skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$26 billion is not such a vast amount on the scale of the economy or the stock market, especially on the timescale of years. It is only vast relative to the amounts of money people are familiar with in everyday life. Financial markets are rather more robust than some people think, and can handle moving money around. Do you have a more specific argument in mind, or is it based purely on the vastness of the sums involved?
You don't give a CMS, you talk to them where they are, on the phone, WhatsApp, anything. You give them customer service where customer service is completely dead.
I finally sprung for VMware instead of VirtualBox and running a Linux guest on Windows has gotten so much better for me.
Get started with Roland, a random selection tool for the command line
I've had similar experiences with Uber and Lyft in NYC. I was once in a Toyota Camry that had suspension so bad the car bottomed out on every single bump on the highway. I'm not a master mechanic so I don't know if it was unsafe, but it sure felt unsafe.

I also had a crazy experience with a Lyft in Seattle where I got a driver who must have been a brand new arrival to the country, couldn't speak english, and didn't know how to drive. He literally didn't know traffic laws, tried to make a left turn into oncoming traffic, and almost killed us. Because of the language barrier I couldn't explain to him what he did wrong. I called Lyft safety after that ride and told them the driver needs to be removed from the platform.

At least with taxi companies the licensing requirements force them to do regular safety inspections of their vehicles and require drivers to have some training.
It's the simplest spec I know of, except for the sysex part, which due to basically being "whatever a vendor wants it to be", you can basically ignore entirely. Anything that has to work with sysex is basically an independent parser that you write in additional to your MIDI parser.

Getting it cleaned up, though, will be wonderful. It's about a decade late, but hey. Music industry. It moves at a speed parallel to us, just at a 10 year delay. Looking forward to machine learning synths in 2030!
Ask HN: Scrum vs. Kanban vs. Agile vs. Waterfall – what is working for you?
I was just saying that getting really good performance out of LLVM with Julia isn't always obvious. This isn't just a Julia thing. People starting with Python + Numpy have issues with speed when they don't take advantage of the vector primitives and drop into regular Python loops for part of the code. First time Haskell users are frequently confused when it is significantly slower to parse text than Perl as one of the default string libraries is really slow and not recommended even though it is what a new user would think should be the first choice.

Overall I'm excited for Julia, but have a lot to learn. As far as Octave/Scilab type applications go, I find them useful for small systems where I need to make sure the math of what I'm doing is correct before writing it in something like Julia or Python + Numpy. Excel is also surprisingly good for the really simple stuff (Ex: inverting a small matrix and doing some matrix multiplications).
Regarding c), it's called 'paternalism' because pro-life attitudes, the source of this legislation, have greater support among men than women: http://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-abortio...

...whoops, no, sorry, that data shows 36% of women and 37% of men are pro-life, practically the same.

But maybe we could blame blacks and hispanics? Criminalizing abortion has 35% support among whites, 38% among blacks, and 44% among hispanics.
I'm partially encouraged by this. It's great that a small business is in a position to build their own site.
I know it might can be assumed from the context of the post and thread but are you talking about your twin sister or not? Just pointing out that the chance for funny business (in your family or at your birth or at these companies) is unknown but not necessarily zero.
You can make Kefir very easily. Is similar to yogurt but tastes better because it has also some additional yeast fermentation to the lactic acid.You do not need any device, just a lockable container and the bulb.
The Dell story isn't over and comparison over a 5 year period probably isn't long enough to illuminate whether or not Michael Dell's investment beat the S&P-500. If Dell as a public company outperforms the S&P-500 going forward (which is not outside the realm of possibility), the 10 year return (or even the 6 year return!) could significantly outperform the market. You're calling it too soon.
Ask HN: What are some actionable heuristics to improve your life?
By improvement it can mean any scale, either subjective (well-being) or objective (most basic levels of the Maslov pyramid).

This question seeks to avoid general and well-known life-hacks, and instead explore insights stemming from applying mathematics or other domain-specific knowledge to take better decisions in life by your chosen metric.
That's code for "I've never driven before today and I don't have a license, but my family member let me login to his Uber account and drive his car..."
As I have moved up at a larger corporation, I have come to realize that a lot of decisions are made with less calculation than you would think.
Nevada PERS is one of the worst examples as well, missing it's investment targets over pretty much any period of time you can define.
if you want to check out a nice OSC project I invite you to test https://ossia.io the OSC sequencer I'm developping
While I agree with you that vendors need to be held accountable for shipping crap, we also have to beware that we don't end up in a world of devices we cannot do anything on.

All kinds of jailbreaks, no matter if for the first generations of iPhones, for consoles, or for rooting Android devices, are based on vendors implementing shoddy security. Take it away and whoops, now we as users are fully in the death grip of what vendors and RIAA/MAFIAA allow us to do.
My retry is sitting at -2 right now.
Another thing, don't expect to create a website (for yourself) and have customers come to you. Not even with Google of FB ads. Go you them!

This is a cold-calling, customer facing, convincing business. It's ads in local papers, flyers and talking to people.
That isn't quite true regarding the command line on Windows.

At least since Windows 2000 it is possible to automate Windows via VBScript (JScript was possible as well, but never got much use), COM Automation and WMI.

And every savvy Windows admin has had the Windows Technet shell utilities installed as well.

Just not the way UNIX devs would expect every other OS to behave.
As an option for everyone, not just a select few influencers. You're more likely to buy a Lenovo Carbon laptop if one of your friends post an ad about it than if Kylie Jenner posted about it.
Perhaps you no longer want to force a server-preferred TLS cipher order
The Marie Kondo articles are accumulating! Recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18865361

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18940598
Taxi drivers in the US, where Uber/Lyft started, were already considered contractors without unions & benefits, and they paid to rent the cars with medallion from cab companies (they started each day over $100 in the red).
Does processing-heavy imply it has an RTOS in it? (Do all the things you mentioned have RTOSes in them?)
The definition of "paternalism" does not mention gender (see e.g. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paternalism), so the straw man you built doesn't apply
A lot of it is definitely country specific and I have no clue outside the US honestly. It gets even more nuanced if you happen to live in a different country than where your citizenship is. But these posts still could be useful reading to see what strategies you can apply in India.

From those subreddits, in their about sections, there are additional relevant subreddits for outside the US as well.
You usually work harder at most startups than you would at a big company.
This is at least a decade old... If it was going to become a popular way of running Linux, as some have suggested, what's stopped it so far?
As a small business owner who can see things from both sides of GDPR, I disagree - GDPR really isn't that difficult to comply with.
It's worth noting that the popular Coursera course "Machine Learning" taught by Andrew Ng uses Octave as its tool. This is mentioned in the Octave book's preface; see https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning if you're interested in the course itself. It is possible to use MATLAB instead, but there's often no real reason to do so. I think a lot of people have already decided to use Octave instead, because it solves their problems just fine.
2nd and 3rd order reflections are extremely important to psychoacoustics. Unless simulated, it will absolutely affect a nuanced performance.
There are still GUI tools that help calling those powershell scripts if desired, like the new Windows Admin Center.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/manage/windo...
Yup. And when I’m at the park with my kids and some other child asks for help with something like getting up on a structure I have to say politely say no (I’m a man) for fear of it being interpreted the wrong way by someone. Just the way it is and to some extent I get it.
> The author seems to be upset that the driver and the passenger lost a lot of money/ body parts, but Grab did not lose anything. Sure, but the author fails to explain why Gab should lose anything?

One argument for Grab to be responsible would be that Grab is probably in the best position to estimate the frequency and severity of such accidents and buy insurance to cover them.

Riders probably don't have the information necessary to specifically buy insurance for this, and so if riders have to use their own insurance they will have to make it part of some general purpose insurance which won't be as efficient and will spread the costs among everybody instead of just people using ride services.
Varying resolution is trivial with raytracing, however a big part of the work here is not tied to screen resolution. Lighting is sampled far below screen resolution and needs to be reconstructed over multiple frames. Eye position adds no useful information here. Doing full-resolution "cinematic quality" path-tracing would require hardware that is magnitudes faster.

Having said that, variable shading rate is a feature of the newest NVIDIA GPUs (and supported by Wolfenstein: New Order) and it could be used with a sufficiently low-latency eye tracker rather trivially as well.
Show HN: Small es6 framework for describing / running genetic algorithms
We can just see her as another woman who has specialized in tidying home and is sharing her best practices now.

Extrapolating it to a soft-power attack by Japan is similar to China viewing Facebook as owned by the CIA.
I’m just listing out all the baggage that monolith drags with it. The pct that wants to just listen to music or sync their phone is way hire than those with the expensive air speakers no one is buying. But they all get bonjour by default.
Right, the problem in allowing contributions is definitely clear as day. But a work around is clearly possible through indicating directions for taxes. I remember hearing that idea proposed somewhere, not sure where. You can already elect to add some money to public election campaigns on federal taxes, for instance.

Maybe down the road private operations like SpaceX will be funded enough for stuff like this. Doubtful though.
Rarity, ego and cost. Most blind tests have pros perferring cheaper modern insturments.
To clarify; this is "no government" as in "there is not currently a parliamentary majority, and no new legislation can be passed". This is not the same as, say, the current US federal shutdown (which is also different than no Government), where Federal employees stop getting paid and services shut down.

Also; this is from 2016.
1Blocker X works rather well for me and has a large selection of customizable options for selecting just how much you want to block.
Your comment doesn't make any sense to me. The 5-pin DIN plug was specifically chosen for MIDI because it's a rugged, reliable connector suitable for use in professional environments. If you think that MIDI 2.0 should only use USB and that USB cables aren't suitable for use on stage, then you're saying that nobody should use MIDI on stage. That strikes me as profoundly silly.

MIDI is the lingua franca of music equipment. It controls mixing consoles and effects units, it synchronises music to lighting, it provides timecode and controls recorders. You might not use that stuff, but it's an essential part of the spec that is used every day by professional musicians and engineers.
Thank goodness. I was worried that we were going to see another doxing like the one that drove whythe luckystiff away.
Because no big companies post here. HN is a niche.
If we knew how probabilities worked, we wouldn't be surprised.
We had the discussion of the name here on Hacker News when WSfL first came out. I and others pointed out that these subsystems are, and have been for decades, effectively named after the kernel that is actually left out and replaced by the Windows NT kernel. There wasn't an OS/2 kernel in the OS/2 subsystem, for example.
The BioBricks Foundation, an organization bringing the spirit of open source to genetic programming, engaged me to develop Public Domain Chronicle, a fast, easy, and free way to secure scientific methods and findings for the public domain.

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PDC's disclosure form for findings in biology is shorter and easier than any standard corporate or academic invention-disclosure process, and produces an immediate, public, republishable prior art record.

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It's early days for the project, and we're seeking out as many potential researcher-contributors as possible. We're particularly keen to hear from academic scientists and folks in corporate tech transfer offices who may prefer PDC to expensive defensive publication services.
Alcohol isn’t a great solution for anxiety, it works short term but over the long run tends to increase feelings of anxiousness. Benzo’s are extremely dangerous and only typically used as rescue medication... if you’ve only been dealing with MDs you should seriously consider trying to find a psychiatric specialist who can provide more nuanced care.
this.

japans soft poweris denial od history
If by more popular than ever, you mean a bigger market share than on the beginning of the century, yes that is quite true.

However since we are talking about graphics acceleration, not that much looking at the Steam community numbers, or the posts from a couple of game studios a couple of weeks back.
Microkernels and hypervisors are very closely related in the view of some. Paravirtualization, like L4 Linux, is when the guest is aware of being hosted and, at one time - maybe still, could outperform guest OSes on fully virtualized hardware. I'm not sure if that's all still true since Intel and AMD implemented VTX.

If you want to see a neat demo of this stuff - check out the DROPs demo or TUD:OS http://demo.tudos.org/.

Screenshots of a whole bunch of linuxes (linii?) running at once: http://demo.tudos.org/l4lx_screenshot.png

I think this is from 2003...
Why not just make a simple go tool that just covers that issue and still uses proto thus getting the tooling and expressiveness instead.
In its time, its quality was remarkable. The change is anyone with aged wood, superglue and a cnc can do better now. Then, it was a master craftmans opus.
I am one of the new members, although I visit HN almost daily. I am a very satisfied Kirby user, so instead of doing the "lurker" as usual, I decided to share my thoughts (:
Women didn’t have the right to vote in the United States, until 1920. So, patriarchy stems from that fact. Other countries have different years, before voting was extended to women, and sometimes the pretext wasn’t unconditional, requiring land ownership or other qualifiers.

Meanwhile, “paternal” in the context of politics is an expression for degree of intervention or invasiveness of government overreach, and is less referential to male or female qualities directly. The term often reflects a strict fatherland, and less a nurturing motherland, again with the qualities as abstractions. A paternalistic government is less tyrranical, but more insistent on the adoption of customs, even if those customs aren’t sexist or chauvanistic.

Paternalism differs from “patriarchy” in that a patriarchy directly refers to the identity of the constituents of the regime in control, while paternalism only hints that the regime in question has imposed unpopular policies “for your own good” like eating your vegetables, but not to the extent of totalitarian brainwashing.

Maternalism woulf be more akin to providing benefits and preventative maintenance of citizenry. Usually the prlance for maternalism often gets branded as socialism to cast a negative light.
> the subjects just answered a different question than the one the researcher asked them.

I completely agree with your interpretation. And that is why science education is so important. Thinking like a scientist is not natural. It is a learned skill. You need to stop asking yourself what it feels is the correct answer and analyze it to get a universal truth.

A lot of "controversial" political topics raise from the difference of perceived reality and reality itself. We suck at statistics and we suck at getting the right answer. And, even educated professionals fail to apply that knowledge to all the domains in their lives.
Correct title: Spain has had no majority government for 10 months: Cooperation between parties works wonders.

What a ridiculous article. Seems like a libertarian spin piece to me, completely lacking in any substance. It even refutes its own sensationalist title:

> There has been a government of course... There have been no bright plans to make things better, no more interventions into the economy.

It implies that the only way to get things done is to have a majority party in control. Tell that to any number of European countries with coalition governments, like Spain.
Great info. Thanks again. Interesting to see from your profile that you work with Python, as I do. Checking out your HN post about your PyCon 2015 talk, and your sites ...
Yes, glacier melting should mean more water. That is not what the graph labeled "The Rhine river has been receding as alpine glaciers at its source melt" shows.

Another alternative is that, because temperatures are warmer and there is less water stored in the glaciers during winter and less melting in summer, there should be a wider depth variation between winter and summer but a similar average. Also not what the graph shows.

It seems like it is just less precipitation. (Which is climate change, possibly due to global warming)
There’s got to be a way to do that here. Ie replacing oil power generation with nuclear - say for the largest container ships.
Uhm, compare western European labour laws with US labour laws?
Isn’t it an acceptable fact that Japan is a foil to a soulless west? Why does this have to be Japanese marketing? Can we Americans not concede this to be true independently of Marie Kondo?
I agree nothing is inherently a good or bad sign, there’s no deterministic rule for where to find stock returns. I was just disagreeing that high P/E is commonly veiwed as a positive signal of future earnings.
Was excited when I thought this had something to do with stop codons
Dave Smith was the first to get on board with the project and made substantial contributions to the design of MIDI, but it was Ikutaro Kakehashi who started the whole endeavour. MIDI was heavily influenced by DCB, a proprietary interface developed by Roland in 1981.
>The problem is threefold:

>1) it's not a true shutdown because the military still get paid. There is a builtin rightwing fudge of what gets deemed "essential".

The military still gets paid because congress was able to agree to pay for that. It's certainly possible, for congress to be unable to agree to a DoD budget. Separating the budget process into a series of sub-budgets allows for continuity in areas where there's room for consensus.

> 2) Most governments have a similar possibility of not being able to pass a budget; but, in the Westminster system, this forces fresh elections. The people get to decide on what compromise is necessary to resume business.

Presumably, the government is shutdown until the votes are certified? And how long do the newly elected representatives have to form a budget, before a second election would be triggered? Regardless, for better or worse, the US system does not allow for snap elections, and that would be a big change, especially given the design of different term lengths for different offices.

> 3) Businesses should not make their employees into creditors.

Yes, this is pretty awful. I would be raising some hell if my employer expected me to work without paying me contemporaneously.
I'm not convinced it would be illegal anywhere though. She isn't being prevented from eating there, simply being asked to sit is a particular place, chosen by the management. This is basically the definition of how seating works in restaurant. Your seats are selected for you, and if you don't like it you can go elsewhere...
If you don't like Sir_Substance's comment, read another! There are literally thousands of alternative comments out there.
Well, I really hope they actually decide to do this then, as the concept of YAML (Yet Another Mars Lander, also a serialization language) is starting to bore me. Call me jaded, but I'm a bit tired of looking at pictures of dusty red rocks. I'm ready for the Spaceman Spiff landscapes and aliens surely to be found on the moons of the gas giants. Bring it NASA.

Yes I realize the other option detailed in the article is a comet sample return. Meh, some comets do that for free you know? I say at this point, go big or stay on Earth.
Yes it is. They just released an update as recently as December.
Google Faces Renewed Protests and Criticism Over China Search Project
It's not just IBM, it's really any company that had a few consecutive bad quarters at this point.
There's lots of mileage building on top of pre-built platforms. I know many people who are doing very well, who can barely cope with hosting their sites or write code, but can work and skin other systems.
What's happening is hole-digging. Votes are noisy, especially at small values. When we take that to mean something and then accuse the community, they downvote because it's nonsense. This is one reason why complaining about voting is explicitly against the guidelines—it just makes everything sadder and worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Because its targets were quite high. CalPERS much higher fees missed its similar assumptions.
not knowing is half the fun.
VSCode is the only Electron app that I care to have on my computer, mostly due to TypeScript and Rust.

Interesting how Microsoft manages to do in TypeScript stuff that Github not even with C++ managed to (according to the interwebs), regarding performance.

Now that they are also part of Microsoft, maybe they could share some information among them.
I was looking to see if anybody mentioned Querious.

It’s a wonderful Mac app. I love the interface. And yes the WHERE clause in the view is amazing.
Colleagues who were old school “bleed blue” types had low copay PPO plans, pensions and other fringe benefits. Benefits were probably 30-35% of salary.
>the concept of YAML (Yet Another Mars Lander, also a serialization language) is starting to bore me. Call me jaded, but I'm a bit tired of looking at pictures of dusty red rocks

They aren't doing it for the pictures of rocks, these missions have science goals you know.