skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holy moly! Well, that's a different narrative than I suspected...
You really don’t read HN much if you’ve missed all the criticism leveled at the USA.
The Cotton Candy Monster, Paris 2018
Moving farther out has its own set of problems: longer commutes, and much costlier infrastructure. At least in the US, outlying areas frequently don't pay enough in property taxes to maintain the amount of infrastructure necessary to reach those outlying areas, putting strain on municipal budgets. Nobody wants to pay more taxes.
By the way , as mentioned in this a few more general recent articles about the state of NLP worth reading are:
http://deliprao.com/archives/301
https://www.skynettoday.com/editorials/state_of_nmt
> > I do not go to the gym

> Go to the gym

Or, if you find it easier, get out amongst nature and go jogging / cycling / etc.
I haven’t tried the food, but it seems like you are making real, high quality food. I think the “ship fresh” angle is interesting and worth experimenting with. I wish you the best and will follow the journey on Instagram!

Others in this thread seem dubious that quality could be a differentiator, but I think you should double down on that. It’s not just ingredients, but technique that makes food delicious and if you can truly scale proper par-cooking technique, that will be a strong core for your business, and difficult to copy from the outside.

I also think you are absolutely correct to focus on a core market who loves real Indian food. There’s no price you can put on your family’s home cooking, which makes it a good market for you to start in low volume.

Just a random idea as you grow: you might try supporting an “experiment community” the way Soylent did. I think that forum became https://www.completefoods.co. They encouraged people to share and develop their own recipes.

In the long term, you will need to compete against “monoculture” brands who are selling one size fits all products. Because you aren’t storing inventory, you will be positioned to sell a wider selection of products, even short runs of one-off special foods. Could be another differentiator.
> seems like there isn't much difference between ordering from a decent Indian restaurant and you guys

I know it seems absurd on HN, but there are people who live in areas without decent Indian restaurants.
I always enjoyed going to B&N to drink a coffee and read a magazine and have thought that they should do something to capitalize on this. I wouldn't mind being able to rent or check out magazines while I drink coffee, then give them back when I leave.

I'm not sure if they can even turn a profit on this though.
Weird.. you can build a house in the upper midwest USA for 200k. That's land + all of the regulations etc... Condos should be cheaper per unit too. But like everywhere there is a construction labor shortage. I would hope that the kids gets into construction, at least as a summer job or something while pursuing education.
Appshare lets you make VueJS Javascript functions backed by a SQLite database by writing a single function
How expansive do we want to be about what the full set of options is, though?

I tend to fall on the side of the root poster - if having a stable driver API means Linux gets more commercial driver support, then that's the one that has the highest cost/benefit in my book.

In practical terms, being able to hack on open-source drivers isn't particularly useful to me, but having an easier user experience with Linux on the desktop (and, more generally, having Linux on the desktop be something more than an also-ran) would benefit me immensely.
Its only a problem for the low income to welfare range of folk. People who have a better income usually have transportation and use it to shop in bigger cities where the savings pays for the trip. Also, the trip doubles as a social outing, where the folk eat out, go to a movie, etc.
If you mean the Switch, yes it is a microkernel, so fast enough to play all those flashy Vulkan/NVN games.

https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8941-console_security_-_switch
If they were against doing business in countries that have "done horrendous humanitarian crimes", they wouldn't have done business in the U.S.
We've banned this account for breaking the site guidelines and ignoring our requests to stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
SEO is free, but involves a lot of manual link building work. People are available on freelancer and upwork, but some charge absurd prices to go online and post your link to various websites, which is just bullsh*t. Best case study for me is https://redditrecommend.com/ where the owner experiments with reddit linking through small posts. I'm watching it gain steam.
There is a special place in hell for whoever does this...

I guess it might just bother me so much because it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how the web works.
"The sort of person advocating employee control,"

Nobody talks about employee control. It's about employee participation! And employees are a stakeholder in the success of the company. They contribute to it, they benefit or suffer from it. Employees had a part in building the company.
Yes definitely. We are actively working on creating low-sodium options of these dishes. Unfortunately, the sodium comes from the traditional Indian spices used in each dish so it's an intricate process to adjust the levels and keep the same quality and taste.
Ya, and now it’s the smaller locals that are thriving while the big booksellers are struggling.

Makes me want to rewatch “you got mail” again.
I agree with you that it seems like a good idea. However, the vacancy tax is still in its infancy, so we've yet to fully understand its effectiveness or side-effects. A big issue around the housing discussion in Vancouver is the lack of data and amount of misinformation being injected into the discussion.
The TimescaleDB benchmark code is a fork of code I wrote, as an independent consultant, for InfluxData in 2016 and 2017. The purpose of my project was to rigorously compare InfluxDB and InfluxDB Enterprise to Cassandra, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and OpenTSDB. It's called influxdb-comparisons and is an actively-maintained project on Github at [0]. I am no longer affiliated with InfluxData, and these are my own opinions.

I designed and built the influxdb-comparisons benchmark suite to be easy to understand for customers. From a technical perspective, it is simulation-based, verifiable, fast, fair, and extensible. In particular, I created the "use-case approach" so that, no matter how technical our benchmark reports got, customers could say to themselves: "I understand this!". For example, in the devops use-case, we generate data and queries from a realistic simulation of telemetry collected from a server fleet. Doing it this way creates benchmarking stories that appeal to a wide variety of both technical and nontechnical customers.

This user-first design of a benchmarking suite was a novel innovation, and was a large factor in the success of the project.

Another aspect of the project is that we tried to do right by the competition. That means that we spoke with experts (sometimes, the creators of the databases themselves) on how to best achieve our goals. In particular, I worked hard to make the Cassandra, Elasticsearch MongoDB, and OpenTSDB benchmarks show their respective databases in the best light possible. Concretely, each database was configured in a way that is 1) featureful, like InfluxDB, 2) fast at writes, 3) fast at reads, and 4) efficient with disk space.

As an example of my diligence in implementing this benchmark suite for InfluxData, I included a mechanism by which the benchmark query results can be verified for correctness across competing databases, to within floating point tolerances. This is important because, when building adapters for drastically different databases, it is easy to introduce bugs that could give a false advantage to one side or the other (e.g. by accidentally throwing data away, or by executing queries that don't range over the whole dataset).

I don't see that TimescaleDB is using the verification functionality I created. I encourage TimescaleDB to run query verification, and write up their benchmarking methods in detail, like I did here: [1].

I think it's great that TimescaleDB is taking these ideas and extending them. At InfluxData, we made the code open-source so that others could build and learn from our work. In that tradition, I hope that the ongoing discussion about how to do excellent benchmarking of time-series databases keeps evolving.

[0] https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb-comparisons (Note that others maintain this project now.)

[1] https://rwinslow.com/rwinslow-benchmark-tech-paper-influxdb-...
The big figure that stood out for me in this article was that the number of independent bookstores in the United States has increased 30% in the last ten years. And there's enough people who love brick-and-mortar shops and physical books to warrant Indigo to expand into the U.S.

I think the article was spot-on about following the Waterstone model of making it a chain of hyper-localized stores, instead of a homogenous behemoth trying to be everything to the masses. Book readers are thinkers, and are turned off by mass marketing.

It's like how local coffee shops continue to survive and thrive, in spite of the ubiquitous presence of Starbucks. People like local, special things. What people on 35th Street in Chicago want to read is not the same as what people in Haight/Ashbury in San Francisco want to read.

If one wants to explore something from the other, there's always in-store ordering, and online. Plus the more-popular-than-ever-in-spite-of-the-zeitgeist libraries.
The public is too willing to give up freedom when threats to safety are invented, and then "prevented".
We are talking about startups achieving record breaking exits.

If you want to compare apples to apples you need to set the numbers in the context and inflation (of any kind) is part of that context.
It’s no different in Canada. Yes, foreigners are buying property, but Canadians are doing an awesome job over-extending themselves on real estate including getting help from “The bank of Mom” for down payments.

All in the name of “real estate always goes up” and “if I don’t buy now I’ll never be able to”.

I don’t think it’s going to end well.
It's all I've ever wanted to do since I first heard about it in Joel in Software many years ago. The people side of Software Engineering is immensely more rewarding for me than the technical one. It's so satisfying to watch new hires in particular grow and get comfortable. Sadly, I don't often get to do it, and am usually pushed into more pure IC roles.

It's also really rare among companies I've worked at. Turnover is high and impressing people with flashy technology is key. Writing code that impresses is definitely the path to management. Those who sit back and try to understand the whole picture are viewed as uninterested. I've been consciously trying to get into more technical arguments because it seems to earn respect to have strong opinions rather than seeing both sides of the coin. Management (especially at the first level) is viewed as the person who evaluates other people's code and makes the best technical decisions.

The engineering side of that sort of environment burns me out more, especially as I get older. When I was in high school, sure, I loved to code, I loved the new tech, I loved experimenting with linux kernels and assembly and all of it. These days, it's just not nearly as meaningful to me as working with those around me. I know I'll never make better solutions as an individual than I would with a team around me. If I only get acknowledged for coming up with a way to run tests 90% faster or solve the weird rare bug nobody else could understand, my work life just feels incomplete.

However, engineering team management is chosen more on who can solve the problems the best, not who is the most interested in helping people. When I have expressed interest in management this is a very consistent message. Do you write the best code on your team? No? Then focus on that. This requires me to focus on the work I find less fulfilling - and be directly competitive with my peers. The exact opposite of what I want to do.

Maybe other people are getting credit for implementing the new flashiness in Clojure, but if they appreciate you clearing the obstacles to make it happen, isn't that satisfying? You get acknowledged more from below than above, and that's okay.

What I really want to know is, what's the suffering part of it? I've heard so many managers complain of not getting to write code any more - and been jealous and wanted to trade positions with them. You should get acknowledged from below, and honestly, if your next level management is good, they should see what you're doing as well. A lack of acknowledgement will always burn people out, but servant leadership shouldn't automatically mean that.
Crypto market crash prompts suicide concerns
This is it right here. I can be convinced to be somewhat sympathetic to the view of excessive regulation, and ineffective bureaucracy ... however, I certainly can't be convinced that it's wholesale not necessary. Bad actors can and will take advantage of people, and it needs to be reigned in by "something".

I refuse to believe that we can't achieve a balance ... when there's too little regulation, add more. When it becomes too onerous, pare it back. The thing that seems to be missing is that balancing force. The body's immune system is important for regulating and protecting bodily functions, however when things go wrong, they go very wrong (auto-immune diseases, etc); I feel like that's where we are right now.
Regulation also doesn’t protect citizens against wrongdoing because of regulatory capture. What actually does protect citizens from corporate wrongdoing is the law of torts. Unsurprisingly corporate lawyers and lobbyists are big fans of tort “reform.”
>It might be worth consolidating all of the different packages and their ingredients lists on a separate page

Agreed. And also may be worth putting all the nutritional information (I mean what ingredients are used, and all - not some - of them, and in what percentages or weights - again, for all), on the food packages themselves. Saying this because a pet peeve of mine about Indian products here is that many of them put such info for some, but not all of the ingredients. Common example: Haldiram snacks: they often mention many ingredients, but the labeling can go like this: Peanuts (8%), gram flour (12%), rice flour (no number given), and so on. I mean what the heck is the use of putting that info, then? if a person wants to know that info, they want to know it for all ingredients, not just some, for their health or whatever other reasons.
Google flags Fark again for ad non-compliance
People won't look for GMO products, but if you have two products with similar tastes and nutritional value, but one is more expensive because it has a "GMO Free" sticker on it, I'd bet most people would go for the cheaper option.
That's why I use a Mac. Seems like a good solution is to have the OS and HW manufacturer to be one and the same.
You got me there. It's just that almost all of the current comments talk about how YC shouldn't do business in China, while they're already doing business in the U.S. I just don't see how it is worse, when the U.S. has a far more violent recent past.
I'm not sure how Dyer's thing works, but I can describe the paper I linked to:

A "stack" is a stack of (vector, scalar) pairs (a vector and its "weight"). At each time step, the stack has three inputs: the vector to push, the weight to push it with, and the weight to pop off the stack. Its output is the top 1.0 weight of the stack. The stack's behavior on a time step is divided in to three parts:

1. First, that pop weight is removed from the stack. For example, if you want to remove 0.6 from a stack like [(a, 0.4), (b, 0.4)], you'd remove all of a leaving you with 0.2 to remove from b, so the final stack would be [(b, 0.2)].

2. The pushed vector is placed on the stack with the given push weight.

3. The top 1.0 of the stack is blended together and returned. For example, a stack like [(a, 0.4), (b, 0.4), (c, 0.8)] would take 0.4 of a, 0.4 of b, and 0.2 of c.

This process is differentiable, and you can combine this with the usual recurrent loops to make a recurrent stack machine.
> In other words, the ancient concept of "right tool for the job" still applies.

Or use a multi-tool ;)
Oh my gosh...I didn't even realize the word repeats...
NZ is a country.. not a city.
The Secret of Why Elephants Get Cancer So Rarely Might Lead to a Cure
Note the second comment in the following thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12739771

quinthar posted in quite a lot of detail there as well, so it may provide some context.
Yes!
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Oops, you're right.

I was thinking 100k-200k for some reason :/
I would hazard that the limiting factor for the skateboarder wasn't the motor but the fact that if he accelerated as quickly as the motor would allow he'd fly off of it. Electric motors are notoriously torque-y. (which many users enjoy)
People often come along eventually and correct unfair downvotes.

That's one reason the site guidelines ask you not to complain about getting downvoted; by the time most people read the complaint, it's obsolete.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Finding young unskilled apprentices for construction work is easy, finding experienced skilled journeymen is hard because most of them leave the field during each construction bust.

You just can’t make a career out of construction with the current boom and bust way the cycle is going.
Still waiting for GNU hurd.
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Corey Doctorow. And Eric Raymond wears horn-rimmed glasses.
Or, you know, we could just stop sending our young people out to get blown up... Kudos to the DoD for funding these experiments but they're solving a problem of their own creation...
Failing Successfully
Which is perfectly fine. Remember the hanging chad issue from 2000 presidential election? This expensive pen would eliminate that issue. Also, with clearly filled out ballots, manual counting would be more reliable.
Modern processors execute instructions speculatively, that is without knowing if the instructions should actually run. If it turns out they weren't supposed to be executed then the processor undoes effects of the instructions. However, not everything is undone. If the speculatively executed instructions access RAM, then they can move data in and out of the cache. By measuring how long it takes to read memory, you can tell what memory the speculatively instructions accessed.

Speculative execution is what allows Meltdown to work. You make the processor speculatively execute an access to kernel memory, then access a memory address based on the value of the data read from kernel memory. Intel processors preform the speculative execution without first checking if the memory access in allowed while AMD processors check before the speculative execution. This is why AMD processors aren't vulnerable to Meltdown.

SGX was thought not be vulnerable to a speculative execution attack because attempts to access SGX memory, without having the necessary access, just yield -1 for reads and writes are ignored, as opposed to causing an exception as with access to kernel memory. However, if the SGX memory is marked as not-present, then attempts to read the memory will trigger a page fault exception. The page fault circumvents the normal SGX protection and allows the memory to be read by speculatively executed instructions.
Yep. Amazon did to B&N what B&N did to local bookstores.

Just like China did to Mexico in the 2000's what Mexico did to American factories in the 1990's.

(For those of you not old enough to remember, in the 1990's there was panic over Mexican maquiladoras just across the borders, just the same way that Americans today complain about Chinese factories.

And in the 1980's the same panic, but it was about the Japanese.

My prediction: East Africa will do to China what China did to Mexico.)
A key reason that these are the two industries we highlight is that they are beset by cost disease. Some charts to explain the point.

1. Cost of healthcare vs life expectancy for first world countries:

http://slatestarcodex.com/blog_images/cost_countries.png

2. Cost of K-12 education per student versus test scores in the United States over time:

http://slatestarcodex.com/blog_images/primary_scost.gif

3. Salaries for K-12 teachers over time:

http://slatestarcodex.com/blog_images/cost_teachersalary.png
http://slatestarcodex.com/blog_images/cost_teachersalary2.pn...
Borders helped lead the way with this model, but there wasn't room for two mega-chains.
Why wouldn't they? Humans are basically the same no matter what their trade or craft is. If you get power, you try to keep and expand it. Nothing controversial there really.
>When it becomes too onerous, pare it back

Unfortunately one man's onerous is another's not enough when it comes to regulation, and seemingly due to ideology, not rationality.
I just want to point out a small issue on your site. On the page https://thebuttermilkco.com/collections/all/products/the-i-c... the link to the khichdi leads to the page for upma.

As somebody with dairy allergies, I was going to avoid this, given the name, but since I saw you mentioned that the meals were all vegan (so far) I am tempted to give it a go.
Renters have less incentive to care for the commons because it’s much easier to move on. That’s just one example, understanding the concept of skin in the game and consideration of how it applies in this context allows easily finding many more.
Isn't this illegal? Aren't you only allowed to run OSX on Apple hardware?
HackerNews itself. Everything else falls under subgroup of it.
The Wikipedia article is a good start:

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

It does a good job of getting into and linking to its nuances, although it's not exactly a tutorial or anything.
a lie is identified as intentional deception. [0]. by definition a lie is incredibly difficult to prove...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie
NLP Behind Chatbots – Demystifying RasaNLU's Entity Extraction
I wish SF would listen to this way of thinking. I'm no urban development expert, but this seems pretty cut and dry to me. Unfortunately I've seen it being coupled with "trickle down economics"

Personally I would love to move into a more luxury (some call cookie cutter) apartment which would free up my existing dwelling and potentially lower housing costs.
Don't forget 3) Foreign oligarch parks questionable money in the entire building and then leaves it unoccuped for a decade in the hopes that he could sell it to another foreign investor at double the price
Lotus series was some cool racing games that actually were intended for Amiga, the DOS version not being just as good, but to me were still mind blowing.

Later when they were making a sequel it ended in Super Nintendo, with cars changed (Lotus in the title referred to the car company) due to license issues, spawning Top Gear series.

Lotus and Top Gear were wildly popular in Brazil, and thus recently a Brazilian studio made a spiritual sucessor (including hiring the otigibaly musician to make more of his very iconic music) that is named "Horizon Chase", so if you curious about what is so fun in "Lotus" to spread a virus, play Horizon Chase, gameplay is almost identical actually.
This is an amazing story. I wonder how many years it will take until we can fully reconstruct a face kind of like Elysium (movie) style.