skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can’t see how this is rent seeking. .com domains are a finite and scarce resource, they should be increasing in price over time. The registration costs are also a tiny fraction of what any desirable domain name would sell for on the secondary market. I don’t think you can describe selling something for well below the equilibrium price as rent seeking.

I’m also not sure it’s even a bad thing to have registration costs increasing. DNS is a highly dysfunctional system, especially for the popular TLDs. If you want an alternative system to take its place, then rising registration costs will only increase the demand for that.
Using Git Bisect for Regression Identification
Syntax is too confusing, I'll stick with jq thanks
Looks good but there seems to be a missing explanation gap between switching from `(elem "countries")` and dropping the `elem`s to just `("countries")`. Why is `elem` able to be dropped? Is it the default function or something? I didn't follow that big jump in the readme.
You might want to check this video:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=2OQmvRUdr3U

(title: African History Disproves “Guns Germs and Steel” by Jared Diamond).

tl;dw: that theory is not as valid as it may seem at first.
I like to describe as when a real man cries, he does it alone, in a dark, empty room.
I personally don't care much for defending shitty Wall St companies nor LBOs, I just wanted to point out that a lot of FUD surrounding Private Equity is simply that, FUD.

There are a lot of bad players or stupid businessmen and politicians in municipalities who have given it a bad name by making dumb exploitative deals. Which I do not condone or wish to defend.

But PE has still done a lot of good turn arounds and has been proven via plenty of data to be a net-gain in terms of its economic contribution to society, saving plenty of jobs and American companies that were headed for certain death.

Companies within all industries always vary in quality, but I think it's silly and dangerous to define entire industries merely by a small group of it's worst players - like the way people have been trying to pin the entire Silicon Valley industry to Ubers and Theranos, or Google/FB acting poorly, despite is otherwise countless success stories.

This sort of thinking, political spin, and media coverage is what creates destructive gov policies aimed at the few small minority of big bad guys but often ultimately just harms the other 90% of mostly harmless good guys with needless hoop jumping or straight up banning of otherwise useful contributions to society (which there have been countless examples of such self-destructive - but of course well intentioned - policies driven by similar emotional reactionaryism).

PE has been a punching bag for a long time. My only wish is that it is done rationally and using an evidence based approach. Politics has a habit of stirring up hysteria with stuff like this, disconnecting it from the reality on the ground, which LBOs and PE certainly has a longstanding legacy of, which you can see thoroughly in this thread. It's hardly new. But yes of course it is an industry notorious for its leeches and one that should be treated carefully, not with white gloves.

Just remember the worst stories take up 90% of the headlines, the countless successful ones often happen quietly, or in less read retrospectives or books. The stuff that rarely tops Reddit or HN, so it's easy to assume that all companies doing LBO are evil blood sucking monsters if you don't pay close attention.
That's not what I am saying. I can walk out and shout on the street, or buy an ad during Superbowl. Which one do you think has more power?

And now, it's pretty easy for a foreign power to funnel dark money too, running ads on TV, while the rest of us losers are outside, shouting.
I agree with everything you say, but GPs have always been private companies operating under NHS GP contracts, and Babylon Health isn't at all unusual in that regard.

They are a very large provider, and that's causing problems for their hosting CCG.

None of this detracts from your point: the NHS has been deliberately under-funded for years, and the Conservatives are pushing for non-NHS providers to provide services.
Thanks for the feedback. Nice Qliiq-ible! You get the idea.

We are in beta version now and you can already use it and send us feedback.
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It's always interesting that, when men express their lived experiences, people will say that they're stupid and crazy.

Society as a whole polices men's emotional expression. But some feminists are extraordinarily unwilling to recognize that women are at the very least coequal perpetrators of this. Hell, some (and apparently you) are unwilling to concede that women play any role at all in this.

In my lived experience, my mother and female family members were much more critical of me expressing emotion than my father and male family members. Moreover, female partners police my emotional expression a lot more than male friends (or partners) do.

But, go for it, keep on denying women have any agency at all in gender politics and saying it's all men's fault.
Because that requires a Bluetooth processor that can decode Opus. Also, it's a lot less simple than that. You aren't sending the raw audio file to the Bluetooth chip, you're sending an internal audio stream which is already getting converted anyways.

The path is almost always: input audio stream -> decode into raw PCM/PDM/TDM/whatever -> convert to whatever sample rate you're using internally -> move it to your output via some sort of audio bus -> output converts to whatever format IT needs (for bluetooth, this would be into packets to send over bluetooth... for a speaker driver, this would be into signals that drive an actual speaker)

Even if you could send Opus directly, I guarantee there's a reason that they went through the effort of developing an entirely new codec. If Opus met all their needs right off the shelf, then you bet they would spend the effort to use what already exists.

There probably is some sort of latency compensation that you could perform to alleviate this for video content (e.g., most receivers have a delay option to compensate for TV latency), but this falls apart for any instantaneous audio (e.g. button presses, video games, or other dynamic content). You want everything to run as quickly as possible.
It's actually NOT okay to be disrespectful. Saying someone's response was "arrogant" is not disrespectful; calling them stupid for being arrogant - that would be disrespectful.

Perceiving my comment to be disrespectful, I think, is a part of the larger societal problem that exists today; namely, of people being overly-sensative.

Friend, I will gently invite you to toughen up.
Gotcha!

I had searched for the sarcasm in previous comments in our thread to no avail!
It's also one of the subjects in The Dictator's Handbook,
an excellent layman's read on political economics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith.

https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...

If you want the hardcore game theory version, check out The Logic of Political Survival by the same authors: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/gov2126/files/bueno_mesquita...
I would point directly to the rampant and historical abuse that has plagued union leadership in the US, in a litany of business sectors as the primary reason. One of the largest in the country, the UAW, is currently going through quite a turnover as multiple layers of leadership are being indicted for everything from fraud to racketeering.

Information about historical scandals is very searchable on the Googles.
There were other points in my post that were a response to your previous post.
I wrote a more detailed response, but I have deleted it, as it was a distraction. Getting into the details of Detroit's economic history or a deep comparison between the US and French economies struck me as perhaps not as helpful as it could be while providing an endless profusion of points for differences of opinion to distract. I hope you'll forgive this editorial decision.

Please accept my sincere apologies if I have been in any way less than clear. All I ask if that you consider if it may be worth considering the possibility that some people might might legitimately, earnestly, and honestly perceive there to be real risks. People may have what seem to them to be good reasons to fear that they may actually have something to lose. Some of these reasons might be rooted in history in living memory.

Please, don't hesitate to ask if there's something you would like me to clarify about this core point.
So maybe the Gervais Principle applies beyond just corporations:

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Just to clarify, the scope of the article is state and local tax incentives. The federal government has many more tax incentives (basically anything that you can get a deduction or credit for), and these definitely shape behavior because the rate is so much higher than state/local taxes.

Perhaps the title could be updated to say "state/local tax incentives".
Multiplexing Channels in Go
Show HN: Simple KV HTTP API for Minio / S3 – Store JSON Documents / Binary Blobs
The idea is to wait for a preimage attack on sha, not brute force it.
A surprising new source of attention in the brain
Completely agree, was also going to point out the same thing. Comparing the top tax bracket next to GDP growth is just a very bad comparison to say the least. The tax reforms over the years distort it so much that the comparison is effectively useless.

If anything, the only thing it does show is that the people using that metric (top tax bracket vs GDP growth rate) don't really understand how the tax system has changed over the decades.

It also clearly shows why you need to have a full and complete understanding of tax reforms/laws over the decades to really be able to debate the issue effectively. Most people seem to only have an understanding from google searches or news articles. It is no surprise that politicians use this ignorance to their advantage.
Reminds of Juvenal's Satire X:
... Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses
It's explained right below, I think I messed up the order there.

Is this understandable?
"You can see that elem is the most used function, and in fact it's what you'll usually be using when munging data, so there's a shortcut. If you put a value in function name position, it implicitly converts it to an elem."

EDIT: Fixed the order.
Yes that's right, that's what I meant by me contributing in some way, via ticket sales, merchandise, it all adds up to some athletes being mega millionaires. Although nowadays the big stars have lots of advertising deals and make big $$ outside of their regular paycheck also.

I don't know how to fix the teacher's pay. It's just unfortunate that by comparison they make pennies.
That green overlay stuff isn't the most pleasant while trying to read the page I have to admit.
They’d just make more sophisticated parking pages.
we don't have a master key :) only users have encryption keys for their data and only they decide with whom they want to share.

BTW, I totally agree about transparency. We will opensource Anytype before the public release so anyone can inspect and build from sources
"hurr durr I watch the sportsball" seems to be a pretty common view. It's silly, but I get it somewhat. I've been at a dinner/drinks thing before and literally every person was talking about football.

It really sucks to not be part of the in crowd, but football also sucks so I'll just zone out on my phone rather than watch it.
That’s my point; the OP’s argument that it’s an “either or” between arson or climate change is a strawman.

Dried out conditions make initial triggers (like lightning or arson) more likely to have disastrous consequences.
Why not name Amazon at the same time? Seems like it's mostly the same legal work to me...
> Since everyone had gone through the hazing process it was a self-perpetuating cycle that didn't stop.

I find it’s more than people only get one shot to organize their project, and it’s scarier to try something you haven’t vs something that was extremely painful but delivered. There’s a large contingent that believes without massive overtime and crunch a game will never be released.
Ask HN: Are you a former climate change denier? What changed your perspective?
I'm asking this to try to learn more about the mindset of climate deniers. I want to better understand how our divided world could facilitate better dialog and move forward with urgent climate solutions. I thought it would be interesting to pose this question to the community.
I guess that raises the question, was there a problem with its governance in the first place?
+1

I've never in my life met someone who looked down on people for not liking sports, but if I bring up sports in the wrong geek community, man I get eviscerated by holier-than-thou types who simply must explain why it's a waste of time and I'm stupid for liking it. (EDIT: I notice the other reply to you does exactly this, 'hurr durr sportsball', which is a perfect validation of my claim that this kind of attitude is very common. Unironic usage of 'handegg' is also very common -- they think it's really clever)

Is what it is, I suppose.

For those wondering why: Communication. Sports is one of the only things that truly transcends race, gender, religion, politics, etc. (EDIT: And the other reply to you describes someone who would rather fail to communicate with a dinner full of people than learn a shared topic, the exact case I worked to avoid!)

When I started waiting tables in college I needed an ice breaking subject that was far away from politics/current events and "the weather" is too boring. Sports is probably the #1 common discussion topic, even more than the most popular TV show of the time. For every "Game of Thrones" convo I could start, I could probably start 5 based on baseball, football or basketball.

Truly a great way to connect with different people that you'd otherwise not have basically anything to talk about with.
Suleimani was there on a diplomatic mission to deescalate with Saudi Arabia. He was literally there on a peace mission.
No man's Life, Liberty, or Property is safe while the legislature is in session. - Will Rogers
Yes, but a thought experiment is not a theory.
This is not entirely a rustc issue; LLVM is a huge part of this as well. Sometimes, some steps need more than four gigs of RAM. loc says that rustc has 1.4 million lines of Rust, and LLVM has 5 million of C++. It's just a huge project.

In the past, people have reported these things, and we've tried to fix or help where possible; see the discussion on https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/60294 for example.
Thank you for sharing the customs of your people and/or jurisdiction.
Dear god I hope software engineering stays union free. Leave me out of that bureaucratic garbage.
I suppose, but they'd still need electricity so running PoE is no harder and then you aren't worrying about things like interference.
Nigeria's SureBet247 in possible violation of EU GDPR as result of data breach
We generally don't build stadiums costing hundreds of millions so a billionaire can bring in Ballet.

We might build a new theatre where Ballet can be performed, but it's also used for decades for thousands of art projects.

It's not shitting on football to expect a billionaire owner to pay for their own damn stadium. It's insane corporate welfare to give them even 1 cent.
> I’d guess not one user in 100.000 uses git decentralized

I understand your sentiment, but the denominator in that fraction is probably much lower than your guess.

Consider even simple cases like the disconnected laptop case. You may work at a small office with only local employees, and so you have one central "blessed" repo, but if one person locks a file and then goes off to lunch, working on the file while at the restaurant, you still have a CAP problem:

CA: Because the one guy with a laptop went off-network, you have no full quorum, so no one can use the repo at all until he gets back and rejoins the network. (No practical DVCS does this, but it's one of the options, so I list it.)

CP: When the one guy went off to lunch, we lost the ability to interact with his lock, and that will continue to be the case until he gets back from lunch. Also vice versa: if someone still at the office takes out a lock, the guy off at lunch doesn't realize there is lock, so he could do something bad with the "locked" file. (This is the mode DVCSes generally run in by default.)

AP: No locking at all, thus no consistency, thus your original problem that inspired the wish to have file locking.
Right, which pretty much any modern device and host supports. Any Android phone since 8.0 should have LDAC. Pretty much any headphones you would use with this should also have LDAC or AAC (or both).
Unless there are pressures to do otherwise, your competitor is likely to do the same as you. If customers accept the current price and there is no external pressure to lower it, lowering it is likely not a good idea, and unless the market is unusually competitive, sales are unlikely to increase without a substantial drop.
I recently moved to running my `pass` setup against my Yubikey and wrote about everything surrounding it, including the various failure modes I could think of.

Running GPG/SSH alongside `pass` on the Yubikey was a gradual process, but I'm so glad I managed to get it working correctly. Open to suggestions if there's anything HN thinks can be improved :)
What you're talking about isn't really possible, however establishing trust is. And relying on 3rd parties for trust when you don't know someone is also possible.
My experience is that new members subsidize veteran members as junior non-full time pay in but don’t get a lot back.
>Must be why NFL, NBA etc get so fuckin salty when people upload highlight reels and stuff to youtube.

For what it's worth NBA has actually taken the opposite stance from the other leagues in terms of highlights online. See https://www.businessinsider.com/adam-silver-nba-ok-highlight...
I appreciate the response.
All in employee costs don’t rise nearly as fast as wages when wages go up.
Wellness Accountability Community
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The channel is a daily check-in for us to share our goals for the day and then verify completion. For example, my past Monday goals were:

- 5-6:15 am workout

- Help daughter with homework and read with her

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- Read one chapter of Quiet by Susan Cain

I like to set my intentions the night before but for some, you might like to set it the day of. Regardless, there is a reminder each morning, if you didn’t set your wellness intentions for the day.

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Hopefully, this becomes a proof of concept to work on an MVP. I hope you decide to take this journey with me. Regardless, I wish you health, laughter, peace, and prosperity.

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What isn't what you're saying? I feel like you didn't read my comment, because I covered that.

Foreign money is a serious problem, indeed. It's not the same problem, though. Hammer/nail, baby/bathwater, etc.
"synchronizing mp3 playback" (p4sync,) DECEMBER 29, 2002 UPDATED DECEMBER 30, 2017
https://snarfed.org/synchronizing_mp3_playback

Unfortunately, USPTO only searches it's own database for published prior art. It's up to everyone else to find and show prior published art (and/or explain obviousness) in order to invalidate a patent being used non-defensively.
>these definitely shape behavior because the rate is so much higher than state/local taxes.

Evidence for this claim? Although you're right that the article is about state/local taxes, it's not obvious that federal tax breaks are different.
Large, poor immigrant class and a military that can protect them from Russia?

(Finland does sound pretty great)
Yeah I got that from the link, I had no idea before. However, I feel like if it was "is a shamble" it would make more sense to me than "is a shambles".
Genes are regions on the genome, now whether or not are translated by 3 (as codons) does not seem to be relevant.

The quote is a criticism of a common way of thinking in biology, where many (if not most) practitioners think in terms "one gene does one thing" (or perhaps few things at most).

When one follows that mentality it becomes hard to explain how just 20K genes could make a living organism.
Absolutely not. Give me something that can more elegantly handle sub-projects and sub-repositories but still works as well as Git, and I'll stop using Git today.
I would bet that a fixed size M' is part of the attack.
Just guessing: maybe this is to avoid breakage if the clients have pinned the old certificate.
Surviving R Kelly Part II: what can we learn from the horrifying update?
Andy Grove talks about this in "High Output Management". He says there are two kinds of managers, "know-how" managers and "position" managers. Both have a certain amount of authority, and a successful technology company needs both.

If you're a senior enough person who doesn't want to manage people, you should think of yourself as a "know-how" (knowledge, experience) manager and find a role that allows for that.
We use it at our company for our inventory system. We make hundreds of concurrent http requests per minute and parse json and soap responses that are up to 8 MB in size. We're a tiny team, so while its possible to accomplish this in many tech stacks, functional programming, pattern matching, immutable variables and other Elixir/Erlang features make it easy to release a stable product quickly. This project has been in production for 2.5 years and has been working beautifully.
does anyone know other areas of research at the intersection of ML and compilers/languages? obviously i'm aware of building in auto-diff (S4TF) and things like that but i mean outside of that and more things like this - where you use both ML and PL/compiler theory.
José explicitly addresses that concern. Of the core Elixir team, only José works at Plataformtech. Also it’s stated that the language/syntax part of Elixir is largely "done", which imho is awesome.
I'm curious how this would impact indie game companies.
That's not just some people, it's everyone. There are very strong survival benefits to being able to receive that chemical high for believing we belong to a particular group.