skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's the really important thing - we use websockets pretty heavily here, and users can have bizarre issues with them. With this, it does just work. It's not the best or the shiniest, but it's the easiest and the most compatible.
There are several things going on here -- Today, banking controls the monetary supply through creation of new dollars to be loaned. Being fully backed has less meaning in a continuously inflating fiat currency world.
Being backed by gold, by computation, by proof-of-stake -- these are all much stronger measures than JP Morgan Chase's core banking database.

Libra is control over monetary flows. Offend zuck, watch your public key added to the block list. Watch the balance drained from your account as the producers use 'admin' transaction powers to remove funds. Maybe the ledger maintainers simply block your transactions from being committed.

And then we have currency controls in places other than the US, like India and China. Suddenly 'stablecoin's are more useful than bank account backed dollar holdings (outside the US). This is a power grab for the future currency of developing nations. The endgame is control of planet Earth's M1 currency supply.
yeah and in normal operation the OS/PG will have all your data in memory (or all your indexes if very, very much data or under spec'd db server).

Disk is for writes.
>If it's not under their control, it's dangerous and has to be put out.

I think the last thing advertisers want is more control, because that means they are responsible. Advertisers just don't want bad publicity, so when the news media comes knocking because of some controversy, the advertiser can say: "We did everything we could! (Please talk about us in a good way.)"
Hey Mike, I was wondering if Second Measure is currently open to hiring interns.
Half related and only quarter-serious:

I bet your code is full of functions with names like:

takeCustomerIDAndDateThenQueryDatabaseToReturnArrayOfPurchaseOrdersWhichConsistOfPONumberAndNetSalesPrice

takeCustomerIDAndDateThenQueryDatabaseToReturnArrayOfPurchaseOrdersWhichConsistOfPONumberAndLineItemsOfProductAndQuantityAndUnitPrice
Are they popular? Just curious...
Amazing hardware, looks well thought out. Would never buy it with Windows OS though - I have a Surface for work with Windows 10 Pro and it's invasive crappy nagware.
Isn't the weather extremely bikeable? or are the roads super dangerous for that?
Hacker News, aka the living embodiment of "you must be fun at parties".
> At 50% I'd expect the US to provide at least some healthcare :(

So would many Americans. But those defense contractors need their cut. And non-US projects tend to be more expensive than other countries as well.
So why are so many countries banning it around their coastlines?

Also sulfates are just one aspect... the heavy metals and warm acidic water is another...
Pair that was demand forecasting for this relatively obscure feature, they probably made the call that simple polling was good enough for now.
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Correction: The bigger device is Surface Neo (running Windows 10 X), the smaller device is Surface Duo (running Android).
> Coleslaw denotes a specific preparation of cabbage, notably that it's shredded and prepared in either a vinegar mixture or mayonnaise.

Except where it doesn't. The exact preparation and substances used seem to vary between people, places and nations that make it.

When I see "cabbage salad" I know it'll involve a cabbage as the main ingredient, the word "salad" constraints my expectations by giving me a distribution of preparation methods, and similarly I roughly know what other ingredients go with "cabbage" and "salad" when there's no modifier in the name. In other words, in general situation I expect a kind of dish, not a very particular one.

The problem is, the same applies to "coleslaw". Because there's no agreement as to what exactly it is, the word itself gives me as much information as "cabbage salad", except that now I have to remember yet another weird word, remember the arbitrary mapping between "coleslaw" and "cabbage" and "salad".

The ability to introduce a new word to abstract over a large concept is a very powerful thing, and it's especially useful if the abstracted grouping is unique and frequently used. The case of "coleslaw" or "de volaille" or countless other terms and there misspellings and mispronunciations is neither unique nor useful. It's pure waste of mental resources.

I brought up chemical nomenclature for a reason. Chemists have figured out there's just too many similar but not quite the same molecules, or groups of similar molecules, to not bother with giving a unique name to all of them. Instead, they exploit another awesome feature of human language - structure. Ability to harness the combinatorial explosion by utilizing prefixes and suffixes and modifiers.

> -Most menus don't simply give the name of the dish like "de volaille cutlet". They will actually give the description, like "fried breaded chicken cutlet stuffed with a creamy brie cheese and prosciutto ham"

Depends on the restaurants. I love those that do that.
Ah- well then I would say the fact that I couldn't distinguish the post from other, real comments I've seen on HN just reinforces my point ;)

But yeah, I personally know those are a minority of the Rust community; I'm in the same boat where I don't want the whole thing being judged by a vocal minority.
Sounds like an excuse. If I can find a way to make something like this gracefully degrade, I'm sure Google also could...

You might say it's over-engineering, but in aggregate terms this could make a big difference in power and network usage. I'm talking more about the users (usually mobiles). So I would call it just... engineering.
I disagree, screen real estate is precious.
I don't know the details but look at what Slippery_John said in his comment:

> Well yes, but actually no. Not all proteins are equal, they have different quantities of different kinds of amino acids. Humans need 9 distinct amino acids for a healthy diet, and animal proteins are by far the easiest source of "complete proteins" from a single source. It's absolutely possible to get plant-based complete proteins (e.g. soy or quinoa), but often that involves deliberately mixing different protein sources to get a complete balance.
> what better platform is there for a pencil company to advertise than /r/calligraphy

aren't only hardcore pencil users are on /r/calligraphy and weak targets for persuasion via advertising.

I would rather target dabblers not hardcore users who already know which pencil is the best.
Disclaimer: My co-founder at Midtype Neel wrote that article.

I have used GraphQL for the last 2 projects I've been involved with... and definitely was a better experience for frontend engineers.

Was the last API you built REST or GraphQL? Why you pick one vs. the other?
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This thing looks like a 1983 Multi Screen Game & Watch.
As for 2, you're thinking of the Courier concept, which got killed in favor of Windows 8: https://www.cnet.com/news/the-inside-story-of-how-microsoft-...
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Sure, but long polling and XHR streaming work for all browsers too. The article was not saying you should use Websockets, it was meant to say HTTP polling is the least efficient way possible to do this :)
Your criticism of the testing methodology is fair and valid. However, I see this as a test controlling for a single variable to the best of the ability of whoever made it. I am not sure what a better testing methodology would look like. Which is why I see this at least as an indication of what is systematically going on.
> I don't really mind that Facebook or Google have taken something that is useless to me (my personal browsing history, locations, likes, etc) and found a way to monetize it if I get to use their platform for free in return.

Which is fair.

I greatly object to this myself. If I could avoid being spied on simply by avoiding using their services, then I wouldn't get so angry about this. But I can't avoid it without going to rather extreme (and not entirely sufficient) measures.
Maybe a veiled hint at doing something like the Amazon Fire Phone, only more thoughtfully?
I co-owned one company and presently a board member on another.

Noone said that accounting needs not be done, just that you don't have to employ anyone you listed in a startup. You do as with any other non-essential work like cleaning, catering and so on: buy external services on the need to have basis.

This is also not something in any way unique to Europe. American start-ups also need to file taxes, incorporate and so on.
Can you turn down the volume? On Android, there are separate volumes for games/music/videos, and for notifications - are you on iOS perhaps?
They're cheap because of the population decline, lack of local jobs and overbuilding / speculation leading up to 2008. The flats are fine and many have never even been occupied.

In Bansko, most are within walking distance to the main ski lift, the old downtown area, coworking and other public spaces.

It's really a unique opportunity for those who work remotely and want to live in an outdoors-oriented place in Europe with low cost of living and amazing food.
Especially stay away from Boise. Place is a hellhole.
Yes, Mesa is not perfect. (particularly annoying thing is that it is possible to lock up entire GPU by invalid memory accesses in shader, infinite loops not always recover cleanly and lock up GPU too, and these bugs are accessible through WebGL, etc.)
But I prefer occasional crash in badly behaved software than abysmal performance of their proprietary implementation. (and it crashes too, usually on software using legacy pre-GL3 context).

And as to compatibility context, IMO OpenGL shouldn't have defined it at all. It is rather weird to have rendering code using both legacy fixed pipeline and modern shaders. From my experience it just causes problems everywhere, and I had encountered unexpectedly bad performance and glitches on Nvidia drivers too. (though maybe less often than on Intel/AMD)
Ah, looks like Microsoft finally got around to producing some more gimmicks.

The catastrophe that is the Samsung folding phone didn’t send a strong enough message to the industry I guess.
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You are not really "forced" to leave, you choose to leave, presumably for financial reasons.
ORM's tend to lock one into a particular architecture. SQL is more standardized across platforms. It's my opinion that ORM's should assist with SQL generation or usage rather than outright hide it. ORM's job should be to reduce the grunt-work of preparing typical SQL, not wrapping it fully so you can ignore it.

You can take your SQL knowledge to another platform, but less so with say Entity Framework or LINQ. Don't get locked in. Plus, if the ORM doesn't do your query correctly or as intended, someone will need to understand SQL anyhow to debug it.
If you call yourself not an accountant despite doing the bookkeeping I’m pretty sure other accountants wouldn’t bat an eye at that language. It happens all the time in startups. Yes the work isn’t “free” but everyone wears many hats in a startup and often works for free.
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Poland gets to plenty of immigrants. I doubt it’s the only former Warsaw Bloc nation that’s true of.

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

In January 2016 the Embassy of Ukraine in Warsaw informed that the number of Ukrainian residents in Poland was half a million, and probably around one million in total. Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland, Andrii Deshchytsia, noted that Ukrainian professionals enjoy good reputation in Poland and in spite of their growing numbers Polish-Ukrainian relations remain very good.[13]

According to the NBP, 1.2 million Ukrainian citizens worked legally in Poland in 2016.[14] 1.7 million short-term work registrations were issued to them in 2017 (an eightfold increase compared to 2013).[4] Ukrainian workers stay in Poland on average 3-4 months.[15]

The number of permanent residence permits increased from 5,375 in 2010 to 33,624 (14 September 2018), while the number of temporary residence permits increased from 7,415 to 132,099 over the same time period.[3]

About 102,000 Ukrainian citizens received Karta Polaka,[16] of whom some 15,500 obtained permanent residence permits in the period from 2014 to March 2018.[17]
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That's not true. Look at what Huawei, Samsung, and One Plus have done.
Corrected, thx.
That picture gave me a big Courier vibe[1], always wished Microsoft could have made that happen.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmIgNfp-MdI
The parent story isn't about some version of Android. Windows 10 X is a real version of Windows, based on the NT Kernel.
No, it isn't. Because what you wrote is the exact equivalent of "coleslaw" and "de volaille" - taking what should be a parametrized base, or set of interchangeable tokens - '(salad cabbage vinegar), '(wrap (fillet chicken) butter) - and turning them into unique names.

In other words, "coleslaw" == takeCustomerIDAndDateThenQueryDatabaseToReturnArrayOfPurchaseOrdersWhichConsistOfPONumberAndNetSalesPrice, and all I'm asking for is to parametrize it instead like a sane human being.
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I suppose in case you ship some prebuilt executable to do stuff? E.g. ffmpeg. Just a guess, though.
It's an Android, so no new choice here, sadly. Google may even be insisting on Google Search as default, given the search bar's prominent visibility in Microsoft's promo material with the Google Search logo.
Sincere religious belief isn't a bulletproof defense on these matters though.
Anybody misread the title as Whoopi Goldberg?
I thin you missed the point... of course a farmer wouldn't want to carry additional weight. What they would scoff at is a software developer complaining about an extra pound when their most strenuous activity is walking from an Uber to the local cafe.

We're not farmers. If you are living under conditions like a farmer then yes, by all means, shed every pound you can. I don't imagine that the person who started this thread has to deal with those sort of conditions.
You're correct that I made a dumb mistake. In a tournament we want to calculate our EV in dollars of expected payout, not in chips. Here's the math I should have done:

1) Ungar folds, he is left with about half the chips in play, so about 50% odds of winning the tournament, and EV of ~$50K.

2) Ungar calls and is right, winning $100k.

3) Ungar calls and is wrong. I forgot that he'd still have chips left and assumed that this scenario was worth $0. In fact he'll have ~20% of the chips in play left, which is worth $20K intuitively but can be confirmed here: https://www.icmpoker.com/icmcalculator/

So if Ungar calls he needs to be right X% such that

$50K = $100K * X% + $20K * (1-X%)

X ~= 38%
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I would say so, yes! If a Ukrainian national moved to say Russia or Belarus I doubt they'd feel foreign to the land at all.
Acquisition is rooted in reality. Valuation is a toss up, see WeWork. DoorDash & Coinbase could be valued for hundreds of billions, but until they exit by going public or get acquired it's all speculation.
> I suspect a lot of the "too good to be true" tax evasion stories in this thread

Considered by whom and for what purpose? Bulgaria certainly aren't going to complain if you start declaring your income as arising there, for example via a Bulgarian company.

Much more important is where any other country who might have a claim on your tax think you are resident, and if you manage to not be resident elsewhere, you're doing fine.
Why do you feel that the person cited in the article below does not have the right to have their deeply held religious freedoms protected, while the rights of the cake baker involving the gay couple does?

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/9/3/20847943/mississippi...
All this effort into designing these big machines, and banks still won't just give me an api...
The 68KiB per 5 minutes is trivial for most users and the 10 second latency for a sports score usually is too. Measure fixing these problems against the opportunity cost of not getting something else done. This reads as more of a tradeoff than a horror story.
This did a great job convincing me that Ably's tech is more complicated, and a terrible job convincing me that the UX improvement is worth the implementation cost.
Maybe, but android is not part of 10 X at all from what I can tell? The article says it builds off the core pieces of Windows 10. It even runs Win32 apps?
Medicare and Medicaid cover about 1/3 of the us population.
That's very similar to other countries. Slovakia and Czechia. The social insurance is bit higher and scales with income but itsnot like Bulgaria is only cheap eu country.
Maybe the original developer left the company and it wasn't worth the effort to introduce more state on the server-side via the other methods? I can imagine a scenario where if an open TCP connection isn't generating revenue (via ads or whatever), they don't want to allocate any resources for it on the server-side.

But yeah, they could have improved on diffing the data or even leveraging the If-Modified-Since HTTP header. Seems lazy.
> Rarely are anti-trust measures needed to break up bad businesses. It's the good (well, good in the sense of effective, profitable, etc) businesses that tend to be the focus of those.

The same business can look good or bad depending on your perspective. Mylan is a great business from its shareholders perspective and a bad business from everyone else's, because it gouges consumers by charging $600 for some that costs ~$15.
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Hi! Looking into learning Rust as a full stack javascript/node developer with some c++ knowledge.
Looking for learning materials, books, videos etc. What would you recommend?
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Is there any info what they offer for developers? A simulator?
Just use a hashmap. Hashmaps in some cases can be like 8 orders of magnitude faster than Redis.
Well, by looking at more advanced countries that do have universal healthcare at fairly reasonable tax rates, there are models for how it can be done without doubling our taxes..
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Exactly. It's "good enough" engineering. HTTP polling is guaranteed to work for every client, all of the time.

While the other solutions mentioned offer improved performance with regard to latency and bandwidth, neither of those are going to noticeably improve the user experience. And having to deal with stuff like bloated libraries, broken websocket connections or browser incompatibility mean the proposed alternative solutions have a very real possibility of degrading the user experience.

I get it, the author sells real-time solutions, but in this very specific use case, I think HTTP polling was actually the correct choice.
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I performed poorly on an interview I would have normally nailed, but it was one of the worst sicknesses I have had, and I didn’t have the frame of mind to reschedule....

So I totally regret that. Had I rescheduled, I would have changed my life path.
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Didn’t Windows RT fail? I’m genuinely curious: what’s different here?
I'm not. You're arguing about whether or not the losses of using Facebook are worth the gains. The other comment wasn't, it was asserting that Facebook is not worth it under any circumstance.

They are both depriving the user of freedom to choose to compromise their privacy for convenience and asserting that the user is inherently flawed because they even thought they had such a choice. They aren't just arguing that the individual should reconsider their decision to use Facebook, they're arguing that they need to reevaluate their life.
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There's downsides too, for example Stripe is not available in Bulgaria.
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I'm not sure if defaulting to 32-bit instructions would still allow calling BIOS, but good point!

In this case the design goal was to show the easiest way to jump into C and start building the actual application, so I just tried to avoid any trickery (even enabling the A20 line)