skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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"Did you hear the way the guitar and bass became out of sync with the drums? It can almost sound sloppy if you don't realize that every member of the band is working meticulously as a tight unit to create this."

Basically, in some of the songs, you've got individual musicians who each play their part of the music to different beat patterns (for example, in one song guitar plays to 9/8 and drums play to 4/4) so the guitar melody does not align every 4/4 measure...

Think of it this way: The three numbers 3, 4 and 5 repeated as different individual cycles -- only align once every 60 units. (3 x 4 x 5... 12 doesn't work because you can't divide it by 5 and get a whole number. 30 doesn't work because you can't divide it by 4 and get a whole number... so it has to be 60...)

Well, same thing (musically) is apparently going on in many of Led Zeppelin's songs.

This pattern creates tension and (eventual) resolution in the music.

I for one, think it's fascinating...
Do you have the experience of triaging bugs/features at work? There's always more problems then we can solve at once. There is only so many man hours/money/attention available.
falcolas I am not aware of any single firewall that blocks long polling, or XHR streaming (at least for a fixed period). Can you substantiate that? We regularly check our transports against legacy devices at Ably, so I don't think this is true. I stand to be corrected of course :)
I think the whole thing boils down to the idea that, someone who manages to make this much money on pure ambition, hard work, and yes, a decent amount of luck and being in the right place in the right time - well, they’re not likely to be able to enjoy this amount of wealth. They ground it out in a way that I can’t even imagine having the energy to do.

I’m a relatively lazy 9-5er who basically refuses to work past 5:01 PM unless there’s a pants on fire emergency.

If I had 600 million dollars, that’s it. I’d never work again. It’s really that simple. I would sleep just fine knowing that I have already completed my life’s task of providing for myself and my family.

I’d be basically doing what the old dude on the Netflix original “Samurai Gourmet” is doing. Walking around finding the next place to eat lunch and solving minor conflicts in between food porn segments.

Or just taking up whatever hobby I want, traveling the world like MySpace Tom.
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I wonder if he struggles with these underlying things not because of the money but because of his own grappling with his success and identity. The money makes these things louder because he 'made it' yet nothing is better.

I grew up on the 'stupid list' too (I was the only kid who made it on there one year), and like him, I suffer from ADHD. Growing up as the idiot does serious damage, and it drives you to succeed like no other sometimes. The trouble is you can convince others that you're capable, you can be admired for how far you've ascended from the stupid list, but at the end of the day you're still wired to feel like nothing is ever enough. You're still the kid on the list. No girlfriend or boyfriend fixes that. No amount of money fixes that.

I hope that's not the case - I hope he finds something to do that brings him a lot of joy. Apart from the money though, all of this seems fairly relatable to me. I don't think external validation is the answer to these kinds of feelings.
R6RS was the one that really sparked the divide, and for a long time only had a limited number of implementations due to this controversy. The big thing that R6RS brought, in my opinion, was a syntax for creating modules and sharing them. R7RS was an attempt to create an R5RS-like minimal standard that still had a library/module syntax so that you could get a bunch of implementations and share code between them. R7RS-small did this, and then R7RS-large attempts to use the module syntax to create a big body of "industrial strength" code that you can use to get "real things" done with scheme. The R7RS-large process seems to be using the SRFIs as a staging ground for the new modules, standardizing on chunks of them as they go in different "editions".

So the theory now is that you can write a smaller R7RS-small compliant scheme, and do all your language experimentation in that, and someone else could come along and bootstrap that into a fairly useful large implementation without a ton of effort, and modules you write on that scheme could then be reused on other implementations.
Psyched to see Meesho up there. Ecomm over WhatsApp is huge in India and they've acquired a significant customer base judging from the # of app installs (~10M+). My prediction is, it won't be long before they grow too huge to be acquired or get acquired themselves.

I count three startups from India in YC S19 batch that rely on WhatsApp as an auxillary platform:

1. https://vahan.co does recruitment over WhatsApp for low to medium income jobs.

2. https://digi-prex.com is a subscription service for medicines.

3. https://mahamela.in a group buying e-commerce business.

Another interesting point, I think, is both startups from Zenefits co-founders are in top 100: Rippling and ZeroDown; the latter with just 15 employees.

Of the startups on the list, I personally like what Flexport and RigettiComputing are doing.

Here is a similar list of top companies I stumbled upon a year or so back (not just limited to YC): https://breakoutlist.com
Are there tires that are not made of plastic?
Wood/biomass gasifiers were used during WW2 when gas was rationed in some areas. So they are practical, but with the current price of oil/gas I would not expect it is commercially viable. Wood is not the only source though, and there are current fuel sources that are wasted. Like it is common for farmers to burn the leftover straw after a harvest
Hey, they deserve it apparently
Based on my experience as a designer, I would say that idea was to separate "BS" from the ingredients and make the phrase more impactful. "No B.S" also works as a tagline in a way that "0 B.S." doesn't
That was exactly my thought after reading the article. I'm always wondering whether subtle differences in how I would have done something are meaningless, or due to my lack of understanding of whatever it is I'm looking at (in this case advertising).
Taking the whole earnings as a dividend is not advisable, because this means that you would have no salary and therefore no retirement pension at all.

Governments usually incentivize entrepreneurs to have a reasonable salary, and to not take a lot out of the company as dividends, by providing beneficial profit tax brackets if these conditions are met.

This incentivizes the entrepreneur to have a pension, which means less people living in poverty over time as they hit the retirement age.

It also means that more money will stay in the company, incentivizing investing in the company via equipment and employees for example.
Replying so negatively to a particular comment when it's meta about the thread in general wouldn't have made much sense. HN's taboo against asking people if they've read the article is also wildly outdated -- its readership is too big and broad for the underlying assumption about tact being discursively superior to directness to hold. So you have to outright tell people they haven't read the article, when it's very apparent that they haven't. It's frustrating.
Unfortunately, I don't think the government is going to come to the rescue anytime soon with regard to privacy.

At this point I think the best option is for people passionate about privacy issues to start building products and platforms that address the problems by providing real solutions. That's what I'm doing with all my energy, and I know a lot of other talented people who are too (or, at the very least, they want to help).
The article is arguing that employees should be equity owners of a corporation because for all intents and purposes that is how things actually work. Take a read, it's an interesting argument.
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Given it's relying on Android now and doesn't seem to have (based on this announcement) any compelling reason to exist long term in the ugly, over-crowded OEM market of Android marketing, it's a gimmick and shouldn't have any staying power at all.
Um, yes, obviously, they are the relevant authority in this case and whose definition I then expound upon. Were you voicing a criticism?
As opposed to not meddling? Has that ever happened in the history of government? Economics and politics are tightly coupled.
If the firewall has access to the traffic stream — say local “security” tool or a corporate managed environment — it can block the Upgrade header which attempts to turn the HTTP connection into a WebSocket. That's the kind of thing which doesn't affect a huge percentage of users but at Google's scale it's still a large number of people.

Re:McAfee, I wouldn't agree with the logic but I've heard people worry about data being tunneled out through new protocols which are harder to filter or used to establish some kind of a persistent control channel. In almost all cases this has high impact with little benefit unless you're filtering all other traffic strictly enough that malware can't use other common circumvention techniques.
Linux kernel has some uapi headers which are usually (transitively) incorporated into your programs by the libc you use. The exception covers this code.
First, I'm an advocate for fair trade, since truly free/open trade doesn't exist and in some cases could be very bad. For example, the US doesn't allow for slave labor (prison labor being a near exception). There are limits on forced work cycles and requirements for safety.

I would suggest that we allow open trade with those countries that meet or exceed our own work, safety and environmental protection requirements. In this case, China, India, most of Africa and some of South America does not meet such levels. In which case, trade should appropriately be restricted unless and until such changes are implemented. This doesn't force our values on other countries, but would at the very least encourage better work and environmental conditions.

In the process of deferring our own production overseas, we've lost our own ability to produce a lot of goods. Some of which requires material resources that are excessively scarce domestically while not fostering relationships with other countries that do have more of those natural resources. This has allowed China and others to foster those relationships, and the conditions relaxed to the point of the acquiring of those resources creating, IMHO, more damages than the good those resources bring.

I do feel that environmental pollution is a real and serious problem, though I'm less inclined to support the paranoid delusions of some, and the outright disinformation of those that are pushing a political agenda over any real, meaningful environmental impact. There are real and meaningful changes that should happen, and negotiation with foreign governments and peoples are a part of that.

As to balancing the winners and losers, I am not sure that should be a goal of trade, and even then that's a large part of what tariff and excise taxes are/were for. It will always balance out in the end and technology is ever increasingly the great equalizer.
Bulgaria in 1989 had only 19% of the population working in Agriculture, about the average for the region:

https://books.google.bg/books?id=Bg3aBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA145&lpg=P...
Some HN users are denying, but the recent trends definitely shows that most users values screen real estate a lot. The only problem here is that screen size and device form factor has been physically coupled to each other so you cannot have a useful phone with 13 inches screen. While MS' solution is not the most elegant one, but now technological advances on flexible screen makes it possible to de-couple them.

I'm pretty sure that MS is looking forward to using this technology, but also wants to get into the market as soon as possible. It'll be interesting to see what kinds of new form factors MS will bring into the market in coming years; they have been pretty innovative in this area.
It's ridiculous that there's a market for that monstrosity but I can't get a normal phone with a flagship SoC and a 16:10 display.
The topic though is not really about billionaires, which generally are the founders of the company. It's about the much larger number of multimillionaires that got their money from stock options on IPOed companies. There are far fewer of those in Europe.
The master-slave dialectic is a specific, rather abstract, idea in Hegelian theory. Unfortunately I cannot claim to be able to explain it in good heart.
Really ? So lugging a USB monitor vs having on a device. Which one would most users prefer ? Don't say "oh the external can be of higher res". Portability is a big win.
The article rightfully mentions Dickey Kerr as a hero of the series by winning two complete game starts.

Curiously, Shoeless Joe Jackson set a World Series hit record that was unbroken until 1964 and had the highest series batting average of either team. He also hit the only home run of the 1919 World Series.
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I appreciate this new concern for microplastics. Since I can remember I've always had a vague fears about using plastic Tupperware and plastic bottle but wasn't sure if it was unfounded. Turns out my (and many others) intuitions were correct.
Why would they make a single-screen phone for Android when the market is already saturated with them? (It's silly enough for them to make a dual screen phone for Android when all the existing OEMs are already trying to hype future foldables or multi-screen beasts.)
The iPhone X is also still a thing, as well as a lot of Android phones on the bandwagon (and various products like the Tesla Model X, X Windows, X-Files).

I have been irritated by the X-trend for a while, but now it's really getting insane.
Your tone is indicative of the problem. If you view a good idea as a "US" idea then that is part of the problem. An idea is a good or bad regardless of who said it (I am in the UK, this happens all the time in UK companies...status and rank are everything, junior people can't have good ideas so off the cliff we go).

The general difference is, imo, a more meritocratic society (ref the point above) but also a far deeper understanding of a business and what it is for (in the UK, most people who run businesses have no idea...although it is rarer now, I have talked to CEOs of publicly-listed billion pound companies who have no idea how to measure capital in their business, no idea how to measure returns or even what those measures mean...it is a clown show).

The latter is a function of MBA training (you can get all this info yourself btw by just reading), lower share of family-owned businesses (this is a correlated factor, family-owned businesses in the US actually tend to be very well run...in Europe, they are far worse), and the importance of capital markets (in somewhere like Germany, all you need to do is impress your banker, most German bankers are clueless, and they will lend to you even if your business in insolvent...unsurprisingly, Germany's banking sector now looks insolvent so that process is inefficient...capital markets don't always work well but they impose far more discipline).

Btw, there is a lot of research on this if you Google. Which I am sure is far more insightful than my random anecdotes and generalisations.
Definitely not what comes to mind when I think of plastics. I usually hear Bakelite quoted as the first invented plastic.
As long as there is enough clearance between the two screens to add a temper glass screen protector to each.

Every phone I've had with a case, grit collects betweeen the case and the back of the phone and scratches the phone up. I can imagine the same thing happening between the two screens if folded in my pocket.
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Sure, but I'm never suggested front-end developers should build new tech every time they want a new feature. But there are solutions to do things better now, so it seems odd to ignore that. It's a bit like saying React/Angular/Vue/any other frontend framework won't make things tangibly better, so why bother. Or optimising page size won't make things better, so why bother. Google actively invests in telling everyone else to optimize their websites and even prioritizes fast sites over slow sites (https://developers.google.com/speed). Why shouldn't they care about their performance too?
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Only problem is I like messaging in portrait mode, but watching things in landscape. Kind of kills the benefit for me.
I was excited for moment thinking they were bringing back the Windows Phone OS as well, bummer...
> UWP attracted basically no developer attention (which is a shame, it was a pretty good development environment).

This is not a shame, this is the logical consequence of all to lies told to the Windows Phone community, which could have bootstrapped UWP but was totally demotivated when UWP was released.

But the main reason is the stupid decision to make UWP available only on Windows 10, at a time where Win7 had the highest marketshare. Microsoft should focus on making WPF multi-platform if it wants developer to be excited again to develop native software on Windows.
I suppose it could be read that way, but my take on it was that competition doesn't always product the optimal outcome.
Postgres views have the power of the installed procedural language runtimes behind them; its pretty common this includes an unrestricted Python interpreter, among others.
American is shining beacon of corruption and veiled fascism. Sure anyone can make it but it is a culture based on greed and consumerism. America is a one sided affair with the rest of the world. It extracts untold wealth from the rest of the world without facing any consequences. They are not ahead, they are just good at holding others down.

Also, it doesn't use the metric system. Nothing ahead about that.
The deal with the sockets is that the best CPUs stop being compatible with your motherboard only once every 4 or 5 years, and you'll only be denied an upgrade in a decade. In a quick search I got a compatibility enumeration:

http://www.buildcomputers.net/amd-cpu-socket.html
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imagine that you're so smart that next time you have a great idea for a new technology you simulate in your mind how the world would be affected by that technology and, seeing that overall it would add to the misery of the world, you decide instead to say "fuck it" and continue playing around in the sea
A high-end SoC from 1 year or 2 years ago is hardly the constraint on modern devices.

I doubt the average person can even tell the difference from a 660, to a 835, or an 855, given all the rest of the components (mainly storage) are the same.
Apple doesn’t make perfect products in the beginning either.

iPhone - no 3g, no GPS, no third party apps, couldn’t shoot video, and no flash for cameras. My feature phone had all of this at the time. Between 2G and AT&Ts network it was a hard pass for me. Not to mention the 4GB of memory. I did end up getting two iPod Touches before the iPhone 4.

iPad - it wasn’t apparent until the next year, but the original iPad was sorely crippled by having only 256MB of RAM compared to the iPhone 4 that came out three months later with 512MB of RAM. The iPhone ran iOS 4-7. The iPad could only run iOS 5.

Apple Watch - slow, no GPS and apps were terrible with the first version of WatchOS. They were only a little better with watchOS 2. The third generation were the first good ones.
I don't know where you get the idea there's no compulsory NI in the UK ...! The NHS is paid for out of income tax; unless you're wealthy going in, you're going to be paying yourself and your employees sooner or later.
I would guess it's because they likely weren't supported yet by Google infrastructure at the time of implementation. Or that it was must simpler to just add a pollable endpoint.
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In most of the stories I've read where the founder is required to stay on, they typically have very little duties or responsibilities. Often it seems like the "show up at 11 and leave by 2" type situations.
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Does anyone know if such behavior is possible on iOS as well?

And maybe if Signal has a similar issue? I'm not sure if they use the same GIF decoding library on Android? And iOS?

If someone doesn't know off the top of their head maybe they can point me to some docs.
Is there evidence that Tupperware breaks down and gets into food that you store inside it?
The Opera browser at the time for mobile weren’t full browsers. They rendered on a server and had limitations.
In the couple months before my first big hypomanic episode (and my mercifully swift diagnosis), I was experiencing what in retrospect looks like strong anxiety. But I'd been reading autism/neurodiversity literature and found that the self-rocking behavior soothed me, specially in public, and enabled me to be in social situations (even went to a party once).

Foolish 25-year old me though "well, autistic stimming helps me, maybe I have a touch autism". Ha.
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Edit: I have a young nephew who's probably gonna have confirmation on an autism diagnosis in an year or so. Since he spinned so much, I started spinning with him, either independently or raising him from the ground and making him fly.

Now I like to spin on my own, late at night, when no one will interrupt me. Caught it from a kid.
Now there's simply another meta comment at the top. When you mark that one off-topic, an irrelevant anecdote about elk that suggests possibly-not-reading-the-article will be on top.
I doubted that "many" expats give up their US citizenship so I tried to find some numbers. Found some secondary sources like: https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2018/05/14/fewer-ame...

which states that, worldwide, just over 5,000 Americans renounced citizenship in 2017. There are also about 9 million Americans living abroad and ~1 million living in Europe. So, no, I don't think that even if all 5,000 were in Europe that 0.5% renounced their citizenship would count as "many".