skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For Python folks interested in using these features, you might be interested in this post [0] which describes how to compile the latest SQLite and the python sqlite3 driver. I've got a fork of the standard lib sqlite3 driver that includes support for user-defined window functions in Python as well which may interest you.

[0] http://charlesleifer.com/blog/compiling-sqlite-for-use-with-...

[1] https://github.com/coleifer/pysqlite3
For some reason, font sizes have shot through the roof in the past few years. Medium is one of the biggest offenders. You get maybe 2-3 paragraphs per page now, when entire articles would fit on a single screen page with normal-sized fonts.
>The more money is spent on healthcare and housing the less people have for everything else thus exasperating inequality.

Sure, I'm not going to disagree there.

>Labor unions hamper corporate options and flexibility

So? They no longer will have the option to screw over their workers with low wages and high cost benefits and I think that's an absolute win for the lower 80-90% of the country.
>A corporation run by leaders who are 100% focused on optimizing (long-term) shareholder profits, will generate more (long-term) profits than a board that's 40% worker-elected.

The same is true with a board that's focused on short-term shareholder value. I would argue that worker representation would lean towards the long-term vs. shareholders.
Looks like nonsense to me. You can find other people saying the exact opposite. Nutritional research is unfortunately in a pretty bad state, and I don't know how it is ever going to get better.
Heh, it's just like before, you're almost there but....

No, no... While I'll admit the truth, that I certainly put more effort into attempting to be understandable than I normally do, I believe you missed the reason why. If you use simple theory of mind maybe then it'll make sense to you.

I've never tried to "convince you" as you say, what would I get out of it, and also, if someone like you is determined to see the sky as green, they'll see green no matter how many blue skies you show them.

I know i don't "fool myself", it's not actually even plausible enough to be taken seriously, like, i donno, like if i suddenly claimed to be the best pitcher in the NL. :)
but everyone knows that, and I bet you do too.

What I was hoping I could help you see is there is a difference between a pedantic strict ruleset, like, say, laws, and human truths. and that we are to be their masters, not the other way around. Because if you go through life only seeing things through the lens you want to see, you'll miss out of a lot of cool stuff, not to mention, if past history means anything, often ending up on the wrong side of it :/

I donno, I do admit that I have the aspie trait that it's hard for me to just smile and nod to make someone go away, because i think (well, most) humans deserve respect. What you're misinterpreting as "effort to convince" I think the correct term would be is "altruistically try to help". I don't know you, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't feel bad at least trying to help.

Anyway, best, regardless.

maybe try to remember -- fooling yourself is being in denial about something, I think if you reread what I said before it'll click that that's not going on.
(Note that I'll hopefully have the High Sierra support PR merged in soon.)
> CEOs seem an awful lot like Kings to me.

This is such laughable hyperbole that I have to wonder whether you work in a skilled profession or you're just another internet commentator. The only way you could think CEOs have absolute authority over you like a king would is if you have a psychological complex.
California could reshape pot rules as legal market struggles
Disposable income is income after taxes. What you are looking for is discretionary income, which is income after taxes and necessities.
Processing an arbitrary number of jobs with AWS Step Functions
I think that's a mistake to say; I'd say rather that their goals of national unity without domestic challenge override their international image in this case. It's really no different than Trump's obsession with purging immigrants overriding the hit to the US' reputation that his policies have caused
The idea of impossible fingerings is ambiguous - I can play that D minor voicing in that position as 2 - 4 - 4 - 3. It'd be interesting to see if you could take a set of samples from the user first and apply that to your algorithm. Also useful would be something that purely takes a set of pitches as input, and produces fingerings with the same pitches across various fretted\open strings (and possibly allowing for octave transposition).
I mean sure, if the article is about economics and real estate, then it is unlikely that it would include political stuff.

A more charitable interpretation of my comment would be that I am referring to stories on Chinese politics (human rights, surveillance, etc).
$100M Was Once Big Money for a Startup. Now, It’s Common
The goal would be to keep it on the Canadian side (where I live) but far enough out into the lake that local police have no jurisdiction

What do the Canadian police do in the summer when a drunken idiot is terrorizing the populace by riding his jet ski like an ass? "Whelp, out on the water, nuthin' we can do, eh?" I imagine it's like the U. S., where any number of law enforcement agencies have jurisdiction to write tickets and arrest folks. And though IANAL, I don't imagine the physical state of the lake water going from liquid to solid being a factor.
I learned this the hard way when I realized CUPS (printing services) is a dependency on almost any major desktop app. I thought "I don't own a printer, probably will never need one, let's remove this superfluous printer software" only to find it's so ingrained in applications it may as well be a part of the OS. In all fairness, it is convenient to be able to print to pdf sometimes
Speaking with some amount of experience working with people on that team: his role at Google is precisely what you see him doing here—deprecating insecure fundamental components of the web.

A proposal like this wouldn't have been approved for public release if the rest of the Chromium security team didn't see merit to it.

Everyone keeps calling him "some guy." Mike West is attached to a number of similar RFCs.

That all being said, I wouldn't immediately discount the idea even if it only turns out to be a research exercise.
Frameworkless functional web application in JavaScript from scratch
But the current model is that you are just a human resource, little different than the desk you sit at.

They don't ask the machines in the factories how the company should be run and thus why would they ask the workers?

You are essentially company property - they have bought your time.

It's a sad state of affairs as it probably causes a great deal of workers to become alienated and disillusioned with their work.
It looks like you are running the app in RAILS_ENV != 'production'. This is dangerous and not recommended

You are exposing internal error messages to users.
See the Intent to Deprecate on blink-dev: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/blink-dev/r0U...
I'm in favor of this. My eyes aren't particularly bad, but I have to use reading glasses in order to read most computer text, and some can get really difficult. Larger fonts are better even for my bad-like-most-other-people-my-age eyes. The tiny text I would have found fine 20 years ago is painful now.
Facebook exec: media firms that don't work with us will end up 'in hospice'
I've ridden on BYD electrc buses for about 8 years, and on hybrids for a few years before. I live in China, which has a lot of buses, and BYD have a lot of market share. To share some of my observations with your observations:

Decoration signs/asthetics - Poor client requirement. It isn't hard to say how large a display should be and cut the shape. I found the design of the front windshield interesting. Very curved, looks oldskool. Cute.
Traffic in Chinese cities is pretty start-stop, with buses kings of the road. No one will try to cut-off a bus. You're right there's a lot of torque.

Drivers should not be switching type of bus more than once ever (per change in model). Lines replaced here are replaced overnight: all buses serving the route yesterday replaced with new buses today. The drivers do need time to get used to the new power supply, and also the new balance of weight bus bus now has (diesel and wheel-base applicable too).

When passengers and driver have gotten used to it, the ride is very smooth.

For charging: Peak time is rush hour. Buses going about 150km perhaps over 4ish hour time slots (urban). During the day they charge (relay team, one takes on lower frequency scheduling while the other charges, on destination another goes off-charge while the returning bus charges). When all on a full-charge and in evening rush-hour 3-4 hours everything is sweet.

Charging and usage-patterns shouldn't be a problem for a bus.
If you factor in all benefits, the US compensation level is drastically higher than in Germany. US healthcare is far more expensive than in Germany, nearly double in fact.

Per capita it's equal to over 20% of the median full-time wage ($50k).
> The US median cost of living is lower than in: Germany, France, UK, Australia, Sweden, Finland, Canada.

Could you please refer me to a source for cost of living comparison? I am not disputing this assertion, I have just been unable to find a good source comparing cost of living between countries.
Please ignore the advice in that article. It's hinged on the false idea that a manager always knows best.

Imagine for a second that the manager is wrong in his/her judgement. Now the developer has to choose between arguing with the manager and risk being viewed as insubordinate or just going along with the feedback and letting the software suffer the consequences.
The refusal to promote the voices of others is as much a part of free speech. Facebook is not the town square just because people used it that way.
I'm British (Northern Irish) and I moved to the US in 2004 on an H1B visa. You are unlikely to have much success applying for roles where you may be competing with folks who may not need visas. It's a challenge for companies to even get visas and they could attempt to hire you, only to be unable to get a visa.

I see two paths other than marrying an American:

1. Join an EU or UK (I guess that might matter soon) company which has a presence in the US and actually sends folks to the US. US companies with an EU presence might be another option. It really depends where you end up in a big company so you have to do your research on how you might end up being transferred. There is no point in joining a pharma company to do work in IT when bioinformatics folks are the ones who have the opportunity to transfer, unless you are prepared to make that move internally as a prerequisite.

2. Do work with a US company in some sort of subcontractor, outsourcing, or supplier relationship. This is how I made my move because I was doing development for the marketing department of a large pharma company. I developed relationships on both side of the pond and they worked out the path to bring me to the US since I had become critical to their work. This requires a lot of luck and legwork and the the arrangement on the other side won't be like an international transfer at a large company. I turned up in Philly alone with two suitcases with all the stuff I was going to bring to start a new life.

Both of these approaches need more hustle now than they ever did before, but aren't impossible if you are actually motivated enough, work at your credentials (get a master's degree!) etc.

If you are Northern Irish, I think you can still have a shot at the lottery (https://www.uscis.gov/greencard/diversity-visa).
Submission by "Professor of Computer Science, Princeton. Co-founder and CTO, Timescale."
Am I the only one who finds it absolutely impossible to read text witch constantly moving animations on the screen?
> I'm a big believer that a business must have an owner.

Surely you are also a big believer that a country must have a king. If not, why not?

> Words of my father: "a collective ownership of business is like life in family where a woman has 10 husbands, all trying to make love to her at the same time."

Quotations aren't even arguments if they come from famous people.
With Trump, however, most Americans know he is hurting our image abroad. In China, they are almost completely oblivious to global PR.
No, I interpreted the implied meaning behind the phrase, it's just as meaningless either way. "One who leads by being a servant" is a non-leader, it's an oxymoron, maybe that should have been my phrasing.

Also, it smacks of false humility. No one would call themselves a "servant leader" if they were actually a servant, they would just say "servant". Anyone who calls someone else a "servant leader" is choosing their words poorly, due to ambiguity. (what are you saying about this person if you call them a "servant leader"?) It's an absurdity, it's meaningless double-speak.
I've never been, I am ignorant.

Alternative - Tech cities with moderate cost of living or suburbs of the majors. So..Texas Triangle (Houston, Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio), Research Triangle Park (Raleigh-Durham), Chicago.
I think these friendly disagreements often come down to “how otaku are you about a given area of human expression.”

You and I (but not various other folks on this thread) place a lot of value on not avoiding hassle, and a pleasantly low albeit non-zero price for a reasonable subset of the output of Hollywood.

People who are deeply invested in being able to apply their own personal filter on what media is available seem less satisfied.

I know other people who play out the same disagreement for comedy and music.

For some reason not for dance. Where’s the cheap version of Netflix for the ballet?

Maybe somewhere on YouTube; I refuse to use YouTube so I wouldn’t know.
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Jesus camp was scary.

I don't know if these fall under documentary category, but I enjoyed SAMSARA and BARAKA, because of their music and stunning cinematography

https://www.amazon.com/Samsara-Ron-Fricke/dp/B00AYQNOFI/
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AO9NDY2
Yeah, but the original teams that designed or built the building are long gone, and in many cases the tenant/remodel work can happen without any of the original blueprints. Buildings are meant to be modified, and this is why we have building codes, subfloors, ceiling tiles, etc. In commercial software, the startup hurdle is so great, that it usually means only a team that is contiguous with the original construction team can economically extend the original in a meaningful way.

Open source requires a different way of thinking about it; not all software can be open source. Not all buildings can be raised like a barn. In fact there is very little in the construction or civil engineering world that matches what happens in open source software.
One of my earliest memories of professional programming was talking to another dev, many years my senior in experience, about a "deprecated" API. They insisted the word was "depreciated". I didn't push it for the conversation, but afterwards triple-double-checked I wasn't crazy. Nearly 20 years later, I still feel I might be using the word wrong.
In New Mexico Hispanic population frequents Indian Casinos.
Both groups might better invest than waste time and money.
I have tried to interest Hispanic and Native friends in investing in health care (Health Care Mutual funds avg. 16% over 40 yrs). The rate of diabetes in Native and Hispanic populationsis 30%. 40% of hospital costs is now in ICU for chronic disease. 1/3 State and US budget Medicare.
Unions and worker ownership can help make a company actually consider the workers rather than just profit. In the US the balance has gone so far in the direction of treating low wage workers as disposable resources that any step to improve worker power is a good thing. Even if this bill passes the system would still favour the owners but there could be a little more consideration of the employees.

The profit comes from the labour of people who work for the company. Any profit it makes is the difference between what their true labour is worth and what they are paid. So unless the owners are adding billions in value by themselves they are paying people less than the true value of their work.
The extent at which this happens is where some ethical issues lie. If you keep wages low while making large profit there is a point of view that you are ripping off your workers and hopefully an extra voice at the top of the company can help here and emphasize some more consideration of worker needs.
I can appreciate hn is mostly humor intolerant but these are all basically right on point. The web experience is now akin to walking the mall; loud, expensive, garbage.
"Larger share"? Maybe. "Disproportionately"? I think not. The correct proportion is not necessarily 1:1. If the capital / network gets a larger share, it's because it contributes more by multiplying the productivity of the labor. Also, in a culture where everyone wants to consume and live in the moment rather than save and plan for the future, capital is relatively scarce compared to labor, which gives capital owners an advantageous position in any negotiation.
As someone who didn't need to do this in college or graduate school to do well, I witnessed the valedictorians around me as people who also probably didn't need to do it, but did it anyway.

That's why they were valedictorians, and I wasn't.
Tibetan parts of Sichuan have many non-mandarin speakers, though these are technically a part of greater Tibet anyways.
keeps getting posted and going to the top, almost like HN is a memoryless process... :)

glad yall are still enjoying it.
Could one single machine invent everything?
TensorFlow's implementation is looking great - RAM usage is fantastic!!
lightFM is my goto for prototyping Matrix Factorization models. It efficiently handles large data w/ sparse data structures and is CPU accelerated including optimizations like Hogwild!. It also has the WARP loss BPR variant which I have not seen implemented anywhere else.

I can train on multi-GB datasets w/ only lightFM and multiple CPUs.

Another interesting package is called Implicit. This package, although not as complete as LightFM when it comes to algorithms or APIs, really shines when it comes down to optimizations. Including native Cuda kernels for BPR and ALS it also has an important speedup called the Conjugate Gradient Method which makes it faster than spark in some benchmarks.

But usually, now-a-days my work requires more customized hybrid models of which I usually start w/ a base BPR implementation I have in Keras.
The fact that you can put together a sentence that says "if a poor person invests 10% of their money" betrays that you have no actual understanding of poor people economics.
From the article.

> Yes, we are the developers of TimescaleDB, so you might quickly disregard our
> comparison as biased. But if you let the analysis speak for itself, you’ll find
> that it tries to stay objective — indeed, we report several scenarios below in
> which InfluxDB outperforms TimescaleDB.
They can be simple like write.as or complex like wordpress.com, Blogger etc. Simple as in the just write kind of thing, and complex as in there are probably too many extra features.
People started to listen to typographers. It's a good thing.
Font Flipper: Tinder for Google Fonts
This went to blink-dev: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/m/#!topic/bli...

I’m not familiar with their workflow but it looks like something that the development team is considering, not random babbling from a random employee.
That's the point. Treating low paid workers as interchangeable, disposable resources needs to change and this is a small step towards giving them a little more control of their situation.
I don't think Germans are happier than Americans because we take more opiates. Your claim that productivity (or, for that matter anything else) is more important than happiness is plain absurd. I prefer a good life over one that ends with me jumping off a bridge I built.
You have to be careful being a servant leader. It's often a thankless job. And most of the time other people will be taking credit for your work. It's not noble to suffer like that -- it can be damaging to your health.

It's an effective position however and comes with it's own rewards. I personally relish seeing my team grow and the people I help mentor flourish.

I recommend getting a good therapist and taking small, frequent vacations. The trade off to being a servant leader is basically an environment that will wear you down. If you have conditions they will be amplified. If you don't take care of yourself you will develop conditions.
To win the AI race, we need more humans
These things aren’t disappearing. It’s just that the non-mainstream gets more expensive.

So I don’t agree it’s worse for society.

I do think it would be nice if game producers would put their code and assets in escrow, so once the platform they were built for goes away, and the producer decides to not invest in a succesor platform, the assets/code could be released to the public.
> I subscribe that the role of US government is not to transfer wealth or interfere with the free market

That may not directly be its role, but if it isn't at -- least to some degree -- an outcome of the government's activity, then I think we're in trouble.

To a first approximation, wealth = power; and human nature being what it is, those who have wealth (and therefore power) will tend, in the absence of control/restraint from government, to use that wealth and power to gather more wealth and power for themselves, without regard for any impact (often negative) on those who have less.

Governments (in my opinion) have a responsibility to protect and help those who, for all kinds of reasons, do not have the wealth or power to adequately take care of themselves. That doesn't mean arbitrary handouts. But it does mean that a relatively larger share of centrally-managed resources should be directed towards helping those who need it most.

And so I'd expect one of the results of a well-run government to be a tendency to reverse some of the flow of wealth towards those who already have it.
Another thing to keep in mind is that Germany doesn't fund its own defense. (The tiny amount Germany spends is insignificant; the German airforce doesn't even bother keeping its aircraft airworthy.)

We in the US fund our defense and Germany's defense (and cover the rest of the free world too) and still end up with more post-tax income than Germany does. That's a massive productivity gap.
Drugmakers increase prices 100x by combining generic drugs
I don't understand your connection between lightfm and the youtube paper...
That's fair -- I was talking about a specific SGX enclave instance, not SGX in general. In particular, you're right that you can only leak things from an SGX instance, but you can't break all future SGX enclaves forever on a given CPU.
How can I apply for this job? do you've an email or site where I can send you my resume? thanks
This is the background explainer for "Intent to Deprecate: Nonsecurely delivered cookies", from the official Blink mailing list ( https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink...).

Technically yes, it's the Blink team that has plans to deprecate, but that is effectively Google.
Can anyone "explain like I'm 5" this issue?