skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds like a massive waste of money to me. Those first 2 regions are full of cities with massive sprawl and little public transit meaning you will almost certainly want a car at the end of your trip and at that point, just drive, they are all like a 3-5 hour drive anyways which isn't bad (interstate traffic isn't bad outside of cities).

The older east coast cities make some sense at least since they tend to have some trains and density due to historical past but they mostly already have rail lines you can take (albeit not high speed).
If you give more people money to buy things, it’s more likely to spur production than raise prices in most cases. If there’s more demand for groceries, it will probably be met with more supply rather than higher prices.
Did the user have to provide a credit card, are a lot of these 8% maybe just folks who forgot to unsubscribe?

I feel like this conversion rate thing really "depends".
Unlike Japan, the Chinese economy is bigger and will be self sustaining enough that a war with the US is unnecessary for that reason.
I'm most curious about what happens to the official SqlServer drivers for PHP.

At work, we have an on-premise customer support application that relies on PHP being installable on Windows, and requires the official SqlServer drivers for PHP (since they are the ones that...work).

We have many customers on Windows infrastructure; PHP on Windows Server is definitely a real use-case.

So lacking a PHP option would definitely be an issue for us!

But also: In all of Microsoft, is PHP on Windows really just relying on one person????????
isn't whatsapp using e2e ?

if that's the case then facebook can't "give you" the key, because they don't have it, it's supposed to be on your phone and only there..

Is there something i'm missing here ?
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Wow, this is the first time I have ever seen anyone other than me express this opinion.

I understand some of the reasons changes were made, look forward to reading the this thread!

My quick thoughts on the matter is that since the changes, people have stopped paying as much attention to local(State politics) and focus more on Federal politics.

Edit to add information to support my thoughts: Look at the disapproval rating for congress, around 64%. But a large majority are incumbents. The feeling I get when talking to people is that the Senator from state X is the worst but my Senator from state Y is perfect/has flaws but brings value to my state.
> For an app as complex and feature rich as word or excel, the ribbon interface is a great way to organise commands.

With some reluctance, I agree with you. But it does bother me that I rarely use much of that complexity, while still being required to engage with a UI that seems mostly designed around hiding things that I don't need anyway. I wish there was a way to use the Office apps with a simplified feature set. Of course, I understand why not: everyone's essential features are different. So I carry on poking at ribbons looking for things.
From pretty much all of it it seems: https://www.whose.land/en/
Yes, thanks for pointing it out. Both types of professionals receive training in understanding the human psyche so my point remains unchanged

> A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are medical doctors, unlike psychologists, and must evaluate patients to determine whether their symptoms are the result of a physical illness, a combination of physical and mental ailments, or strictly psychiatric. A psychiatrist usually works as the clinical leader of the multi-disciplinary team, which may comprise psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, and nursing staff. Psychiatrists have broad training in a bio-psycho-social approach to assessment and management of mental illness.

> A psychologist is a person who studies normal and abnormal mental states, perceptual, cognitive, emotional, and social processes and behavior by experimenting with, and observing, interpreting, and recording how individuals relate to one another and to their environments.
Oh cool, thank you!
>Although Standing says that the buzz generated by the Spanish proposal is a boon for UBI advocates, he is “disappointed” by the details. Because not everyone in Spain will receive the payment, it is arguably not truly universal. He adds that if the trial doesn’t work, people might see it as a failure of the whole UBI concept.
with 64 cores and 4 channels, throughput may often be a sticking point.

that is like have 32 cores on a normal 2 channel desktop, throughput would often be a limiter there.
I don't mind LibreOffice's interface in general. Only a sublime style Ctrl+p find would make a huge difference. That alone would put it's interface on top of MS office in my opinion.
i am pretty certain that promoting react has little impact on people who do bring the most revenue to facebook (end users who simply eat up clickbait).
In the Standard Model as written in the 1970s the neutrinos had to be exactly massless. We now have evidence that neutrinos aren't exactly massless, but they're very VERY light. Like, absurdly light. We still don't know the absolute scale of the neutrino masses, we know from mixing that they're damn small and from cosmology that the sum of all three masses is less than the mass of the electron / a million.

It is logically possible that the neutrino of the fourth generation is very heavy. In that case

- the constraint on the number of neutrinos from collider experiments is relaxed because the ultra-heavy neutrino's contribution to the observable would be extremely suppressed (because the collision energy was too low to be sensitive).

- the cosmological constraints are relaxed because the heavy neutrinos are already frozen out by the time of the electroweak phase transition in the early universe.

- the mixing constraints... well, right now it seems that the mixing matrix between the generations is unitary---there's no "leak" into a fourth generation. But our experimental precision is mediocre because precisely measuring the mixing is difficult (though there are experiments under way). It is also logically possible for there to be a fourth generation but that the neutrino doesn't mix at all---its mixing with the lighter neutrinos is precisely 0. While it's perfectly possible logically, we physicists do not like this kind of "fine tuning" without some explanation of how it could happen. In the SM the neutrino masses/mixings are input parameters, not things determined dynamically---they are axioms, so to speak. So any explanation of the mixing being really small would need to invoke more beyond-the-Standard-Model physics than "it's the same but there's a fourth generation".
Thank you, I'll check it out
I doubt the retention rate. It's probably much higher then 10%.
Publications with proper controlled experiments of adequate sample size. I'm fairly sure you'll find none.
As they did with "autopilot", they will just nit away the meaning of self-driving to mean something besides autonomous driving. Soon FSD for Musk will have always meant "all the individual capabilities that can eventually lead up robotaxis." Robotaxis are the new word, and 5 years later they'll find a way for that not to be fully autonomous vehicles either.
Well, if your goal is to cover everything in solar, tax rebates to the rich cause the rich to pay 2/3 of the cost instead of none of the cost of your school example. So you end up with 3x the solar deployed for the same amount of government money.

Then again, solar is a productive asset, so maybe it’s still better for the government to retain it.
I've been trying to justify buying a large CNC for cutting 4' x 8' sheets of plywood. I love their custom modular plywood cradle.
What makes you sure it's not on purpose? I don't disagree, I'm just curious about your statement.
Don't apologize. Stop using such tactics. I already pointed out what you did, how you did it, and why it was disingenuous. If you were sincere you would not have quoted me out of context, you would not have tried to bias the group opinion, and you would not have shifted the blame as you are doing now.

You should just stop because you are no longer making any points.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law at work.
Postgresql has a graph like plugin, I plan to try that out before any custom / nacent graphdb. Postgres is solid all around and I expect it to still be the primary go-to for a long time for first DB to use. SQL is here to stay for sure, as one of the most popular languages, with extensive usage outside of the dev community.

The main problem I have with this article is that I takes a POV around schema modelling, claims other DBs aren't good at this so graph will win(?), and yet overlooks the very specific, tuned, and appropriate use cases of these alternatives.
Today's society conditioning doesn't support curious mentalities.
If you lower taxes to 0 then there will be no demand for your money because people will start using other currencies as a medium of exchange.
No, it's fraud. You can make and sell the Mona Lisa all day long as long as you're not trying to pass it off as the Mona Lisa by da Vinci.
> Are these cores just that much faster than CUDA cores? What else am I missing here?

Comparing GPU/CUDA/TPU Cores to CPU Cores is like comparing a riding lawnmower to an automobile. A GPU/CUDA/TPU Core is optimized to handle a different type of workload than a CPU.

Just because your riding lawnmower can cut your grass faster than your car, doesn't mean your lawnmower is the best thing for highway driving.
> JAY-peg

I think they mean JAY-pheg.
I don't know what critical theory is and what it is used for. I use basic reasoning and back up what I say. I used the word critical as in "critical thinking" (unrelated to any actual academic theory of criticality). It's quite simple really. I'm not motivated to make a point other than clarify my own reasoning and I expect the same in return. When someone doesn't return the favor and act in kind then I assume they're operating in bad faith and they have no intention of making an actual argument to clarify but instead they seek to obscure and confuse.

You have demonstrated several times and very clearly you were not interested in a reasoned argument even though I gave you the benefit of the doubt by outlining what I thought and engaged every one of your examples in good faith. You did no such thing and went out of your way to shape and bias the discourse in your favor. So I'm no longer interested in arguing with you or making any more attempts to clarify my reasoning.

If you want to engage further then you can reach me by email or on keybase. I'm no longer interested in being a prop for your performance in front of a group.
Governments already do basic income, it just isn't universally distributed. Instead every little bit of new money supply is instead given to banks with corporate charters. This is done by allowing banks to create money out of thin air, money they don't have, as debt on their balance sheets whenever they "give" out a loan.

Then the people receieving this loan have to pay back this new money. In this way governments do basic income for all 5k corporate banks in the USA and it's likely very similar in other nations with fractional reserve banking.

It would not be very hard at all to simply remove this functionality from banks and evenly distribute the creation of new money supply.
It is a very complicated issue. I'm all for needs based aid from the government without all the bureaucracy. It would even allow us to help more people on the fringe.

However, one thing that no one ever talks about or thinks through is that a lot of that "waste" is someone else's job and pension. If you cut 90% of the staff at all welfare and other programs offices, those people need other jobs or have to go on the same programs. Additionally, it is the universal part of UBI that people struggle with. If everyone gets it, do prices just rise to meet that reality and soak up the "free" money. We'll need regulations (and people to enforce them) to make sure housing prices stay reasonable for lower income people. This is why government housing exists today, the cost can be locked. All said, I think UBI doesn't work because it can't be universal, but we should be helping more people and the well off can afford to pay 1% more of their largess to do so.
The year 2020 solution for this problem is a face mask.
At least they made it out of that first stage! Full-time employees get stuck in that stage all the time by just scheduling meetings but never actually getting any real work done that drives revenue. Looks like they were able to realize that meeting with people without a specific agenda and monetized path forward is usually just wheel-spinning.

By making that leap and going out on their own, they were able to accelerate that learning process and condense it to months rather than years (or never). Painful, but useful.
Spotify, Netflix. Also something like Tinder’s premium service is in the teens.
Yeah, whichever package manager you use is a huge improvement over working your way through dodgy ad-ridden websites and installers.

I'm guessing the HN crowd can use either. A big plus for Chocolatey is that it has an official GUI (Scoop seems to have GUIs as well, but they are unofficial), which improves discoverability for everyone and makes it easier to extend the recommendation to users with lower technical skills. Chocolatey and its GUI are a bit clunky compared to my Unix-based package manager tuned taste (and Windows is missing a good sudo equivalent), but it's such a big improvement over the Windows tradition of chasing installers on the internet.
Allow job candidates to use Google in screening tests
Why would you memorize something when you can Google it?
The recent major articles about Quibi being a disaster are not been about conversion rate, but about its huge costs combined with questionable proposition (which was particularly affected by quarantine life changes), and its poor performance on app store charts:

https://www.vulture.com/2020/07/is-anyone-watching-quibi.htm...

> As of early July, over 5 million phones had downloaded the Quibi app. Of those, 1.5 million had registered to use it, and this was with Quibi offering a three-month free trial and doing saturation marketing. (When it paused the marketing during the Black Lives Matter protests, Quibi’s App Store ranking fell to No. 1,477.) In light of its disappointing user numbers, Quibi’s advertisers have reportedly asked to renegotiate their deals. The company was forced to go into capital-conservation mode. Executives took a 10 percent pay cut.

Also, 8% does not sound like a good conversion rate for the entertainment industry, even ignoring the disparity between subscription revenue and the hundreds of millions already spent for content:

> *Meanwhile, the 90-day free trials will begin expiring this month. The industry conversion rate from a free trial to a paid subscription hovers below 33 percent. According to research firm Parks Associates, if that holds true for Quibi, it could mean less than 500,000 people would be watching a network that spent hundreds of millions of dollars on brand-new premium content.
The McDonald's case put some thiefs in jail and hassled people who learned the cost of helping thieves. Thieves don't steal only from corporations on principle.
Yep, this is close to what I was thinking too. I was wondering if this doesn't have the drawback of core team having to constantly deal with people from outside coming with their use-cases that have nothing to do with what the team's vision is. You know, "i was thinking it would be nice to have bells and whistles when you click this button" type of people. I would really love to get some insight into the efficiency of this (developer-advocacy-in-general) - seems like it's really worth it for companies.
I really like property based tests. They feel like they're everything that unit tests without them were supposed to be.

* More closely encodes the behavior you want the code to have

* More likely to find weird edge cases where some input does something unexpected

* Less work to get greater coverage
> China's rise to riches can only be done with the efficiencies of a dictatorship.

You probably have heard that propaganda piece so often that you think it's true.

A part of China is rich despite the dictatorship murdering 70 million of its people; miraculously, that democide set back the country only by twenty years. If one wants to blame anything for making people rich, its the effects of unfettered turbo capitalism as practiced after Deng.
That is a by-product, and a testament, to the complexity of the software.

Take Word. It has millions of users around the world. And everyone of them uses at most a different 20% set of the full features 80% of the time.

But, it's only one software. It has to satisfy everyone.

So you end up with a reasonably complex UI that everyone has to bear.

However, you can customize it, and I wish there was more documentation and more effort put into customization of the menus.

I mean, let there be a menu customization system that is fully drag and drop, rather than the clunky stuff presently there. It would be a game changer.
ah, yeah. totally forgot. sorry. i deal a lot with workflows and imagery mixes them up for me.
> “I also question the basic premise that the tabbed interface is somehow more intuitive for new users. Like many UI related assertions, absolutely no concrete evidence is being provided to support this point.”

Uh, yeah there was? Go dig through the wayback machine for Jensen Harris’s blogpost series about the design of the ribbon, or watch his MIX08 talk on it; he was the design team lead for the change, and the reason they did it was because the old UI was failing their users. There were usability studies done during the ribbon design which fedback into, and changed, how it worked to adjust to ordinary people’s expectations and needs.

> “I would think that it would be easiest for new users to have options sorted into neat menus”

Like many UI related assertions, absolutely no concrete evidence is being provided to support this point.
A "sector" of the Standard Model---like the QCD sector, or the electroweak sector, or the Higgs sector---is just shorthand for a part of the the Standard Model that consists of particles and forces.

It's possible that dark matter is just like Standard Model matter, in the sense that it only talks to a force that we already know in the Standard Model, like the weak force. But it's also possible that there are other forces. The "dark sector" is short hand for 'whatever stuff is making up the dark matter, and however they interact'.
CO2 in Earth's atmosphere nearing levels of 15m years ago
Pulsar does offer a standalone mode. It has a vertical stack of Pulsar broker, bookkeeper, and zookeeper in one process. The standalone mode also comes in a single docker image.

However, the complexity you refer to is essential in a reliable messaging framework. Use of zookeeper or any log consensus algorithm requires multiple nodes ( 3 or more) to achieve durability and high availability goal. It is out of necessity. This is actually essential complexity.

There is another messaging framework called Nats.io. It is not persistent so architecturally relatively simpler. You might want to investigate.
Mountain Project's response to the accusation of IP theft
Mobile App Stores and the Power of Incentives
How we can change that conditioning?
NetGuard. Creates a local VPN through which the internet is routed. Shows the domains each app is accessing, can be blocked per app, or forbid internet at system level (breaks things, require fine tuning).

Also you can configure a non standard DNS (like adguard, which can block some things at the DNS level).

EDIT: or NextDNS, since it comes with some additional features.
This map shows why Houston is such a shit hole (I live here). I often explain there were no dominant indigenous tribes in the Houston area when white men settled because it was a malaria infested swamp. That's what the summers feel like. No one in their right mind would live here without air conditioning.
I've been pretty happy with Lockdown for iOS. https://lockdownhq.com/about

Open source and free. Don't be confused by the VPN service they also offer for a price. You just want the local firewall functionality.
Thank you, the credit for that goes to my brother. If it was left to me the site would look like some 90s monstrosity.
Kafka is handling very large scale deployments just fine atm in all the big tech co's.

The only thing I can see that can make this true is Pulsar seems to have better elastic scalability. But it seems to score less on everything else. It has a much more complex storage system that ends up not matching Kafka's high-end throughput at large scale.

From what I recall, Twitter ended up abandoning BookKeeper due to storage scale concerns. Related: https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/insights/2...
from the volumetric standpoint, the 99% is their huge specially curated training and test data.
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I can't tell who their target market is. Sounds like it switched from B2B to B2C but maybe they don't think B2C can actually scale so long term it's B2B? The author writes with a level of irony and self-awareness but it feels like he just wants to give it his best and see what happens without a particular need to be successful. And maybe that's fine. But I'd rank this particular approach as low probability of success and low potential of profit given success has been achieved and jeez running forward with this with one year of leeway in this economy is a scary idea to me. The again I'd never run a start up so not my idea of a good time to begin with.
Is there a manifesto or document anywhere which lays out the economic case for (US) Federal grants to develop free software? How many developers and how many projects could be staffed full-time with a billion dollars set aside annually for an Office of Open Source Software?

(Of course such an office would descend into a cluster-[bleep] of political warfare over topics that have nothing to do with developing software so spending nothing probably gets as much done in this area than creating a government office which costs money and doesn’t get anything accomplished.)
I just thought of another possible explanation - apps and integrations are probably a big part of the revenue ecosystem so e.g. in case of react, if your product is built on it and your integrations/apps/whatever engine is also react-centered, it's kind of cheap to introduce new people to these concepts. I guess.
HN goes to the most remote corners of the Universe to bring us pertinent information!
I have been shouting from the roof tops that if we don't implement some sort of UBI and second string PPP program we are going to see many more people die deaths of desperation as their economic livleyhoods are stripped away.
> We want to start a SaaS product

That’s not how you start a company.
Ginormous defence spending is how the US do a "social state". That's pretty obvious once you see how defence money is peppered all across the country.
Fighting for a pension is of course a legitimate union activity.

It’s equally legitimately to state that one way unions become problematic is when their demands are not financially viable and are in fact part of the problem fiscally.