skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same feeling here. I used to work in Erlang on daily basis - now Elixir. And although I'm not a big fan of its syntax (Erlang looks more readable to me) the tooling and the amount of love from Elixir's community is immense

I've never had a chance to play with Rust yet.
I'll definitely give it a shot someday

In my opinion, the best example of how typed languages make it more manageable is Elchemy's codebase itself - which is written in Elm and compile itself. The type system saves us from a huge amount of runtime errors and allows us to sleep at night after a recent release. Most of the time when something goes wrong it's about the parts written in bash or Elixir
More friction for everyone, benefiting the entrenched leaders in all online retail spaces, looks like another step towards Balajis Network State, his Startup Society speech is amazing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiLUPvUsdXg
A beautiful society. But one that I fear is inevitably outcompeted by other societies.

Let me explain. The article says that this society frowns upon the accumulation of wealth or excellence in individuals because those things damage the egalitarianism.

This is great for social stability, but it's not so good for the accumulation of capital, division of labor, and specialization. If one wishes to build a mill on a river to grind grain, then one MUST accumulate food first so one can spend time building the mill. This is the accumulation of capital that precedes investment.

If one wishes to be a miller, one must, almost by definition, stop hunting and stand out among one's peers by doing something different.

A society like this can exist on a planet that is devoid of other societies ... but once your neighbors start accumulating capital and climbing the technological ladder, you continue to exist only on their goodwill and charity.

The egalitarian hunter-gatherer with wooden spears is, after all, no match for the iron spear wielding Zulu who is organized into professional warbands and has absolutely no pity for other civilizations.
There are a lot more than 3500 publicly listed corporations.
the UK and the US are different markets. cost of living factors into it, our tax system, the fact that dutch people have some protection from firing, but mostly it is the fact that the heavy hitters like google are not here. So if you want a UK/US salary, go to the UK or US. actually, go to London or San Fran.

I council patience. I also council not doing PHP. the salaries are lower for PHP. if you manage to get in at a Java or .Net firm your salary can be raised after a year or two.
I think that goes for most things, maybe it's easier, hence all the blogs about how to start blogging etc.
Fair points. I personally disagree that Sony is making the right long term choice - its hard to come back from a widely negative perception among consumers in such a perception-driven industry and they have other ways to drive Playstation adoption.

But I totally agree that Microsoft would be doing exactly the same stuff if they happened to be the market leader.
Read the story...

"...South Dakota, whose law requires retailers with more than $100,000 in sales or 200 transactions annually in the state to pay a 4.5 percent tax on purchases"

"..Kennedy’s majority opinion strongly suggested the measure was constitutional, in part because it has the $100,000 threshold and doesn’t try to impose retroactive taxation."

A clear bar is set for what is covered here and what is a burden.
I was in London a couple of weeks ago and used the subway extensively and it was, overall, an excellent experience. It made me wonder if there are cities that have made big investments in subway or other light rail systems and then later regretted it.
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There are a LOT more than 3500 publicly listed corporations.
Hilariously sad: The Last Day for Shipping to Europe (For Now) Will be May 24, 2018

Why in the world a backpack business would be so worried about GDPR?
How Do You Get People to Believe in Your Business? Tell a Good Story
Been down for 7 hours as of now: https://twitter.com/transferwise
So the internet imposes a moral requirement for all states/provinces to have uniform sales taxes or value-added taxes?
I don't know where you are in Canada, but I would not consider $100k a good rate for a contract position. I would double it to consider it a "good" salary for a contracted position.
The linkage between a rapist and consensual sex in the article kind of undermines the movement IMHO.

The unfortunate fact about a consensual workplace romance is that if they go sour it can destroy company culture and moral.
China is just as big as the USA and the public transit is amazing.
"Why are US companies always so aggressive about moralising these issues?"

Not just in the US but almost everywhere people tend to extremize moral reactions to the point their judgement in a situation is being impaired. Generally morals are used to drive people actions away from cold rational reasoning, and they also make strong arguments during war time or elections.

Unrelated, but strong example: take a toy gun and a sex toy then ask 1000 people if they would let their children play with one or the other or both. Pretty sure all of them would say no to the sex toy in disgust (which would be my reply as well, just to be clear), but most wouldn't mind letting their kids play with the toy gun. That would be a pretty normal reaction, so no problem here, apparently.
But we can also describe a sex toy as a device to simulate the act of creating a life, and a toy gun as a device to simulate the act of taking away a life, so the question would be: why our morals which rightly prevent us from giving dildos to children don't prevent us from giving them toy guns as well?
It's considered a tech company because it is a relatively new IPO, based out of San Francisco, and is heavily dependent on software engineering. Why would you not consider it part of the "tech world"?
I share a similar conviction, if you look at pictures taken of 'old' neighborhoods it is possible to see this in action. A bunch of buildings that no longer exist because, well they weren't worth saving.

That said, I had thought they would be talking about the trend I'm seeing to create offset walls in buildings to make them more "interesting" and then painting the different offsets in different colors. I suspect this will be called out as "early 21st century buildings." And like the faux adobe of the 80's will hopefully fade away into something more interesting.
Note that these results describe the presence of HHV-6 and HHV-7, which cause roseola. Herpes simplex is HSV-1 and HSV-2, which cause cold sores and genital herpes, respectively.
The reasons for doing this are great and benefit users but I fear this is the death of the console era. The idea of having different consoles with different hardware and playing people with the same setup is what made consoles unique from PC gaming. In PC gaming you have a standard operating system and you could use a joystick, keyboard, mouse, whatever you want with your setup.

If all consoles inter-operate we have come full circle and are simply gaming against other PC gamers.
That's just the exemption SD chose to apply, and which they could change at any time. Other states may choose to not have such an exemption.

You are also now open to tax audits from all other states, since you may need to prove you are below any exemption limit.

It's a bad deal for small business no matter how you slice it. I think that if your revenue is below ~$100m annually, the future is beginning to look bleak. Very helpful to the big players like Amazon in killing off small competition.
I don't think the author could argue against the entire concept of P2P networks.

One of his major projects is LOCKSS -- a decentralized P2P network for preserving articles. https://www.lockss.org/news-media/blog/
You got a great point. And don't forget that Electron is not a web shell, it can replace native apps. Look at VSCode! It's not just about Electron vs Browser but there are certain cases where you don't want to go into a cloud.
What's on your flow state playlist?
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True, they usually cry rather than laughing. There are plenty of examples of exceptional old building that were worth preserving being destroyed in favor of what are generally agreed to be ugly monstrosities. Penn Station is the premiere example, of course.
i did not mean to imply that.
Post is from 2011
Ask HN: Pivotal Tracker vs. Jira? Help
Help. My company is try go from PT to Jira. We are a relatively small company 40 devs (Back-end/Mobile/Front End). Is there an advantage to switching to Jira? I think this change is negligible either way, what are your experiences?
I understand what he is saying in fact I am the same way. Many of my thoughts are non-verbal.

But the second they get expressed into language, philosophical analysis kicks in.

You can't express truth though but you can be it (i.e. you can wink)
>One reason old buildings seem generally better than new buildings is survivorship bias. We only see the exceptional old buildings that were worth preserving. These franken-buildings won't survive many generations to be laughed at.

I don't think so. That might be true if we were speaking of random events (where the chances of a building being ugly or nice are more or less fixed, but we only get see the beautiful surviving old buildings).

But architecture is also defined by "schools" and has periods where public buildings follow this or that general trend -- and not all trends of all ages are equal. Some ages just have shitty design sense.

There are countries where you can see buildings from 100 and 200 and 500 even years ago, not just the exceptional ones, but rows and rows of them (e.g. the whole historical center of several European cities left mostly intact). And they still come across better than very expensive buildings by famous architects done in the same premium areas.

It's not just statistics, it's also the architectural norms that defined certain eras. An average art deco building will look better to most people's sensitivities than the most expensive (or praised by critics) brutalist or modernist architecture.

For a long time in the 20th century we had architecture design schools that produced monstrosities only critics ever cared about.

One very easy example is the ugly-ass buildings in Soviet St. Peterburg compared to the marvels built even a few decades or years before communism. Not because of lack of funds (some where expensive and were built to be enormous) but because the ideology called for ugly ass utilitarian and boxy designs.

Similarly, most celebrated Le Corbusier buildings are ugly ass affairs.

The average modern architect would rather be caught dead than design a beautiful house, with ornamentation and colors and the like -- it's about minimal or "designy" to appeal to other architects and modern critics.
The supreme court decision was basically a refinement of what constitutes a nexus with respect to common carrier shipments. 200 sales, or $100k in revenue per year is what is reasonable here. It will be interesting to see what LA, Chicago, and NYC do to handle this specifically.
... this site has a huge short on Tesla, FYI.
Mark Hurd, current CEO of Oracle, also had a similar incident while at HP.
I was keeping an eye out for mention/discussion of TransferWise. Been receiving payments via their service for several months, and have found it to be a well-designed experience, useful service with competitive/low fees.

Didn't know they've been down - related post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17364752
I don't agree with slapping a diagnosis on anything either, but I think it could be a reasonable tool for people who are in the process of being diagnosed, or looking to better understand their character traits combined while going through the sometimes complicated process of being diagnosed.
Nah, that'd be more like if iMessage _was_ on Android, but once you used it there you could no longer use it on your iPhone.
Equivalent in London: https://www.siliconmilkroundabout.com/

Looks like they've dropped their emphasis on working at a startup, which was SMR's mission last time I checked. But I imagine there'll be some there?
Safety probably requires reducing poverty..
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Sure, those are bad. That doesn't mean standups are bad though. One thing I found successful was to push for the standup to start 15 minutes before lunch. That gives ample time for the standup (2-3 minutes per person is longer than one should need, but my team likes to take notes during the standup, which while lightweight does delay things a bit) and a bit of followup, and deciding where to eat.

Also doing it just before lunch means everyone is in the office, you aren't breaking anyone out of flow unnecessarily, and everyone has a decent idea of what they will actually be working on today (since they are already in the context), so you don't have the issue of "hmm I don't remember what I was doing" or "uhhhh....oh right I'm planning to work on X" delaying things.
I was relying to “can I have a mortgage jubilee?”
And it's not like the Chrome dev rel team doesn't fight for these things, but ultimately the Chrome team doesn't have any control of prioritisation of bugs in other products (like Calendar).

The only way we're going to see a significant change is when those high up in the Google org chart start caring about products working well in other browsers; as long as it's up to each individual product we'll continue to see products prioritising time-to-market and targeting only the browser with the majority of the market.
Can you recommend a good web framework/micro-framework?

I was using actix-web, but last I heard it has to many unnecessary `unsafe`s.[0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/8s7gei/unsafe_rust_in...
The claim was that Koko could use ASL (American Sign Language). This is not even supported by the main researcher's, Francine Patterson's, own work:

Even at the level of hand shapes, the degree of correspondence is questionable.
An unspecified number of Koko’s hand shapes were reduced or modified from the
citation forms in ASL because of the ape’s lack of manual dexterity and other
limitations. From Patterson’s discussion (pp. 80-86), it appears that she
modified Koko’s signs extensively, and that the resulting formational criteria
for any given sign were quite loose. She states, “For example, water and rubber
are simplified from the W and X hand configurations [in ASL], respectively, to
a forefinger extended from a loose or compact fist” (p. 80). It is clear that
Patterson tolerated variations in the form of an individual sign which in ASL
would change its meaning entirely. Note that signs modified in this manner are
not ASL signs. More importantly, her examples lead one to question how she
could unequivocably determine the “meaning” of a particular hand shape. How,
for example, did she determine whether Koko was signing water or rubber?
Similarly, many of Koko’s signs were apparently formed by merely pointing
(e.g., this, that, there, you, etc.). How were these signs differentiated?
Patterson glossed one hand movement as the sign “comegimme.” Come, give, and me
are three semantically distinct words; in ASL they are physically distinct
signs. It appears in this case that Koko used a beckoning gesture which was
compatible with both “come” and “gimme” interpretations. Patterson’s hedging on
the interpretation of this behavior is inconsistent with her assignment of very
specific meanings to other signs (e.g., pound, in the sense of striking
something), and her fine distinctions between highly semantically related signs
(e.g., candy and sweet).

From:

On the evidence for linguistic abilities in signing apes; Laura A.Petitto, Mark S.Seidenberg.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0093934X79...

The claims that Koko learned sign language seem to have been the result of very subjective interpretations of her behaviour.
This video is depressing, but reminds us that Facebook [...]
An interesting thought is that many of the Victorian masterpieces were considered ugly in their time. But then again, it's hard to see anyone coming around to the goofy buildings in this article.
Even with large budget it's pain to keep two codebase with different issue trackers etc..
Open explanation requests often get downvotes, you usually have to show how far you understand what was meant, like you finally did above. Humour is also often frowned upon if it's not 105% on topic. It's a picky crowd...
Search Engine with Perfect Forward Secrecy
Note that the first version of Java was delivered under tremendous time pressure. I guess they would have done a few things differently if the Sun engineers had more time.
The author of this seems like he's real fun at parties.
"examines trends in entrepreneurship—defined here as self-employment with at least 10 employees"
"Start-up" is such an abused term. I used to think of it as an endeavor searching for a way to monetize and fund a new idea, but it seems that it is used now to refer to any new entrepreneurial (thank you spell check) endeavor.
Lest someone mention that this doesn't affect the content of the article: it actually does because it provides the author a financial incentive to rank the higher paying links up in the page / more.
What is it like to be struck by lightning while flying an airplane?
No. That’s Chrome’s doing to Firefox.

Big difference, sure.
I don't know why you keep missing the mental leap here: Yeah, people at the company--and outside it--did not want a CEO willing to spend money to actively remove the rights of a group of people. That is the thing they did not want.

They didn't go digging to find something to hurt him: he took action, public and on the record, specifically taking away the rights of others.

It is true, people did not want that, and they did not hide that fact.

Signed,
a gay, now married, 2011 Mozilla intern who did not pick up a full time offer in part because some 2012 news of Eich's donation surfaced around the time I was considering pursuing it.
Orlando International Airport to scan faces of U.S. citizens
> The business isn't paying the tax

I despise Norquist, but I believe the words above are not true in a consequential sense. The law may say 'the state taxes the consumer', but who is meaningfully affected?

The business handles the mechanics of collecting and paying the tax. And whose pocket the tax really comes out of depends on the elasticity of demand, IIRC my economics. That is, it depends on how much the business can raise the price without hurting profits:

If the product is highly price sensitive, something like a can of peas, then the business can't raise the price very much without hurting demand and the tax will effectively come out of the business' profits. If the product is highly price insensitive, such as life-saving drugs, then the cost of the tax will be passed on to the consumer.
> True, but there probably aren't many lawyers who can answer the question either.

Strange take. On the contrary, there is an entire industry of lawyers who specialize in the ability to answer precisely this kind of question.
Amazon, other e-commerce stocks tank after court ruling on sales tax
I wonder if sqlite was also considered here?
A clinically important syndrome; that is, it's a collection of symptoms (these can be behavioral or psychological) that causes the person disability or distress in social, personal, or occupational functioning.
When using a sales tax API, the merchant configures their product catalog by assigning products to specific tax categories or tax codes based on the sales tax provider. Some tax categories are extremely granular to accommodate the scenario you mentioned. The logic on whether or not the product is taxable in a specific state based on a certain threshold is done completely within the API when passing over tax codes for each line item.
It would also be impossible to inject ads into an existing wasm ui that didn't have them.
So, I was thinking of canceling all AT&T services over this. Does anyone know of good alternatives for cellular service that don't do the same crap?

#BoycottATT
This blog is absolutely fantastic. I highly recommend checking out the other posts.
Outside of the US, everyone is considered a contractor, even if they're a full-time member of the company

Wait, so they are not full time employee. For example they can terminate the contract and leave the company as they please
Getting started with AWS: open source workshop
>What are the remaining APIs that people need in Electron that are not available in the web browser? And what's the timeline to getting those in the browser to deprecate Electron?

The main attraction is the ability to NOT run in the browser, but be a standalone app.

It's not just about the browser not providing some native APIs.
Only to a certain degree.
Yeah, for starters the right fix is probably to make public transit free.

Just reducing traffic would payoff in terms of less wear and tear on the roads, and less need to expand the roads.

And with any luck, free public transit would help poor people the most. Allowing more people to find work.
Unfortunately they don’t have transparent pricing. So it’s a bit of a mystery. We were in the middle of getting a quote but then found TaxJar thanks to this thread and are going to try that. I prefer the pricing being up front.
In Bucharest there is this building:

https://i.imgur.com/f6PFnAN.jpg

It's the office of the romanian architects guild.
> to discover that a mammal could be trained to breath water.

this was done to dogs back in 20th century. The water was saturated with O2 to high levels. Again, the difference isn't the divine-granted qualitative "entirely different", it is just about continuous incrementally changing quantity.
Sounds like a sweeping generalization of 8.5M people. Is it possible that the scale number of people you have direct and meaningful relationships with feel more boring or money-hungry to you?
With Fauna you pay for operations, with Dynamo you pay for availability. So the worst case Dynamo pricing is when you must buy significantly more availability than actual operations. This is common with bursty workloads. The closer your workload is to steady state, the better off you are buying capacity, the more bursty you are, the better off you are buying operations.

I don't have my calculator handy but if your use case is "adequate performance for my interactive app" Fauna ought to come out a little cheaper than DynamoDB. An app that's doing million of reads a month will see peaks closer to 100x that. That is the number that matters when it comes to buying capacity.

200 million reads a month works out to about 77 requests per second. If your app bursts to 77 requests a second, that's also within the Fauna Cloud free plan.
You are think of Intel as having a single mind. The reality, and the reality of most large organizations, is that the ant hill is beaming with divergent and competing opinions. In particular, there were two powerful, competing camps: x86 and Itanium. The combined effect of Itanium performance not living up to promises [1] and AMD introducing a 64-bit x86 extension shifted the power balance, but it wasn't an inevitable outcome.

[1] The first iteration (I have one in the garage) was ~ 486 level fast and, sure, the final iterations were fast, but that took an AWFUL lot of silicon. The perf/transistor is terrible, even worse than x86 (which is bad).
I'm the opposite. If my brain has to engage before 10am the day's a waste. If I "ease into the day" then once I've dealt with the world on fire stuff about 11.30 I'll power through and before I know it it's 9PM and I've been massively productive.
Why Your Small Business Should Be Using Google My Business
These are not the official repos and they can contain some malicious code.
What about OTP?
Given that CPU steal remains an ongoing problem (ie, another tenant is eating into your instance's allocated processor share), on what do you base your implication that AWS is binding cores to specific VMs?