't a train to the airport, it's a commuter line that just happens to have an airport at one end of it.

Airport-bound passengers have luggage that takes up space, blocks aisles and seats, etc. Moving them to a dedicated airport train frees up a lot of capacity that city residents will happily accept and appreciate.
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I guess it's a heavy-handed way of discouraging third-party distribution as a printed or electronic book. Legalese is bad for transparency, but oversimplification can be harmful too.
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> Its relatively new. Put there by State street[1] to promote gender diversity.

It was put there to promote State Street, one of the oldest and biggest financial institutions in the country.
Sounds like the transportation model being considered could have entrypoints along the way, while still being nonstop for each individual pod.
+1 for mentioning startup time. The default Java hdfs client takes 5+ seconds to just startup. The one written in Go is super fast and supports shell completion.

[1] https://github.com/colinmarc/hdfs
AI chip startup Wave to buy Silicon Valley old-timer MIPS
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17287319.
That quarter below the poverty line is probably a little misleading in the way it's calculated.

Students there are all living off parent money so their disposable income is much higher than hard data would suggest.
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Genetic mutation, evolution.
As someone living in the US with far better medical coverage than average I am awestruck by how wrong this statement is. Have you ever had to deal with a serious illness in the US?
Samsung's startup arm launches AI-focused fund for early-stage companies
This happened to us too. We first noticed it in Bamboo with a failed build job. It's been a long time since I installed Bamboo, but if I recall correctly the installer adds its own schemata.
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You cant manage project on people skills alone. That just don't work all that well and is likely to lead to crappy product and massive crunch. You cant manage project without at least some technical skills. You don't need to know all details, but you need to know enough about tech to understand general concepts, what is possible, what is risky, what technical debt means, when people lie to you about tech. In order to be good project manager you need both, but you don't need to be super genius in either.

And there are also skills (or attributes) that makes you both better programmer and better manager: being organized, systematic, being responsible, willingness to do also boring tasks, understanding what people say when they talk to you, ability to explain yourself, good memory, etc.
So are his eustachian tubes chronically obstructed?

My younger brother had chronic ear infections as a kid, and as best I know he basically had tubes in his eardrums for a while, and then when he was older his eustachian tubes started draining more reliabily. He's been fine since.
The question was about endless construction delays, not limited to existing trains. My understanding of the current plans is they don’t overlap a lot with current rail lines.
Yes, I think this is exactly right. su(1M) and sudo(1M) should create a pty to run the child in. And this ioctl should go.
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Bo Burlingham on Exiting Your Company Regret
Manhattan is far denser than Cupertino. It’s easier to justify the investment there.

But yeah, I was surprised to learn that my options in Mountain View were shitty, expensive cable or shitty, slightly less expensive DSL.
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Decoding the MongoDB Error Logs
Change things up.

In my experience, being depressed takes less effort than not being depressed.

I live in a small city and I would spend most of my days working then going home to play games and watch Netflix while slowly becoming a hoarder living in garbage.

Then I started walking everywhere, to coffee shops, to music venues, etc. Every place that I walked to was an excuse to get out of the house and be active. Whenever I had those walks, I had time for a lot of self reflection and exposure to meaningful experiences and people that I would have never had if I stayed inside bingeing on Netflix. I still get bummed out at times, but I don't daydream about suicide anymore.
I have a story to tell about this. I worked on a project for a company once, that mapped a single custom SQL dialect to nearly every other dialect. We wrote a translator / mapper that converted the AST of that single dialect of SQL to every platform specific as close as we could. That included as many function mappings, data type mappings, SQL query expressions, as we could. Then we had custom drivers that could be used which parsed that SQL.

One of the most difficult projects I've done, but it worked reasonably well, for most basic functions. We struggled with custom platform specific features of course, but even figured out workarounds for them. Of course, if a database didn't support a base level of the SQL standard (say SQL-92), for example, Cassandra - it was impossible for the translator to take a complex expression and handle it on its own - there was no target syntax to translate to.

Anyways, point being - been there tried this, and it is possible. An open source implementation of what I did would have been awesome, alas, it was for a proprietary project.

And ultimately, if you want one specific syntax, unless you find creative solutions around missing features between platforms (possible but much different problem that goes beyond syntax) - it is never quite as powerful for each platform.

I still think every day about starting some kind of open source SQL gateway client project to normalize it and sit in front of databases. It's a big project though, and like I said, I question the value sometimes.

Normalizing the syntax for databases that support SQL >=SQL99 (or even 2003 standard) would not be too bad though.
Wherever you want to store precisely N attributes, but also want to be able to mutate them.

E.g. points on a plane (x,y) and an algorithm that sums them to find some center etc.
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Lol. Well played (and been there).
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Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. Their goals differed, but they all had this in common: that the step was first, the road new, the vision unborrowed, and the response they received — hatred. The great creators — the thinkers, the artists, the scientists, the inventors — stood alone against the men of their time. Every great new thought was opposed. Every great new invention was denounced. The first motor was considered foolish. The airplane was considered impossible. The power loom was considered vicious. Anesthesia was considered sinful. But the men of unborrowed vision went ahead. They fought, they suffered and they paid. But they won.
They don’t need AWS accounts. The app has an AWS account and provides a token to the user to upload a file via HTTP to an S3 bucket associated with the app’s AWS account.

Still, you do raise a good point - that S3 bucket is owned by the app, not the user. But it doesn’t have to be this way forever, and AWS is an Amazon product. Amazon has the credit card information of nearly everyone in the world. I would not be surprised if in the future, we see a sort of federated model, where users of an app pay for their own storage at S3 by linking their Amazon account. The app would be like a reseller/affiliate of Amazon, and could pass storage costs directly onto their users without worrying about complexities like pricing tiers to account for variable customer requirements.
"Every new member rises to their level of competence" is also an opposite.

As would be "every old member is demoted in the hierarchy until they reach a level in which they are competent".
Or, worse yet, you spend a lot of time and effort on this acquisition, time passes, due diligence goes through, all of your team already expects it to happen, growth stalls, everybody slacks off - and then they cancel it completely at the last moment.
It is much easier to eat a balanced diet if it includes fruit. Many things are not impossible to do without, but some things do make everything else easier.
Note, copper IUDs (which are non-hormonal) have worked well for all the women I know on it. I’m sure it’s not a panacea, but it’s effective, cheap, and essentially zero maintenance beyond verifying it’s still there.

I believe in some states in the US you can even get the state to pay the cost.
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Those trailer parks in North Boulder are very well hidden. Many don’t even realize they’re there. Some of the nicest trailers I’ve ever seen, FWIW.
> Which would then require that a candidate only pander to an even smaller number of densely populated cities.

NYC/LA/Chicago combined is only 15M people. That's clearly not enough people to win a majority of a 300M+ population. Perhaps you mean a wider class of cities. But 80% of Americans live in cities! If you can't get elected by "pandering" to a whopping 80% of your electorate then something is terribly wrong. We have to choose a very "just right" definition of "city" for your assertion to be true.

But there's an even more important misunderstanding here.

When discussing this topic, many people get distracted by the fact that removing the electoral college would increase the voting power of Massachusetts residents and decrease the voting power of Montana residents in presidential elections.

This is a distraction because neither Massachusetts nor Montana is the winner in the current system! It's states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin that have a truly distortionary amount of power in the current system. Those states are not particularly rural or particularly urban.

Here's the key observation that could make changes to the electoral college politically feasible: if you don't live in a presidential swing state, getting rid of the electoral college increases the power of your region in selecting the president regardless of the size of your state/city.

So, this is not a case of favoring one small set of states over another small set. Removing the electoral college would substantially weaken the power of 5-6 states over the Executive branch and increase the power of the other 45 states (some more than others, sure, but nearly everyone wins compared to the status quo).

> Because, in the end, minority interests will always be cast aside once the election is over anyway.

This is exactly why I favor keeping Congress as it is but reforming the electoral process for the Executive branch. Montana has a very loud voice in the Senate and House relative to its population. I do not suggest changing that.

> It would be far better to...

1. An omniscient and beneficent dictator would be even better; the point of my post was to suggest plausible alternatives :-)

2. There are many merits to federalism, but this is quite a bag of worms and we're already straying OT.
Packages are not really a thing in C++, partly because there are so many different environments and compilers anyway, and partly because C++ apps aren’t really made by stitching together hundreds or thousands of tiny packages like in Node.

On Windows you might use NuGet, on Linux you might use whatever the native package format is, but you would thinking fewer, bigger libraries rather than what you’re used to.

If you are looking for REST stuff try Casablanca, it’s on Github or in the repo for Ubuntu.
I was thinking of either the Lenovo X1 Carbon, or the Dell XPS 13. They seem robust, lightweight and run Linux.
The formal definition clears things up a little:

>"X is in a category whose archetypal member gives us a certain emotional reaction. Therefore, we should apply that emotional reaction to X, even though it is not a central category member."

The difference between calling MLK a minister and calling him a criminal is that being a minister isn't as negative. Nonetheless, calling him only a minister does evoke an emotional reaction that doesn't quite capture the power of MLK's role in society. Introducing him as a minister is an example of the non-central fallacy, but it's played for ironic effect.
Thank you for your comments. I'm a bit undecided as to what the purpose of the site I'm planning is. Part resume, yes, but also sort of a business card, with links to my things in a central place.

Yours is a very appealing site. Thank you for sharing.
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I got a survey from Larimer County about having municipal internet. Of course, it doesn’t seem like it will make it to my place outside of Estes Park. I’m stuck with a 5mbps WISP :/.
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If you have depression you need a regular sleep cycle or the depression will be worst
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