skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclosure: I did not make it past the NYT paywall to read the article. But, dumb idea: break off Facebook News Feed or otherwise regulate what Facebook pays to content publishers such that Facebook pays more than it does today. Then Chris Hughes earns a return on any media equity he owns... even if the regulation doesn't work in the long run.

And if this doesn't work, he might get to whitewash his New Republic failings through uniting anti-Facebook sentiment among publishers.
people still use excel as a database
As if Zuck wasn't a right-place-right-time lottery winner.
> SD not handing power loss well

Is it that SD cards themselves don't "handle power loss well", or is it bad assumptions made by the filesystems chosen to be used on them? Could a filesystem with a specific design avoid SD card corruption?
I'd say that in this respect most researchers operate very similarly to startups that are often featured on HN. Seems a bit unfair to say the research should be closed down without saying the same thing, e.g., about Uber/Lyft, Doordash, or even Amazon (insofar as they are all promising to revolutionize something and make money sustainably)?

That is not to say that the HBP wasn't widely perceived as ridiculous from the outset by people with relevant technical knowledge. I think the bottom line is that we should respect scientists that are able to cast an audacious vision, raise crazy amounts of money, and then actually deliver, e.g., Christoph Koch/Allen Institute.
> Vital articles sorted by number of views in the past 90 days (as of 17 July 2014)

Sex is the eight.
Because earnings came in below forecast.
Redirect Ad Analysis #1 [pdf]
I've survived for years drinking mostly iced tea, with a soda in the morning instead of coffee. I can count the number of times I drink plain water in a week on one hand (after exercise, basically)
You are correct, unfortunately. There must always be a contingent that supports the autocrat or else he would not be in power. "universal" is indeed too broad a term.

And indeed, in the US there were things like the Madison Square pro-nazi rally in 1939. And just as there were pro-democracy denunciations of Pinochet that Nixon et co ignored, so too today there is denunciation of appalling autocratic behavior that will be ignored and will need to be watered down to justify to the public. Perhaps in the past too there were arguments of the form "thousands of political firings do not constitute a purge because the New York Times is X"

I am accustomed to solution oriented discussions on these topics. So while interesting from an anthropological point of view, defense and praise of autocratic behavior is a breaking distraction from finding solutions.
All public Trello power-ups have to be GDPR compliant, for example. The requirements are laid out on their developer documentation page [1]. You have to poll an endpoint every 14 days to remain compliant, delete data on request, etc. If you're building a power-up for free/fun, it might make you think twice (just because of the payoff/effort ratio). But I'm going to charge money for my power-up, so something like this isn't really a big deal.

If you have time/money or plan to make money, GDPR compliance isn't terribly difficult. But free/cash-strapped service providers would probably think twice before becoming compliant (which is why a lot of local US news websites just don't allow European visitors -- compliance is somewhat expensive, and local news in the US isn't doing too great right now).

[1] https://developers.trello.com/docs/personal-data-storage
eMMC is not at all better then SD card though. You really need a real SSD for industrial applications.
Market economy is like fuel combustion - it's only valuable to society if controlled. You want the combustion to happen to drive the things that matter (wealth and happiness of the society), but you don't want it to get out of control. You want a wealth-generating engine, not a raging gasoline fire.
Belgium Records Highest Temperature at 40.2 Degrees
Of course they don't need it, but if states are willing to bribe them billions of dollars, they're happy to run up a bidding war.
A Hotline for Bakers
Or ostrich eggs, for that matter....
I think this is the lead:

"The International Maritime Organisation has codes governing how much moisture is allowed in solid bulk cargo in order to prevent liquefaction. So why does it still happen?
The technical answer is that the existing guidance on stowing and shipping solid bulk cargoes is too simplistic."
Prop13 has had a LOT of unintended consequences.

No, those were intended consequences.
Tech companies are looking to Canada for skilled workers
It's not just the question of capital gains. Dividends mandate a taxable event. Buybacks give you the option to continue holding and not pay taxes. That option has value.
But Pascal's wager is about risk vs. reward. Here, there is neither risk nor reward. The entire question of whether free will exists or not is pointless.

If it exists, nothing changes.
If it doesn't exist, nothing changes.
And regardless whether you believe it exists or not:
If you're right about whether it exists, nothing changes.
If you're wrong about whether it exists, nothing changes.

So no matter the truth, no matter the outcome, everything is exactly the same. That means the question itself is pointless.

And right and wrong would still apply, it's just that if free will does not exist, we couldn't morally fault you for choosing wrong, you had no choice. But then again, I wouldn't have the choice in whether or not to morally fault you.
The difference between paying $9000 to Sacramento and $1000 to LA or paying $5000 to Sacramento and $5000 to LA.

In the latter system, the local government gets direct control over the spending, as opposed to needing to lobby the state government for funds for road improvements, schools, etc.

For instance, in California, the majority of K-12 funding comes from Sacramento. In most of the rest of the country, the majority of K-12 funding comes from local, largely property, taxes-- exceptions being low-performing schools targeted for improvement with state funds.
The cell is a little scaled-up, but the organelles are of normal size.
Why doesn’t it solve it? The guy has an audience. He just needs a URL people can find him on. I guess a lot of people wouldn’t have the grit and determination required to read something that isn’t spoon fed via Twitter, so he might lose a few “followers”.

But I wonder if a twitter follower is like 0.02 email subscribers in terms of attention span and deliverability. Who reads every tweet in their feed?
I've almost always seen indoor blinds, which are useless in keeping heat outside the windows. In Southern Europe blinds are outdoor and keep solar radiation outside the glass, and there are separate curtains inside for privacy when the blinds are open.

Compare Antwerpen[0] or Brussels[1] with Milan[2] or Crete[3] or Barcelona[4]

[0] https://www.google.com/maps/@51.219842,4.4006387,3a,75y,64.8...

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8398344,4.3562283,3a,75y,90....

[2] https://www.google.com/maps/@45.4558029,9.1837501,3a,75y,29....

[3] https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3266049,25.1255372,3a,75y,34...

[4] https://www.google.com/maps/@41.3880801,2.1358851,3a,75y,256...
> Tall buildings are inherently communal.

Cool so stop building them.

You can't make the workplaces incredibly dense and the housing incredibly sparse in a geographically constrained area though and expect things to be OK.

For every Salesforce tower build a giant apartment skyscraper. For every Google campus build a major apartment complex campus.
Alibaba is an advertising platform. They're not a retailer like Amazon. The one day sales event is gross merchandise volume, not Alibaba's actual revenue. The parent comment is comparing apples and oranges.

eBay for example did $94b in gross merchandise volume in 2018, their revenue was $10.7b.
I'm constantly amazed by the ability of TED organizers to convince people to pay to listen to nonsense. How do they do it? Sure there a few gems, but overall the content quality is equal to TV infomercials selling snake-oil nutritional supplements and get-rich-quick schemes. Is everyone afraid to say that the emperor is naked?
https://www.sanfranciscopolice.org/sites/default/files/FileC...

Every state/city is a little different with regard to the specifics
Maybe. But college campuses are quite planned and they’re not all depressing.
It's on the income statement. So, generally, yes.
This isn't a great analogy. Telephony has a well defined way to determine disconnect origin. Using SIP it's quite easy to determine the direction a bye comes from.
Purchased in the last 7 years is pretty recent. Most home owners bought 15+ years ago. If you're buying within the last decade you're probably paying a transplant premium.
The Rise of Woke Capitalism
Well neither would Intel if they dissolved the unit...
Here's an idea we can adopt from literally every other aspect of American society: let the market work. We venerate the free market in all matters except housing, where we've erected a complex system of legal protections for incumbent landlords. The solution to high housing prices is more supply but it is illegal to build housing almost anywhere in the state of California. In SF it is illegal to build a duplex on 90% of the lots. Why? That just exists to enrich incumbents.
Mostly ($9bn) from the $13bn acquisition of WholeFoods.
My sister in law has kids that are in the 7 - 13 year range. The girl specifically (she's 9 or so) will just put on a youtube video and then just watch whatever it recommends after that endlessly.

To adults, the content is absolute garbage, but to her its entertaining. I noticed that most of the stuff she watches is just some tweens or twenty somethings doing every day life stuff (sitting in a pool, making spaghetti, etc). The only real difference is that they do it with high energy and make a big deal out of everything.

WOOOOAAA noodles feel weird!
NO WAAAYY the sauce is RED!!
HOLY COW this hot TUB is SO HOT!

I guess it works because these videos often have 400k to millions of views.
Am I missing something or are Alibaba seriously making more than half their annual sales in one single day?
> (and this has become a bigger problem every generation of Pi—you need a good power supply or you'll have a lot of annoying problems)

I wish the pi just had a 12v barrel jack.

edit: it first dawned on me that the pi power situation could be improved when I read this article years ago:

http://www.bitwizard.nl/wiki/Reducing_power_consumption_of_a...
I don't really disagree with anything else you say, but...

>When has a war with USA ever saved lives?

I don't know. I think there was a war of note which might have been around the 1940s?

It's fine to say that the costs of an interventionist foreign policy don't outweigh the benefits; I don't necessarily disagree with that. But it's absolutely inaccurate to say that the benefits don't exist. USA at the very least contributed a great deal to the European Theatre, and Imperial Japan was dethroned almost entirely due to their effort.

It turns out that all three of Italy, Germany, and Japan were successfully occupied and now have stable and democratic governments, as well.
Thoughts on Layer API Shutdown
At a guess, it's probably easier to pump slurry than to shovel dry material. Maybe also dust.
> Intel's modems are more valuable to Apple than they are to other players, including Intel

That implies that Intel has the leverage. Intel's BATNA is to just let the modem IP rot. It's a sunk cost. They can just walk away from the negotiating table, and they'll be choosing to get $0 + ($small * potential of selling to anyone else = $ε) instead of $1B.

Apple's BATNA, meanwhile, is for Qualcomm to steamroll them and force them into expensive concessions across the board, and they're willing to pay through the nose to avoid that. Their choice is between $1B to intel and likely far more than $1B to Qualcomm.
If people paying for TED talks wanted to learn, they'd enroll in an evening class at their community college.

The purpose of TED talks is not learning. It's getting all the dopamine hits that come with learning, without actually putting in the work.
Not a large number of high end non Apple phones....
The rpi is nice but I'd prefer a CPU 10x times slower if it had memory to store the OS. The rpi's CPU is way too powerful.

The only one I would buy would be the RPI zero.

Having something reliable can matter.
I drank a lot in my earlier years. (To excess, really.) I honestly believe it made me more social.

I stopped when my first son was born, 20 years ago. (I've since had half a glass of champagne.)

I don't miss it a bit. I feel healthier, I saved a ton of money, and I've forgotten what a hangover feels like.

I truly recommend abstinence. It's a good thing!
Transport is TCP/UDP/etc. HTTP is part of the application layer, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_layer.

>If you sent a perfectly semantically valid HTTP request for a resource that doesn't exist on the remote

Requesting a path (via the application layer) that doesn't exist is a client error, hence the 4XX. But, say, if your website has a search bar and a client searches for "blahblah-thisdoesntexist" and gets no results, the webpage should return a 200 (the request was valid: the client sent form data to an existing resource and it was processed successfully) with something like "no results found" in the body -- because the search function itself is above the application layer. This is what I mean about "is the CC is authorized or not" being above the application layer.

>Its set of status codes clearly reflect details of the underlying application.

This is where I think you're wrong: HTTP status codes reflect the result of the HTTP request itself, not the next application in the chain, if one exists.

This can also be expressed if we look lower down the chain. If my HTTP request gave me a 404, should an error be shown in the TCP stack? Well no, because TCP doesn't know or care about HTTP, as far as it's concerned the TCP connection is established and happy. Likewise, in this example, the API HTTP stack doesn't care about whether the data was a CC or something else or what the result was: as far as the HTTP stack is concerned, some JSON got passed in and parsed properly, and some output got sent back, and everything went well so "200".
You are right about the buyback allowing shareholders to delay the taxable event. But you are wrong that dividends are taxed at capital gains rate. They are taxed as income.

Capital gains are taxed at capital gains rate (almost always lower) and they gain can be offset by losses. This is the main advantage of stock buyback.
Timers + a cool down period before the next activity = less withdrawal symptoms. I'm ashamed we still haven't removed the devices from their weekly allotment of diversions, but we don't have a TV to speak of, so it's their only time.
I don't know if this would work as well as you might think it does.

1. People don't necessarily want to live immediately next door to where they work. Maybe someone who works in Mountain View wants to live in Palo Alto, but this doesn't help them.

2. A lot of highways bulldozing inner cities were stopped by residents protesting. Under your proposal office workers could just vote in a highway that gets them from A to B quickly while screwing over everyone who lives next to it. I don't know that going back to this model is a good idea.

3. Mixed use housing does not really 'solve' traffic in that people don't actually live close to work even when it is available. Especially if you consider multiple income households. Tokyo is pretty much all mixed use and still people suffer from long commutes.
Exactly why student loan debts, insufficient housing, and the gig economy are larger problems than they appear at first glance.

Indebted, underemployed people with just a rented bedroom and dysfunctional social safety nets are, for some odd reason, less eager to procreate.

If you don't have enough grandkids, there won't be enough able-bodied people around to wipe the drool off your generation's collective chin and push your age cohort's wheelchair out to the common room. That's the real cost of pulling up the ladder after yourself. You break the generational compact by denying opportunities to young folks, and they not only won't take care of you in your sunset years, but they won't even exist to do anything for you at any price.
This is bad advice. Kidney stones are a common disease not requiring diagnosis that indicates you aren't drinking enough water.
You could have made the same argument to not sanction any govt, like the Nationalist Socialists or Soviets.
One of the flaws in Pascal's wager is that it is equally applicable to any religion where the punishment for disbelief is eternal torture.

Another is that an omnipotent being can be fooled by worship without belief.

Pascal's wager is essentially a long-winded "Yeah, but what if you're wrong?"
San Diego typically the owner of the vehicle pays the fees when its towed from private property not the owner of the property. It seems the lawsuit is based around considering the fees are higher than legally allowed.

https://www.sandiego.gov/sites/default/files/legacy/cityatto...
> after Windows uses the Linux kernel

Or just open sources theirs, but yeah I generally agree.

> and Microsoft uses Rust

Hold on. That'd be cool and all but they've already released 2-3 open source languages. Pretending that the use of the language de jour would be anywhere near the list of things that redeem MS feels shortsighted.
Robinhood is a tech company which offers financial services. What does this bill even mean?
Yeah, definitely for larger scale systems the process gets quite a bit different, although "large scale" will remain undefined :).

It's admittedly been a long time since I've used MySQL for anything significant, but I feel like teams in the past have run into issues where DDL operations on their own have succeeded in dev/staging and failed in prod, even though they're running on the same schema. Simply due to there being "weird" data in the rows. I don't know that for sure though. If I'm remembering right, one of those had something to do with the default "latin1_swedish_ci" vs utf8 thing...
Along these lines I don't have a Facebook, have tracker blockers, and other stuff. Spotify used to give me the strangest ads. I'd get some for super cuts. Then an ad about hair loss (I'm under 30 and my dad still doesn't have gray hair). Then ads in Spanish from Jared's (not even dating anyone. Plus these seemed to be targeted at women). Also I'd get TONs of ads for Spotify premium. Those were literally all the ads I got. (stopped using Spotify because after I started paying, maybe those ads worked, their Linux app broke and they said they didn't care about fixing it)
Yet Alibaba's operating margins are 15X (31% vs 2%) that of Amazon.
Atlanta pauses scooter permits after deaths
I think it's a bit of a cheat to call these things single-celled. They're really lots of cells where the cells are connected by cytoplasmic bridges.

https://biology.stackexchange.com/a/28480/3871

Sure, topologically that's the same, but biology isn't topology. There are lots of organisms like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coenocyte

I don't know this species specifically, but functionally, organisms like this work much the same as multicellular organisms, with the domain round a nucleus equipped with protein synthesis machinery and other organelles running mostly independently, and coordinating with the other ones via chemical signals. It's just that the signals can move around without having to cross a cell membrane.

EDIT: And if you count this as a single cell, then presumably you'll count a muscle fibre, which is also many nuclei inside a single cell membrane, in which case there are larger single cells inside your own body:

https://www.jneurosci.org/content/25/37/8528

Well, longer at least.
In that case Apple shouldn’t have bought the remnants of Exponential technology to jumpstart their ARM processor designs.
AWS growth is priced in. So if the stock priced dropped, then it's likely that most analysts were expecting ~50% YoY revenue increases.
Winnti: Attacking the Heart of the German Industry
It looks like the one-day number is gross (ie, no costs subtracted), the other is net profit.
Right. Howard Jarvis, the face of Prop 13, was a lobbyist for the Apartment Owners' Association. Prop. 13 was for landlords by landlords.
Price/Sales is 4.01, lower than GOOG, FB or MSFT. They are going for growth, not profit. No valuation metric is perfect, but P/E is particularly useless for this company.
HN is clearly triggered that Alphabet did well. "Fines not enough". "Taxes not enough." Keep on harping on the same beat while Alphabet does well.
Is this correct?

Or is this correct:
As housing prices rise, it becomes cost effective to replace simplexes with duplexes, threeplexes, etc., causing the value of all simplexes to rise.
The proud boys are a strange white power group when they have prominent black members.
Look at this map of total fertility :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-replacement_fertility#/med...

If fertility is below 2.1 it's below replacement.

There are not many rich countries with replacement level fertility rates.

Japan's population is decreasing at ~300K a year because they don't allow much immigration. As countries become rich people leave in lower numbers.

There are quite a few countries in the world that are already experiencing population decline :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_decline
Yes. It may be an evil thing to do but it takes a kind of competence which the us lacks today.
Revenue growth slowed due to the cost of one day shipping. It's not about revenue being up, but how much revenue is growing. If revenues go up some large amount, but it's up by less percentage wise than it was up last year that means growth is slowing.
Yes but if you do sell you still pay a lower capital gains rate in the US.
Yes, true. But it had a lot of hidden consequences that most actual voters didn't think of. The spirit of the law could be sustainably maintained by closing up applicability to businesses, only letting it apply to primary residences, and reassessing on inheritance
Is anything weird going on with your serotonin levels? Genetic mutations? Antidepressants?
It's a shame that photography doesn't get the respect it deserves as a visual art.

Ernst Haas took basically the same picture in New Mexico in the 60's.

https://www.mbphoto.com/artists/167-ernst-haas/series/other-...
"It is not known how the organism feeds or reproduces"

This is amazing for me. Sometimes it seems that everything is already discovered and if not we just need to put some tech into it to analyze the mystery and get an answer.

The reality is that we are still far away from that. And that any discovery involves dedication, investment and serendipity.
Yes, true.

Prius has a well-earned reputation for never needing brake pads. Regeneration takes the brunt of every stop, the physical brakes are just the final part.

I bought a used Prius for my son, it's been a great vehicle.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20512896
What Types of Software UI Bugs Are We Seeing in 2019? Here Are 13 Examples
Apple can probably bring much better high-level management than Intel. Intel haven't managed to make a success of anything except x86 processors, whereas Apple do well in markets they target more often than not...
Really amazing explanation.
You're misinformed. Caffeine does not dehydrate those who consume it regularly.

Sugar can dehydrate you if you are diabetic or have other blood sugar regulation issues. You're playing straw man games.
Oh hey, I work with Andy Stanford-Clark