skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I consider PayPal the best of the worst choices.

You don't have to be able to outrun a bear. You only need to outrun the slowest hiker in your group.

PayPal has done as well as it has because their competition has been pretty awful for a long time.
Try a surface book, surface laptop is pretty good too.

(I dislike the keyboard covers for pro - too much flex and too little travel).
Sure, I'm not saying pay people the local prevailing wage. I'm saying pay people the same and let them keep way more of that money, or hire more devs, or have nicer offices, or whatever. Just stop handing it to landlords in the Bay.
I don’t think I said salesforce did the PR campaign before their business dealings.

It’s also not a legal requirement of the claims (it’s just facts that play well to a jury). The threshold legal issue is did salesforce know or should SF have known their goods/products were being used by backpage to facilitate human trafficking/prostitution.
Mozilla just launched an Android password manager
The headline could have stopped at "Programmers take the easy way out"
Culture Needs a Fool-Proof Definition
Honestly, they only upside of an open office is economic. When you have empty offices in the building, putting up with it really makes no sense.

Basecamp actually designed their office around "library rules": https://m.signalvnoise.com/library-rules-how-to-make-an-open...
Claims are lodged by humans. I doubt any human would report they had a loss at 23:59:60 hehe!
> Xi wasn't leading China back in 2007.

You're right - I was confusing it with the more recent non-destructive tests that were also not explicitly announced.

And I don't think they received negative reaction because they didn't announce. It's no secret that the West is not full of fans of China
Would you have any interest in doing Haskell full-time? I know several well-funded companies looking for folks with similar backgrounds to yours, in SF, NYC, and London. Happy to connect you if you’re looking for something more interesting and possibly better pay.
This tutorial gives an overview of how compatibility with existing portable C code works:

https://github.com/CraneStation/wasmtime-wasi/blob/wasi/docs...
Regardless of one's political leanings, it's frightening that only one of the two major American political parties is even feigning interest at fixing what is clearly a vulnerable system.

This shouldn't be a partisan issue, but it somehow continues to be.
I realized this when my landlord came home with a brand new Mercedes SL one day, and I was still taking the N to work despite having a 6 figure tech salary. I was basically subsidizing his car payment. I worked at a 6 person startup that received a few million in funding, and between our personal rents and the rent of our office, probably around 40% of that investor money went into the pockets of landlords. If our startup was somewhere cheaper, yeah we wouldn't have raised $X million, but we wouldn't have needed that much just to exist.
Sounds fascinating. What coordinate systems are used for treatment planning? Given how much bodies can change over time, and the difficulty of re-achieving a specific pose, I'm curious if there are interesting ways to correlate measurements over time. Certainly, medical training involves learning lots of prepositional anatomy words like "antecubital" but is there anything more precise, a GPS system for bodies? This seems very challenging for e.g. the gastrointestinal tract -- but I could imagine something using lots of relative reference points, the way I assume surgeons orient themselves.
I don't know exactly where people get this idea that landlords just sit on their hands and collect money for doing nothing. maybe it's a result of the "divergence of incentives" other posters have mentioned in highly regulated markets.

where I live, mortgage payments are significantly less than typical rent for comparable structures, but I am quite happy to pay my landlord the difference for taking the cognitive load of caring for a house of my shoulders. anything goes wrong with the house and I just shoot him an email and his guy fixes it by the end of the week. when we came to see the house for the first time, he was there with his guy scrubbing the floors on his hands and knees.

what I'm saying is, maybe an apartment doesn't produce value, but it doesn't maintain itself either.
How to Hack Mobile Growth with Facebook
yep. no easy way (via "settings") to change the font and my old eyes need the default font size bumped a few times. I did the tutorial which is excellent and got me up to speed quickly! no way to search for a file, at least I didn't see it in the docs. there is a plugin for "fuzzy" search within a folder but not the entire drive. it's a great little utility but isn't done cooking and the $18 ask is a bit much as it is now IMHO.
Plus, you know, https://aws.amazon.com/corretto/

We do actually vend a JDK. Yes, it's conservative. It's also necessary.
Do you have any information about this? I've been looking into the tax implications of moving to Japan recently and it's not been easy to sort through.
Thanks. Pathom and EQL looks cool.
> Hmm, I thought this pattern was really common?

while true, redis predates node, so your example does not support your use of past tense.
It also looks exactly like decision theory from statistics done in high dimensional spaces. Mostly because it is.
Thanks, they weren't on my radar. Some nice laptops, damn this one's a beast https://system76.com/laptops/serval
This looks awesome. I'll definitely be using this for the next API I build.
Surely the need for Apple to noticeably grow profits is going to lead to ever more situations like this?

More flimsy products combined with more glamorous marketing to distract.
Go for it - I went with an X1C6 as a replacement for my old macbook pro, and I couldn't be happier. Excellent keyboard and no issues running linux. The only setting I've changed from my default ubuntu was to install and use the kde plasma desktop to avoid scaling issues, and it's perfect. You'll love the form factor as well.
An authoritarian dictatorship where the air pollution and other environmental pollution (heavy metals, PCBs, food supply chain chemical/pesticide contamination) will probably knock years off your life expectancy.

From the point of view of somebody who lives in a place with clear air and a decent paying job, I would require significant extra compensation to move my residence to a place with air pollution on the level of New Delhi, Lahore, or Beijing.
They shot the satellite with a "missile". And it was a demonstration of what we would do when a spy satellite hovers above us during "wartime". The PM in his address clearly said that this successful test makes "India" more "secure". Considering all this, it pretty much qualifies to be a national security issue to me.

> And the question isn't whether it is permissible, but rather was it an obvious opportunistic move?

I don't know.
If you have ever done anything seriously with time zones you store everything UTC and must use a library to translate. The problem is it is geopolitical, so the time zone conversion result can vary based on the date itself as well as the physical location. For example DST was changed in 2007 in the US, there is no option but to programmatically translate.
By the same logic as how LVT decreases rents, subsidies are simply a net economic transfer to landlords.

They might be a reasonable very short-term emergency measure for a few, but long-term, this exacerbates the problem.
> Apple has a dispute with pricing, and whether it should be charged a flat rate instead of % of devices.

No. Apple isn't saying it should be charged a "flat rate," but that a percentage rate should be based on the price of component, ie, modem, not system, ie, smartphone. According to documents/testimony revealed during the last trial, before the 4G license hike, Apple was on average paying $7.50 per device, but Apple "wanted" to pay $1.50 for Qualcomm's entire wireless portfolio, a bargain considering how much Apple had asked for a handful of frivolous utility/design patents from Samsung, around $7.0 for each patent per device.

Again, it's common wireless industry practice embraced by wireless participants for decades now. Apple is way late to the game and is trying to change the rule of the game to maximize their bottom line.

Apple's past legal challenge to change this has fallen flat, so this time around Apple is using the FTC as proxy to fight their battle. While Apple's hometown judge Koh surprisingly had given Apple an upper hand on this as JML (pretrial judgement as matter of law), this would be appealed and, many expect Koh's biased, flawed theory to be reversed.

> I don't see Apple trying to argue for patent exhaustion and Intel should be paying for it.

Apple has in fact been arguing "patent exhaustion" and that Intel should also be able to license at component-level, against the industry convention where royalties are collected at device/system level. Koh's decision was obviously in Apple's favor, but again this remains to be seen. Qualcomm is not going to take this lying down since this cuts into their most profitable licensing business.
Considering their methodology of selecting for the lowest performing engineers and specifically NOT asking half of them to secure the passwords, I'm encouraged that their numbers were as good as they were.
Thanks for sharing with actual numbers! I'll check out your music too.

Discover Weekly is how I find a lot of new music similar to my music, I trust it more than most of the other playlists Spotify or Apple Music create. So far, I've probably discovered 300-400 new songs using Discover Weekly.
Thank you for your feedback and sorry for the confusion. Clearly I did a bad job with this post.

With Pony there is no "send" button. As the developer, I've been using Pony myself for a few months and I've already had countless times when I've put something in my Outbox, only to realize the tone was wrong and needed to be re-worded. Having no "send" button and only one pickup every day gives you time to pause and reflect and change your message until it suits its purpose.

Does that clarify? How could I clarify the home/about page to make that clearer?
Ideally, high ceilings and light are great. A hybrid office type is the best. Offering several different work areas has most advantages.

I like to think of my college library, areas open and no noise restrictions. Other areas closed off/private for hard focus. Some private rooms for group meetings, private rooms for individual work.

Mobile technology has been a great thing, offering all that extra flexibility
Well, you know the timezone: it's of wherever in Germany the meeting will take place.

I think the problem is the display: since you know you'll be in Germany from date X to Y, you should be able to configure the presentation timezone for those days (which would also show you those meetings in the local time when you'll have to make them).
McDonalds uses this type of data in so many ways. When I worked for them, they uncovered a franchisee defrauding them and the IRS. This was when x86 POS systems were first replacing Scantron menu systems. This franchisee hired someone to customize the POS system to underreport sales. This affected both the tax collections, as well as franchise fees due. How was he found? Well, all food/paper sales were through one vendor that reports sales to the mothership. They could see that he was ordering enough supplies for X, while reporting Y sales. He skimmed about 10% extra over two years before they busted him. So for roughly $200K he lost all four franchises, and faced a huge tax issue.

This type of data processing across all the McOpCo stores and franchises will be invaluable.
Honestly until today I didn't even realize NPM was a company. I thought it was managed in the same vein as PyPI or rubygems.org

... why isn't it?
Wikipedia: Personal finances of professional American athletes
>As an undergrad I was excited about chaos and nonlinear dynamics.

I, too, read the Strogatz book :^).
One problem I see with UBI is that it may just act as a subsidy for companies like Amazon and Uber allowing them to pay their lowest paid workers even less.
One of the unofficial rules of HN is:

* No oneliners. Specialy memelike oneliners.

For example, if someone says "moon" and you reply "That's no moon...it's a space station." you will get downvoted.

One clear symptom is that someone else wrote the same comment (with allcaps, that breaks another rule). I'm not sure why that comment was not downvoted. (Note: I didn't downvote your comments or the comment of the other user.)

You can write oneliners in special occasions, but it's much safer to write a longer comment and give more details.

Another rule is:

* Don't complain about downvotes.

Luckily, your second comment didn't get downvote.
Microsoft Memo Bans April Fools’ Day Pranks
Plenty of bacteria have survived going into LEO in recent decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_microorganisms_tested_...
They bring up something interesting which is how streaming has changed how music is made. Albums are now shorter with more songs, that nets more plays and more money. They also focus on singles instead of full albums, which gives more opportunity for "playlisting". It's an interesting, albeit concerning, effect that technology is having on art.
Podcast with John McAfee on Bitcoin, Crypto, and Drug Decriminalization
>>Because we live in a society and those with the most expensive houses have likely derived the most benefit from that.

How so? The same limits on garbage collection still apply regardless of how expensive your house is. Even if you have a £20m mansion the council will only collect one bin per week. I'd risk a guess that expensive mansions also require fewer police and fire department visits, and as for street cleaning I have no opinion really.

>>Stamp duty is a terrible mechanism: it mainly just discourages people from moving, which then means it doesn't even raise that much revenue.

I agree with you. I'm looking to buy a house right now and stamp duty feels like money thrown into a fire - basically paying few grand for the luxury of purchasing a place to live.
At least in NYC, it's because of rent.
Learning in Machines and Brains
Some of us have enough money that we just don't care. If you want people to tiptoe around your feelings I suggest messaging some broke new grads.
I only wish renovating my otherwise great 70s home to have higher ceilings was cheaper!
Irrespective of what the perception of pg is, the tweet was pretty clear that pg only "inspired" or "triggered" the creation of Redis. That gives pg no more more credibility than the moon gets for inspiring Van Gogh to paint Starry Night.

Attributing inspiration takes nothing away from an artist, nor from the work. I don't event think it meaningfully changes the credibility of the inspiring object.

I could randomly paraphrase and quote lines from the Art of Computer Programming, for instance, and if I had a wide enough audience I'd probably bring about a Great Renaissance in the field of computer science and programming. History might remember as the Greatest Idea Man of all time, but that seems unlikely.
Ask HN: If you're using Basecamp, how many people are there in your team?
Yes, the commercial ones. Mendix, Salesforce etc.
But I want a solution which is open source and extensible.
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I've heard this a lot, especially when referring to both Mandarin and Cantonese, ie. Mando and canto
"Copperhead" can't regain trust, because it's a trademark that was effectively stolen using the legal system.

Anybody who's had experience with plain business-types in their own salad days knows the pattern of what went down with CopperheadOS -

Programmer develops pet project focused on the technicals. Business type sees raw input for his use, offers to partner with Programmer to develop a business around the idea. Programmer isn't terribly interested in what Business type is doing, because it seems boring. Business type goes to work stacking the deck with legal paperwork, because that's his profession. Business type starts dictating to programmer what to work on, undermining original goal of project, likely for quick consulting-style revenue on something tangentially related. Programmer protests this isn't what he signed up for. Business type uses stacked deck to claim legal control over the codebase/etc, converting someone else's real work.

I'm just glad to see that Daniel is still posting, and doubly glad that he's still working on the technicals. The name was cool, but alas there it went.
>There are many time keeping devices that are not updated as often as UTC leap seconds are introduced.

Isn't this an argument against using TAI in certain applications though? i.e. if you're designing a system which relies on non-leapsecond-updated devices to be in sync with devices that are capable of being updated, you should always design as such to accommodate the former rather than the latter?
Criticisms of the underlying hardware/software aside, my intuitive answer to the headline question is "because governments are buying them."

Perhaps the esteemed Senators should undertake a short naval-gazing exercise and ask "how could there only be three major players in such a lucrative segment, each selling ancient hardware and crappy software products?"

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess at the answer to that question, and it likely shows those three companies as being the only ones with the patience and tenacity to get those models approved.

So Mr./Ms. Senator(s), I suggest you rephrase your question as follows: "how can we simplify the procurement process to make sure we, the government, are receiving the greatest value for our expenditures?"
It's like saying some cars are more responsible for a traffic jam than others, or some people on the subway contribute to it being crowded more than others. Everyone takes up space. The people who live somewhere contribute to the housing problem just like people who move in, in proportion to the amount of space they take up.

Choosing a subclass of people to scapegoat doesn't solve a structural problem.

It's also useful to think about who is doing things to make things better or worse. Moving in makes things worse, moving away makes things better. Building more housing helps, removing housing makes things worse.

So far that seems to make sense, but here's the counterintuitive part: in any given year, choosing not to move away is as bad as moving in. You're taking up space someone else could use.

(But normally we don't beat ourselves up too much for taking up space.)
it captures data by default... https://fman.io/docs/metrics at least he is open about this. still don't like that is it ON by default or that it's built in to the core code.
Why Nasa may be trying to quietly put the SLS out of its misery
That's awesome— thanks!!
True, but in this case, the design work is much lower than most products - just an FPGA hooked up with the recommended schematic and a couple of weeks work integrating a free CPU core with free tools and a free software stack.

Granted, they might not sell enough of these to pay for even a small amount of design work.
The main factor is neither public services nor foreign investors.

It's economic growth. With the exception of retirement communities, it's locally-situated companies producing more value, hiring more employees, paying them more, which results in those employees wanting nicer homes, nicer neighborhoods and better public services. And why shouldn't they?
Yeah, I was being somewhat facetious. There certainly is a difference in the way that scientists and people in industry work. I think that folks that have crossed over from Science to industry experience a level of culture shock regarding the way work is done.

They can both learn from each other, but having been in industry for a while, I feel like in too many places there's a soul crushing amount of project-management busy work. And I've heard my friends in academia complain about a lack of "project management" leading to a nightmarish amount of loose-ends and things never actually being "finished".
Very few people would want to live this "self-sufficient" lifestyle. I dont think people are opposed to efficiencies of scale or the advancements that can come from multinational corporations. I think that its not just simplistic reasoning is completely wrongheaded.
Let's say you get an idea—or, as Pooh would more accurately say, it gets you. Where did it come from? From this something, which came from that something? If you are able to trace it all the way back to its source, you will discover that it came from Nothing. And chances are, the greater the idea, the more directly it came from there. "A stroke of genius! Completely unheard of! A revolutionary new approach!" Practically everyone has gotten some sort of an idea like that sometime, most likely after a sound sleep when everything was so clear and filled with Nothing that an Idea suddenly appeared in it.

-Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
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Because it's cheap. Less walls to build, more employees packed on to a floor.

Do you lose more money than you're saving due to decreased productivity? Maybe. But that's hard to prove, and "This office proposal is $X million cheaper because we can lease three fewer floors" is very straightforward.
I switched fields to mathematics / theoretical computer science (theorem proving, to be exact). The field I had worked on in physics didn't excite me to pursue a phd/carrer, and there were no opportunities (that I could get into) in fields that did interest me. Plus, I always had a string interest in maths, so... It has been a good choice so far, but I do sometimes miss working in physics.