skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can't these two coincide? As you mention, joy is subjective. For you, joy can be utility, and for someone else that can be something else.

I think it's reasonable to suggest the rule for what things you should keep should be based around what you find good. If you mean utility in the John Stuart Mill way, then joy is the same thing but probably easier for the average person to grasp immediately.
This is absolutely fabulous. Thanks for sharing.
I miss hiew.
I've been using Backslide [0] for all my lecture slides for a couple years now, seems quite similar. Backslide doesn't use pandoc though.

[0]: https://github.com/sinedied/backslide
To everyone, certainly not. To a lot more people? Definitely. Quality of life is better than ever before, worldwide.

We shouldn't discard a system because it's not perfect. The alternative could be much worse.
It's not a violation of privacy. It's just not relevant.
I live in a third-world country, and we have public healthcare freely available for all
I'm sure there was plenty of crap available. Didn't MS pay developers cash for any garbage they shoveled in just to get the "We have XXXX aps available" count up?

The real "problem" was nobody wanted to pay Microsoft for the privilege of having their crap preinstalled.
yes, all those things are just... Enraging.

Having a nice diff-based change history and being able to ignore formatting issues when writing is a blessing.
I'm often surprised by the number of totally valid reasons apps need to connect to the interwebs where you'd think they have no business. Clocks need to sync with time servers, dialers want to get updated lists of spam callers.. not sure what "finder" is but seems plausible that a search operation would need an index to search and even more reasonable that it be server-side. Not to mention reporting telemetry, analytics, errors etc so devs can improve the product. Not saying everyone's a good actor, but just connecting to a server doesn't make them a bad one.
This kind of anti-consumer behavior should be outright illegal.
Ask HN: Tools for sharing info on distributed teams?
I'm wondering if anyone can point me to a set of tools that you use to find/share info (procedures, docs, etc) between colleagues on your team?
And a poor reference to the actual number of babies anyone I know is having compared to any other metro area.
Synthetic doesn't imply toxic or harmful.
VC funding in U.S. startups nears $100B in 2018, highest since dot-com era
So many awesome answers here. I've been through a similar route and have gone on to do a bunch of roles that had tech at their core but were not coding (so think marketing for SaaS, etc.).

I still code, I still keep up, but I get to do that because it's fun and interesting, not because if I don't do it then I can't eat or have a roof over my head. There's a huge happiness difference in wanting to do it and needing to do it.

If like simplifying difficult concepts and explaining them to people you might want to look at a Sales Engineer role. There's a really great YC graduated bootcamp called Flockjay (https://flockjay.com/ and also read through https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18727360 from a few weeks ago). I've been lucky enough to be accepted for the inaugural batch of students. The whole process with them and the first classes have been so much better than I expected. DM me if you've got any questions.
Reflexive ad hominem-arguments (lies actually) against Krugman from people who don't read his articles.

He is partisan, but his economic arguments are good.
> But taxi rides seem an odd hill to die on with respect to this question.

You could say that insisting that you have the source code to all the software you use also seems like and 'odd hill to die on' but I think now the general public is just starting to realise that RMS may have been on to something.
Why would you have to pay it all immediately? The IRS is very helpful with payment plans (this is obviously better for them than demanding full payment and then watching you wipe away the debt in bankruptcy). Here are some details [1] - fees to move your owed taxes to a long-term payment plan (essentially a loan) range from $31 to $225.

And if they aren't, personal loans are possible. Or even bankruptcy! The common thread between these options is that they're better than being $50k in non-dischargeable debt.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/payments/payment-plans-installment-agree...
Can you expand on your subtext for the nonexperts?
Yea.. there would be more total hits for PDFs found on page 2 or page 3... which I didn't analyze. 500 I think is good enough. Enough reading already ;)
> This is nothing new. Google especially has been in this position since the start of Android.

Yes, my Nexus One phone from 2010 had Facebook pre-installed.

To add insult to injury, it had a ridiculously small amount of flash storage, so I had to choose between using precious space or foregoing any security updates that might be in newer versions.
This is why "promises" and "industry self regulation" are meaningless. People need government to protect them from companies' greed, which here means: regulatory agencies with teeth.

"Self regulation" only works when there is a monetary incentive for companies to keep their word, for example in ecological agriculture.

As for mitigation, does anyone know if MVNO users are also subjected to their data being sold?
Before the program cancellation,there were talks on making this happen. They didn't do it, but considering it was preload apps or cancellation, that just goees to show how desperate of a move preloadsare in general.

Source : I was part of a team whose app was getting primed up for a preload on WP8.
I've read that bringing male mortality rates down to that of females would have about the same impact on mortality rates as curing cancer would.
I've been an iPhone user for a decade and am a huge Apple fanboy, but even with that bias, I have to say this is a load of crap. Apple has been adding loads of undeletable bloat since forever. they only really let you start deleting the Apple pre-installed apps very recently. I still have a folder on my devices called "iCrap."
I agree on VR sickness being subjective & is not limited to just VR games.

I cannot play FPS like DOOM for more than 60 minutes, but TPS games doesn't cause any problems.
> If Uber didn't have as much capital, smaller distributed co-ops may well have prospered.

Then why didn't they until Uber came around?
There's a grain of truth in here, and it's true that things available to the wealthy/elite tend to become available gradually to all over time.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that things become _equal_ over time; it's rare to find wealthy people who will purchase the same kind of cutlery as the common person, to continue your analogy - for various reasons (fear of feeling inferior, ego, or just plain being oversold on it by marketing/salespeople).

The point that the article appears to be making is that healthcare advances are applying for the wealthy - but in fact _reversing_ in some cases for the poor. That's not fair or desirable.
I think it depends on your product and where it is at in its lifecycle. If you are building a new product or service, just use an option that is sufficiently stable (Postgres, MySQL, etc). If you are thinking of migrating from one technology to another, you need to figure out which metrics you are trying to improve and see which alternative(s) would provide the performance improvement you are looking for.

That said, when I am making the decision myself, I just go with Postgres.
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>He’s also incredibly expressive, which to a western audience may come across as “cheesy” but I personally love it.

His heightened capacity for emoting is arguably as good of entertainment as his stunt skills.
can't use a mutable string as a map key and remain sane at the same time.
We host our company playbook as a collection of Markdown files in a GitHub repo.
Have you considered that in instances where type inference (I haven’t used Nim, but this is true of Rust, Kotlin, Swift, etc) can be used, having the type follow the variable is vastly superior from a readability point of view?

It didn’t take me long to prefer this syntax to that of Java, C, C++, etc.
Lonely George has died and now an entire species is extinct
I was gonna make a sarcastic remark about how O'Douls and other NA beer must be booming business if alcohol wasn't the main attraction...

https://www.brewbound.com/news/brewers-large-and-small-take-...

Joke's on me eh?
True. But the same qualifier could be used for joy. Things could have potential for providing joy, they're just not providing joy right now.

I guess, if I had "too many things", I'd probably set some parameters and get rid of unnecessary duplicates, broken things unlikely to get repaired and things unlikely to be used in any significant capacity in the foreseeable future -knowing that one may possibly have to reacquire something one disposed of.
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File offsets; not addresses :) I assume the tool isn't reading ELF format files and working out the memory address.
> I feel many here are not reading the article in context.

Agreed, people are having a strong reaction to a criticism of LaTeX that the author isn't actually making.

> I can bet any money that the types of people who will fiddle a lot with the typeface settings on MS Word will fiddle with themes/linespacing/monospaced font-du-jour on their text editor too.

It pains me to agree with you, but I'll agree that at the end of the day, being concerned about typesetting is probably a bit superfluous.

I think you're missing the point though. There's a strong value to standardization in formatting when it comes to typesetting, can you imagine how annoying/distracting it would be if serious journals had minor differences in formatting? I'm not being sarcastic here, it's a necessity when it comes to any kind of repeated publication. LaTeX solves this problem better than anything else in existence, way better than the limited themes and styles available in WYSIWYG text processors.

I made a nice fancy template with tcolorbox for q/a homework problemsets and now that's a solved problem for me. It looks better than anything you could possibly make in Docs or Word, it looks exactly the same every time.

It's also scriptable. For example, I was working on an amateur radio and I needed to save off the calibration settings before I worked on it. I took a video of myself scrolling through the settings, watched it once with mpv repeatedly hitting 's' to take screenshots, and then was able to interpolate the screenshots with the actual content of the Yaesu manual, producing a beautiful manual that described the setting in question, as well as showing what it was set to before I started working. It took me like 15 minutes, and I'm glad that I did it because it saved me a lot of time later on. Try doing that in Word, Libreoffice, or Docs!
Interesting how difficult and rough Jackie Chan's childhood was. He certainly succeeded, but at what cost? This article reviews how Chan downplays the hardships he was forced to endure (e.g. being essentially sold by his parents as an indentured servant when he was seven years old, complete with beatings and dismal living conditions) and instead chooses to focus on the end result, his success as an adult.
That is really not a good news for all of us. The big brands have to stop selling customers’ location data to anyone. There should be some law or act for this.
There are certainly issues of this sort. I've seen references to "environmental racism" where poor neighborhoods like Altgeld Gardens in Chicago are built on top of reclaimed landfills, and the water pipes are all made of lead. And Camden, New Jersey had very similar problems being a site of major industrial pollution.

On the other hand, the upper middle class obsession with purity and organic stuff verges on neuroticism and New Age mysticism. Much of the panic over chemicals involves only trace amounts. Like how formaldehyde in vaccines is extremely tiny compared to formaldehyde in pears, yet it is used as a reason not to vaccinate. Or how sea salt has been replacing iodized salt, even though rates of iodine deficiency in the West are rising, and this is a major problem for cognitive development.
sorry, where did I make an assertion that there is no bubble? you must be confusing me with some other article?
> As Netflix and Spotify have shown, convenience trumps morality

I don't understand what you mean. Is there a more moral alternative to Netflix and Spotify?

It seems to me that Netflix and Spotify combine convenience and morality (or at least, legality), showing that the combination trumps free (pirated)?
I find it ironic that the one problem w/ the cooperative model in Austin is that it doesn't serve the fancy shindig (SXSW) that shows up once a year and then blows out of town.

Meeting the needs of Austinites is a more sustainable business because you don't need to handle the burst capacity.

Somehow the market of people who are flying around all the time seems to get a disproportionate amount of attention from marketers who make catalogs full of stuff like:

https://www.coolthings.com/motorized-monocycle-looks-fun/

Fortunately the "yellow cab" model works just fine at the airport where people show up at predictable times. I did not grow up with the habit of taking cabs, and I've never taken one in NYC, but I learned at some point that if I didn't have a better plan to get away from the airport such as

http://web.mta.info/mta/airtrain.htm

I could walk up to the taxi stand and be on my way and yeah it is kindof expensive... But often about the same or less then I'd spend on parking alone for a rental car in a congested city.

On the way back I learned I could go to the front desk of the hotel and have a cab ready for me when I want to go at 4am or whenever I need to catch an early flight.
Yes, it's insane how media and commenters have latched onto the $29 battery upgrade as if it is the headline of the press release.
For a mostly silly, but probably stress causing account of this: Attack of the Repo Men http://acme.com/software/thttpd/repo.html

Friends of mine swore by your software, never at it.
Hyundai is building a car that can walk on four legs
Ask HN: Flexible dashboard / BI tool with own data warehouse
After spending days to find the right solution, paid or free, to fulfil the following requirements I finally ended here.

I have loads of data (you may call it big data) that I want to present to different customers, so the first thing I need is a role / user management.

Also I do not want this tool to query my databases or RESTful services directly, I want to setup an ETL process that will draw data from a RESTful service on a regular base, transform it (calculations, rename of columns) and save it somewhere.

Next and finally, I want to be able to build a website-like structure where I can connect pages, add dashboards, tables or graphical elements and link from one dashboard to other pages.

Looks easy, but I can tell you, it's not that easy. Why?

* KnowageBI does not have an ETL module, and it is not clear, what ETL module I could use, but this is the first tool that actually allows me to build a website-like structure, so it's the best candidate for now

* ReportServer/BIRT does not come with an own data warehouse

* JasperSoft does not come with an own data warehouse, it does not properly run on Windows 10 (makes it hard to test) and it does not support RESTful services, adding it as a plugin is not possible, neither to the Studio nor the Tomcat-Package, also pushing anything from the studio to the reporting server is not possible, this tool already cost hours of work and the only outcome is blank nerves

* Looker looks awesome but definitly comes without a data warehouse and it looks like it is not the correct way to build a website-like structure, same for Redash, so even using Fivetran or any other 3rd-party-tool wouldn't help

* DundasBI comes for Windows only, it's a no-go

* Qlik - no offense, but the webpage offers a couple of tools and dozens of buzzwords, it's almost impossible to get hard facts or even figure out, what tool would be the one I need
cheers

* Tableau / Sisense - too expensive
I think this is a valid criticism of stock android phones -- even ones sold directly by Google. But it's a slightly different criticism than the main crapware criticism here because FB is really a 3rd party.

I really do agree with your criticism though. People worry about FB's privacy issues, but then totally overlook all of Google's builtin privacy issues.
Ok, but "armchair strategists" at Apple themselves blamed batteries on their conference call.

You want to know the main reason for the revenue shortfall? Market saturation. China certainly has to do with it as well, but generally Chinese fluctuation have been offset by other markets...but now they aren't, due to saturation.
It also applies to things such as using strings as dictionary keys. Immutable strings allows you to use them as keys without worrying about them being modified and breaking things. It's why Ruby encourages symbols as hash keys. I don't know Nim yet so I don't know what their solution is.

It's also what allows Python to do interning of strings, since they can't change.
I recognise his area, but he's pretty general in his commentary "Don't use it to write (anywhere), it's just for typesetting", so I feel justified in using my similarly limited domain to critique.

But I don't know how you expect me to write a chemistry paper without writing the equations? Just leave them blank? Typesetting is instrumental to simply composing the paper, it's not something I can do after. As I said in my initial comment, nothing else will actually do the task as fast as Latex, so it'd be pretty perverse to type in something else. Maybe it works for your domain, but not mine.
How's the quality of this public healthcare? How long does it take for an appointment or surgery?
Bloomberg seems to have it in for Tesla so I take their reporting on this with a grain of salt.

They can easily choose to have a bad experience if they so desire by going to slow stations and avoiding superchargers. Or by using superchargers incorrectly such as by trying to fully top off at every charge, a typical newbie mistake, or choosing shared stations when non-shared ones are open (this guy was in a rental... possibly a newbie).

Also the supercharger network is continuing to be built out rapidly so anything they say here will be outdated in a matter of months if not weeks.
I won't get tired of saying this: SF does not have a nymbism problem as much as a tax structure problem.

The city spends 2600U$S per month household. (11 bil / 360k households). Because the city levies taxes on sales and corporate taxes and business taxes, the ultimate burden of taxes is borne by consumers, workers and business owners.

Thus owning a home is a way to capture the value of all that tax expenditure, possibly with an incredibly reduced prop 13 tax rule. If instead, San Francisco changed its tax structure from corp/sales to land taxes, workers would see their incomes increase, businesses thrive, and real estate residences plummet in value. Think that if every propery had to pay 2600U$S monthly in taxes they would be worth almost nothing.

The most stern nymbism will very desperatly ask developers to nuke his own house if he had to pay that much every month.
Maybe Apple shouldn't have mentioned it, since they are the ones that blamed the battery upgrades.
Shadowrun is the canonical cyberpunk RPG.

Starfinder is, I believe, Pathfinder in space.

GURPS is setting-agnostic.
It could be simply a combination of the specific information of the ride: username of rider + username of driver + origin + destination.
Particularly in Big Tech™, a lot of engineers tend to be motivated by the company mission. You don't build companies like Facebook without a cadre of true believers.
I've had similar feelings... having finally ditched my Huawei Nexus 6P, which I came to loathe. This was after years of buying Google developer devices (going back to the G1). The 6P was the last straw, as I came to resent spending hundreds on something with a soldered-in battery that could be (and turned out to be) unusable after 24 months. The battery was a wreck.

I ended up getting an unlocked new LG V20 from eBay, which is a slightly older phone, but the most decent spec I could find with a replaceable battery. Been great so far, so it's been worth it for $190. Got a couple of spare LG batteries too, for $25 each.

Nice reminder about the ADB uninstall trick, as there's some AT&T stuff that would be nice to remove if possible. I'm also tempted by LineageOS, but need the core Google Android apps - so probably too suspicious to use a bundled install that someone else has put together.
I use hexer for this, which is an editor too.

http://blog.metaclassofnil.com/?p=757

There's also a vim mode for hex, which I use less often:

https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/2232/how-can-i-use-vi...
Yup, it is possible. That was just a hand wavy example to show where the issue is. Symbolic real numbers need not be represented as small programs/objects generating a sequence of digits. But all of those implementations/representations will fail to compare some numbers.

Edit: for instance, you could imagine a representation (think object of a virtual class in c++) that gives you a fraction and a 1/2^n bound for error, where you can query the number for whatever n you see fit. Still, in some cases it's undecidable to determine which number is greater.
This makes more sense for small countries.

For example, I live in Canada and unless you life in the capital of the province everything is really far away.

A lot of people live in cheap apartment blocks of rural areas and it can be a walk of pretty much an hour to get to the groceries store. There is public transit but it's usually every few hours instead of a constant traffic, so you have to plan your entire day around it.

I do agree with your main point that public transit should be one of the main investment of a country.
The difference in your tax bill between $80k of income and $130k of income is $15k. This is much, much less than $50k. In this case the loan forgiveness has increased your net worth by $35k. That's a lot of free money that you're insisting is actually a curse.
> Sufficient loss of reputation points for a down vote etc. would probably be enough to discourage frivolous actions.

This sounds like a great resolution. It's not that I think jerks need to get their voices heard, there should be some sort of detriment to abusive / rude / unhelpful posts, and I think your suggestion accomplishes that without reinforcing the group think. Good idea.
These are elementary school / candy wrapper style jokes, not Dad jokes.
I really enjoy listening to Cliff. 'The Cuckoo's Egg' is easily one of the great books regarding old-school hacking.