skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the post I needed to see today, and from Popular Mechanics it makes it that much sweeter.

The Tesla Roadster gave me hope back when I was younger and despairing over the soaring prices of gas. I loved cars, but how could I justify spending so much damn money on fuel each weekend while driving my local canyon roads? Not to mention the nasty effects that gas-powered cars have on the environment and on people's general health. Electric and hybrid cars -- the obvious (to me) evolution of the car -- were dull and pathetic, which meant that owning a fun, fast, well-handling car would be a thing my parents enjoyed but I could not. Wanna be a modern gearhead? Forgetaboutit.

THEN I saw an article about some guy with a company named after a pioneer of electricity supply systems who had an electric car that was designed in part by Lotus and was fast. I was over the moon. Who cares that its price tag was way beyond my reach? The point was that technology would eventually become common place and trickle down to me.

Hope is a precious commodity. Elon Musk and his first Tesla roadster gave me hope, and then sprinkled in some joy, and added a bit of optimism and excitement about the future. Classify me as a fanboy or cultist if you want, and I'll wear that label proudly. I don't see any other billionaires out there trying to solve problems beyond "how do I effectively shelter this income stream from the IRS?" So, quit picking on the guy and let him do his thing. Eventually we'll all benefit.
Do you not watch TV, movies, or plays or play video games? I'm just curious, avoiding fiction us a really interesting worldview and I'm curious whether it extends to every medium.
I don't think you successfully debunked it. You asserted without merit that working in sweatshops is better than subsistence farming, this is both false and a false dichotomy.
In a three-address machine, separating the integer and floating point registers basically saves you three bits per instruction word compared to a unified register file of the same aggregate size. Also, on a 32-bit machine, you save a few transistors by making the integer rename registers 32 bits instead of all 64 bits to accommodate a double float. (And if you have vectors, it really makes no sense to throw away 128 or 256 or 512 bits to store a 32-bit or 64-bit integer).
> Rumours about alternative storage systems are extremely exciting, the idea of having a columnar materialised view (just guessing, not sure what the actual implementation will be like).

Note that even if we get the pluggable storage work into v12 - which I hope and think we can do, I'm certainly spending more time on it than I'd like - it'll not include a columnar storage on its own. There's others working on storage engines, but the furthest along intended for core aren't, to my knowledge, columnar. And even if somebody submits one for core, it might be a while till it's fast enough to satisfy your demands ;)
I just setup a new Win10 machine, and I believe they aren't installed, just shortcuts.
Depend if society provide any social support to single parents. Here in Sweden I think there is a strong argument to say that children here are not worse off if they happen to have a single parent that get support from the state compared to a child that have single parent with support from the state and child support from a second parent. The point of the Swedish social welfare model is that all children has the same possibility in life regardless of the wealth of the parents, which mostly seems to be true for the less wealthy half of the population.
> I am unable to read the actual study (paywall)

Here you go: https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.10.003
There is no reasonable medium to top end phone that is almost pure android and has a headphone jack. it's just stupid to drop it, those who want the headphone jack would buy such a unicorn phone that would lead to it being a real competitive advantage.
Is This About The Money Raven Stole From Mt Gox?
Even if a non-compete is legally unenforceable in court it can still be used to bully employees or those who attempt to hire them.

I once worked at a consulting company (one of the big dot-com consulting companies) that put a clause in the contract that said no employee could leave to go work for any client of the company. That was fine when the company was small and had few clients, but when they became large it prevented us from leaving to go to any reasonably successful firm because almost all of them were clients. If anyone attempted this the company would reach out to the potential employer and warn them not to hire the person. The other company would then back down because they didn't want to jeopardize their business relationship with the consulting firm.

As the dot-com bubble burst and the consulting firm became a sinking ship they continued to enforce it. We had to wait for layoffs to be exempt from that clause.
US commander survives Afghan gun attack in which police chief dies
I don’t think it makes sense to blame yourself. It is absolutely the job of parents to encourage their kids to read from a young age.

To kids, reading looks terribly boring, until they actually find a book they like - then they devour everything in sight.

How much I miss the combination of childhood imagination and fantastic stories!
Still annoying though.
> Users can now install Desktop Progressive Web Apps on Windows & Linux!

This is great, but hopefully Safari(especially on iOS) will follow suit and support PWAs. I recently wrote a PWA but changed it to use Cordova because Safari on iOS doesn't support "Add to Desktop" for PWAs. If it does, I definitely couldn't figure it out when running the latest iOS.

One thing I'd like to see Google do is allow PWAs to be listed in the Play store. A lot of apps are already web views, and a PWA could be much more practical, especially if they provide some APIs to fill the gap between web and native.

EDIT: Nah, I take that back. Fuck the Play store. I hope people can become comfortable with downloading PWAs directly. One of the things that held me back from releasing a PWA is the people I tested it with weren't comfortable downloading an app from a "random" website, which is pretty ridiculous seeing how easy it is to release horseshit software on the Play store.
While I hate fade outs in general, there are very specific ways that fade outs can be used well: see "Ministry of Lost Souls" by Dream Theater.
In case anyone finds themselves in Munich with time to spare one can visit the Deutsches Museum. They have a working replica of the Z3 the first (programmable, fully automatic) digital computer ever built as well as the original Z4 the first (commercial) digital computer as well as an UNIVAC 1 the first (commercial, produced in the US) digital computer (scnr). Both the Z3 and Z4 predating the Manchester Baby by a few years and already featuring quite modern features such as the use of binary floating point numbers.
Does anyone know of something like a search engine for PWAs? I'm kind of intrigued by the new desktop PWA functionality described, but I don't know how to find out which sites I can desktopify. Thanks!
It was built in 1975. How would they have a huge amount of experience in the medium?
Show HN: Video Puppet – create great promo videos in minutes
It doesn't even need to be genetic. People who deeply value learning and knowledge are likely to transmit those values to their charges, those people are also likely to own lots of books.
That's pretty sweet! Although C is possibly the worst language to build web applications..
Shop around, you can find much cheaper clothes than you quoted in the US.
Suggesting that genetics could be the causative factor isn't pseudoscience. It's pointing out that this study cannot disambiguate between the two, and so claiming causation is false.
> "Kids who grow up in households with lots of pants suitable for tall adults grow up to be tall as adults."

Parenting is rife with cargo cult activity. Even (or perhaps especially) in places like Palo Alto where you'd think parents would have some understanding of statistics and causality.
Coverage by foreign reporters adds another dimension: stories that embarrass both of the domestic political camps. A recent example would be British coverage of a Democratic legislator playing a cell phone game during Trump's address to Congress.
I wonder if increasing the number of available deer tags in the area would be enough to solve the problem.
The OS on ph1 is ideal. I want zero crapware, and security updates, and for gods sake give me a headphone. That's going to be so rare it's going to be an actual competitive advantage. But at least no crapware is a big advantage.
One good thing about fiction is that the main character does not die in the middle of the story.
It's a little backwards. You're not actually making the military more lethal by selling them facial recognition tech. You are making them more accurate. Right now, an 18-25 year old looks at a (often) blurry video and tries to say if something is a weapon. With visual recognition technology, you actually decrease the false positives. Same with police. You're reducing the false positives inherent with human intervention in an already established system.
Whoa, that's terrifying! It has me wondering though -- isn't it kind of a bad idea to set up an underground mine directly underneath a large lake?!
You've submitted your framework repeatedly under other usernames. It's a nice library, but creating a new account just to re-submit this as a "Show HN", and doing so by pointing to an issue, is kinda gaming the system.
Hi,

I’m very excited to start opening Video Puppet, my project for 2018 YC Startup School, to a wider audience. It is an online service that that enables trainers, educators and marketers to create videos much faster than with traditional editing tools. It will automatically align timelines, speed up, slow down or pause video segments to match your audio. The Puppet can even create a life-like narration audio from your text.

I built this tool as I got frustrated with how long it takes to create short promo videos. Usually, it took me several hours of work to create a few minutes of good video content, and most of that time had nothing to do with the content itself, but with timelines, transitions, recording and re-recording narrations after small mistakes. With Video Puppet, creating a five minute promo video takes only 10-15 minutes.

The tool is now in public beta, so lots of functionality is still missing, but it is ready for wider feedback. I'd love to hear your thoughts!
> Cutting edge features are proposed way earlier than commercial DBs

This is not true. SQL Server & Oracle already have pretty every feature just released in 11 and have had most of them for many years.
There seems to be some overlap with a UML business use case which can be used for modelling requirements.
Had the same UI problems.

Also Signal isn't federated and doesn't use the Matrix protocol.
People laugh at how "stupid" the Romans were, just as we'll probably have a chuckle at our own expense about the sorts of plastics we used.
Faq's and Misconceptions about Conversion Optimization for SaaS
This might be valid if we were discussing an internal, proprietary software project.

We're talking about an open source project used by millions of people that has gotten CONTINUOUSLY better over the course of decades - to the point where it is now - arguably - the best of its kind.

Given this track record, I think postgres devs are entitled to use whatever management-speak euphemism they like. In this case, the idiom's original meaning/intent seems apt.
How much of this is simply attributable to parents who love to read inculcating their kids with a love of reading -- as opposed to the presence of the books themselves?
Allowing the fabs to be in the hands of private investors and under a dictatorial government is well beyond "the nature of the beast".

That level of secrecy and lack of accountability is not a necessary evil.
I use Himalayan Pink rock salt.
It comes from Punjab. I wonder if it's affected too.
Once you understand kinds, it's not so hard to understand typeclasses and monads. Type classes are a way to overload functions in a controlled way, by defining a set of function signatures where the overall typeclass is parameterized by a type constructor of arbitrary kind. I cover this in my blog post here: http://www.calebh.io/Monads-as-Programmable-Semicolons/
That's a tough one.

When I started using Google services, I knew they were siphoning my data and using it personally and as a group to do machine-learny things. TANSTAAFL. I made that choice voluntarily, knowing they weren't going to be upfront about it.

I also made $8.35/hr at a crummy job when I made that decision. I couldn't afford the services Google offered for free from anywhere else.

These days, I'm working as a competent sysad, making appropriate pay. Now, I can afford for-pay services that can supplant various googly-eyed services. But now, my problem is different: how do I know non-google company doing X that I pay for isn't also making similar deals with advert companies? How do I know my data is private?

Obviously, Google is a SPOF in many ways. I don't like that. But the converse is to pay individual companies for service, and hope they're better than Google with respect to service, privacy, and ethics. But those are awfully nebulous to gauge.
It won't be missed.

It especially sucks when the band sounded like they were doing something interesting before the fade-out. The ending to the song "Demon Cleaner" by Kyuss is midway through an amazing solo when the fade-out occurs.
I disagree. This incentivizes the fostering of an environment where these are the only choices available to people.

It does not help laborers anywhere in the world to exploit labor and further weaken places where labor has already organized and achieved protection.

This is a fundamental failure of capitalism and a particularly harmful neo-liberal belief.
I would guess it's to make the device maintenance sustainable, providing a revenue stream to the company to keep providing support and system/security updates for an extended period of time.
Yes and it was much more difficult to write mocks and unit tests back then!
In praise of idleness by Bertrand Russell is a great read on this topic

But also keeping a journal and writing everyday and analyzing the thoughts you have is incredible for slowing down time and cutting out fluff in life.
Back in the day before WiFi became ubiquitous Internet cafes were pretty common in a lot of cities. We still have them but we pretend they're coffee shops and subsidize seats with coffee purchases and assume the economics work out in the end.
It gives us a bias to action. Ultimately, our brain's job is to make our muscles do stuff to keep our body alive and reproducing. A brain so paralyzed by self-doubt and indecision that it never takes action wouldn't last too long.
As suggested in the post you replied to.
Why is Palantir considered a data company? Do they sell data? Or provide access?

My understanding is that they are a software company. Software that links together data and makes privacy concerns more relevant.

But if Palantir is a data company, then so is Oracle, SAS, etc.
They will be incentivized to pay for similar American goods and services which will be better for the economy in general.
"One of the oldest and most ubiquitous food seasonings might be killing you. Find out after this commercial break..."
The US is both a democracy and a republic. The terms are not mutually exclusive. To the contrary, it is much more common to be both than to be just one or the other.
That's cheesy fiction.

Good fiction trains your mind to understand different world-views and other peoples' narratives of themselves and the world (as opposed to satisfying yourself with your own narrative as the "objective truth").
Chaos monkey guide for engineers
Or lock a child in a room full of books for several hours each day as Liebnitz's father's will required to be done to Liebnitz (this may be an apocryphal story).
In elementary school we would have assigned reading periods, during which we were supposed to read one chapter of the book we were on. Turns out that if you read five chapters instead you just fail all the quizzes because you don't have a fucking clue what happened in chapter 12, given you read that weeks ago and can't really tie chapters to events anyway.
I haven't purchased one yet, but the Oura Ring is supposed to be exceptionally good for this.
Yeah, headphone jack and wireless charging are the only things missing from making ph1 the top. If they'd had a headphone jack and wireless charging and sold at 400 originally they would have killed the market
That rule has been broken several times in fiction.
It’s not for the police. It’s initially for the TSA.
Wouldn't a complete history of every App you're ever downloaded from the App Store be super useful to law enforcement to know which third parties to get a warrant for?

Apple may not collect that much data, but they enable a platform which allows massive data collection. They're not exactly banning Facebook from the App Store are they? In a way, this allows them to have their cake and eat it, by avoiding criticism from 1st party data collection, but selling a curated platform that deliberately approves of it from third parties.

If the FBI founds out you downloaded a white nationalist, or Islamic app, they now know where to continue their fishing expedition. This isn't exactly benign information.
>Second, you risk AWS being seen as non-neutral based on the whims of employees' feelings about a company

God forbid workers have say in how their work is used, instead of just being robots. Smart enough to build the technology, but apparently not qualified enough to have input on limiting its nefarious and anti-social uses at the hand of an executive branch the employees probably don't favor.
Bitmovin (YC S15) Is Hiring a Sales Operations Analyst in Chicago
The documentation of creating partitions [1] says this:

"When creating a hash partition, a modulus and remainder must be specified. The modulus must be a positive integer, and the remainder must be a non-negative integer less than the modulus. Typically, when initially setting up a hash-partitioned table, you should choose a modulus equal to the number of partitions and assign every table the same modulus and a different remainder (see examples, below). However, it is not required that every partition have the same modulus, only that every modulus which occurs among the partitions of a hash-partitioned table is a factor of the next larger modulus. This allows the number of partitions to be increased incrementally without needing to move all the data at once. For example, suppose you have a hash-partitioned table with 8 partitions, each of which has modulus 8, but find it necessary to increase the number of partitions to 16. You can detach one of the modulus-8 partitions, create two new modulus-16 partitions covering the same portion of the key space (one with a remainder equal to the remainder of the detached partition, and the other with a remainder equal to that value plus 8), and repopulate them with data. You can then repeat this -- perhaps at a later time -- for each modulus-8 partition until none remain. While this may still involve a large amount of data movement at each step, it is still better than having to create a whole new table and move all the data at once."

[1] https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-createtab...
“Microplastic content varies dramatically among different brand of salts and is especially high in those consumed in Asia. Based on an average microplastic content of 506 MP/kg for all salt samples including an Indonesian outlier sample, it’s estimated that an average adult consumes approximately 2,000 MPs per year through salt.”

Need to find a micro plastic free salt ASAP.
+100 for Webstorm support yes! :)
Yes, it does vary by state. Of course what I wrote shouldn't be taken as any sort of legal advice, it was water-cooler talk only.

Here is a handy chart that describes each states approach to the issue (note: the majority match up with what I wrote)

https://www.faircompetitionlaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/0...
Ask HN: I set up my own domain for my email and it's all going to SPAM
I set up my email to work with my personal domain through Fastmail. So the email is Me@mydomain.com and it seems that my emails are going to spam in gmail/hotmail/more when I try to email other people. The domain has been mine for several years and not used so it has not previously been used for Spam.

The question is, how do I get out of having my own email labeled as spam by the big providers?
It would be nice if websites and web apps existed on different layers, so you could opt out of either if desired and know exactly what you’re going to get on both.
The JSON/JSONB columns and the JSON navigator options are amazing. MySQL isn't even close yet, they have a JSON column that's basically opaque. Other column types like the INET, CIDR and MACADDR are often invaluable.

You can also index ARRAY columns, meaning if you need a "tags" feature it's ridiculously easy to implement, no need for additional tables.

There's also PostGIS, which has no MySQL analog, and makes doing actual real-world GIS work possible.
Great, thanks! It looks like they didn't account for family wealth unless I'm mistaken.

In the omitted variables section:

> However, prior research using longitudinal data from Australia with corrections for
measurement error showed that a substantial impact of home library size on adult education
existed net of the effects of academic ability (IQ) of adults or their father’s scholarly habitus
(i.e. employment in occupations where use of books is common) as well as family income or
wealth (Evans, et al., 2010).
The “claim” the original poster complained about also hedged with the word “could”—it’s in the title ffs.

I am really tired of people talking about correlation and causation and completely ignoring carefully hedged phrases. Can we save them for when articles actually make concrete claims about causal links? There’s still interesting stuff here to discuss, and you can even soapbox your favorite theory. But there’s little to gain from actually discussing the (obvious) lack of causal link here.

Unless you can point out how you’d improve the study—it’s not entirely obvious to me what the next step would be as I’m not a scientist.
At an early age it is important to have contact with physical objects. (And no, an iPad wouldn't cut it.)
An Introduction to GPU Programming in Julia
I was not aware that the classification of organic/inorganic made any difference in the health value of a substance.
Well, not in my country. We do it in place.

Which proves that "votes have to be transported to be counted" is not some inevitable byproduct of the paper-voting process as the parent made it sound like.

Perhaps Chicago could adopt counting in place?
Apple Invites Media to October 30th Event in New York City
That record is completely ruined by the very bad recording
I Think It Is, I Think It Is About The Money Raven Stole From Mt Gox.
This is great! Thanks so much for sharing it!
I do so love that they can mock him via song. I can’t imagine being able to do this for any previous prime minster while poor Scotty M is once again ripe for mockery.

I do wonder how long his website will remain this way before lawyers and such are engaged as a .com.au requires actual business details to be provided to the registrar. But I’m not an expert on Australia’s domain name jurisprudence so this might be interesting to watch.
Do the light activated resin based ones have the same (or maybe worse) problems with pollution as the other types?
"The offering was made up of two coupons: $1.5 billion worth of eight-year notes with a yield of 8% and $500 million of five-year notes at 7.5%, according to the Financial Times"