skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One point that I'm not seeing clearly articulated in this sub-thread: The US is widely rich. A lot of people can afford to buy things for status-signaling, no matter how silly you and I find it.
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Another popular plastic (in addition to PLA) is ABS and that is definitely recyclable but not biodegradable-- it's the same kind of plastic Lego are made out of
There was a point a few years ago when most of my IMing was on Google. Now it's largely moved to Facebook and WhatsApp. So, maybe this is the right decision, but Google had what feels to me like a decisive market lead at one point that they frittered away because they couldn't manage a consistent strategy on messaging. And I guess I need to start trying to find the few stragglers I talk to through Hangouts on other messenger services.
So many implementations of this out there already, like tidb.

https://github.com/pingcap/tidb

So yes i can believe it!
No, he's talking about battery cooling, not heating. Cold may make the car not start at all, but the battery should be otherwise unaffected (given adequate protection from the management system, which I think it has).

Heat will destroy the battery. This is why on the previous generation Leaf the battery temperature gauge was so prominent (I haven't seen the latest one).
http://www.autonews.com/article/20180423/OEM01/180429992/for...
It's about time. Autonomy was like the Donald Trump of tech companies.
>So, consider your observation that poor people are worse and rich people better (at making decisions).

Did you read the part of the comment about people going broke who are high-income or receive windfalls?

Poor money-management exists across all income bands and starting savings levels.
I'd say selling stuff to idiots is a pretty scalable business idea.
It already happens plenty. Companies with names like 'uxcell' or 'elegoo' have been making a lot of money off of price arbitrage in cheap electronics, for example.

With things like breadboards, wires, common sensors and microcontrollers, LEDs, etc, there's often a 3-10x difference in price between what you'd pay on ebay and what you'd pay on taobao. Amazon charges maybe $3 to tack prime shipping onto an item and handle the whole customer service/returns headache, so it seems like easy money.

Sure, the provenance is dubious, but if you are buying something from a third-party seller called "elegoo" at bottom-barrel prices, you are presumably expecting that no expense has been attempted.

But if anything, the tariffs have made those bulk-import goods more expensive and less competitive with higher-quality alternatives.
I'm not sure if a clicker game is a good choice for VR. Playing VR takes a fair bit more effort than "open the game" and is hence better suited for deeply engaged titles (something that you are concentrating on and plan to play for more than a few minutes). Clicker games are time-wasters (you're waiting for the compiler or similar and have a few minutes). They are disengaged titles.
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If DO-178B were to be applied to "internet" I would not be surprised if we were thinking that uucp is amazing invention in 2018.

I'm going to repeat it again - we do not have a security problem with software. We have a risk management problem.

There's absolutely no reason for Marriott store information on previous guests past certain statue of limitations. In fact, they could probably offloaded it to Iron Mountain after 180 days. Storing it online has a certain risk profile. That risk was not correctly evaluated ( probably not evaluated at all ) and hence it was not minimized.

Storing credit card information ( even encrypted ) after the card was charged and transaction creates another risk profile. It also was not evaluated and it was not mitigated.

Businesses are obsessed with data without understanding the risk.
TSMC makes Apple CPUs.
But it's immutable (until it isn't)!
Replacing X with an "as good" Y is necessarily bad for consumers. It makes no sense to replace something that works. And hangouts works!
> At the end of the day how much position does a HFT firm hold? If nothing has gone wrong it is zero.

This is also incorrect. HFT firms routinely hold positions for days and weeks. It would be inefficient and strange to literally deplete all positions and begin fresh anew each day. Executing orders with extremely low latency is not equivalent to be perfectly symmetric in buy and sell orders.

I encourage you to learn more about the topic you're talking about, because what you're saying is substantially at odds with how the industry actually works. At this point I'm curious how you would define market making, because it's very ironic for me (and anyone else reading) to hear you say these things and talk about what is or is not "an accurate representation of the big picture."
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> You can get a 50 BMG rifle for a few thousand dollars and put a hole right through an engine block.

So, how does a single, or even a 2 driver truck prevent this TODAY? The only reason I can think is conspiracy felony murder of 1 or 2 people w/ clubs, guns, cell phones has a higher risk than conspiracy felony larceny?

You've concocted a great hollywood heist scene; but if you're Fast and the Furious driving through South America, it's The Rock and the Swat team hanging out in cargo hold you have to worry about; not whether the truck has an autonomous driver or not.
HTTP/2 Is Broken Everywhere
According to this comment[0], it is ACID-compliant. What other data safety features are you thinking might be sacrificed?

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18569031

More info on ACID & transactions here: https://golang.objectbox.io/transactions
IIRC (I forget where I read this), ketamine does one thing pharmacokinetically, but its main metabolites—norketamine and dehydronorketamine—have their own entirely-different pharmacokinetics (which aren't just less-potent versions of ketamine's.)

I don't know about "not the right drug"; but it might turn out to be considered a pro-drug.
I suffer from depression and anxiety. I take medication for it but the one thing that has helped more than anything has been cannabis. Unfortunately it's also hindered me quite a bit. I'm intrigued by this study but also suspicious... It seems a lot of "illicit" substances are being touted as possible depression aides, such as shrooms and MDMA.
This was the kick in the pants I needed to finally take the time to freeze my credit. I don't know how much it will help but it can't hurt, I guess.
I appreciate your efforts and all efforts to improve privacy. The library I was referencing is actually for building Tor servers too, though even just its client part communicates with either a local Tor daemon or the statically linked Tor in the executable, both of which would be subject to the AGPL regardless of the server part. But if the principles are similar to the Ogg lib and liborchid is LGPL/BSD/MIT/Apache/etc then we are in complete agreement. Consider me as one of those that, when the core lib is built/available, will make things with it.
Google Voice? Google Fi?

There may be a more fundamental question here.
I assume you have the option to work remotely then. Sounds like the best of all worlds.... as long as.... (and this gets to what has been IMO one of the causes of the housing problem) ... you do not need access to a hospital or a university.

For as long as I can remember there have been calls to decentralize government infrastructure to rural locations to both ease the resource demands in Dublin and to allow people in the countryside to get a job near their families. By and large it has not happened. And when that has been coupled with the actual shutting of rural services (An Post, hospitals etc) using the excuse of austerity (itself triggered by housing speculation) the situation is just exacerbated.

Good luck in Offaly. I chose to move abroad over a decade ago instead of dealing with the implications of a gombeen state.
> If I need to drive 150 miles in one direction for something and then come back the same day (not uncommon where I live), I don't want to do that in an electric vehicle!

Why not? One way of your leg should be well within the capabilities of any modern EV(the full trip is even achievable by some). Are you going to go 150 miles and immediately return?

> And for those days I don't leave town, it would be in practice an electric vehicle.

The beauty of the Volt is: you are in an EV all the time. The drivetrain is all electric and it doesn't care where the electricity comes from.
Get an unsecured line of credit at your bank for a lot less than 20%.

Or find one of those credit cards with 0% APR for the first 12 months.
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Google is shutting down a product? That is so shocking. To be honest, this is the exact reason we didn't go with Google Cloud. We have zero trust that they won't just shut it off one day, no matter what they might claim.

I do use google mail and google docs, but I always make sure I have anything important saved in a separate location so I'm prepared when these products are inevitably shut off.
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If you live anywhere you can be fired through no fault of your own through downsizing company mergers and the like. My company is being bought out at the moment so I don't know if my job will exist in 3 months.

The only difference in countries with strong Labor laws is that it can't happen arbitrarily and a certain amount of runway is paid out.
The story is informative -- VR games don't sell well, except if you can time to new hardware -- but the math behind the $42.5k number is dubious.

Can I value all my hobby projects at $60/hour too? Over a million USD accumulated losses during my adult life so far...
My view is probably biased since I live in Denver. Every new building with more than a certain number of units (I couldn't find the year it started) is required to have some percentage of units dedicated to low-income / low-rent tenants. So we don't have the problem of concentrated poverty or crime.

It is based off of earning a percentage of median income by county (or maybe zip code).
While Apple's chips are not direct competitors to Intel's, many people think that they are very comparable now. TSMC manufactures 7nm chips and Intel struggles to manufacture 10nm. It seems that they have similar characteristics, so currently Intel does not have clear lead. We just need to wait for AMD to fully leverage 7nm chips, they are direct competitors to Intel and it will be obvious if Intel have any lead.

While I don't like Intel, I really fear that they'll decide to stop progressing and will continue to use 14nm while they still can squeeze any profits. Those tiny processes require tremendous investments and it's unlikely that new players will appear there, at least old ones should survive and compete.
I rather somebody has it in some trusted hand even if they can't release it for another 65 years, rather than lost forever. Preservation of human culture/knowledge is more important than copyright, I know a foreign concept most people will be to ignorant about to agree with.
To me it's not clear if the court is leaving out some context here. "The State" may have mentioned that the counties were disproportionately democratic and disproportionately black in their justification but to say that WAS their justification could easily be editorialization on the part of the judge who wrote this.
https://hackernoon.com/how-blockchain-technology-could-fix-t...
He's talking about "serious winters" as well.

From the 2011 keynote:

> .. the package—which includes heated seats, a duct to direct warmth to the back seat, temperature management for the battery pack
This is absolutely the simplest and probably most effective response to the problem. It does need to be couple with a commitment to building new housing stock by the government though (as pointed out by the article).
This is what first-party isolation is supposed to help with.
That might be sticker price, but I'm seeing the Bolt in Massachusetts for more like $32,000 before subsidies with the upgrades you mention:

https://drivegreen.greenenergyconsumers.org/form_cars.php

So after subsidies prices end up at something like $22,000 vs. $37,000 -- it's a real gap.
Thanks for sharing. These look pretty nice but I just can't get over the price of a lot of these prefab and tiny homes.

From Cover's FAQ page (https://www.cover.build/faq):

How much do Cover structures cost?
Most of our structures cost between $300-400 per square foot, all inclusive.

Seems expensive to me. Isn't part of the promise of prefab lower costs?
that's not $42,500, that's 820 hours
Sure does make for a nice click bait title though.
There seem to be two things. Each community can define channels so I guess you could have an 'offtopic' one. The other is that there are dedicated 'watercooler' threads e.g. https://spectrum.chat/react?thread=257957e0-ef20-4757-b25e-8...
> That said, I still have a lot of faith in what Blockchain will eventually be able to achieve. It might just take longer to get there than we thought.

Why should anyone care more than say... the adoption rate of SkipLists or Bloom Filters?

Blockchain IS a usable datastructure with some interesting properties. But so are Cuckoo Hashes. But no one is going around talking about how Cuckoo Hashes will take over the world.

Its like XML or SOAP, or any other buzzword technology. There's certainly a benefit to the technology, but ultimately the engineering of stuff that uses it is relatively boring.
> The average mark is generally fixed at around 75%

You just made that up.

> So a professor that systematically inflates grades will be called out.

Yyyyyyyeaaaahh...where?

From experience, the average mark given to Harvard humanities undergraduates is an A regardless of quality. Students literally cry in the middle of class if they get an A- because they can't string together a coherent argument from evidence.
Tor is great! Sadly HN shadow bans all accounts created with it. Lots of other services also won’t let you sign up or require a phone verification if you use it.
Focus Factor, does it live up to the hype?
Ah, I was absolutely misreading it. Thanks for the clarification.
What if you just chunk your DOM writes into small batches, and then put them into a queue, which is then consumed within a requestAnimationFrame() handler? A bit of indirection, but not nearly as much as a complete virtual DOM. (I assume this would result in the table "slowly" populating, but the browser and the page should both remain responsive.)
The lack of supply comes because neo-liberals decided the government should stop building social housing. So... yeah.. you are right, but for reasons that you won't like.
~Am I understanding wrong or is Leisure Suit Larry not a classic?~

Edit: I misunderstood
I'd be happy with $60/hr for my day job.
> Skype is still "Skype"

In name only. Even non-technical people know what huge pile of crap "Skype" is nowadays.
Really curious about where you got the data that Apple has 1 billion active user. I know they sold over a billion iphone overtime, but that's certainly not 1 billion different customers buying iphones. Also, I would assume a pretty big intersection of Mac or iPad users also own an iphone, so that wouldn't count as many customers either.
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Poverty is not having enough money. If the gov't gives you money, you are no longer in poverty.

Now, if your point is that the gov't payments don't actually solve the underlying issue, that I would agree with.
>The sports community (especially bodybuilding) knows that for decades.

While true, I would't say that everything bodybuilders are doing is worth following. Many pros do things that are extremely unhealthy. It isn't just the abuse of anabolics, but also insulin - which is relevant to what we're discussing here. There are bodybuilders with type 2 diabetes due to their unhealthy habits while trying to get bigger.
Designing cities to counter loneliness? Let's explore the possibilities
This was my thought as well. I usually buy games from HN to support people trying things, but the idea of spending uncomfortable time in the headset for an idle game just puts me off. If I'm going to play an idle game, it'll be while the tv is on and I'm in comfy clothes or in bed.
At one point Hangouts was super easy to use. Send someone a link and they could join.

The interface was iterated on repeatedly until it got to the point that I could barely figure out how in the world to invite people to join a Hangout without having at least a few people run into problems.

It is my belief that Uberconference exists because Google dropped the ball so badly with Hangouts.

For a brief moment, Hangouts let us live in an amazing future where group video chats happened spontaneously, and then someone had to iterate.
And that's for an IPR, which is the cheap route to invalidation! A similar proceeding in district court would be an order of magnitude higher, and that was much more common before the introduction of IPRs and the PTAB in 2012.

Now, the author is not exactly correct in that the IPR is the only route forward to invalidate a patent. Some other options include ex partes reexam and protest, which may have the potential to be a lower-cost option.

In any event, having pertinent (according to the author) prior art cited in an IDS in the file wrapper could neuter a patent anyways, as any attempt to enforce or transfer it would be severely hampered by its presence. Even any attorney who would take a case to enforce it could potentially have ethics issues in taking the case if they believed the cited art to be invalidating. And no one would buy a patent with such a cloud over it, until all cited art is addressed in a contentious proceeding or in examination it's probably not going to be sold.
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>Being able to send the same emojis to communicate effectively and having blue bubbles is a lot more valuable than you might think

That's pretty hard to believe.
it says "for consumers"

google is repositioning hangouts and google+ as competitors to office 365 teams and yammer. facebook is working on workplace. compared to how google usually kills products, this does seem somewhat foward looking to a near future workplace social battle.
I've been working on DLT / enterprise blockchain technologies since 2014 and have insight into hundreds of projects, a small number of which made it to live production. Here is the bottom line: yes, it's mostly hype, but this technology does have genuine use cases - when you want to build an interparty database-driven application, and cannot find a suitable place to put the database, because of business concerns or regulation. This is fairly niche, perhaps 1% of all interorganizational database applications, but there are certainly cases where it is the right solution. The majority of blockchain projects undertaken still do not make sense, but this is gradually getting better over time.
With either the proper EFI files in the partition or grub already installed in the EFI/MBR: yes, it will boot.
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What is a "blue bubble"?
> The tiny peak at the edge is probably because the edge between the two walls sometimes has white paint showing through, so it's not a lighting effect.

I vaguely remember an old graphics professor mentioning that this peak would exist because of reflected light from the other wall, though I can't find any literature after some light googling. Is this a real thing, or am I crazy?
"You're by far the worst discussion partner I have ever had on HN."

Woe is me!

I somehow doubt you're very high on anyone's list yourself :-/
That's bad. I thought someone would be using a blockchain for some kind of back-end settlement system somewhere, but apparently not.

On the ICO front, the SEC is now cracking down effectively. First they went after the outright frauds, such as the coin backed by nonexistent land and diamonds. They won in court. Then they went after the ones that promised big returns and didn't deliver. The SEC won again. That settled the issue of whether an ICO is a security. It is if it passes the Howey Test.[1]

With the legal ambiguity resolved, the SEC started sending inquiry letters to new ICO proponents with some pointed questions. Many new issuers backed off. Now the SEC has an assembly-line enforcement process running for ICOs; issuers can either buy the tokens back and shut down, register as a real security, or get hammered in court.

List of 934 dead coins.[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC_v._W._J._Howey_Co.

[2] https://deadcoins.com/
I lost $10 reading this post.
You say Intel decided the risk is worth the reward. Are you suggesting that the trade-off they chose is not the right choice for the US as a country? Why? Wouldn't Intel be the one hurt the most by any IP theft?
> The reason PostgreSQL results were omitted is no matter what kind of optimization we throw at it, the benchmark always took more than 2 hours, regardless of partitioning, whereas MongoDB and Elasticsearch took a couple of minutes.

This seems like something was done incorrectly the comparison shouldn't be that drastic.

> Just one PostgreSQL 9.6.10 instance (shared_buffers = 128MB)

This looks way too low. The postgresql docs say a good starting point for shared_buffers is 25% of the server's memory. In this case that would be 32GB.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/runtime-config-resource....
I've driven a Chevy Impala. It drove OK, but it looked and felt really cheap inside. I've owned Chrysler, Chevy, and Ford. It was the Ford product -- that I bought new -- that drove me (in many senses) to the Honda dealer.

I've bought 7 new Hondas since. Why? Every American car I had owned got at least one tow-truck ride to get repaired. The Ford had to be towed to the dealer for service _three_ times.

The Hondas have never left me stranded.
aol - aim

yahoo - yahoo messenger

microsoft - msn, skype

google - talk, voice, hangouts

basically every one took too long to adapt to either web or mobile.
Using TBB has gotten much better over the past few years, often you can stream YouTube without much issue.
I think there's a view that both admits the merits of hunter-gatherer societies and still prefers the modern one.

The way I see it, we've made a huge step back in order to be able to move forwards. Hunter-gatherers may have had more leisure time, but they could never have developed airplanes, vaccines, modern medicine, plumbing, Internet or space travel. To achieve those things, we had to specialize and build large-scale economies. Hunting/gathering was a dead end, whereas our culture still has open possibilities for tremendous improvement.
I'm struggling to understand the comment above yours, but affordable housing is entirely different than rent control. Denver requires a percentage of every apartment building over a set number of units have some affordable-housing units. This lets lower income people live throughout the city, and doesn't attempt to solve the problem of high rents for non-poor people.
> All of this new innovation from AMD certainly arises from that money.

Just to be clear:

Zen microarch design work started circa-2012. The USD$300m deal was circa-4/2016.

It's accurate to say the capital from the deal likely helped AMD finalize, produce, and distribute Zen / Epyc.

But the microarchitecture design innovation predated the cash infusion.
Ask HN: any other IM client that has Hangout's transparent UI for desktops? I really like how unobtrusive it is.
I think the parent is pointing out that the wording on their parent comment is not helping change anyone's mind.
Sure, that's one way to do it, but it also reduces housing supply. This increases housing costs which is really bad for the poor.

The four horsemen of housing cost:

- rent control

- NIMBYism

- zoning

- "affordable housing first!!!"
Notch was only in it for the money! Not!
I don't think that works for receiving incoming calls though.