skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Without actually reading what it says, you seem to be attacking the source rather than the content.
Universal minimum income is a lot nuanced then that.

It's meant to replace a lot of service like food stamps and housing vouchers and let the poor pick what they spend their money on and avoid bureaucracy. It's also meant to prevent the "welfare trap", an over-exaggerated but real problem, where getting a job and earning money can cost you more in benefits then you gain from the job.

There's been interesting studies lately on the effects of direct cash charity and a lot of study showing the effects of the earned income tax credit, 2 things which have strong similarities to universal income.
Kind of makes you wonder if its really such a good idea to smash atoms just to boil some water.
I think part of the problem was that the person who had been writing all of his research papers for him the last several years had left the lab unexpectedly and the advisor had no feedback to give. I don't know, I became pretty demoralized when each attempt to write up my research got that kind of response. The advisor was super enthusiastic about me when I started and told me that my research was so good that my first paper was going in Science or Nature. He kind of built me up and let me crush myself with high expectations. It was an interesting education.
ObXKCD: http://xkcd.com/1346/
> The amount of energy wasted by miners is atrocious.

that awkward moment when you quantify it next to something else, like incandescent lights
Ask HN: Companies who want to outsource some analytics to a data science class?
We have a class that we want to migrate away from Kaggle's academic platform for various reasons.

Through a chance connection in our network, a startup was happy to let us use their datasets for the class in exchange for all of the reports that resulted from it.

We can't use any dataset easily found online because a significant portion of the marking will be based on the prediction results from the given training data evaluated on held test data. (We can obfuscate/simulate/transform the data but I thought I might find more such companies with unique datasets with prediction tasks that can't be reverse engineered)

If there's any interest, please shoot me an e-mail in my profile and I'll get back to you promptly. Thanks.
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Perhaps they are extinct because we've been erasing them as we reformat the earth to be more congenial to ourselves? Their extinction is not a signal that we may go extinct ourselves; just the opposite.

Mesopotamian Ziggurat, Teppe Sialk, dates from around 2900BC (~5000 yo). Gobekli Tepe 12,000 years old?
IIRC BITS used Vegas-like (or these days we'd say uTP-like) heuristics to detect cross traffic and back off, but who knows what the latest version is doing.
> As Walt Kelly famously said, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

While I do share your worries, here's the context :)

> Traces of nobility, gentleness and courage persist in all people, do what we will to stamp out the trend. So, too, do those characteristics which are ugly. It is just unfortunate that in the clumsy hands of a cartoonist all traits become ridiculous, leading to a certain amount of self-conscious expostulation and the desire to join battle.

> There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

> Forward!

-- Walt Kelly, foreword of "The Pogo Papers"
I obviously phrased it poorly as not to copy too much text
the post by Jose Valim on the topic:
http://blog.plataformatec.com.br/2016/01/comparing-elixir-an...
I think these reflected a kind of magical thinking when infant mortality was significantly more common -- what happened before the child died must have been the cause.
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Isn't this the classic first world problem? I stopped reading at only spending on food and bills b/c I see no challenge since that is how millions live for decades, not a mere half a year.
It doesn't solve relatable problems for most people

but it is pretty awesome if you notice a reason to use it
I am pretty sure that long before 10 000 years has lapsed, this so called waste is no more considered waste. For example, my understanding is that you can use current waste as a fuel in thorium cycle.
Kudos to the humour in your disclaimer :)
Henk Rogers now stays in Hawaii and runs an incubator BlueStartups.

I spoke to him at one of his launch parties in Honolulu and he is an amazingly warm guy to speak to.
It was a welcome change compared to the VCs here in Australia who sit high on their iron throne and sneer down at startups
...and success is measured in minimizing that number. The most effective way might be, to kill interlopers as immediately and unambiguously as possible. Not to attract pilgrims for centuries with mysterious messages and monoliths, who go home to die of unknown sores and blood problems.
Gun buybacks are the best gun control method I can think of. supply side is problematic especially in the US, where the amount of owned, unregistered guns is enormous. I think the first step is reducing the supply of used guns. and, it has the side effect that the people who sell guns to government for cheap, likely would sell the gun for cheap to anyone. Might as well be the government, though.
Do you know if there is a video for these slides?
I know it doesn't add much, but ditto... I love VS Code as an editor... I work in Linux, OSX and Windows on pretty much a daily basis, having the same editor everywhere is a really nice thing. Freshly updated, and the plugin ecosystem keeps growing... even debugger support (that I've never actually used).

Latest update added an on-screen terminal view, which is definitely useful for a quick npm install, etc. Some of the "solution" stuff is a little clunky to get setup for a full project, but it's interesting the approach MS is taking on this compared to classic VS. Hoping it gets a bit better on integrated project tooling for the likes of getting some of the boilerplate setup. Seems that go, python, C#, JS and TS are very well supported (out of the box or via extensions).
Love the pinch-to-zoom on this touch-screen Chromebook. It reminds me of Google Photo's!
Don't think there are any non-toxic forms of mercury or arsenic. There are forms that are less bioavailable, but that's equally true of nuclear waste.
We're pretty special, at least in the context of this planet. Science tells us that we are by far the most intelligent creatures to live on Earth in its observable history, and the only ones to meaningfully modify it.

In the very least, we are the only creatures to inhabit Earth, that if we become extinct, it is somewhat likely that we are both the victim and the perpetrator.
But, is it wrong?

The Torus folks really are making huge promises for things that have, in other projects, required years to implement, and they've waved away very complex tasks as merely minor implementation details.
It seems there's some dramatic differences in how plugins are integrated, meaning some things are easier/harder to do via plugin. The VS Code UI is much more fixed than Atom as well... that said, other than getting used to the open files on the upper corner instead of tabs, it hasn't been bad at all. It's just out of the way enough.
But there is actually no limit to what can be pissed away mining imaginary points. There is a reasonable limit, and actual utility, to lights.
All I can picture is an Indiana Jones like situation, where everything that would be done to protect the site will just be interpreted as something valuable being stored in the most dangerous section.
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We already live in the orbit of a giant nuclear reactor that puts out so much energy that its waste energy can power our entire world for any foreseeable future. Why build our own?
>We should note that in Nock and Hoon, 0 (pronounced "yes") is true, and 1 ("no") is false. Why? It's fresh, it's different, it's new. And it's annoying. And it keeps you on your toes. And it's also just intuitively right.

This kind of sums up the approach taken here. I'm out. I'm too dumb for this project.
Poor kid...
Do you really think that option is feasible? Even the ancient Romans were unsuccessful at damning the memories of their enemies.
This is certainly annoying at the moment (although there are workable hacky solutions). However it's a well known issue and there is movement at https://github.com/elm-lang/html/issues/19 so hopefully it will be addressed in the near future.
Yes but is also could be used to supply the entire world with Western levels of electric power.
This looks cool; kind of like modern Vim/Emacs hybrid. I especially like the filename search, which is lacking in Atom.
Awesome UI!

Does it support CalDAV?
Although I am quite optimistic about Azure, GCP seems like the best bet at the moment. I think of factors like Reliability, performance, availability, cost and longevity.
"In Japan there are tons of supersititions still very much alive for about everything in life."

New ones, too. It's supposed to be a good omen to see Dr. Yellow, the bright yellow track inspection train for the Shinkansen lines.[1]

[1] http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2010/03/11/national/dr-yell...
The plan in the US was to enrich waste in breeder reactors, mix in some fresh fuel, and re-use it. It was the nuclear fuel cycle. Lots of resources on the technology.

There were two problems. The use of breeder reactors had some proliferation concerns: they can be used to make warheads. Not a big deal in the US, as the US can already make warheads, but harder if you want to export nuclear waste reprocessing to other countries.

Transporting the waste was deemed risky. More so after 9/11, as fresh waste is so radioactively hot, it needs to be kept in water, or it will overheat. If you crash a plane into a transport vehicle, or a re-processing plant, it will create quite a mess.

So there is no way the nuclear waste will stay in the ground for 10,000 years. I suspect it will be less than a hundred years before someone digs it up, and reprocesses it.

Burying nuclear waste is itself waste.
If anyone on the Microsoft Planner team is reading this: I haven't used it yet, but did watch the video on the landing page. I'm impressed how you made solutions that will work well with both touch and nontouch screens, along with the ways users can filter and visualize their team's progress. These aren't easy challenges to overcome so effectively, and I really enjoyed seeing your solutions. Congratulations on your launch!
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There is what amounts to a direct claim of purposeful obfuscation here: https://github.com/cgyarvin/urbit/blob/master/doc/book/1-noc...

> We should note that in Nock and Hoon, 0 (pronounced "yes") is true, and 1 ("no") is false. Why? It's fresh, it's different, it's new. And it's annoying. And it keeps you on your toes. And it's also just intuitively right.
the main view is all rendered in a <canvas> element... wow!
> It is typically used to bring a sense of bring out positive emotions

I'm not quite sure about that.

Lots of architecture is used to intimidate, to signal power and that you should be afraid.
Are you planning an iOS native app? I would love this and would pay for it
Yep, happened to me in the Inferno thread yesterday.
Yes time will tell. Its basically like giving someone Jedi powers with the risk they could fall to the dark side while Golang is like Han Solo just getting things done in a much less sophisticated yet practical manner.
The solution was found already: keep reprocessing the nuclear waste into new fuel.
While the argument could be made that Cisco has had zero decent products in the last fifteen years, nearly (if not) all of the ones that could lay claim to the title came from this particular business arrangement. Referring to it as a racket or 'self-dealing' is simply hyperbole.
You take that back! I've been using it professionally for about 6 months.
I think what parent was trying to say is that it's absolutely an achievement relative to storing a jpeg or mp3 sample, perhaps not so impressive next to the old 4k intros.
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It's probably more of a list of things people are scared of and things people wish for. Relating to your comment, I'm not sure your thinking conveys what you mean - most causes of death relate to what happened before you died.
I'm not trying to be negative, but I disagree. It's deeply unsettling.
To prevent people from entering, they should place statues of soldiers in front of the entrance. Thousands of them. Each should be sculpted individually from terra cotta.
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I really enjoyed the "write your name" test. It's too bad they stopped at 3.5 hours...
It also assumes the future people will be even dumber than the present population?

But also isn't it a treasure trove? Nuclear waste can be reprocessed into fresh fuel. The waste has a large amount of useful energy left.
Maybe. On the other hand if the place is visibly menacing, and anyone who visits it gets sick and/or dies, then wouldn't a culture otherwise ignorant of the dangers of nuclear waste quickly put two and two together and stay away from the haunted, evil place? Shrug I don't have the expertise to judge whether this will be effective or not so it's all just supposition on my part.
> The most effective way might be, to kill interlopers as immediately and unambiguously as possible.

How would you make a system which could kill interlopers quickly and reliably 10,000 years from now?

Also, killing people is a great way to send the message that "something valuable is here."
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That's one of many ways that you could do that, yes.
You should tell How this is different or Why is this better than Pingdom? :)
Roman dodecahedron
There's I-10 that cuts through Phoenix east-west, I-70 that is north-south, and then they have built three highway loops that circle the city. The 101 is for the north/west part of the city, the 202 is for the south/east part of the city, and then the 303 is for the north/west part (way out there...).

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Phoenix,+AZ/@33.5083959,-1...

It was pretty nice when I lived there, because getting places using the highway was fast, and then the grid pattern for the rest of it made it incredibly easy to navigate.
Why 100 x 100? Why not 1000 x 10? Many people can easily get 10 people to sign.
By all objective measures he did a phenomenal job at Nest. He started and sold it for $3.2B. The fact that he failed to continue to be successful post-acquisition, is hardly a "poor" overall record.
The actual dangerous material is going to be securely buried and contained. The threat model is people disturbing the site, breaking the containment, and releasing radioactive material. The resulting deaths are unlikely to fit the "immediate and unambiguous" profile. It might just slowly kill generations of people settling in the area. Or, it might get into the air and rapidly kill many more people than those nearby. Better to convince them to stay away.
Yes, but it's much harder to hide a conspiracy to tamper with paper votes if it comes right down to it, since they're not all counted at the same place.
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"We can come up with ways to test whether or not we're in a simulation"

How?
It is easier for a large agency with interest in controlling computers to install a backdoor at the manufacture stage, than individually accessing "suspects" computers. Compared to the RAM attack, physical access to a semiconducter fab IS easy pickings for a clandestine government agency.
Hexane is used as the solvent and it's evaporated away after oil extraction, leaving behind oil. What's the issue here?
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We've struggled in the past with press, good to see this pain point getting noticed.
Thank you. Yes it's kind of like a modernized Emacs with a very nice API in Lua. I haven't used Vim so can't say about the similarity there but it does have a Vim mode.

Do you mean the normal file browser or the recursive search (`ctrl_s`)? I did find Atom a bit lacking for general quick file browsing as well as previewing and usability of things like replace commands.
Very inspiring. Cheers!
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I agree that a few misclassifications is not a huge problem, but it suggests a bigger methodological flaw. Looking at your source code, it seems your definition of engineer is

grepl("engineer", tolower(job_title)) | grepl("developer", tolower(job_title)

This seems like a poor definition of engineer to use. It includes "VP Engineering" but excludes "CTO", it includes "Growth Engineers" (marketers) but excludes "Code Ninjas" (developers). Short of word2vec, I don't think you're going to be able to automatically classify people as engineers based on job title.
How do you know this? We know almost nothing about anyone or anything that happened during Roman times - the fact that a few scraps have survived is hardly an indication that most knowledge deliberately destroyed managed to escape.
I wonder if this could be used as a lightweight container system for server-side web applications. It has a container system, and those containers can serve web pages and talk to other containers. Unlike, say, Docker, you don't have to lug around a whole Linux environment in your container. Being able to move your container to a new hosting service very quickly would force hosting services to be competitive.

Yeah, Sandstorm is pretty cool. :-)
The images were published in high-resolution in some sort of art magazine and probably numerous other places, I cut them out to decorate my dormroom. I've only seen these awful photocopy images on the web, but there are far better ones out there.
Use the heat of the waste's radioactivity to power infrasonic emitters, and induce horror and panic in anyone who comes close. Or maybe set it up so that the wind creates infrasonic vibrations. You'd stand a very good chance of convincing people that the place is literally haunted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrasound#Human_reactions
Cadillac is in a strange position. The classic Cadillac joke is that a survey of the customer base came back with ages between 65 and "deceased". Cadillac used to be the luxury brand, at the top of the General Motors Ladder of Success devised by Alfred P. Sloane (Chevy < Buick < Pontiac < Oldsmobile < Cadillac) but now they're kind of a joke. Luxury and status have been taken over by other brands. Cadillacs are the car of second-tier sales reps.

Cadillac tried to become cool. This resulted in such strange beasts as a V-16 1000 horsepower sedan. Unclear who would buy that. They came out with the Cadillac Escalade, which, like the Hummer 2, was really a Chevy Suburban underneath. They have an automatic driving project, which is a good fit for their customer base. But they're just not selling many cars.
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Has any other 80 year old, or 70 year old, legitimately beaten a grandmaster?
Focus on the intuitively right.
I think it makes sense for 0 to yes/true.
Think of the Unix exit codes, and golang returns.
No news is good (yes/true) news.

edit: as to the "annoying" that's just Yarvin being cheeky.
I really don't think it is too serious.
No, but they won't be nearly as catastrophic or as expensive.
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Amazing - people who loved boats, sailing and setting up new colonies moved around a lot - who would have guessed?
He said in his recent talk about urbit if he were doing it over he probably wouldn't have done that.
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I am a Python enthusiast, whom picked up the language 2 years ago and have been self learning since then. I picked up Flask, one of the Python Web Frameworks and I am now trying to build a CMS system based on Flask, as a way of putting together a Portfolio, that i can showcase to prospective employers, as my goal is to land a Python job.

In order to achieve the aforementioned, i humbly the guidance of a Senior, seasoned developer to help mentor, your help will be greatly appreciated, I will like to hear back from you.
What do you mean? They seem to properly use the German flag during the WWII era (in particular the Nazi Germany war flag): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_flags

In addition, depending on ideologies you choose in the game, they dynamically add/remove symbols/variations to your flag (for example I saw a Poland player's flag acquire a hammer and sickle icon as his country turned communist).
My commute is a little less than that - but I don't sit around doing nothing! It's time to work without interruptions.
May I suggest two vast and trunkless legs of stone, accompanied by a pithy inscription. Shattered visage optional.
The 99.9% has nothing to do with humans. He was probably referring to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#Major_extinct...
I have one computer that has been running (with help) for 8 years. That's a record for me.

10K years is a really long time to keep a computer running. Who's going to do that, other than more computers?
Thank you for saying this. The HN circlejerk is strong with Tony Fadell
I'm reserving my judgement on the system. Just sharing a few videos which might help in understanding Urbit better. Start with this LamdaConf talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I94qbWBGsDs and pair with this demo video after: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tp9aCEfA6ao
How maintainable are these hacks in the long run? Is there firm theoretical basis, if yes, then sources?
Honestly, reading this, I kept thinking to myself, "Man, this is just waiting to be turned into science fiction short story." It could go in different directions, future humans discover such a site, humans discover an alien analogue of such a site on $planet, aliens discover such a site crafted by humans on $planet, etc. Either way, there's potential for a good story there.
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I once heard from a traffic engineer that certain speed bumps are made to be gone over at 20+ Mph faster than suggested so that ambulances and emergency personnel can travel over them with little to no trouble.

I've noticed this myself in certain areas, the speed bumps taken at higher speeds cause less issues, but it still of course increases wear and tear on motor vehicles, in most cases unnecessarily so.
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The only way in which something like this will be useful is if, for some reason, civilisation collapses but humans survive. (If humans don't survive then 10,000 years is far too soon to worry about another intelligent species arising.)

If that happens, some major catastrophe has undoubtedly already occurred which makes the possible death of a bunch of future-cavemen who happen to start digging in the wrong patch of desert pale in comparison.

If we're really worried about this scenario we should worry less about marking specific sites, and more about trying to come up with a way to store all our existing scientific and cultural knowledge in a non-perishable manner, in many places, that can be dug up and hopefully eventually decoded by people of the future. Purely from an avoid-human-suffering point of view, telling people "don't dig here" isn't nearly as valuable as telling them about infectious diseases, and vaccination, and...