skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What ecosystem? What developments? What use case?

Again, its been like 10+ years now of 'cryptocurrencies' and its failed to provide a use case apart from 'speculating' and getting yourself uninvited from family Christmas.
I think the comment was a dig at the stiff enunciation, not necessarily the content. Anyways, enjoyed the conversation.
Yep I think we see eye to eye on all of that. With a clarification that SF is great in particular for having professional, tech- or entrepreneurial-focused conversations, but that social scene is pretty weak otherwise. I've found that, except with those close to me, my conversations in the Bay Area very quickly transform into talking about what you're working on or what credentials you have. People here generally don't seem to want to talk about much else, whereas my experience chatting up strangers in Tokyo and Shanghai is that people actively avoid talking about their work, and my friends in Bangalore compare the social scene there vs SF like night and day.

And as far as I can tell a lot of my friends have the same thoughts—it's not just Bay Area natives who can't afford the cost of living who leave the Bay Area for greener pastures, but also tons of disillusioned techies themselves—so the people deriding Californians in this article might rightfully complain about that group.

Thankfully being in software provides a benefit inaccessible to most—the flexibility to work remote. So I think that lifestyle is definitely doable, and I intend to make it happen one way or another.
The line about US pharma research providing a free ride to other countries is exactly what the pharma lobby wants everyone to think. Meanwhile, they’ve enjoyed record profits leading to huge stock buyback programs and easily capture the majority of profits in the healthcare sector.

Pharma companies are ripping off Americans and we’re letting them.
Your anecdote differs from what I read on the Tesla forums and Twitter, where pepe are being rushed to sign. Go see for yourself, there are many posts. Big oil conspiracy?
> because they cannot provide the services peple need in the places people go to (eg, providing GPs in A&E departments), and people get better care if they go to the right place.

Why doesn't the NHS provide services in the places that people want and expect them, instead of the places that suits the NHS? They're thinking backwards.

If you have a lot of people going to A&E who really need the services of a GP, then guess what? Put a GP in the same place as the A&E.
Brings back memories.
I recently ran across similar issues while developing a web app, https://rap.coach , that features simultaneous audio playback and recording. A lot of people are saying that Bluetooth headsets have to go into a super-low quality mode when both playback and recording are enabled, but based on my testing it appears to be a software issue.

The issue appears when I use Rap Coach with Chrome on Android, but doesn't happen in Firefox on Android. It is very frustrating, getting better control over the audio hardware is one of the main reasons I'm going to end up building app store versions of this thing.
There's also split()

let parts = l.split(separator: ",").map{ $0.split(separator: "=") },
first = parts[0],
second = parts[1]
If you think that's the worst thing people are complaining about, you aren't paying attention.

But this is the same community that didn't see the Theranos fraud, either. Blind eye for Silicon Valley.
In Australia the 'binder' is builtin to the cash register. A simple touch interface allows the checkout clerk to select the vege/fruit that currently being weighted on the scanning platform.
The easiest way to avoid failure is to attempt nothing. This has the unfortunate side-effect of never succeeding.
An iPhone not bought is a Huawei phone that is. As for iMessage and all that Apple has an agreement to host special China iCloud services. Without American soybeans China just mandates less protein in feed. As if biological machinery doesn’t care about politics.

And of course there will be capital flight, no question.

Can’t do business with a country you are in territorial squabbles with or an all out war. IBM not withstanding of course..
How can money get to the barista if it is "not being spent by others"? All the barista's income is coming from wages spent by consumers on coffee.

The point is, gp said "it isn't unreasonable" with the implication that nobody would notice (eg, "enough to cause people to massively switch to instant coffee"). That isn't a safe position - it is likely consumers of coffee will have to cut back on something. They would notice.

On your specific point that you think allocating more resources to baristas will help the economy - why not allocate the baristas to doing something more useful, where the market rate for their time is higher than $10? Allocating more to baristas is a lot of things, but it is not an evidence based strategy for increasing the general prosperity. What is it that these baristas lack? Maybe they should be trained to produce that thing, instead of getting handouts or fighting with their employers?
While I understand your sentiment, I don't think it's a real issue with pretty much any modern IDE.
Really? People are plenty productive on a single monitor every day. I have no idea what you do or who you work for, but it seems like "need" might be a bit of an exaggeration.
What is the key skill that the best data scientists have?
I had an unusual Toyota experience that really pissed me off.

The buying experience was ok. Negotiating the price was annoying but I called a bunch of places for quotes, asking each one to beat the last one, and stopped when they started to say they couldn’t. Everything was fine until much later when I was buying my next car and trading this one in. Turned out the dealer had filed a lien with their finance division even though I bought the car outright. Just finding the right person to contact was a major pain. (Toyota Financial had to do the work to release the lien, but they wouldn’t do it for me. The dealership had to ask them.) Once I did, I had to call repeatedly to get them to move with any sort of speed. (I discovered this problem on Monday and was trying to buy on Tuesday.)

I realize this is not the typical experience, but it certainly left me eager to see the whole dealership system burn to the ground.
Your link is provider admin costs. IIRC insurer admin costs are 3% for UK and 5% for Canada.
I don’t know enough about the social credit stuff to refute your characterization of it, but a financial credit score very much follows you even if you somehow end up with more money. Point is, a credit score often closes avenues by which you could get more money, hence the cyclical and punitive nature of it.

The scare quotes of “the greater good” you used for the social credit system can equally be used to characterize credit scores as a way to control people’s financial and employment and living prospects in the interest of the “greater good” of financial markets. I think the idea that markets and the finance sector setting credit scores that have far reaching impacts on people’s lives is somehow categorically different than the state implementing a social credit system that might have similar outcomes isn’t correct. So we should talk about them in similar terms.
If the at-fault party to your accident had auto insurance or you had uninsured or underinsured coverage, you should have felt no compunction at riding the ambulance. Auto insurance would have covered your damaged vehicle and your health care costs after which your lawyer would be able to demand from the at-fault party's insurer a cash settlement for the identical costs already paid to the hospital, EMTs, et cetera (essentially paying out twice). Your attorney would take 30 percent and you would deposit a check for the remainder. U.S. health insurance doesn't have the monopoly on insanity.
Ah, but Wikipedia covers that in the very next sentence:

>The laws of some countries describe hate speech as speech, gestures, conduct, writing, or displays that incite violence or prejudicial actions against a protected group or individuals on the basis of their membership in the group, or disparages or intimidates a protected group, or individuals on the basis of their membership in the group.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech
The “story” of Iceland and Greenland
Given how hard technology is at the moment, and how many issues people have with it, I highly doubt we're going to get to widespread literacy around bitcoin best practices.
I rented office space for a while. It was pretty worth it. I much prefer having a room of my own at home though. If I'm going to work remotely, I want to reap the benefits. For instance, I can cook healthy food for lunch and not have to microwave it. I can take a break to go play with my dogs. I can go to coffee with my wife. If I'm commuting to an office anyway, I might as well be working for some company in their office.
This is the same idea as Hondas assembled in Pakistan from knock down kits to avoid a import tariff. I doubt any of the parts will actually be made in India, they'll be importing the pieces and hiring workers to do the manual assembly.

https://www.pakwheels.com/blog/cbu-skd-ckd-vehicles/
I’m more interested in knowing how a Pac-Man ghost got out of its cage
A frame that was useful for me has been this: MDMA is useful for integrating existing information and experience (trauma, childhood stuff, etc).

Classic Psychedelics (LSD, DMT, Psilocybin) are useful for generating new information which then needs to be integrated.

MDMA was a much more predictable space to work. Psilocybin tended to take me to deeper as more frightening material - often on the cultural level.

I don’t think I would take psi to work with mania / hypomania; with MDMA it has worked beautiful to create more space to integrate and express the part of myself that was frightening.

That said, I have much more experience w MDMA in a therapeutic setting as an adult, and I could see how Psi could be just as effective.

If there is trauma to be dealt with, I’d personally start with mdma — but again, I’m bias from my personal experience.
I disagree with some of them being unused. This page lists some units like “rack unit” (length) and “jiffies” (time). They are domain-specific but not unused by any means - physical servers are measured in these rack units (1U, 2U, etc) and jiffies is a common way to measure time in kernel development.
I'm getting a 301 on cake.co

(Firefox 64 on Fedora from India)
University libraries are usually pretty great if you can find one that permits non-student access - depending on your city they may have better internet than the public library.

If you can find coffee shops that are inside business parks or college campuses, those too usually have great internet and plenty of outlets. Employees at those kinds of locations are also unlikely to bat an eye at you camping out for half the day while you work.

But yeah, for me its a circuit of home, coffee shops, and libraries.

If you're working full time, or have a long-term contract, I'd recommend at least trying a co-working space. It seems silly to pay 300 bucks for a desk, but it can be nice if you 're working steadily and can afford it.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see some price drops across Tesla’s lineup next week when their federal tax credit gets cut in half.
Mai Lan NTP – A Chrome extension to customize new tab page
I’m not sure who “we” is or what varieties of “whataboutism” “we’ve” universally decried, so I don’t know how to reply to this.
Building a Camera That Can See Wifi – Radio Telescope V2 – Part 3 SUCCESS
I can't tell if you're trolling or not. I hope you understand how the U.S. Bill of Rights works?
Top Vine Video 2018 #192 Funniest Jokes Composition Videos FunnyCube
Actually, with 20+ years working in financial services, I’d say the transactional RDBMS table as queue pattern is by far the simplest, most reliable, and almost always the best choice queueing system for business applications.

Every other queue system I’ve encountered has terrible failure modes, buggy clients, weak semantics, and huge serialization overhead.
It sounds like they've just ported rdesktop to the TVs app store.
Ask HN: Who will be the successor to Google Docs?
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How to lua and c – a short novel
The speed of emacs combined with the learning curve of vim.
Huh. Not my experience at all.

Had a loose headboard near the sunroof. Had an appt and fixed inside of a week. I'm sure there's outliers as there would be with any high volume product but I find it suspect that these type of things wouldn't get sorted out in warranty.

For what it's worth I've seen much worse. Our last tractor we bought didn't have a driveshaft connected(!) so 4WD was kaput. Once that was sorted someone put a bell housing on in reverse so it was making a lovely metal-on-metal sound(!). This is all from a very well regarded brand and a high volume dealer. Screw ups happen but unless you're dealing with a fly-by-night company they'll get sorted out since everyone hates bad press.
Is there any utility in logic programming like this?

I'm not trolling, I really don't know. All examples I've seen so far seem to be easier to achieve from "normal" Python or similar...
And studies show there is no correlation between best paper awards and citation count (actual research impact). Given that program committees are typically hijacked by faculty from elite schools and awards mostly go to faculty from elite schools it is evidence there is something wrong with the CS research community as it rewards elitism and not actual research impact.
I only looked because of my fondness for this video that uses juggling to good effect to teach math in an entertaining way:

https://youtu.be/GNKFSpJIBO0
It’s not constitutionally protected in basically any other western country for example, what is so bad about the way those countries work?

Is the USA an improved society because of this?
Most of those are either bugs, not features, or just have nothing to do with cryptocurrency and can be (and have been) implemented on top of our existing banking infrastructure (or it's reasonably non-trivial to create new infrastructure for it).
I agree. Fortunately I have been working on family bonding since beginning of 2018. It so happens that we take close family for granted and end up paying more attention to our work, colleagues and friends. But just like any relationship, family bonding needs work. Our cousins do it by grooming and eating lice off of each other. We should do something similar, appropriate to modern standards.

Vacations, however short, work pretty well.
Very few people in the field are competent to design security for health systems. No shame in being like most professional software developers. Immense shame in causing a life-altering breach because you couldn’t recognize the limits of your expertise.
Transformer explosion. Power reportedly out at LaGuardia.
I have had it work on multiple hardware, software and headset combinations over the past 15 years, perhaps you just had a bad combo?
That page doesn't mention marijuana. I don't think marijuana is classified as a narcotic, despite the vagueness of the definition.
So this is the thing now? We don't believe freedom of speech is a good thing anymore? Who decided this? I don't recall being consulted on this. Not that I'd think of arguing, mind you! I'm loyal, I swear!
Tell me you didn't give that lowlife a sale.
Using a database as a queue is a well known anti pattern.

http://mikehadlow.blogspot.com/2012/04/database-as-queue-ant...

Transactions make the problem worse with locking.
That's excellent. Man, where are such lawyers today???
>An iPhone not bought is a Huawei phone that is

People outside of China aren't going to buy Huawei phones, partly because Huawei is being banned from western nations as we speak. Android phones are not really substitutes for iPhones, customers demand iPhones specifically so that doesn't really make sense.

>As for iMessage and all that Apple has an agreement to host special China iCloud services.

China mandates data localization for Chinese user data, that doesn't change anything about iMessage and FaceTime's end-to-end encryption.

>Without American soybeans China just mandates less protein in feed. As if biological machinery doesn’t care about politics.

When China stops buying soybeans from the US, it hurts American farmers. They are substituting them with soybeans from Brazil. But harming Apple isn't just harming American interests, it also harms their own. That's why Apple is pretty safe from any retaliation.
This is one of the painfully obvious facts that tend to be totally ignored by most. Even if you formally verify all of you code it does not mean that you have covered all the possible states of the outside world. And this can mean both unexpected states on the outside and unexpected hardware failures.

On one project I work with guy with significant railway signalling experience and this is one of the issues that I'm somewhat unable to explain to him. Probably because our product's design target is not to fail-fast-and-safe but fail-secure.
Ah yes, a board made up of 5 people who work on this in their spare time is expected to be as organized as multimillion-dollar nonprofits. /s

Sarcasm aside, I don't know what decisions you're referring to which "aren't made at all, anywhere" -- the board agreed to a cost increase for server hosting earlier this year so we could switch providers.

You put "website" in scare quotes, and I don't know why -- in fact they deployed a new website last week, which is much better organized than the previous one was.

The point is, Haiku, Inc. is not as responsive as we'd like, indeed. But the money isn't going into a black hole, and they do pull together to get things done when we really need it.
Mpi is pretty cool, I did a silly hack on Linux combined with mpi to update the command name programmatically with the status/percentage complete so you could monitor progress of all the jobs via top.
So why haven't you?
AirPods aren't BT5.
""" can't behave like this, because it won't be able to include """ itself in the string. The """# case is handled by using more #s:

##"""
in string """# still in string
"""## // out of string

Swift has two types of string "..." and """...""", either of which can have zero-or-more # at the start and end.
it's not purely financial. If you're a tenant and you get in a non-financial dispute with your landlord, for instance, your credit score can be affected easily.
That’s one opinion, and ignores the reality that almost all message passing systems need to store state in a database.

Read all the comments on that post.

Transactions make the problem easier, not “worse”.
That call was not about the WGFM working group for financial markets. That call was to try to calm markets “hey everyone the banks are fine!” Which naturally led many investors to question “Were we supposed to be concerned with the financial system after many months straight of assurances nothing whatsoever was wrong?”

The call to the wgfm was after the markets closed on Monday.

They just talked about convening on Monday from Sunday’s call

https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/finance/news/morning-brief-mnu...
You didn't need a CA license, just an address. I actually got my card the day after I moved in to my apartment. (In my defense, I have scoliosis.)
yes please! maybe a gist?
Just use sci-hub.
I was one of the students in those classes and appreciated having someone with more technical depth in the class. I ended up making notes in every lecture of questions to ask the real experts during the breaks. I remember questions to Randy produced tangential stories rather than answers.
>This is weird. Why am I having to explain such fundamental basic decision processes to somebody on HN?

I don't know, but you clearly explained my (and others) point and then go on some bizarre tangent about the foundation of our modern economy.

To wit:

>Yes, if you took their first pick (or if someone else had come first and chosen it) they'd be left with a reduced pool, which would then be evaluated independently, and they'd choose the "second best" pick, aka, the new first pick

Exactly. And with photographers, like with apples, you have to go through a lot of apples before it matters. Which is why when you say things like this:

>Yet in actual fact they (and more to the point a clothing sponsor engaging in commercial advertising use) did not do that, they chose his. However many hundreds/thousands of people with cellphones and other cameras, however many hundreds of thousands of random people in the country they could have just given a camera and had a specific official hired "photographer" to take photos that they'd own the copyright to, and yet they didn't and just took someone else's without asking instead.

You're wrong. There's nothing special about this guy or the photograph he took.

>Either all photographs are equivalent in which case there is no reason not to choose one that is free, or there was something better about that one in particular which is why it specifically was highlighted amongst all the others.

They chose it before they knew it wasn't free. Five posts into the thread and that never occurred to you?
Start with contracting

Any advice on how to break into contracting? I'll start a blog (I enjoy writing, so blogging should be fun) and create a LinkedIn account - any other steps?

often the solution will be a mix of better software and review of the processes

This I think I can do well. Is this your business? Do you offer advice/solutions to small businesses? If possible, can you give me an example of a typical project that you do?

Thank you for taking the time to reply
I'm not making a sweeping claim, I'm asserting something more akin to a null hypothesis. The extraordinary claim is the one that suggests cryptocurrency has lots of benefits when all the available evidence points to the reality that it is mostly a toy.

Posting a page full of quora answers as your response is not a practical way to have a discussion. If you have a point to make I encourage you to lay it out here so that I can address it, I am not going to spend time constructing a response to a page of quora answers you took 30 seconds looking up on google.
> I just want operations like "insert a number before the last period" to be easier to do.

Stuff.tar1.gz would like to have a word with you.
To get a feel for the language, take a look at the source code (which is, naturally, written in K&R C). The compile times must be amazing - it would probably take something like a couple of seconds to rebuild the entire compiler using itself.
Disable voicemail. This should frankly be the default anyway - voicemail is a relic of the past. Nowadays we have SMS or email for those who want to leave a message.

Alternatively create your own voicemail (using Twilio or Asterisk or similar) and change the call divert settings to divert to your custom voicemail instead of the default one.
consider the ratio of openings to qualified job-seekers in specific disciplines

Where do you find these?
Anyone here speak Chinese?
In my experience, Sociology majors are no less prone to "trolling, harassment, manipulation via misinformation, blackmail, and so on" than the general population. More so, in fact.