skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry, but you are not entitled to a house or any loans. This is not "elites shaping the behavior of commoners", this is just common sense. Loaning money to people is an investment and giving money to people who have no history of even paying off a simple credit card bill doesn't make sense.

It's like being 20 years old and creating a new startup then wondering why investors don't want to give you any money so you can hire out staff and build a product.

It's not inherently impossible to get a loan with no credit history, just really difficult to do without something else to inspire confidence.

And frankly, considering how easy it is for any Joe to build a decent credit history from just using credit cards I'd say most lenders are actually doing consumers a favor by lending them such vast amounts of money on such a basic premise. I know if it were my money I'd be way more conservative.
>These “disastrous” copyright laws already apply to you and me, and if you think they don’t, then just try hosting a top 1 music video on your personal domain.

Yes, and I don't want them to.
I don't find that argument even a little persuasive. Google is the Big Dog there.
Article 13 will wreck internet because MEPs accidentally pushed the wrong button
Medical school students memorize a ridiculous amount of information
>it is about Walmart structuring their employment in such a way as to funnel labor costs onto taxpayers.

I am having a really hard time thinking about the situation and agreeing with your implied premise that Walmart should employee people if and only if they pay them enough to remove them from all government benefits (or even healthcare). Does Walmart purposefully structure employment so they don't have to provide healthcare? Undeniably! It saves them tons of money! I have a hard time thinking of this as an immoral act that you imply it is.

Why is it wrong for them to do it?
If anyone wants to have some real-time chat about NVC, or ask questions of people who have years of experience using the technique, you can come here:

https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=##nvc

It's the ##nvc channel on Freenode.
That's the whole point. Auto debt is usually the first payment people make since they absolutely need it to go to work. By tying student debt to the ability to drive, they're putting it on the same tier of priorities for people.
"Autechre are my Phish."

Haha, so accurate. I don't usually play Autechre when my roommates are home.
You're right. This is a philosophy that can be abused to tell people at they should accept what is as unchangable.

With that said, is it perhaps possible that stoicism when properly understood might encourage people to find what they can change and how they can change it? And might it also, perhaps, be possible that any philosophy can be abused by bad actors? Some might contend that these two points taken together argue for education.
The government can certainly help here. While they can't force anyone to provide service to a certain location, there are plenty of providers that want to offer service in a building, but don't want to pay the landlord's fee for providing such a service. It's not the ISPs that are driving costs up, it's the lack of transparency around building management companies and their backroom deals with the incumbents. The government can show up, say "you can charge an ISP a maximum of $100 per month for a PoE to your building", and suddenly the Internet is a lot faster and cheaper.
I follow Florian Mueller (@FOSSPatents) for his take on most of the Qualcomm v Apple litigation (including the recent FTC antitrust case). He seems to be somewhat anti-Qualcomm (although that might just be based on his perception of their likelihood of winning). His take: [0]

> ITC judge disagrees with ITC staff, sides with Qualcomm against Apple: one patent held infringed, import ban recommended; but patent likely invalid

> Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) MaryJoan McNamara just announced an initial determination ("initial" means the parties can seek a Commission review, and a final ruling is still four months off) according to which Apple is deemed to infringe one of three Qualcomm patents-in-suit... In my observation, decisions by ITC judges that run counter to staff recommendations are virtually certain to be reviewed and more likely than others to be reversed.

Also, the patent is for "multiple supply-voltage power-up/down detectors" and is currently being reviewed by the USPTO for validity.

[0] - http://www.fosspatents.com/2019/03/itc-judge-disagrees-with-...
My interpretation was that the fork is to be a temporary one, with the results of this endeavour to be merged back in when the time is right. This allows them to make mistakes and drastic changes without regard for the release cycle or backward-compatibility promises of libinput, and if everything is successful then they can bundle up the results into a mergable form and get it into libinput.
I totally agree. The money was bad really really bad and so was dealing with the some of the owners.

But what I learnt in full stack development even though it was just C# and SQL help a lot!
Correction: There won't be an internet anymore.

China has already walled themselves off, Russia's been looking into it, the EU is just next in line.
Please disclose that you work on AMP at Google.
I don't think any intelligence was involved.
Data: Positive Signs for Oculus Go
You may need to talk to a lawyer.
Since it doesn't support serializable transactions I'm not sure why FoundationDB would be mentioned as a comparison in the write up. The operations it does support seem to set the bar pretty low as to what to test.

edit: good reply by the founder of YugaByte but for some reason the comment is dead. I have noticed that when founders don't have an account on here and then something comes up where they need to reply their comments are often deaded.
Convincing employees that hard work is a source of pride is the oldest trick in the book. See:

https://mashable.com/2017/06/05/you-are-a-doer-gig-economy/
Why was it you having the conversation and not your wife?
At first glance I thought the "resources" here might be Uber drivers, which would be interesting.

Is this thing/Apache Mesos abstract enough to allow for such a use?
Yes, of course. But I think I was responding more to the linked article and what seemed to be the original claim that China hasn't ruled out using force to take Taiwan. My point regarding that is,

1. Xi's sabre-rattling is nothing new. He's not the first scoundrel in Beijing to level these threats. And,

2. I doubt Google is basing their decision on any of this.

I think sometimes Westerners are shocked by how belligerent the Chinese government has become. Actually, the CCP has always been belligerent and their demands of and threats against our treaty allies have always been truculent and unreasonable. It's just that now we've made these scoundrels very powerful by trading with them. I hope its become clear to everyone that this was a civilization-level strategic blunder - that knee-capping western industrial labour unions probably wasn't worth empowering a new 21st century fascism in Asia.
No.

!remindme 2 years
When I worked at LSI Logic, we had a dual core processor that didn't have any cache consistency at all between cores. You actually had to pad all memory allocations to a cache line so that the two cores didn't interfere with each other.

Unfortunately, we also let our customers develop their own code. One of our best customers (Motorola) starting having problems with one of their projects. Small changes in their code would cause all kinds of bizarre crashes.

I was asked to help out and after reviewing their code, I realized that nobody had told them about the cache coherency issue. After making a few changes (just moving .bss and .data variables into cache line protected malloc's), all the problems disappeared.

The funny part was when their engineering manager found out. He calls me on the phone and starts to chew me out. He was furious, so I put him on speaker and called my managers into the lab. We stood around and just let him rant for a few minutes until he ran out of steam. A legendary episode that we chuckled about many times thereafter.
Why not? Remember Apple suing Samsung, other phone manufacturers instead of Google? For "pinch to zoom" type patents?
the stoicism of marcus aurelius is about personal responsibility and accepting what you can't change, which seems a handy ideology to push so that people don't try to affect change.
Yes, they are “free to chose alternatives”. But Google is a monopoly, so...

And through the monopoly users are forced to use AMP.
American Astronauts to Return to Moon Within 5 Years, VP Pence Pledges
I think that if you consider the cost of accessing a random piece of data from a pool of size n to have an asymptotic cost of sqrt(n) then you can have a pretty good analysis, mathematically, while still being congruent to the world we live in.
I'm not really sure there's a "solution" here.

Any time barriers to entry are lowered far enough that a market participant doesn't have enough to lose by behaving badly we'll see problems like this.
I was under the impression that the Chinese version included things like religious and political affiliation. Which, assuming true, a lot of people feel like is a clear overstep. Even now we don't look back at the McCarthy era with fond memories.

Also in America your credit score won't affect you from buying things like a plane ticket or even leaving the country. It only affects your line of credit (money borrowed). I'm not convinced the government should be telling you how to spend your money (but that's clearly an opinion).

There's also a lot (A LOT) wrong with the credit system, like the fact that a significant number of Americans (numbers vary from 5% to 25%) have significant errors by one of the 3 major credit agencies. Equifax... I'm not convinced China could do substantially better than us (especially when you add more factors). Even if you reduce that number to 1/1000 (I doubt that good considering other database error levels), that still seems like a big deal if it prevents you from mundane events like taking a train or plane. I wouldn't look at a system that doesn't look good and say "Hey, we should do this, but with more consequences when it fails."
I agree. It's not an authority on right and wrong, but a framework for reaching conclusions. I just think neither the article nor CP's rebuttal covered that point adequately.
Cyclist here. I'm amazed by how much money people spend on their vehicles. I have an expensive bike (about $1000 new), and aside from perhaps $100-$200 on maintenance and equipment per year, I spend nothing else for daily transportation. It's hard for cars to compete with that on cost. I think suspending someone's drivers' license due to debts could help reduce one's transportation spending.

Unfortunately, much of the US is car dependent, so taking away someone's license is net counterproductive because one's income typically would decrease beyond the savings without their car.
Further to this... at this point, Google controls:

- the largest browser people use to view pages (Chrome)

- the largest platform people use to run that browser (Android)

- the largest way people discover content online (Google Search)

- the largest way people advertise online (Google Ads)

- the largest way people share video online (YouTube)

- the largest email provider (Gmail)

This is way too much power over the internet in one corporate entity.

It’s way beyond what MS ever accomplished at their height, and it’s way beyond anything Apple ever accomplished either.

The power Google have over the internet at large and the content people consume at this point frankly terrifies me.
This is extremely disturbing.

The author may have cherry-picked a few extreme examples, and a majority of Airbnb bookings may go smoothly. Nonetheless, after reading that article, I’ll probably not use Airbnb ever again. FUD can be an irrational beast.
This attitude comes through in other posts, too, e.g. [1] where he says "AMAZON DOES NOT EXPERIMENT ... Facebook contributed React; Google gave us TensorFlow, Kubernetes, and lot more ... But Amazon doesn't give a fuck". But at the PRODUCT level, Amazon seems extremely experimental. E.g. they kind of invented the "cloud computing" space.

[1]: https://jatins.gitlab.io/me/amazon-internal-tools/
The question is, how many of these very similar databases can the market support?

The field is getting crowded, and the database market is already quite competitive as it is, without these new competitors.

There just are not that many use cases where a larger Postgres/MySQL instance with one or two replicas is insufficient.

From a user perspective, I'd much rather have one or two successful companies where I can be reasonably certain that the product will be maintained in 5 years than too much competition.
>> I wasn't really comfortable with Google reading my mail.

Neither G Suite Gmail nor regular Gmail have been used and/or scanned for ads personalisation since back in 2017:
https://blog.google/products/gmail/g-suite-gains-traction-in...
Congratulations on lunching! I'm also working on open source autoML solution and I have similar problem with finding good heuristics for column type inference - I always left the final choice to the user.

Have you compared the solution accuracy with other frameworks? (or is it not the priority for your package right now)

Do you have early stopping implemented?

I will play with your package and come back with more questions.
Everything tialaramex said is correct, when people write Chinese they are not thinking of "drawing" anything at all. But if you are interested in learning it in a pictographic way, there is a company called Chineasy that tries to make it easier with pictures; check it out, it's a pretty interesting product.
Not right now... but maybe in the future, who knows.
There was a time number theory was viewed as pointless: "The theory of Numbers has always been regarded as one of the most obviously useless branches of Pure Mathematics." - G.H.Hardy.

He might be very disappointed that number theory underpins modern cryptography.
FTC, do not postpone for vote. DOJ out. Make my claim appreciate and I join officially.
“Forseeable future”. Aka “as soon as Google decides they benefit more from AMP”.

Much like “we won’t ever use AMP to rig search results”.

And yes, users are forced to use AMP through their search, for example.
>If you want an exchange channel that's optimized for exchanging long messages, with no expectation of immediacy in response, with ridiculously accessible archival tools (ever heard of email clients?) there isn't anything that comes close to email.

Yeah, but if most people you know don't have active email accounts, that doesn't matter, and it's the direction that we're headed.
And the whole XMPP Gtalk fiasco...
The article is not about Project Sidewalk or smart cities, it's about opening an office campus.
The US had the social credit system up and running for years before China did.

You can think of China's currently state of totalitarianism as a metastasis of what started in the US.
Assuming Google doesn't need to hide anything, being GPL free could be so that others (like device drivers) don't need to release source code.
I'd say 4-5, the 3-4 when I'm actually programming or something directly related to it.

The rest is meetings, phone calls or dealing with stuff that isn't technically my job but landed on my desk as the only techie on staff (which averages about an hour a day ranging from hitting external IT with a wrench to speccing out new technology etc).
There are a number of factors that basically require a local monopoly for terrestrial telecom. This is a feature of the market — not anything the government has done.

#1 is the universal coverage requirement — anyone receiving a local monopoly from a municipality has to agree to make service available in the entire city. Many poor or low-density neighborhoods are not profitable for even a single company to serve, much less multiple companies. Overbuilders have no such requirement to even provide the potential of service in low-income areas, so none do. A side effect of this is that overbuilders can’t approach the level of efficiency that the monopolists can (see #4) and none can be much more than a nuisance to the incumbents as long as they remain overbuilders.

#2 is that in the wealthier / denser areas of a city that can support more than one provider, there are typically 2-5 providers offering speeds of 100+ mbit. The local monopolists therefore rely on the profits from the wealthy areas to cover the losses from the poor areas.

#3 is that it’s really hard to get investment to overbuild unless it’s a wealthy area. Telecom rollouts are expensive and require taking on significant debt. For every additional overbuilder serving an area, your ratio of [households served] / [households subscribed] and the amount of overhead you have to recoup for each customer goes up. Investors will not loan you money if they think you won’t make it back.

#4 is that telecom services are a scale business where you need vertical integration to be viable. TimeWarner Cable had their backbone network with TimeWarner Telecom. That was fine until both companies split and the infrastructure was owned by two different companies. TimeWarner Cable then had to build their own backbone — which lowered their credit rating, which made every subsequent debt offering more expensive. They were trapped in a cycle where they needed to invest badly, their network was slow so they couldn’t raise prices much, but borrowing was so expensive for them it turned into a death spiral. And that’s how the #4 cable provider in the country was able to buy the #2 provider — Charter was simply more vertically integrated through Liberty Media and had a better balance sheet.

The “take rate” (how many households of the total subscribe to broadband internet — directly correlated with household income) of a neighborhood largely determines how many companies serve the area. The overall take rate of the wealthiest cities is sufficient to support at most 3 broadband providers serving a given household; in the poorest cities the government has to subsidize access for even a single company to serve the area.

Capitalism and abuse of position go hand-in-hand. I would argue that abuse of position is the fundamental driving force behind capitalism.

(These rules largely do not apply to wireless.)
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I'd hope so, considering they were a part of the group standardizing it. Opus, in broad strokes, is Skype's SILK codec for low bitrates, Xiph's CELT for high bitrates, and a mode that is a blend of both codecs for the middle.
> are there an infinite number of possible solutions to this problem?

Unknown. From the article:

'A major result would be to prove the conjecture that k = x³ + y³ + z³ has infinitely many solutions for every whole number k, except those k that have a remainder of 4 or 5 after being divided by 9.'
> Auto debt is usually the first payment people make since they absolutely need it to go to work. By tying student debt to the ability to drive, they're putting it on the same tier of priorities for people.

But what if you don't have auto debt? That logic doesn't work if someone bought a car they could afford.
Only that process never materialised.
i've had the displeasure of developing HTML for emails. never again!
I was sort of surprised in example 4 that the compiler couldn't optimize {a[0]++; a[0]++;} to {a[0]+=2;}, given that the allocation was right there in the same function as the usage.

EDIT: Should have kept reading, other people apparently had this same comment and it was addressed. This was for C# rather than C++ so no wonder my intuition was off.
Olympia, Tumwater, Lacey. State capital of Washington. 300,000 people in the Urban Growth Area.

Residential options:

Comcast, at up to 400mbps.

CenturyLink, at up to 3mbps, and "for most homes, 1.5mbps".
> HTML in emails is a notoriously painful process to get working even remotely well.

That's a feature, not a bug. If it discourages people from using HTML in emails even a little, that's a good thing.
Spain hits back at Mexico in row over colonial rights abuses
The messaging hasn't been totally clear, but it's actually pretty simple: you either need to use OpenJDK or you need to pay for the Oracle version. They are now basically the same thing, and for most people, OpenJDK is what you want to be using now.
Yes, this is why we need to support email. You can list its advantages all day long but if people don't check their email (or don't even have an email account), then it will be useless and that's the direction we're headed.
In any case, pricing needs to be negotiated very differently than it currently is regarding medicare prescription costs, which are iirc disadvantaged compared to insurance corporations.

> "Since 2010 the prescription charge has risen by 26 per cent compared to a rise in average earnings of 16 per cent over the same period. Working age people with long term conditions simply can’t sustain this."

https://www.mirror.co.uk/money/nhs-prescription-costs-set-ri...
EU passes Article 11 and 13
RSS + Regex:

mike@snake:~$ rss --list|grep -i ycombinat
155. https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
mike@snake:~$ rss --list-grep 155
74. title = (?i)\b((e-?|web)?mail|hardenize|irc|internet relay chat|grpc|hashicorp|rust|debian|c\+\+|perl|(bit|name)coin|tor|pgp|gpg|gnupg|openpgp|digitalocean|ovh|linode|grepular|email\s*privacy\s*tester|parsemail|ssl|https|backdoor|apache|exim|distribut|peer (to|2) peer|vpn|secur|anonym|webrtc|torrent|webtorrent|nextcloud|owncloud|graphql)(ity|ous|e?s|ing?|ed?)?\b
mike@snake:~$

Plus occasional browsing when I'm bored
Ask HN: How do you handle Excel import/exports in your apps
Hi folks!

I'm implementing Excel-related functionality for at least 4th project in my career. As usual, an ability to save the data set into an XLSX file in a custom format and the way to ingest the data back, using the same data format, or ideally letting the customer map their own formats into our format.

What worries me is that I need to take care about all the hassle around - handling large uploads, managing timeouts, reporting the progress, caring about basics of data validation, file encodings, ensuring the import process doesn't take up all the server resources etc.

The list of impediments for such a "side" feature is unproportionally large, IMO. There are few libraries for almost every stack, but they still require me to handle at least half of these impediments by my own (resources, server config etc.).

I'm wondering, how do you usually handle these stuff? Do we all go through these problems over and over again or are there solutions that I'm not aware of that makes things easier, like a standalone tool or service I can "just use"?

If not, my maker soul asks: maybe there should be one? Maybe I should build one? Would you consider using this kind of service in your applications if one exists? Why not?
Of course good design won't solve every single user problem, but it will solve a lot of them, and we have a responsibility to do that.
That’s so self defeating. I can see garnishing wages or something but not paying debt is completely divorced from the privilege to drive. Someone just thought “punishment!”
why skeptical when he is a top applied mathematician?

and he explains in the preface why it is seemingly light on details. it's because the details (the math) are elsewhere. the applications (as isolated entities) are also out there to a degree. what isn't out there is the bridge connecting the math to the applications, and so that is what his book sets out to do.

> Discussing magnetic fields in the same chapter as lambda calculus

where did you see this? i don't remember seeing it and couln't find it.