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The bad side of me wouldn't mind another AI winter. Today I heard on the radio what was essentially data aggregated and related with SQL joins referred to as "AI". I've never heard another term become as meaningless as AI. Even blockchain is better defined.
You are missing the point. No ones forcing you to use the ambulance. The point is a medical professional is recommending a ride share instead of calling an ambulance. You can say no my crushes hand will be ok and I’ll take an Uber to avoid a bill but that’s not a medical persons choice it is yours.
Much like wage subsidies vs. minimum wage?
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I was calling infrequent voters yesterday, people who need a reminder. A couple didn't know it was Election Day, which may sound weird to some folks here but is not uncommon in off years. Others knew, but had no idea where they were supposed to go to vote. And still others didn't know about voter ID requirements that are new in some states.

For those of us who volunteer to help infrequent voters have the info they need to vote, this data is crucial.
Second the nvidia shield. My original shield is still kicking all these years later and they give frequentish updates.

Although recently I’ve been using my Apple TV more, I like the interface better. Still use the shield for anything I want in proper 4K with original audio.
Because the previous generation could only publicly shame through the press, and the press was reluctant to print potentially libelous attacks.
> It persists because it's the only remotely affordable housing positive legislation that appeals to both renters _and_ homeowners.

It's really not at all, and I don't know where you get the idea that rent control appeals to homeowners (homeowners hate it!).

> New market-rate development that would keep pace with demand is consintently zoned and voted out by the electorate. It's an issue in every city in CA for sure.

There are plenty of other programs which are much more effective. In California, no, but that's not the only place to look for examples.
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They go down, because the only people willing to do huge commutes for any mechanic wage are very poor people who need the work.
Those are all good points. It's not easy.
I've been using MemSQL in development since March 2017. I've seen it evolve into one of the fastest databases for columnar storage and analytical workloads. Having in-memory rowstore as well removed the need to have Aerospike in my infrastructure and simplified the whole stack.

This announcement, that it's now free to 128GB pretty much saved me from having to do a kickstarter to raise funds for my little SaaS project.

If anyone from MemSQL is reading, really thanks for doing this. I think it's a very shrewd move. Should definitely see an upswing of potential customers adding it to their stack and when they grow, become enterprise customers.
MemSQL brings free tier: Transactions for nothing, and faster queries for free
6-core latest CPU, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, plus “apple tax” (design, thermals, build/hw quality, OS, support).

You can build a similarly spec’d PC for maybe $1500, with a better GPU, but 20x as large, not silent, higher power consumption, etc. Many trade-offs, not for everyone.
That implies that all corporate jobs (and corporations) are the same, which, while a popular theme on Hacker News, is not at all true in my experience.
I mean PKS is vmware and pivotal co-developed.
It also reduces organizational liability, which produces the usual externality. <sarcasm> Why does the assistant have a need to know about patient X's medical issue? They shouldn't be able to see that data! Only the Dr. should see it! </sarcasm>
I have a feeling that lots of stuff that translates between a human's conception of time and a computer timestamp have problems with DST. Have you ever tried editing a crontab entry in the hour leading up to the DST change? It won't run until after 2am (at least on RHEL7). I found this out last weekend during the time change.
Replication is bad for decentralized storage, part 1
Tell him that extortion isn't the best way to build a friendship and that if he wants to do something illegal then you'll happily forward him the contact info of some criminal attorneys
I take issue with your seemingly glib dismissal of the transfer of risk to rideshare drivers - Ambulances exist for medical transport, and frankly should be used in most cases, especially in a medical transport setting. The core problem lies with the healthcare system and the pricing of ambulance services, and not necessarily with the decision to use an ambulance per se.
Author here - happy to answer questions or discuss this further!
On the latter, if you don't believe we are a democracy, then I want to see your plan for turning us into one. If you're going to make that claim, you better be willing to put in the work given what others have sacrificed for our right to vote.
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I'm having a little trouble seeing the "injustice". It's probably not wise to "name and shame" over a bad term sheet (your standard recourse with that is just to walk away), but it's hard to see a moral controversy here.
> And yet, within 5-6 years the entire hardware division imploded.

It always seemed to me as-if Sun's hardware folding was just somehow oddly delayed from all the other UNIX RISC players folding around 2000 (because of the unsinkable Itanium and the dotcum burst).
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Hey,

Looking to scale up our orders using email marketing, and other cost effective marketing techniques.

we've been able to get new customers through face-to-face appointments, however this doesn't seem like the most scalable approach.

Our company is justbooked.com

It's a hyper-local, B2B catering service.

We've acquired a list of leads and we're running email campaigns however haven't had much success converting them this way YET... Any advice here would be greatly appreciated!
>In my opinion this is not gonna happen any time soon.

Certainly not when there's so many people like you with bizarre black and white visions of the world.
"I dont understand what the argument of this article is. As someone who has tried to maintain a blue collar job in a large city (im an engine mechanic) Its nearly impossible to live anywhere near your job without rent control."

Although I am not an economist, I believe that the point of the article (and of the economic consensus from both right-leaning and left-leaning economists) is that the affordability issues you cite are actually worse now than if there had not been rent control.

Expanding on that ... rational landlords are going to:

"front-load rent hikes, select tenants likely to stay for short periods, or provide poor service during tenancies if underlying market rents are rising rapidly. At worst, tenancy rent controls would increase overall market rents by raising risks to landlords and reducing investment in new stock, particularly if the controls are perceived as a precursor of more-onerous regulation."

I think part of the confusion is that, other than the misaligned incentives and general bad behavior of landlords, someone who actually receives a rent-controlled unit is definitely better off than those who do not. If you win that little mini-lottery, you've got a definite gain. However, the overall market for rental housing - and any new entrants to the rental market - are made worse off.

If you successfully converted the entire rental market to rent-controlled units, the market would respond:

"That's because landlords confronted with the regulation are incentivized to convert properties to other, higher-return uses. Developers, meanwhile, find new rentable accommodations less profitable to build, compounding the scarcity-of-supply problem that often drives high rental prices in the first place."
The touchbar made me realize that I have a habit of resting my fingers up there. I came to this realization because when I didn't think I was typing anything, stuff would happen. Eventually I realized I was touching virtual buttons on the touchbar.

I don't hate it, but I wish more of the tools I use took advantage of it.

I think it could be massively improved by shortening it a little on the left to make room for a physical escape key. That's about 95% of my problem with it.
Thanks Andrew! (one of our first customers)

geocode.earth founder here, happy to answer questions.

We have great reverse geocoding with OSM and OpenAddresses data.

Feel free to shoot me an email for an invite: julian@geocode.earth
Yes I do agree the first HT generations were quite lame.

Regarding threads, I used to be very keen on them when they became available everywhere, yet nowadays I see them as yet another attack vector.

It is not only the security issues, also the overall application stability, as a buggy thread can bring the whole application down.
He makes reference to the fact that he telecommutes. IBM leverages relocation where they have offices, as an approach to fire a great many individuals. That would be my first concern if I were him.

He is completely right about mental safety in the workplace. Indeed, even as a long time IBMer with a great track record, I don't feel safe by any stretch of the imagination. This affects my performance and well-being.

I wish him good luck.
Assuming that did happen - which I doubt - what's so wrong with that? Presumably they're only willing to commute 3 hours because they feel they're getting a better deal than what they could get locally? Why would you force them to choose what they consider a worse job?
If you'd like to be drip fed stuff like this, we've been running a programming quotes Twitter account for several years at https://twitter.com/codewisdom
Why does an increase in rent wreck people's lives?

Also what does super nominal pricing mean?

And anyone can sign a lease for 9 years. But the vast majority of tenants do not want to make a commitment for that long.

And they could also sign a lease with an option to renew for up to a number of years similar to a commerical lease. But again no-tenant wants to pay the option cost.
Apple's revenue keeps going up. There is just no need to diversify.
Chemistry /physics are such maybe that we have no way out? Don't know.

Maybe robots can make both sides happy?
It would be really useful if the responses offering firm advice on this thread could indicate whether they'd had experience successfully raising VC in the past. There are a lot of opinions about how VC should work on this forum, but the question here is pretty specific. They're not asking whether HN in general thinks this is OK.
My experience was different, things changed within a couple of months although they were both relatively small companies.

The process was remarkably similar even though they were quite different businesses. Middle management was purged quite quickly, shortly after that all the value creators walked.

In both cases the purchaser ended up with a customer database and some residual support revenue. This may have been their expectation all along, I don't know how the figures looked.

I've read somewhere that most acquisitions don't deliver any value for the acquirer. This is why their share price usually falls on the news.
Of course, it's just about where it comes from. There's not a GCC premium edition, or a hidden LLVM test suite, etc. I would never question the value of money in development. I think that the business model for languages and runtimes has (for a while now) clearly shifted towards no-strings-attached usage because the sponsoring/stewarding corporate interests align with the open ones. It seems the only barriers towards language and runtime use are put up these days by those clinging to business models of the past.
Why not ARM? It's seeming like it'd be a very sensible choice at this point, given the performance being delivered for iOS devices these days.
It's an interesting thing to consider, but note as well that much of what the compiler does is for the purpose of optimization (much of which is memory-intensive), for which the goal is parity with modern C and C++ compilers. And while it's true that C itself was designed to compile reasonably on machines with little memory, in practice modern C compilers go well above and beyond what machines of the 70s, 80s, or even 90s would find reasonable.

Ultimately I think the answer would be a mix of "you could absolutely write a version of Rust that would compile reasonably on hardware from 1990", but also that the hardware limitations of that era would absolutely feed back into the design of the language in determining what features and implementation details would be feasible, which suggests that the language itself could very well look very different than it does today, even while maintaining the philosophy of no-GC memory-safety.
OSHA completed their investigation and concluded that they are not under-reporting injuries (from the Q3 earnings call).
Ah, quotes, the method of taking wisdom out of context and greatly increasing the chances of incorrect interpretation. The ancient form of twitter.
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>It's not always necessary or desirable to store all times as UTC. What you actually need is a time plus offset from UTC. Storing times as UTC is essentially just a special case of that where the offset is always 0.

It depends on the needs of the system. For example, a patient comes in, and has a test or takes a medication at 8am local time (12 noon UTC). Now the patient moves one timezone east, and their new Dr. looks at that test/medication record. How do you display the time of that test? 8am (when the test was taken local time), or 9am (the wall clock time in the new timezone). If you care about waiting 24 hours before the next test, the latter is what you want. If you want to know how early in the patient's morning the test was taken, you prefer the former.
The new mac mini seems like a straightforward improvement from the other versions with few things getting worse. I love that.
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All nationalistic jingoism aside, it's pretty hard to deny that Ireland reaped huge profits from EU membership. Considering it started as one of the poorest countries of Europe when it joined in the 1970s, subsequently received billions in direct transfers plus favorable conditions as outlined above, and today is among the richest countries in the world.

That's not to diminish Ireland's accomplishments in the least. The combination of a well-educated population and speaking (something akin to) the English language alone made them predestined to catch up eventually. Being able to engage with their former enemies in the Good Friday Agreement was also exemplary and undoubtedly returned fantastic dividends, both economically as well as morally.

But to deny that being part of the world's largest free trade block was an essential part, or to insist that when Ireland joined 40 years ago the EU was expecting, and motivated by, any short-term financial interests just seems...unnecessary petty?

Because there's nothing dishonorable in that story. Nor are those two aspects contradictory.

Germany does pretty well with an origin story far darker: not only to have started far lower than Ireland has ever been, and receiving far more support at a time where the idea of short-term returns were laughable (the Marshall Plan). But to have caused that same miserable situation pretty much single-handedly, and being the recipient of gratuitous support by essentially the same countries they had devastated in that mad crusade less than a decade prior.
They also have a VP BlockChain in their team [0], despite no apparent use of blockchain tech anywhere, you can't make this shit up

[0]: https://www.engineer.ai/about-us
Keep in mind that the old Mini, priced at $499, only had a Laptop Dual Core i5 CPU. The new ones all have Desktop grade Quadcore CPUs in them. This isn't a totally justifiable reason for the price increase, but it is seemingly a large performance increase.
Eg look at the acquisition of Anheuser Busch by InBev.

AB was a profitable company, but InBev is just very good at efficiency in brewing. IIRC they paid handsomely above market price at the time and were able to translate their efficiency to AB in such a way that the combined reduction in cost and uptake in revenue creates value net/net for InBev (and therefore AB)
For things like ballot initiatives you have a point but for choosing candidates there's really not much to be informed about. You usually get the choice between two well credentialed politicians whose beliefs are and policy directions are almost entirely aligned with their party. And the gap between the parties is wide enough that just about everyone will strongly align with (or be repulsed by) one of them.

So beyond the party heuristic it's not really surprising why people don't bother wasting the mental energy.
Sure. but the argument I (poorly) made was that screen time on its own might not be the only thing affecting sleep time/quality. Think about it this way: if you keep the same amount of screen time, but also do the other things (time playing outside, reading books/comics, playing with in person with friends, etc) then you would prob get the same quality sleep. The thing is that people tend to use screen time as a replacement of those activities. That's IMHO the biggest problem.

As a parent of a 2.5yo toddler, I'm not restricting screen time to my son at all, because I want him to get used to them: screens and computers will inevitably be in his life. But I also make sure to play board games with him, read books and let him have actual play time outside in the park with other kids.
>And yet, within 5-6 years the entire hardware division imploded.

I always wonder what would have happened if Apple had bought them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vloWsdPCDs

CMU had guest lecture by memsql founder about the architecture.

Not sure how much of it changed in past 2 yrs tho.
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Wireless (non-Bluetooth) Sennheiser headphones also take optical input (as well as 3.5mm). Since they're only doing stereo, and require a digital-to-analog conversion on the headphone side, makes sense to avoid an additional analog-to-digital on the transmitter side.
>this argument gets torn apart because "rent control doesn't apply to new developments so it's neutral on new development"

Most implementations of rent control make it difficult to redevelop those properties into higher density housing. After all, if you could remove people from those units to redevelop, rent control wouldn't be worth much. This reduces total housing available which drives up prices elsewhere. Rent control is always a massive wealth transfer to a couple of winners from a massive number of losers.
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The original ThunderX was up to 96 cores in 2 sockets, but single core perfomance was unimpressive (comparable to Cortex-A72).

ThunderX2 is 64 cores in 2 sockets, with 4-way SMT, up to 3GHz turbo, and the cores are way better.

// It's great that they're competing with dense rack servers, I just wish the low end to mid range market wasn't ignored :(
Have you ever visited their campus in Menlo Park? :) you’ll see young and fresh employees all over the place.. they finished their new campus next to their old buildings and are now building another campus next to the new campus. On top of that they’ve bought land around to build a Facebook village for employees. It looks like 5 college campuses in one. Offices in cities like SF are very limited in space and can hold only a few employees. This is true for google, FB, linkedin, etc. Majority of the folks are recruited on teir main campuses in SV.
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> I don't understand what you mean by updated situation? Have things changed in the last month or two? From a commenter above, that's apparently not the case.

Things have changed since Windows 10 was released, yes. The last 3-4 releases have honored your uninstallations; if you remove candy crush, upgrades to newer versions of Windows 10 will not replace it, UNLESS the image used to upgrade marks it for installation. The stock Windows 10 media from Microsoft does not, so stock media from Microsoft will not reinstall anything you uninstalled before you began the upgrade.

Other commenters agree with me, as well. Something situational to you is putting them back, I suspect.

>> it takes literally 5 seconds to right-click the icon and choose "uninstall" then click the confirmation

> And to repeat that again for eeevery damn ad/preload application. It takes a damn sight longer than 5 seconds to remove the ones you can actually remove. But there's still other preloaded apps like OneDrive that I can't remove or even hide.

It only takes me 5 seconds, but maybe my computer performs better than yours. If you're not on an SSD I can see why you say it takes longer than 5 seconds, certainly. You only need to uninstall the one time before upgrading to one of the last 3-4 releases of Windows. I forget exactly which one implemented the change. If you are using Windows 10 versions prescribed to you by your IT department, then all bets are off, because a lot of things tend to get customized in those scenarios and I can't know about those customizations and/or limitations.

If you use a Microsoft account, your settings for ads and other personalization preferences will persist across all devices you use that account on. You don't even need to associate your login details with your MSA, simply logging into that MSA on the account in question is enough to sync up those things.
Then let's have a race to the bottom.

Some people seem to assume that high corporate income tax rates are a good thing, but there's really no proof of that. We would all be better off if every country eliminated corporate income taxes entirely, and made the change revenue neutral by increasing taxes on high income investors and employees. This would encourage economic growth by eliminating resources wasted on tax accounting and avoidance.
> for $34 Billion (with a B)

What does the capital B mean? Is this long and short billions? I've never seen capitalisation used as a notation for that.
Not sure why you were downvoted, other than typical HN myopia.
IBM aquisition is not bad in my point of view, it is big corporation which guarantees stability to the employees.
It is your job as the reader/expert to interpret a poem based on the language as it was spoken and understood in the time period the poem was written.
This is very true. I'd see this in software I worked on integrating ERPs where we'd have support for like 5-10 custom fields.

The best workflows were those were the custom fields were used and just had a nice label (e.g. "Old Customer Id") and not the workflows where some consultant had created an additional UI that didn't even use the underlying fields and did something like write the data to some unrelated storage mechanism and then building reports that are trying to awkwardly mix and match these data sources.
The way tech companies are reducing income to zero by shifting around IP and IP license costs it's sadly impossible to tax income. So either tax revenue (or at VAT to digital goods delivered in a country like ads) or close IP license loopholes.