skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was talking with my parents about what people did in New Orleans before they had air conditioning. Turns out that what they did was die. There were quite a number of heat related deaths every year before A/C came along, something like 15% of the population would die off.

In the event of the apocalypse New Orleans will be one of the first cities to go. Between losing the pumps, the oppressive heat (exacerbated by global warming), and the insects the survivors would be forced to flee the city if they wanted to survive.
This is insightful. I want to also mention that it's not just ownership of property that's disappearing, though: the concept of owning wealth also seems to be disappearing. So much -- including the nation's foundation now -- is based on loans, credit, and in general paying with money that you don't actually have. It seems like an entirely different financial/economic model from the one we mentally have in mind, and that seems like another reason to be nervous -- I don't know enough to know if it can be sustainable.
TrueType and OpenType font fuzzing toolset
> That's odd...
I meant, for regular usage (with full packages), some people might pride themselves over a 0.1 startup, but then as soon as Emacs does something useful it will freeze a little.

> Opening a file...

Maybe my example wasn't clear enough. When I open Emacs a lot of functionality will be 'there', as it happens with an IDE. Think of a project tree, terminal, misc functionality, and unavoidable dependencies.

> Doesn't Clojure...

The Clojure(Script) tooling stack has many layers from different authors, so it's reasonable to not trust things to work after several connect/disconnect cycles.
As jeffwass notes, diesel is better at CO2 emissions. But in California, particulate emissions matter more, especially in SoCal, which is prone to inversions that trap particulate pollution.
Are they super heavy? 2hp is 1500 watts, way more than most cyclists can put out (few hundred watts).
My point is that companies that are slow-growing are rarely sold, and when they are, they usually aren't sold for much. The eye-popping valuations for companies like Whatsapp, Instagram, and YouTube were all based on growth, and on strategic fit with the acquirer. When an acquirer wants you for these reasons, there are large time pressures and asymmetries of information you can leverage to extract a lot more money than the financials would dictate. (Whatsapp, for example, sold for something like 1000x revenues.)

Small slow-growing companies almost always sell based on financials, and typically for lower multiples than an equivalent large public company would (because their revenue is more concentrated in a few customers and so they're more exposed to revenue risk). I've heard 2.5x revenues or 15x profits as numbers commonly batted around; above this and there's virtually no reason to buy the company vs. invest in public stocks or apartment buildings. On a typical 10-person company that makes a profit of about $300K on revenues of about $2M, this comes out to a sale price of roughly $5M by both valuation measures. Own 1% equity (this is generous, and would usually indicate employee #1 or 2) of a $5M acquisition and you get $50K, which is probably a lot less than the salary you forego over a few years by not joining a big company.
To assist with your reading I’d suggest you create a list of legal rights that men have that women don’t. Then create a list of legal rights that women have that men don’t.

This exercise will lead you into interesting territory.
"Hacker news has a rather mature crowd when it comes to issues like this."

You and I have been visiting very different Hacker Newses, then.
Not being in a position to bully everyone else really improved their attitude. Microsoft is my friend now! They wouldn't abuse us if they were on the top again, right?

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So then they go out and get a license, and they still go get hurt or cause an injury. There's little to no real training required to get a motorcycle endorsement, or even a driver's license.

As I always bitch and moan about... it needs to be WAY harder to get a license or motorcycle endorsement in the first place. We are constantly attacking the symptoms of the problem, and never going after the actual cause of the problem.
There's no mention of cross-season heat/cold storage, in places where it's cold in the winter, and hot in the summer. I wonder why that hasn't taken off.
Except enum abstracts away the need to create a join. Plus performance of enum is a tad bit better.
Any chance of being able to build models in Go (instead of just running them) in Tensorflow 2.0?
Nano Defender
An anti-adblock defuser for Nano Adblocker and uBlock Origin
Keke challenge
Tinder was incubated at Hatch Labs at IAC (not Match, but IAC owned Match) https://techcrunch.com/2011/03/31/exclusive-iac-hatches-hatc...
The snide remark was in the comment they were replying to.

"you don't see this dynamic on the conservative side of things with anywhere near the same zealotry as the left."

That is complete and utter horseshit. Remember the phrase "Republican in Name Only"? How about the "War on Christmas"?
I'm not saying I have any evidence otherwise, but do you have a source for that?

I mean, "more comfortable to just retreat to a place with common similar beliefs" is a good theory. But it is hardly the only one I can think of. Off the top of my head I also have:

1) Wealth is being eroded by the response to the '08 crisis leaving known-bad cultures to thrive in the lending industry. Social fabric starts to unravel due to lack of wealth creation.

2) Academics have had a long history of being in tension with democratic ideals. Famously, right when they came up with the idea of 'academies' Socrates was executed by a jury trial. More recently, communism had strong support in academic circles of Europe. We've massively increased the exposure of people to the university culture in the last 1-2 generations. Maybe technocrat leanings are leaking out? Technocrats don't compromise well on social issues, they believe there is a best answer.

Basically, the problem might not be algorithms and search bubbles, even though this is a forum that knows a lot about algorithms and search bubbles.
Workers don't run Docker containers intentionally. The goal with Workers is to run with a lower memory overhead (~3 MB) and lower startup time (~5 ms) than you can get with full container isolation. This allows your Worker to run affordably in 150+ locations around the world. In many ways it's the ultimate destination for serverless, running code in a multitenant process where all you manage is your code.
but how do you feed data in? Usually, it's some other service on one of the big 3 cloud providers. I'm using google for my projects these days so it's a mix of Google PubSub and Dataflow.

I think this is the issue/risk with serverless. You either get locked into one of the big 3, or you end up doing all of the ops work to run your own stateful systems. As some of the people above you said, managing and scaling the stateless HTTP components is not the hard/expensive part of the job.
I worked for match group as a C-level executive and had a equity structure that was similar, but on a way smaller scale. They use outside firms and a methodology called baseball arbitration to come up with a FMV. Although I didn't like some of the decisions that impacted the value of my equity, I was always treated fairly.
You can try getting a position at a subsidiary of a US/Canadian company inside India. Then hope to transfer using an L1 visa (company internal transfer) after a couple of years. No company will promise that in writing to new hires of course.
More of Buffet's success was from Bet-Against-Beta than from value investing. Lots of investors are liquidity and leverage constrained - many mutual funds cannot exceed 100% exposure to stocks. If they buy a stock portfolio that participates less in both bull and bear markets, they wind up underperforming over the long run.

Buffet, on the other hand, regularly buys up these low-volatility companies using borrowed money. If you take something that behaves like 80% of the S&P 500 and lever it up 125%, you'll get the performance of the S&P 500. But the 80% S&P 500 stock is cheaper than it "should" be, so you wind up over-performing instead.
Yep. That is pretty damning in my opinion.
This is silly. Most of European cities were build densely and with 4-5 stories buildings centuries before air conditioning.
>Why should we prefer your terms, again?

They are not his terms. His definition is the one that has existed for much longer than the ones the academics prefer.

People don't have issue with the academics' need to make distinctions. The issue is that if you need to make a distinction, you should coin a word for what you mean - not use a very well established term.
it is indeed patronizing and presumptuous, although i must assume it was well intentioned. i was adding commentary to an internet discussion board, not applying for a job. plus, they just made up a job profile which isn’t accurate, so even if i was hunting for a job here, it could be a distraction. i don’t speak to everyone i meet in person with the assumption that i am applying to a job with them and am quite amicable in life. and to be perfectly honest, the people who hire in the way i described aren’t places i want to work anyway.
Some discussion about how difficult this might be even with a kit (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17615704)
Why is that? Are you "afraid" that mp4 have some embedded code that will run...idk I just made that up!
> Musk has been risking other people's money for all of his endeavors...public investors for Tesla (and banks), and government money for SpaceX and SolarCity.

Yes and all his companies are growing and have a good return on investment. The public loans have been payed back.

There are so many companies who live of the government tit and rarely get called out because of it.

> Other billionaires are trying to make a difference in things that actually matter, like curing diseases or eliminating pollution. Hell, some of them are doing the same things that Elon is, but aren't so self-aggrandizing about it.

I agree that other people are doing good things also (the minority) but Elon is not really doing that. The reality is that society has aggrandized him. Every tweet of his causes a massive storm of tech blog entries, news articles, stock analysts and so on.

Elon for the most part like to make stupid insider jokes do stuff without technology. Everything else seems to be a sort of secondary less interesting things.
This is by far the easiest way to build some exercise into your daily routine. I have a hard time grasping why people stand on escalators, as well.
Judges don't keep a running tally of non-tolled days and poll counsel on whether they want to waive their right to a speedy trial.

You're right, the judges don't. The judge's law clerk(s) do, as should your own lawyer(s). However, please note that not bringing a speedy trial motion is the same thing as waiving that right. The speedy trial right is an asserted right, meaning that you have to actively pursue it. Courts simply don't have the capacity to grant it to everyone, especially since most people waive it anyway.

Judges don't "approve" indictments on the federal level. Indictments (even superseding ones) come from grand juries. Judging by the number of 8th superseding, 9th superseding, and nth superseding (where n has 2 digits) indictments in a number of cases in the literature, this statement would appear to be provably false.

Judges absolutely approve or reject superseding indictments once a defendant has been charged. Whether or not the prosecutor chooses to get a dozen superseding indictments before charging or arraigning a defendant is a very different thing.

But without any cause to dismiss the case, you can be tried and convicted well after the SOL runs, provided you were charged prior. The STA provides the cause.

That's true, but that's not what you're describing. You originally described a prosecutor dismissing charges for some reason, but then not refiling charges before the SOL expires. If the speedy trial right was at issue, the prosecutor would simply ask the defense for a waiver, which the lawyer will usually grant unless there's a reason not to, i.e., client says no or the lawyer is aware the prosecutor has insufficient evidence but given time could acquire it. (The latter will never apply so close to an SOL expiring--if the prosecution doesn't have the evidence after 5/6/7 years, the difference of a few days or weeks won't matter.)
That is more effort and complexity than 99.9% of winter commuters will ever put into getting to work when they can drive or take transit. Not to say that it isn't fun/exciting but with bike lanes unplowed or worse plowed with extra snow from the car lanes and drivers who have no idea how to drive in snow it doesn't seem fun.
asciinema is open source and does this really cool thing where it actually emulates a terminal. asciinema recordings are tiny compared to real video, and get rendered as text by your browser, so everything is sharp and snappy.
Several people have snarkily pointed out that BTC lost more value than the lira this year. Cryptocurrencies are very risky which generally isn't beneficial to people who are also facing huge political risk.

Uncensorable stable cryptocurrency might benefit people in the developing world, but it's not clear such a thing is even possible.
The B-tree tree-search algorithm (and variations of) is very common for database indexing, and is found in some file systems.
Y Combinator invests in HappiLabs to help scientists shop smarter
Because he was a big name in stand-up comedy at the time. He had connections, and people listened to him. If he really wanted to, he could have blackballed the women who rebuffed him.
I'm amazed no one knew of one. Off the top of my head, services which let you run docker containers without dealing with any servers yourself:

1. AWS Fargate

2. Joyent Triton (which was as simple as DOCKER_HOST=<joyent-ip> docker run back in 2015)

3. hyper.sh (available since 2016 I think?)

4. OpenFaaS cloud (though you have to go through a couple more steps, you can bring a custom docker image as your 'function').

5. A metric ton of hosted kubernetes offerings
I guess is the goal for everyone to join in some sort of majoritarian social contract? Being a lgbt person growing up I didn't interact in my local small community at all, because there was a damn good chance the local community would band together and mob me for being what I am. Finding a group of people I can identify with probably saved my life, literally, if not from some band of bigots than depression and suicide.

The rule that seems to be working itself out is this: people can pursue any interest they want, but we have social contracts when those interests interact with other people. Groups converge and have little friction when many people share at least some of the values, so you get things like HN, reddit, etc, but not unmoderated.
why do they take them out? and when do they take them out? when it broke?
Stallman hates Common Lisp.

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html
This is absolutely fantastic. Even if it doesn't succeed, it would lay the framework for something to build on next, as often happens in India.
WebM (or rather, VP8) uses less bandwidth and has better quality.
Bass is great to pick up as someone who doesn't know any instruments because it only takes about 5 lessons to feel incredibly comfortable with a lot of basic music. After the first few lessons I've found the problem is now how do I contort my fingers to play certain parts of songs.
How AI can save our humanity
Chinese boy makes ‘electric car’ by hand
IIRC, they own one of the few online dating sites that actually generates a profit: match.com. All of their other properties, particularly Tinder and OkCupid, are basically meant to get younger people hooked so that they will eventually convert to paying for Match.com.
I guess what I'm saying is I am OK with this and vastly prefer it to collecting things in my home. I could put a ton more effort/money in and clutter my house and get some marginal more enjoyment from movies, but for me that is a losing proposition. I'd rather not buy anything or put in the time and enjoy the content less. I can definitely understand if movies are a passion this would be undesirable, but they're not a passion of mine and I really enjoy being able to outsource the hassle.
...at Farmer's Only dot com.
Elite swimmers don't exhibit BMI trade-off across wide range of event distances
He started 3 billion $ companies and was involved in basically creating another one. All of these companies are doing pretty good things at least compared to the alternatives.

The space industry was terrible state and he disrupted it in many ways and is leading the charge on a new space industry totally chaining not just industry, but basically forcing change down governments throats including DoD, NASA and others.

Much the same could be argued about the car industry.

He simply thinks about problems differently. Listen to the interviews with the people that work with him, specially engineers.
Wow. Thanks to your comment, I learned that Grindr predates Tinder.
So having just read the Wikipedia, it seems like this is one of those interpretation-more-than-facts arguments.

Everyone seems to agree that slavers from Peru came in the 19th century and stole a lot of people, and that soon afterwards, Western diseases killed more people until the island was nearly depopulated and had forgotten much of its history.

Everyone also seems to agree that before Europeans arrived, the island lost most of its trees, and also there was at least one major social upheaval. Scholars seem to argue over exact causes and extent of these events.
Assuming this issue is because Windows hadn't really expected to work with memoryless NUMA nodes I gotta say, I agree with you.

These companies have working business relationships with each other. I'm sure MS is fairly responsive on these sorts of things. AMD should probably have caught this in their internal development and getting Windows on board seems obvious?
Hah, maybe I should have just taken the simpler road and said it was just a play on "event horizon."
Clean Meat
> why would anyone entertain let alone engage opposing viewpoints when it's much more comfortable to just retreat to a place with common similar beliefs. Make no mistake Hn is an echo chamber as well.

But in the original "community", you wouldn't actually be exposed to opposing viewpoints all that often either. You actively had to seek them out too. Ancestor comment pointed out that community was required for survival. Once survival and security is guaranteed, then you can start thinking about self-actualisation, which is a different kind of community.

> when it's much more comfortable to just retreat to a place with common similar beliefs

This is an age-old argument, but taking a new form. Of course people like just doing what's comfortable; we've just replaced the 5 hours of broadcast TV a day with 5 hours of mindless social media refreshing. It's only a minority that actively seek to challenge themselves.
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Most of the employees at those places didn't get rich either.
The flip side of 'nepotism' is that you're much more likely to be successful working with people that you know well or have worked with before.
Disagree. I worked in this space for 15 years and watched CUDA win a market for NVidia that was ripe for the picking by Xilinx or Altera. The culture around hardware design prototyping dominates the FPGA field and all attempts at making it approachable by software development are stunted by the proprietary ecosystem. I also think that high level synthesis is largely misguided since sequential imperative style isn't the correct way to think about FPGAs and also doesn't really address the lack of a good low-level language with an abstraction mechanism, and fundamental need for an operating system for running processes on a reconfigurable computing system.
I just hope that it's easier to build from source. We need to support multiple TF versions, and since we have shared storage, we don't install relative to system root, we install relative to a TF-version-specific root path (like /software/open/tensorflow/2.0). That's been fairly annoying to do on CentOS.
You do understand that as a public company we have pretty close insight in how they are doing, specially because we can also count how many cars they actually sell.

You would have to be suggesting that the whole board of Tesla has totally lied about every aspect of the business (expert sales numbers) to hid some kind of desaster.

That seems incredibly unlikely.

Furthermore, we have always known that he wants to go private. He has been talking about it and mentioning it for years. He clearly has liked the SpaceX model better. Did he prepare this evil plan for the last 5 years?
It’s always too bad that regulations catch up instead of manners. Things could be so much easier...
It's a question that I imagine Feminists must answer when confronted with a scenario where one "principle" is in direct conflict with another. I believe you've covered "AND, OR and NOR" in your examples what about XOR?
Astronomers Have Discovered a Galaxy with No Dark Matter Aand It’s a Huge Deal
Ask HN: When using Twilio, how do I tell if my SMSes are being carrier filtered?
My startup sends SMSes through Twilio. I know from https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223181708-Can-my-Twilio-SMS-Messages-be-Blacklisted-as-Spam- that, if a phone carrier filters my message, I won't necessarily get an error code from Twilio.

In practice, how do you tell if you're being carrier filtered? What circumstances have you observed it happening in? What is a safe line to stay within?
Precisely. This is exactly why decomposing things into relations is important. The naive approach is to "keep all the things and all their details in one big table", and that's what causes so many problems.
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Are these termination fees still in effect?
Good question. I've always given them my ID to verify, but I'm not sure if that's actually required. I assume that it's not required and if they mark your name off the list, then someone else gives the same name/address they know there's a fraud situation and then there's some kind of followup.
That's only true if Kindle has monopoly power over books as a whole, which is obviously not the case.

Now, services like Kindle or Steam deciding to revoke access to prior purchases is a potential Big Problem...but as of yet, it remains just that: potential. And at least in theory, there are government agencies that are charged with protecting against abusive behavior towards consumers (obviously actual results there are somewhat mixed).
I've been at one of these for two years out of my Masters. My time here is definitely by its sell-by date.
Wow, congratulations! Happy to see a HN'er rocking the conservative boat of Chilean financial institutions!

Though I feel like 1.19% is a bit too much: I'm currently using Renta4.cl for ETF IPSA from Itaú (CFMITNIPSA, 0.6%) and Interactive Brokers for Irish All-World ETF from Vanguard (VWRD, 0.25%).
> better shape

I already run about 25 miles per week, but thanks for your concern.

The thing is, I get up at the crack of day so as to do it in coldest weather, I wear appropriate athletic attire, I'm unladen by luggage, and if I feel too tired or something goes wrong then I lose a workout instead of my job.
Fair enough. But that's not really the same as what Zeit is providing here.