skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, fair enough, depends who provides the app. So far the project author(s) seem anonymous.

(And no, the fact of being open source is not enough, at least not until certain popularity is reached)

I've tried many XMPP clients on mobile but I would be afraid to test many e-mail clients.
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Carbon taxes can be offset with a per-person tax credit. This makes it revenue neutral while ensuring that big consumers pay more taxes. They do it in British Columbia already [1]

1. https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/climate-chang...
> This and the "insult the president" sound both like cases of the offender being an asshole.

I fully agree. I think we should start jailing all the people who called Trump an idiot or a racist. That's no way to talk about the President!
Similar idea here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19216077
“Using wood means greater fire safety”

I can do opposite speak, too:

“Using lead pipes means greater water safety”

This fantasy of a charcoal layer protecting the wood from further burning after an initial burn... yeah, just like what happens in a campfire until you shape your campfire like a log cabin to create a wind vortex.

Untreated wood means this buiding will be an absolute furnace when it burns down.

Also...

> When you have a building made of steel and concrete, the steel melts and the building collapses.

Wut. As far as I know, the only examples of buildings collapsing because of fire are on 9/11, which anyone with a brain knows did not collapse because of fire.
Outline.com is great if you stumble upon some article you do want to read. Just put in the URL and it’ll strip away everything but the text and images. Here’s an example for the article for this thread: https://outline.com/RThZjn
"Neoliberalism", or the story of one of the dumbest terms used on economics. No liberals -or "libertarian" for north americans- consider itself a neoliberal. No existing bibliography talks about it, only detractors of traditional liberalism. Then why to add the neo prefix to it?
It's not my definition. I'm using the accepted scientific definition of "toxic". You can't redefine it to match your political agenda.
I'm pretty sure that using a Facebook page instead of your own web site does not absolve you of any disclosure obligations that you would otherwise have.
Also, this happened to be a privatized facility. I do think that's a big problem.

On the other hand, there are plenty of state employee run facilities with similar issues. The conditions vary wildly by both state and specific facility.
I suppose work hard on learning, deeply understanding and practicing as much math as possible, and trying to make novel discoveries / models. I'm certainly not a Tier One mathematician, so I'm probably not the best person to ask. Maybe it requires people to be born with some innate ability, although I'd certainly like to hope it doesn't. Regardless of whether it's actually achievable or not, however, it's definitely a worthy goal to strive towards if you want to be a good quant/trader (and a very intellectually stimulating one).

A nice post on the topic by someone who most certainly is a Tier One mathematician: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t....
Ask HN: Opinions on How Serious of a Problem the National Debt Is?
I know modern monetary theory, we can'd default on debt denominated in money we can print, etc. is fairly popular right now. So I'm curious what the average HN opinion is on it. I personally think that the US debt is an enormous source of potential fragility. But I get the feeling that a lot of people don't or more likely that opinion is starting to bifurcate. What do you think?
Watch out, if you get too good at technology they’ll stick you in the back office and never let you trade, or even see what the pnl is.
In a WeWork currently. It's fine. Better than the last coworking space I was in but I still don't understand why any company would stay in a WeWork for longer than a year unless they only need 1 or 2 desks. The price is just not worth it. Offices are small and loud (glass boxes).

But hey I didnt have to buy a fridge or desks when I opened this office so that's nice.
I've used this in the past. What I find that it's missing is the _why_, not the _what_. It's not that my query is performing a full table scan that I care about. It's why it's not using one of the six indexes that I want to know.

I would pay good money for an extension that could answer how the query planner makes decisions about a given query.
> Namely how to map the cost to wall time. Based on my research so far, andwer is about "you can't"

That is pretty much it. For other database engines' query planners too.

Everything that goes into the cost estimate is at best an educated guess, so the result is never going to map neatly to wall-clock time or any other measure.

Remember: the query planner's job is not to find the best plan possible for a given statement. This would be an impossible task. The planner's job is to try find a plan that is good enough and do so fast as possible.

To cut a short post long:

The cost is an educated guess, based on index statistics where available. Assuming it is similar to the cost calculations SQL Server uses is a mix of expected CPU use, I/O bandwidth use, memory required for the operation to touch disk as little possible, how large a load of locks the process might need to take (depending on the current isolation level settings), and so forth. Because you might have faster/slower CPU cores, more/less of them, faster/slower RAM, more/less cache per core, a lower/higher latency network, a set of drives that are faster/slower for random/bulk IO, etc., than the reference systems this mix was based upon, the cost is not going to exactly map to anything on your machine even if it does on some reference machine(s) somewhere in the development/testing chain.

Those reference machines might not even really exist. In SQL Server's case they are probably machines that sat under some developer's desks in the late 90s, so the balance might be significantly off for most modern use cases. This is part of why MS are playing around with cardinality estimators and other related bits in recent versions: the guesses they used to make don't make as much sense on modern systems, so they are having to be updated to make them more relevant. In some cases the estimates (those applied to table variables for instance) are still a stab in the dark, but they are now a stab that is more likely to be close to correct on modern kit than the stabs it used to take.

This is why index hints are needed. Because of the many variables involved, all the query planner can hope to do to assess each plan against the other possibilities, without a more exhaustive analysis which for many queries might take longer than running the query on the worst plan ever would, is a best guess. If you asking it to do something complex, sometimes you have to guide it towards the better plan.
It offers a way to offset the regressive nature of carbon taxes. Poor people don't have to pay much net carbon tax for heating and gasoline, but rich people with massive houses and heated pools will pay more.
Weasel words. "That's a great question! Mistakes were made, it's a really hard problem, but we're working on it."
You make it revenue neutral ­­– look up fee and dividend, the method favoured by most economists. The bottom ~2/3rd of households would, on average, get more money back than the tax would cost them.
Book Summary: Blitzscaling, by Reid Hoffman
A few years ago I discovered that if you have a phone number and an email address in a contact in your iPhone, iMessage looks for other accounts using the email address FIRST -- even though its ostensibly replacing SMS, which of course is phone number based.

I found this out because someone accidentally put my email address in a contact (see: https://xkcd.com/1279/) and then texted me to call out sick. After multiple attempts to explain that I was not actually her boss, she accused me of stealing the phone number.

That was a fun day.
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I mean, the IMF hosts (but not necessarily agrees with) articles that use the word [1].

[1] https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2016/06/ostry.htm
I'm not disagreeing that cars and their drivers are the real problem, but this whole thread is about someone saying that pedestrians and cyclists need to watch out for cars, even if they're in the right, and someone else calling this "victim blaming". Call it what you want, but it doesn't matter if you were completely within the law when a car hits and kills you: you're still dead!!! Getting on some high horse about the car driver being "wrong" isn't going to bring the pedestrian back to life.

And sure, maybe (maybe) the legal system will penalize the driver, but is it going to change anything? No, because our society has decided that cars are more important and we're not going to curtail our usage of cars at all, and accidents like this are unavoidable because of the nature of cars and ever-increasing traffic. If we built more trains/subways to take the load off the roads, we really could reduce the cyclist/pedestrian fatalities, but the US isn't going to do that; it's proven that it's completely incapable of building new public-transit infrastructure.
If UBI is funded with carbon tax, it's revenue-neutral i.e. the government can't spend it on general expenditures. No perverse incentive. You can also replace "UBI" with "per person tax credit" that's equal to the carbon tax. The point is to make the carbon tax revenue neutral. Real world example: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/environment/climate-chang...
Disguising PR as articles is really dishonest.
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Amazon did something similar to me on a return. I returned a top end pixel book ($1500) UPS said it had been delivered to return center. Amazon said they didn't have it so they weren't going to issue the refund. Despite my receipt from UPS. I did a chargeback, and lo and behold the next day they sent me an email saying they were issuing a refund.

My experience would match lixtra's either get an attorney or write it off, they're punks about this sort of thing.
Glad to know I can add to the "Unicorns that trick people into thinking they are going to get laid" list that I started during the rise of Facebook.
They did not invent the saying, i just did a little googling and it seems they didn't even use it on all the camps. It was preserved from previous wars and it became a horrible sign in the context of the holocaust.

I could see how that specific saying is tainted in German but I do not think it should be tainted for all of history and in all translations because of some unfortunate coincidence. I believe it has wisdom to share
Google Says It Forgot to Mention There's a Mic in Its Home Alarm System Nest
I looked into raising crickets, but most of my research suggested that they aren't any more efficient than chickens. It seems that a lot of the studies we currently have are poorly done or not transferable to mass production.

In addition, the amount of extra work for processing crickets made the project less than optimal at least for a small operation.
It's self-deprecating, self-referencing and satirical - he is pretending to be a creep complaining about creepy videos as some sort of comment on YouTube and the personalities it enables by himself becoming one of those personalities.

At least that's the way I understand it...
Or maybe it's not that deep, and he's just a hypocritical creep. :)
The QuantEcon lectures have a few different multiple agent models:

"Rational Expectations Equilibrium"
https://lectures.quantecon.org/py/rational_expectations.html

"Markov Perfect Equilibrium"
https://lectures.quantecon.org/py/markov_perf.html

"Robust Markov Perfect Equilibrium"
https://lectures.quantecon.org/py/rob_markov_perf.html

"Competitive Equilibria of Chang Model" https://lectures.quantecon.org/py/chang_ramsey.html

... "Lectures in Quantitative Economics as Python and Julia Notebooks" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19083479 (data sources (pandas-datareader, pandaSDMX), tools, latex2sympy)
The way you are doing it? Yes, it is strictly unethical.

You really think an oncology specialist would be unaware of that kind of thing?

Specialists may have their reasons, or they even may be wrong, but as a software engineer, it really is not your call.

The few comments you published here already reveal that your understanding of the implications of your advice is incomplete.

Again, I respectfully but strongly suggest studying some medical ethics.
Starting a company requires a tolerance for ambiguity. If there were a rules based system for how to start a startup, then startups wouldn't exist: they'd be "innovation processes" at big companies, and your advisors would be your bosses

The existence of counterexamples and conflicting advice doesn't mean that advice isn't useful, conflicting advice is just a symptom of startups being uncertain. With a large enough sample size of advice, you can start to make sense of it, understand what's good and bad advice, understand how people's life experience and incentives may color their advice etc. this makes it much easier for you to turn that advice into decisions and actionable steps

If you think about it this way then more advice is better. It's just up to you to synthesize that advice and decide what to do with it
Note:

> three quarters of all IMAP servers

doesn't not mean 3/4 of internet users (e.g. I expect Google's IMAP servers represent a disproportionately large number of users).

Dovecot is likely more likely to be used by a long tail of smaller nodes.
Another similar approach is to see what crazy process they're trying to jam into Excel or Google Sheets, and then you can build a more tailored app for that process, ideally if other businesses could benefit from it.

Edit: I should've read giarc's comment below! We're essentially saying the same thing.
Nice work! I'd pay for an extended version of this (i.e social media icons). We're currently using https://nucleoapp.com/.
Latest news: The company with the security breach reports the reporter and news organization to the police for unauthorized entry into their computer system:

https://www.dn.se/sthlm/medhelp-polisanmaler-tidningen-compu...
Same old ugly Bauhaus architecture. Showcasing a beautiful building would do a lot more to promote innovative construction methods.
And yet with this primitive outlook we are stuck with fake news horse shit spewing all over the internet. We need a more robust approach to improve discourse.
I’ve worked in the industry in NY for 10 years and only an investment banker might make that distinction. Everyone else uses the terms synonymously.
I think you're really whitewashing things. A better description would be that the US is a huge country with a few, select metro areas that are pedestrian/cycle-friendly (and even then, only in certain parts), while the vast majority of the country is very unfriendly to them.
XMPP and Matrix other people can host their servers on Google as well.

Fundamentally, if you don't trust the decisions of the person you are talking with, you can't guarantee the privacy of your chats.
At the time when I had TV capture card (Hauppage PVR250; it was analog TV tuner with MPEG-2 hw encoder), it stopped working in Windows way before Linux: in XP, the driver installation was showing HRESULT errors, but once a blue moon it would succeed. Forget anything newer. With Linux, I think it should work with the current ivtv driver, but I don't have it anymore to try.

Another example are scanners. Does your driver for Windows use TWAIN? Well, then it won't work in Windows 10 anymore, which made WIA the only option. Lot of fun for folks, who were automatically updated.
No, that's not true; a community that runs a photo hosting service is certainly protected if some user uploads protected content, just like YouTube (under the Electronic Commerce Directive 2000/31/EC).

They would only not have protection if the copyright holder could prove the hosting community itself purposefully hosted such content. But neither would YouTube if they did the same.
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I was JUST searching for something like this! This is great!
Not even close to ubiquitous.
Good luck with that debate. In the real world copyright, trademarks, patents, international treaties, etc. and the national laws of hundreds of countries governing those are a reality. This stuff is super complicated. Within the context of all of that, coming up with a pragmatic way forward is the only debate worth having.
>Currently I just store phone numbers in E.164 format as a string

As someone who created many texting apps (HeyWire, Salesforce's LiveMessage Product) this is how all numbers are treated internally...except short codes, which aren't phone numbers.
Your heart is in the right place, but what you advocate isn't currently palatable to anyone, left or right, on the political spectrum.

Instead, push for a fee-and-dividend model – not entirely UBI, but similar in spirit. It's what most economists support, and it has enough bipartisan support [0] that there is actually a bill before Congress now that has a chance of passing.

[0] https://citizensclimatelobby.org/climate-solutions-caucus/
Yep... the one very good thing that I got out of pgAdmin was that it finally convinced me to get psql under my fingers so I wouldn't have to use pgAdmin.
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I'm a front-end engineer with several years of experience in JS.

Key skills:

- React, MobX, StyledComponents, Jest, MariaDB, NodeJS, GraphQL, and Docker

- passionate about building design systems

- emphasis on accessibility and internationalization

- frameworks agnostic experience

- frontend infrastructure

Looking for a FT or PT gig (remote)
What If Reddit Was Paid with No Ads and Privacy Focused?
Would you pay monthly to use Reddit with No Ads at all and privacy focused?
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How does it do with acoustic isolation? Do you hear every footstep above you?
Fair enough. I believe you and will remove the snarky comment.
No, because you can't reasonably ticket people for going only 5mph over. There's a reason almost no cops bother doing so, and set their threshold at 9 or 10 over: car speedometers aren't that accurate, cars can easily vary their speed a few mph as they drive, radar is only so accurate, etc.

And yes, "speed limit" really is "recommended speed", because that's how people drive in the US today. You wishing it were different will not make it so.
Printers under Linux have also one positive feature: if the specific model is supported, it is really plug and play.

The hard part is to choose, which model to purchase.
Even with a growing number of Democrats willing to identify as socialists (or even leftists) rather than liberals... I haven't yet made the acquaintance of one that doesn't believe in the wide power of a market economy.

There's just lots that also believe there are some areas where markets are sub-optimal to wrong because (a) a commons is more efficient and/or (b) it's difficult to impossible to line up incentives correctly and/or (c) there are values in play that supersede market activity.

(None of these beliefs are necessarily unique to Democrats, either -- lots of people would believe that public transportation infrastructure greases the wheels of private activity, that insurance incentives are different than other goods/services, or that assassination markets might not really be a good thing)
I don't know, the tone of the article wasn't actually super favorable towards WeWork. The author outright mocked their founder pretty consistently throughout the piece. The vibe I got was more, "WeWorks are nice to work at but they are not as revolutionary as they think they are".
This is super clever, and I hope this takes off.

At the same time, I have to worry: SMTP is forever, but I'm not so sure that IMAP is forever.

Email is increasingly becoming a fragmented oligopoly, and the major players are promoting their own alternative protocols. IMAP is becoming a very optional legacy feature.

If the success of this project required additional integrations with EAS and Google's mail APIs, would you do the work or reject the idea on principle?
Seems cool, and perhaps I'm missing something, but it appears to require a closed-source app from a walled-garden app store to configure it, so it could easily be made useless if the app disappears?
right, the criticism of neolibralism is that it doesn't acknowledge the problematic simplicity of the models they apply. Things aren't as simply as supply and demand in labor markets for instance, The socially constructed notion of productivity and negotiating power aren't included in econ 101 models of labor markets, leading to misguided arguments against minimum wages. No model is perfect isn't a good argument for misapplying conceptual models to real world situations.
This isn't a criticism, just a note to others.

I'd caution others against using the embedded image functionality even if it seems cleaner/more reliable. It bloats out the size of the email you're sending too much. For example I added a 5 KB JPG image, populated all the default fields, and the resulting HTML was 70 KB. This seems to be the result of BASE64's inefficiency.

You could alternatively upload the image to e.g. Amazon's S3 and link to it instead. That way you have completely control, and there's some redundancy there.

According to my back of napkin maths, Amazon's S3 would cost less than 5c/month, assuming millions of requests, and the same 5 KB thumbnail.

I really like this open source project in general. Again, this is in no way a criticism of them, there's no other way I know of to embed an image.
You are absolutely right. Punching "extra holes" in puzzles of certain hardness should make backtracking not as viable. But we'll loose the unique solution property.

Might make it more interesting? And maybe even bias it towards human-abilities. I think intuitively we're better at solving when the possibilities are more than 1 (just a conjecture.)
> CO2 accounting and taxing will be a massive invitation for corruption, gaming and bad actors

That's the problem already. We've had a CO2 price for a long time - but it's meaninglessly low. I can only presume because of lobbying from those with vested interests.
Then instead of saying “start simple” and “be difficult to replicate”, why not suggest something more like “your goal might be to build something as quickly as possible, but must be sufficiently non-trivial to build. Time to build isn’t always an indicator of simplicity, [blah blah blah].”

I guess what I’m saying is embrace ambiguity in the advice more clearly. Don’t say “Do X” and “Do the opposite of X”, which together give you no ground to “synthesize”.

Another approach is to describe the effect of “Doing X”. Maybe building fast means you can get to market faster. Maybe building something nontrivial means your competition won’t gobble up your market. But you, the founder, are the arbiter of that decision/tradeoff.

ISTM that many startup-advice-givers like to create these short memorable platitudes instead of actually describing tradeoffs and decisions that the founder must make.
It's right up there with "your call is very important to us" and "best of luck in your future endeavors".
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I don't know how to argue against an abstract claim like that. You could say coca cola's real product is "A taste of 1950s America" or that a designer suit is really "a statement of intent."

How do you argue that it is, in fact, a drink?
The issue is that most people in prison aren't "hyper aggressive". We incarcerate way more people than other places so your argument seems predicated on there being a lot more "hyper aggressive" people in the US than other places and I can't think of why that's the case.