skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, I've read a handful of conservatives who proclaim that the one thing that makes America great is a 'strong institution of property rights'. What I can't tell is whether they really believe it, or are advancing their own interests.
When Health Insurance Prices Rose, Around a Million Americans Dropped Coverage
Primer on Jai, a New Programming Language from Jon Blow
Show HN: Fixing Voice Audio Breakups in Calls with Machine Learning
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it. Even though we just spent ten minutes detailing how it’s broken.

As someone else stated, make it work make it right make it fast, but people never get past make it work. They fear changing the code. It’s one of the things I loved most about XP (and I barely got to use it before it was already going out of fashion). Get over the fear.
Shaders and smoothing
How can smart contracts impact banking, part 1
Nice tool. I would add a dark theme to it, people love a dark theme. I'm the developer of Poe, a distraction free writing app for windows, and a dark theme is the default. I regularly get email from users telling me how much they adore the colour scheme.
ADA already forces decisions to be made contrary to environmental concerns. Added construction being a key one.

IMO, ADA is a great example of overbearing government regulation. It doesn't leave much room for "reasonable" accommodations and dictates solutions. (Case in point, my condo building can't use a portion of trash rooms as recycle storage, which gives large environmental benefits, because of wheelchair accessibility rules.. but why does this matter on floors where wheelchair bound residents don't live?)
they are making space for 'request Waymo van'
From reading all the comments in this thread, it seems than nobody is a hardcore finisher anymore.
> Its possible to act on a "working hypothesis" without it becoming anything close to "unthinkable" to consider other hypotheses. For some reason this amyloid hypothesis became well accepted and ingrained without good reason.

This is my point. It was never literally true that alternatives were "unthinkable"; the word "unthinkable" was a small bit of hyperbole on the part of the author of the quote we have been discussing. Just don't lose sight of the fact that the amyloid hypothesis did and still does have good evidence for it. (In addition to a whole load of new and very expensive evidence against it.)
Paseo is an immigrant restaurant in a very expensive neighborhood.

I'm not sure they would be able to stay open if 2-5% was cut off their revenue. It's just money; not a conspiracy.
Yeah, entertainment's purpose is to entertain. If it fails to do that in the beginning, it's not for you.

The whole you have to watch/read/listen to X amount before passing judgment is bullshit. If I surround a chocolate cake in three inches of shit, no one will fault you for not eating through the shit just to get to the cake. It might be a good cake. It might be the best cake. But I'm not chowing through three inches of shit just to get it.

Maybe next time, don't cover your cake in shit and see how that goes.
ISO Silicon Valley iOS Dev
Can anyone recommend an iOS developer (or dev company) local to the SF Bay Area (preferably Silicon Valley)? We are looking for someone to fix our app which was not created to satisfaction by a remote freelancer. Specifically, we need someone experienced in iOS requirements in order to get the app accepted by Apple.
Noise cancellation does nothing for office noise. It is only useful for things like fans, engines, etc. So, any headphones with isolation will do in an office.
Its not uncommon to encounter credit card only merchants in my experience.
5 bike-sharing users you’ll meet in Singapore (INFOGRAPHIC)
> It's just spiteful and angry leftist politics 24/7.

Unless you're specifically visiting r/politics, r/latestagecapitalism, r/socialism, or similar subreddits, this just isn't true.
Kubernetes: Using Ingress with SSL/TLS Termination and HTTP/2
Amex has additional 1-warranty for your purchases. So instead of buying a new phone (since the manufacturers warranty ended), he is getting a replacement phone for free from Amex. Just that one event is paying back for the fees occurred in the previous years.
Your tweets could be used as evidence against you
Agreed on that last.
For any website that's not already deeply entrenched and benefiting from network effects, fast is the only feature.
>> shorthand used to be very common and it's funny to see it now observed as a curiosity on HN

Seeing this Wikipedia link made me feel old.

Shorthand was indeed very common, my older sister took Pitman shorthand courses in high school, but by the time I hit high school in the mid 80s, it was no longer offered at my school. By the time the 90s rolled around, it was probably a dying craft. Heck, in the early 90s, I had a summer job using a dedicated Wang word processing machine, typing out paper memos using a dictaphone (remember those?).

As I get older, I find it interesting when younger generations find novelty in things from my younger days, like hollerith cards, walkmen, vinyl, and film cameras.
Why did this guy have that super green background??!!!
Everything is pink =(.
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This whole argument ranks as one of the silliest things I've ever seen.
The scary thing to me is if a service like this stops, I have an angry client and a lot of work.
Headless CMS's are a delight to work with though.
Why is a homeowner "tied" to a property? The only mitigating factors to real estate liquidity are temporary down markets and capital gains disincentives for flipping homes.

I know many people that buy and sell homes profitably on about the same timeline as renters move (less than five years). I myself have never owned a home for more than ten years.

By time you are on your third home you will probably be buying in cash and not even be tied down by a temporary mortgage.
It doesn't say anything about the order of assignment. It just shows that `node.next` wasn't evaluated to anything. `node.next` needs to be evaluated before doing any assignments
After a few hours to think about this, I’m afraid you may be right about nearly everything here.

But I have a big problem with developers needing permission from business to do the right thing. That’s not how ethics works, and I’ve caught too many devs in the lie when we do get free time and they still don’t want to do the hard work they dodged because of time constraints.

There are people who want to appear high minded but have no interests beyond virtue signaling.
> gamed by parents paying for prep courses, practice tests, expensive tutors, mentoring, etc.

Given the amount of free things like Khan Academy, MIT Courseware, etc. the distribution of access to resources to perform well is becoming more distributed than ever.

A poor motivated kid with good encouraging parents and access to only free resources is on a more level playing field with kids from a rich family than at any point in history.
Is the (Swiss EU/EFTA citizens) contraint for all positions or only the intern position ? Are there visa sponsorship opportunities ? At a cursory glance it looks like I am ticking a lot of the boxes on one of the positions.
post-bitcoin? fadishness? Bitcoin "probably won’t be here far into the future"

When I am interested in the predictions about the future of bitcoin... my first thought is not to ask a "business development manager at the HS Orka power plant in Iceland"

Lol... sales people, in particular, have no credibility about predicting the future... It's always what they are selling.
It could be the beachhead of a larger attack. You could use the model's authority to steal its data or gain access to other resources.
Kyndi is building the first Explainable AI platform
I recently learned about the concept of Allodial Title, a form of ownership of real property that exempts the owner from property taxes. This could protect landholders in unincorporated areas from a huge surge in property tax when their land is then annexed into a city. Is Allodial Title common? I can't seem find many examples of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title
Speaking from personal experience, no there simply isn't this weird expectation you seem to want to impose.

Every place I've worked at has had free food. People take it when it's convenient for them. They leave it when they want to do something else.

Most parents never stay for dinner. And guess what, everything is fine. There's no cultural crisis...
Brexit was about immigration. Nothing else comes close. I think you're right that this was in the mix, but so were a hundred other factors that might have got raised here or there, but they're all dwarfed by immigration.

Britain more than any other member has managed to get exclusion clauses from any EU regulations or rules we didn't want, so the argument that we couldn't do anything about rules imposed by Brussels is obviously untrue. We opted out of stuff all the time, it was routine. The irony is that if we end up in a soft Brexit situation with an open trade deal with the EU, we won't be able to negotiate any opt-outs anymore because we won't have any representation in Brussels. We'll have to take everything Brussels serves up, or crash out hard.
What is it that you don't understand about it? The two are not mutually exclusive. Economics works at the margin: it's not whether friction exists or whether it does not, but the level of friction. Some frictions apply in both cases, but the one mentioned only applies to ownership. Thus, two people at the margin in identical positions except that one is a homeowner and one is a renter may make different decisions — the renter is more free to change jobs/locale.
The Fourth Estate
even if my triple bubbler was actually broke, i would not let this callous witch fix it
Interesting story. In Italy trains still require two engineers, although on modern high speed ones the second engineer has to sit away from the windshield and the controls.
Scholarly publishing is broken. Here’s how to fix it
Mr Juncker was elected by a majority of the European Council (comprising national heads of government) and the European Parliament (directly elected by the people).
I think his point is that wealthy people spend more, so the card brands can charge more interest to the merchants. If you spend $20,000 and Amex charges 5% that's $1000 in fees. But a poor person who spent $500 only earns them $25 in fees to the merchant. Now it's true that the poor person if they can't pay might pay 20% interest, but the real money maker for the card brands is not the late payment fees but the processing fees which is the gist of the lawsuit and the article.
It's not that easy. Line breaks, huphens, double spaces, punctuation etc all make it tricky
Can't you see the dream of automated synchronized carpool pickups from metro train stations?

I don't think uber will ever make it's own metro lines, but I can really see how it could be made to work well together.
> The fact that you feel like this makes you vulnerable to manipulation may either be a completely rational response to an unhealthy environment or a maladaptive response to a normal environment.

Whether I have PTSD or aspergers, etc whatever. This is always a hard problem to know for certain, the things that keep me grounded are 'maintain interest in pure mathematics and computation' and 'be aware of reality as reality actually is'. Not getting caught up in the imagination of the way things could get interpreted and what that implies as to how things can unfold. Present minded.

> What you do want is for me to:

I believe you have the right idea in general, but my advice from experience is, don't get caught up in the minutia of conversation having to be perfect. There is no perfect so long as there are more things to discover and know. I'm not sure why most people come onto hacker news, but I mainly come here to learn. I find myself getting pulled into conversations of which I believe I have some wisdom about (or perhaps I'm just humoring myself), sometimes it hurts, sometimes it helps. On the whole though, I work to stay positive, progress oriented, stuff, life, ebbs and flows. Shrug.
[found_node.get("value") for node in tree if (found_node := node.find(SOME_XPATH)) is not None]

tree.map(node => node.find(SOME_XPATH)).filter(Boolean).map(node => node.get("value"))

I can deal with either language at this level of complexity. Anything more complicated needs more LoC in either language.
Wow, I remember being a junior guy long ago and getting assigned this task. They brought in two huge (at the time) monitors and had me set them up to show “real time” graphs and plots. Didn’t matter what the data was, just find a computer, plug it into those monitors and show some techinal-looking ambiance for the 15 minutes that some investor or other big shot will be in the room.
It's good to have options. I personally cannot stand dark color schemes, my eyes cannot handle it somehow, it's very difficult for me to read light on dark for more than a couple of seconds.
"The second alternative takes this same approach and applies it to very young companies and to emerging technologies with more speculative prospects."

Aside from maybe being young, isn't this what tech companies are generally doing?... working on new ideas, not focusing on a single vertical and have multiple lines of somewhat experimental businesses?

Instead of arbitrary tax breaks, it sounds like some cities ought to mandate the benefactors create at least some n number of jobs with a total comp of $x for employees living within the same town, city, county or whatever municipality.
Pre-sale strategy
Hey HN, we're starting to think about pre-sales for a new product and would love to get suggestions/insight from folks who have run successful pre-sales. We'll be launching a hardware product.
There was ads?? ;)
Some good psychology in that. If you start with the most senior people, then the couple of people who are clearly officially leaders will talk and then everyone else thinks they're next in the pecking order and will trainwreck it.

If the only way to talk is to admit that you're more junior than everyone else who hasn't spoken, then you won't stick your two bob in unless you actually have something important to say.
Last time I tried squidex the GraphQL APIs weren’t working. I think they are also removing support for their immature GraphQL mutations.
At least in Coq, there is no "bug" when you write a proof, it uses mathematical notations and logical rules to conclude a fact. Because of that you cannot state all the problems you would be able to state with x86. What I meant is that such theorem provers don't give you false-positive : if it tells you your proof is correct, then there can't be a "bug" in your reasoning
I just want to say that I really love that they're using the pronoun "she" in the beginning. It is refreshing to hear when most business books are directed using male pronouns.
This is very hard to estimate -- 1) the oil companies may find new sources 2) they may find that existing beds aren't as productive as projected 3) extraction methods could improve 4) the rate at which we are using it could increase or decrease. And of course the question at any given time is not how much oil exists but how much is economically worthwhile for someone to extract.

But yes, the supply is certainly finite and between a few decades and a few centuries -- and while this seems like a small amount of time, it's not in comparison to how long it took for these deposits to form (tens to hundreds of millions of years).
>>> Why so negative. I like how Europeans/Chinese/Everyone stands behind their companies and expect them to succeed globally. USA on other hand is bent on destroying/defaming their own.

> uber and lyft deserve it. I use lyft multiple times/week.

I don't. Why do you think I should stand behind them, and overlook their ethical lapses, because I'm an American?
Negative. I'm physically disabled and not in one of their ~3 select cities (still a large city, mind you; ATL is hardly small) with that additional 'service' and the friction to get a workable vehicle is next to impossible.

Of course, it's obvious that's working as intended - providing disability services is often treated by businesses as nothing but a cost center. Never-mind the fact that the elderly would be the perfect early users for comparable services + autonomous vehicles.
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>> The fun thing is that even if you consider the amyloid hypothesis to be false, that doesn't make any of the alternative theories any more likely to be true

> This violates Bayes' theorem.

Not quite. If I understand the math correctly, this would only be true if we had a complete enumeration of all the other possible theories. Since the real cause of Alzheimer's could be something nobody has thought of yet, disproving a single theory would not add significant evidence in favor of the theories we have enumerated.
Completely false. There is a huge difference in what an insurance company will insure your business for if you regularly hold $500 vs. $5,000. Cash is a huge liability.

Also, I can store $500 in a locked drawer or I can comfortably bring it home with me. $5,000 would need a safe bolted to the floor. And if you have a safe, now you need a camera to watch the safe. Say you now want to hold $50,000. Now you need a bigger safe and more cameras.

Cash does not scale at all.
Being a massive fanboy of jOOQ, I have to ask if this is a "for fun" project or is there something nice / different I'm not picking up on from scanning the repo / blog post[0]?

[0] - https://vivekragunathan.wordpress.com/2016/04/02/jinq/
> Humans: Always trying to fool the boss.
Dark Theme Darkening: Better Theming for Firefox Quantum
Cash is probably cheaper than the 2-5% the credit cards charge. And you don't have to sign thousands of words of legalese that restricts your speech and your pricing freedom.

A store can't compete on the 2-5% difference in price because it isn't enough of a persuasion on each small individual transaction, even though it's a huge percentage of the business cost when taken together.
How the Apache License allows open source to thrive
If I had followed this, I never would've finished the "A Song of Fire and Ice" series (game of thrones). I guess technically I may never FINISH since he hasn't written all the books yet.

It is a VERY painful start. And if you read interviews with Martin, he admits he had no idea where hew as going with the story until about halfway through the first book.
When I worked for BNSF I heard a story about a guy crushed between two cars in the knuckle because he lost line of sight with his engineer and they were using hand signals instead of a radio.

They were able to keep him alive long enough to cover him with a tarp and bring his family in to say goodbye. He died immediately upon separation of the knuckle.
Credit card users in the EU have a different situation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee

> ... interchange fees are typically a flat fee plus a percentage of the total purchase price (including taxes). In the United States, the fee averages approximately 2% of transaction value.[2] In the EU, interchange fees are capped to 0.3% of the transaction for credit cards and to 0.2% for debit cards.[3]

That 1.8% difference pays for a lot of rewards, marketing, etc.
As a small merchant accepting cards in the US, the best rate one will
see is about 1.65% for a high-volume business (plus lots of
fiddly fees). Square ran 2.95% when we first started using it,
but was worth the difference to a small business to avoid all the fiddly fees
(per-transaction, per-month for statements, per-month for online access! (years ago)).

We have seen card usage go from 80/20 cash/card to 20/80 cash card over the last 15 years,
and the ease of making additional sales on credit has increased our volume a lot. YMMV.

Most merchant agreements disallow charging customers a penalty for paying by card,
but (implicitly) allow a discount for paying by cash (or having 2 prices: cash xor credit).
This decision about Amex is part of the same perspective.

True disruption will not reach the US card payment market until some business big enough
to take on Visa & MasterCard offers card acceptance to merchants at much lower fees -
perhaps without all the rewards, points, and other faddle they now pay to card users.
I'm not the target audience, I still wouldn't miss them. I almost want to call them Apple-isms, because for the longest time only Apple did that kind of stuff; and, at least with any Apple or non-Apple laptop I've tried, they're kind of useless. The microphone on my Macbook Pro can't even hear me properly.

Like, I could get a C922 and be lightyears ahead of any of the garbage that comes built into any given laptop or iMac-esque desktop. Thats a $80 gizmo that has working 1080p60 camera, HW zoom, and a little desktop tripod for those that don't have desktop monitors.
You don't pay a dime for the amount of client's CPU you use
I am immensely cheered up by the progress reports contributed by so many on this thread. But, can I ask that if you grok it, go fix it for two friends? Go fix it for a local small business, a coffee shop, or a hotel. And ask your ISP to fix it in their default gear?

There's probably over 2b routers without bufferbloat fixes installed, and only if we work together to get them deployed will the internet as a whole get better, more capable of handling web, games, videoconferencing, and other applications that demand consistent low latency.

Thanks.