skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't want to know if my contractor once smoked in a no-smoking area, of if they buy too many video games. But I do want to be able to check their contractor's license and make sure there aren't complaints.

Some of the pilot projects are intended to work more like that. For example, if you wanted to confirm that "Wenzhou Overseas Travel Ltd." is legit, you could check Wenzhou's portal and search for the name. https://wzcredit.gov.cn/creditSearch/getCompanyDetailInfo.ht...

Then you can see some basic information about the company (legal representative Chen Lili, services offered, address, registered capital of 10 million Yuan, founded in 1998...) and then a bunch of information that's supposed to help evaluate their creditworthiness or look them up in other systems. The section for negative information (underlined in orange) is empty. The most recent data is from 2017, though, so who knows whether the system is even updated anymore.
I said this downthread, but I'd happily put up with those quality issues (and I remember them, they were real!) in return for the reduced latency.
If you exit by cashless exercise of options, it's (usually) then blasted by the full effect of wage/income tax.
Yes. My favorite Aphex Twin track.

Relatedly, would strongly recommend the Booka Shade DJ-Kicks album - Alberto Balsam is one of the tracks they selected https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onLPjryBtns
> 5% of Americans take public transit to get to work.

rephrasing:

95% of Americans take private transit to get to work. I would call that an almost certainty that you need a car.
I flew Jet just once (from Toronto to Hong Kong I think), and I remember it as the only airplane meal that didn't seem like it came from a microwave. It was actual Indian food – maybe not top-tier-restaurant quality, but good! They also handed out _actual_ hot towels – not those single-use ones. This was all in economy.
My first company was entirely automated. It did media monitoring, it ran on about 80 servers. It scraped 15,000 data points a second, stored this data and then ran batch reports. It took me about 6 months to write, and then once stable, it took only about 1 hour a week to review the automatic patches, and occasionally glance at the grafana dashboard to make sure data was flowing.

It generated reports and then I sold them to a larger media company, as well as some monthly data dumps for their data scientists to analyse.

It made about 200,000 usd a year, I sold it to that media company after about 2 years of operation.

AM(almost)A if anyone is curious
Yes. It could become Orwellian, and I do see the issue with what a comprehensive surveillance state could become.

Either way, China faces a very unique situation, but I do see overall improvement in living condition. I don't live there full time but visit often, I'd say the biggest challenge coming up will be dealing with the aging population (and their needs), the shrinking work force, and decrease in consumer confidence. The post-boomer generation did VERY well for themselves but I can't say the same for the millennials and beyond.
Upvoting because people seem to be unable to read the caveat at the end of your post.
Why? If it's up front, and it allows two classes of players and clearly defines them (and allows people to sort by them for games), what'st the problems that would make you think twice?

I can see some problems with the model, where it might not allow for a more evenly distributed set of revenue from players and certain players would get the benefit without the cost by having a very good and well connected and routed ISP that happens to line up with most servers, but what's the problem? If the accounts were designated "competitive" tier, that seems to clearly signal what the user gets. Additionally, at least it's then more information the service can expose about a player advantage, rather than the user paying for it outside the service and having a similar advantage but without the same signalling.

If it's about pay to win, I understand the sentiment, but I think there's a clear difference between pay nothing (or a token amount) and pay something for a "regular" account without a bunch of microtransactions and extra tiers, and what we see with games where you literally can buy your character into an elite level of capability that changes the game at a fundamental level (either from hard to easier or from nearly impossible to possible). I think making it so your players can easily separate based on these levels is good as well (which is another point towards very few differentiating levels). As long as the price is low enough that anyone could easily afford it for a while, it's not a real problem. Close to unbounded capability to pay for advantage is though.
Can you share more about your role?
If you think this is horrifying you should see what people-who-aren't-Whitney write when they're copying his style, or adding to his codebase.
Ask HN: How Is Azure SQL Data Warehouse?
We're looking into Redshift and Snowflake for a project since some of our sister companies use it and they seem more established but we're also on the Microsoft stack and use Azure for miscellaneous small projects. Our DW will be roughly 2-4TB initially.

FiveTran had a fantastic benchmark on GitHub (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17952205) but I want to hear direct user experiences.

And specifically, if you are using Gen2 (https://www.zdnet.com/article/azure-sql-data-warehouse-gen-2-microsofts-shot-across-amazons-bow/)

1. What did you like about it over XYZ DW? What was lacking compared to XYZ DW?

2. How were development tools and third party tool support?

3. Satisfied with performance?
On Home(s)
"The mental universe exists in mind but not in your personal mind alone. Instead, it is a transpersonal field of mentation that presents itself to us as physicality—with its concreteness, solidity and definiteness—once our personal mental processes interact with it through observation."

If that is the case, then why do we need material brains to think?

This is just Platonism dressed up in different language.
You moron, he didn't do that at all, he was literally heading off any whataboutism.
Google increased maps cost for everybody though, not just Uber.

https://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/features/google-maps-apis-new-...
Maybe not individually, but, as a collection of choices, absolutely. Considering that most phones from Samsung, at that time, had a physical keyboard and were more like Blackberry devices, I think it's incredibly telling that their next iteration was a full-screen, touch-based device with a single button at the bottom and rounded corners. The guidebook wasn't simply about the physical design either. It included large portions of the iPhone OS UI along with a checklist of whether or not those items had been implemented or copied yet.

(Edit: Not exactly what I was looking for but this is part of it: https://www.scribd.com/doc/102317767/Samsung-Relative-Evalua...)

In other words, I'd give the benefit of the doubt if an automaker released an electric car with a trunk in the front and the back. If they released an electric car with a single touchscreen console and no dashboard, a front and back trunk, a panoramic glass roof, and bladed wheels, I'd think that they were ripping off the Model 3 from Tesla. A lot of what the iPhone did was simply a natural evolution of what was happening. Even more of it, though, was a leapfrog of combined technologies that surpassed every other phone out on the market. Even Android had to do a total hardware refresh after the iPhone came out. It was literally a game-changer.
Their urban gps locating technology based off satellite masking is pretty unique as far as I know.
You've hit the nail on the head. Uber can't risk being one management decision from Google away from shutting down.
Only a little: it would be a backwards incompatible change affecting pretty much all production java code ever written, requiring everyone on the planet spend time and money on uplifting all their code for what is really just a cosmetic change =)
Oh, if you could afford a computer, even an used one, in the 90's you were definitely part of a global elite.

Heck, in 2000, just under 30% of the global population had access to properly built sanitation services.

And about 28% of the global population live with under a $1 (in PPP) per day.

Respectfully, I think you are lacking some context about life in other countries.
I think this is a great opportunity for some Asia-oriented Americans. I lived in Japan, and the quality of life there is amazing when compared to what we get in US cities. The problem is that most Japanese companies are terrible to work for. If you work for Google but live in a modernized Asian country, you can probably get the best of both worlds.
I find that perfectly quantized tracks sound artificial over time. Not sure how close “aisatsana” sticks to perfectly on-(half)-beat, but adding slightly random quantization offsets to each generated note could be interesting to lend the results a more "natural" sound
lol "Latest development updates"

> Added notice that the project is dead

https://github.com/cmu-db/peloton/commit/484d76df9344cb5c153...
Facilitating authoritarian control of a population is a...good thing? Mind expounding?
Would people use open source stuff from a morally questionable company? Especially when its just a re-write of existing technology posted to a different github repo?

EDIT People get so up in arms about Google and Microsoft working with China and the military, but Uber has done some horrendous stuff on their own. Just curious where people think the line is OK to be.
^ Note that this is a google employee
I disagree. The example sounded like an attempt to manipulate the emotion by providing a mechanical response. It sounds a bit like a memorized technique applied without the underlying alignment necessary for true empathy.

NVC practice aims connection, not changing the other person’s emotional state. Thus the term manipulationnin my response.
I think you're thinking of something different. The "guidebook" that I'm referring to was an internal Samsung document that Apple was able to get its hands on during the trial discovery period that showed pages of hardware and software features of the iPhone along with the progress Samsung had made on copying those features. It included the touchscreen and also the UI of the OS.

(Edit: Not exactly it but this makes the point I was after: https://www.scribd.com/doc/102317767/Samsung-Relative-Evalua...)
Yeah, that's basically my point. The only way it could possibly work is if you had some client-side thing to filter out anything with the warning so you didn't see it at all.
> Array languages are the most "obscure" of all paradigms I have looked into. Even concatenative ones have some few resources about how work.

Have you tried looking at APL books? There are dozens of books on APL you can find. There are journals and conference proceedings from ACM, IBM, Dyalog, and Vector UK. I started to get into APL more seriously last year and lack of resources is definitely not a problem in my experience, lack of time to read them all is. Also, it's more about thinking of algorithms in terms of matrix and array operations. A lot of the techniques and algorithms can be easily adapted from Matlab.
Why Do We Keep Investing in Anti-Amyloid Therapies for Alzheimer’s Disease?
First impression: it looks reeeally spammy.
Apple Keynote Hints HBO, Showtime, & Starz Not Discounted on Apple TV Channels
https://gitlab.com/k7db/k

Wasn't this public?

https://duckduckgo.com/lite/?q=https://gitlab.com/k7db

Reference: https://cs.nyu.edu/cs/faculty/shasha/papers/tutorial
In case it helps - they recently forced me to remove all "upgrade to pro" UI affordances that led from a free app to a paid app in the app store claiming they were ads as well. So their definition of ads is pretty strange.
How the Cloud is helping us to live in the future
People are used to scrolling up-down, not moving mouse around in zig-zag.

I prefer this js hack[0] which shows everything and after mouseover it allows to hide text for better image viewing.

But content and quality of texts are great!

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19495172
If it keeps going like this the EU is gonna waste all its capital and become poor. Yeah, it looks like economy is still running, but you can't escape the laws of economics. Many don't see it because they're not into politics, but the EU, Germany, France, Italy are making an article 13 for all kind of industries, every day. Eventually you run out of capital (including willpower and time) and a slow descent become a collapse.

Of course since I'm just a nobody on a forum what do I know.
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Overwatch has voice in-built that is very good both for public games, parties and teams - why need Mumble at this point?
They could just use a third-party (and at their scale, they can definitely negotiate a custom deal where they feed back usage data to improve the third-party’s service) or even use open source solutions like OpenStreetMaps. Even the latter (with the overhead of hosting it themselves) makes total sense at their scale.
But none of those companies serve the same addresses, so there’s no competition.
I tend to listen to ambient music. There's radio show on CBC radio 2 -- After Dark, that plays tunes with not too many lyrics.
> but that appears to not have gone particularly well.
source? numbers? leaks?
Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max just made an emergency landing in Florida
Anybody want to buy the domains airbnbsextapes.{TLD} and forward them to this article?
Whooops, thanks!

*nitpicky
When you're talking about valuing their shares, yes, it does tell the whole story. They cannot transfer their extra voting rights, so if they're ever interested in monetizing their investment, they have to convert to limited voting shares to sell. And all we're talking about here is the monetary payout of working at a startup.
> Being unable to drive in many other developed countries is barely an issue for most people.

I don't think I agree with the "most" in that statement, at least in combination with "barely an issue".
Deaf Moths Use Ultrasound to Warn Hungry Bats They're Poisonous
The Places in America That Use the Most (and Least) Pesticides
The common industry practice is to collect royalties at the end of the supply chain -- from smartphone OEMs. So, SEP holders, Qualcomm, Ericsson, Nokia, etc, usually don't after each other or chip makers for royalties. Now, Apple's judge, Lucy Koh, in a pretrial decision last year, declared that Qualcomm is obligated to license their SEPs to all willing licensees under ATI/TIS FRAND (Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory) terms, including baseband makers such as Intel, but this remains to be seen (will be appealed by Qualcomm). Another judge in the ED of Texas, Gilstrap however ruled in December that SEP holders aren't required to license their patents to baseband makers under ETSI FRAND. (yes, there are apparently different/conflicting competing FRAND terms)

I'm not sure if patent exhaustion applies since QTL (licensing) and QTC (chip-making) are technically two separate business entities (subsidiaries). I'm assuming this is all legit, since Apple had funneled their IP and oversea profit to Irish subsidiaries to avoid taxes for years -- meaning they were treated as entirely separate businesses. Qualcomm also argued that QC's patent portfolio goes beyond chip-making and there are other wireless technologies that are not embedded in the baseband chip (hence no exhaustion). The USFTC's lawsuit against Qualcomm ended about a month ago and now we are all patiently awaiting for Koh's decision.
Were they not recently embroiled in a lawsuit, too?
CBC Radio 2 used to (or might still?) have a similar program called The Signal that was really good. And before it, there was a program called Brave New Waves that was probably my favourite late night show in existence. Really sad it doesn't exist anymore.
CEO of Israeli spyware-maker NSO on fighting terror, Khashoggi murder, and Saudi
Not a comment on YugeByte, but... I love it when a new Jepsen report get released. Kyle Kingsbury has single-handedly raised the bar on an entire industry. (Well, not single-handedly anymore, but still.)
If you work for an Alphabet company please quit.
Like OOXML, it's probably mostly the case to woo government to use their proprietary format.

Additionally, I think with AMP, you might be able to get your input heard, but only if you run a mail service with millions of users.
Agreed on all of that and maybe it's a mistake, but I'm actually kind of hopeful this time.

Bush's made an empty campaign promise then Obama kicked the idea so far down the road it was totally out of sight.

But five years? That's doable insane. Like, get Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and NASA in a room ask them who wants this more.
> 21 states will suspend your driver's license if you fall behind on student debt

Might as well suspend your license if you owe money to the mafia.
Accessing Vue global filters inside component methods
Muzak missed a trick here
I would happely bike 45 min to work 7 months a year when it's not freezing and I did so, till I left academia and took a industry job 45 min away with car.

The main problem for commuting efficiency is housing and barrier of entry for getting a job close to where I live or vice versa.
Very interesting.

If the dark web becomes popular though, won't the same people try to regulate it?

They could make .onion link illegal for ISPs to load and kill it overnight.
Yet they banned fitbit usage among deployed troops because it was giving away their locations.

"Do as I say, not as I do!"
React and Angular are quite popular.
> FIND YOU CAREER PATH

shouldn't that be your*?
Yeah, the book is really good. But also only useful in really exceptional situations. (Speaking about workplaces, only in a toxic workplace there is use for it.)
It's a military grade guidance system. Probably 200K a piece
Because these markets are naturally rife for abuse; which is usually how they got regulated in the first place.

Health care needs to be more or less socialized — the sales pitch for any non-emergency medical procedure is effectively “pay me or stay sick / die”. There is no way to price discriminate that maximizes profits without introducing moral hazard by withholding treatment from people who can’t afford it.
There's a lesson about political organizing in here, which is that whoever cares the most about controlling discussions is going to end up doing it, even if it costs them money. Whether it's being a government official or NGO executive who can pressure tech companies, going on a moderation career track inside a big tech company that might not be the most remunerative, or just starting your own online community, actually acquiring said power will beat appealing to principles every time.
The 5 Planes of Content Strategy
That's certainly not the first remedy that the court has taken.

But say, if he hadn't been sent to prison, would he have paid child support then?

We all don't know, but I strongly suspect no, and I strongly suspect the court has more than just my suspicions and calibrated its reaction accordingly.
Isn't having a bigger selection, plus better tools to select(reviews, other content), means Amazon lets me choose a product that is a better fit, with higher certainty - so it's more valuable ?

And if(a big if) i come out of Amazon with a feeling that i got better value for money, isn't this pretty similar to winning on price ?

Fake reviews, etc . But many customers are naive.
What it doesn't include: The cost of the users you will lose because you have a dog shit user experience blocking people before they even get to sample your service.
So the actions of some people (whoever lied about issues related to the referendum) invalidates the actions of a separate, unaffiliated group (voters)? In other words, what you're saying is that all I have to do to invalidate your vote (and, really, your entire political viewpoint) is to take out some ads on Facebook that make untrue claims about your cause?
NT is pretty similar to Fuchsia in a lot ways
Countries could jam the signal or find you easily since you would also have to transmit data to the satellite.
Qt can be used commercially for free. It's LGPL whether you pay or not.

Users only need to pay for a license if they want to distribute statically linked software with Qt, if it is licensed in a way that is LGPL incompatible.
> greater density is needed to make the US livable without long distance commuting

It might help distance, but it usually doesn't do much to help time.
I think a good introduction to this style of coding is the first "proof of concept" prototype interpreter for a small subset of J, also written by Whitney:

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum

Once I realized it was K&R C, I thought it was pretty straightforward.
We recently went for a walking holiday on El Hierro - which is a small volcanic island in the Canaries not far from La Palma where Cumbre Vieja is located.

El Hierro, in addition to being generally lovely, has a particularly spectacular feature - a big chunk of the island is missing leaving behind El Golfo (The Gulf) - which is where a 150–180 km3 landslide(s) occurred leaving behind a flat bottomed area with a surrounding 1000m escarpment. The old paths up this escarpment make for interesting walking...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Hierro#Landslides_and_tsuna...
That's what I got the other day when registering to Bethesda.net: the plaintext part of the email simply said "none".
> There have been no successful clinical trials using anti-amyloid therapy in non-autosomal dominant Alzheimer’s disease at any stage of progression, except for prior to the onset of symptoms. (emphasis added)

If a prophylactic were available that's a pretty big exception given the slow epidemic that is dementia. Has this exception been meaningfully studied?
Even if some trillionaire decided to lay out all the wires for a new internet

What if a billionaire launched a constellation of low earth satellites which provided Internet?
Wasn't the result of this that nobody runs conduits anymore? "Microtrenching" is the new hotness (aka, let's dig a hole 1cm wide and put a wire in without a conduit, and cover it back up).
Coming This Summer: The First DWeb Camp
> Respectfully,

I’m not though, and I have already said so. My original “poverty is a spectrum” comment still firmly addresses everything you’ve said, so if we still disagree, we can agree that’s ok.
> That sounds like a stupid idea, what if you need a car for/to reach work?

The point of these laws in the US is to punish and destroy people for the raw pleasure that power gives, and is not to seek rehabilitation or justice. The US is still a lynch mob oriented Puritan society on every level. The evil must be tortured and killed. The righteous must be elevated and never questioned, even if they are burning witches or werewolves at the stake without evidence that either even exists at all.
The wording suggested to me that the pterosaurs in question could do it without stopping, though I probably misinterpreted it. But it's really the combination of that with the "giraffe-sized monster with a beak" angle mentioned by mcv.
Google is truly the worlds leader in AI*

* Artificial Incompetence