skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not an expert in the field of reverse engineering but I have read in the past that it can be extremely difficult and end up costing more in time, effort, money than designing from scratch.

China has the luxury of being able to play catch up by purchasing technology. Why spend the next 20 years trying to develop it when you can pay Ukraine who already has the expertise/product and probably gave the Chinese a deal. It's just smart business.

China apparently did something similar with BMW. They bought a BMW factory in Brazil (I think) for a couple of billion and disassembled it piece by piece and moved it to China. It saved them years of figuring out the how to of high tech auto engine manufacturing.

Link to Story:

http://tech.mit.edu/V126/N4/4long4.html
With all of the data available around the word (some having it on a weekend, some a holiday) I can't see making a change like this having an appreciable impact on voter turnout.

Besides, say what you want about the US electorate system, but it has not changed much. There are fundemantal problems related to voter turnout, and superficial changes like this really are pointless in the scheme of things.
Petahertz (or higher) is not an option, I presume?
Sometimes they don't come at all.
That sounds like a class action lawsuit waiting to happen.
From my experience organizations have adopted, Hive/Presto/Spark on top of Hadoop. Which actually solves a whole bunch of problems that "script" approach would not. With several added benefits. Executing scripts (cat, grep, uniq, sort) do not provide similar, benefits, while they might be faster. A dedicated solution such as Presto by Facebook will provide similar if not even faster results.

https://prestodb.io/
I didn't actually propose massive decentralization while at Google, nor did I propose zero-copy encoding. So, no, I don't think I was proposing anything that threatened Google's business model.
> Poor, in debt, barely making ends meet? You're lucky if you can get a credit card for under 30% APR.

What about that doesn't make sense? The person you described carries an incredibly high default risk.

If credit scores are unfair to the poor, it's because they don't provide accessible way to fix errors. If your credit score is low because you're in excessive debt and unlikely to pay it off, then the credit scoring system is doing its job.
USA has prison-weapon-drug-industrial complex coupled with insane amount of money. Any power given to the government is going to screw citizens lot more than small countries like Spain.

See how British cops deal with a mentally unstable person v/s how American cops gladly shoot down an erratic teenager. That is the difference.

If USA has a real ID card and government decides to screw you up the only choice you have is to either sneak into Mexico or just kill yourself. You wont be able to find a job, drive, fly, purchase anything, have a bank account etc.
> 1. not everything is done for money, I see no ads on this website for example

A VC-sponsored tech chat website has monetary value.
Ordinary buildings are considered to have a lifespan of thirty years. That doesn't mean that they won't be around longer, but that there is often a point of diminishing economic returns in designing for a longer life cycle because maintenance tends to become a primary factor...for example thirty years is a long life for a roof system or the sealant joints upon which modern buildings rely.
I know nothing about law, but I would think a class action lawyer could do a monthly or quarterly (or how ever long it takes for critical mass to be achieved) case on that and make decent recurring income I bet. Provide a site where folks can dispute their charge, and get back 50% of the disputed amount after the case is settled. Every month, the lawyer brings the same case against the "big guy" but with a new list of plaintiffs.
The trail markings on Long's Peak are terrible. I had trouble finding the trail back down too but it was midday and there were ranges around to point me in the right direction.
Love the fact that I can't use the automated global entry when I visit the states as there exists someone else in the world with my name and a different D.O.B..

I do still try it each time though as it's still quicker to fail and then get a wistful comment from the guy checking my passport about the issue with the system.
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Having only a bucket shower once a week is probably a strong deterrent tho.
A Tour of Postgres' Foreign Data Wrappers
Even a hundred million integers still adds up to only 300 MB extra for 64- vs. 16-bit. On any reasonable modern server, laptop, or desktop, that kind of memory usage probably will be the least of your worries, all the more if you really have an application that needs to hold hundreds of millions of ints in memmory at the same time.

And if you are programming for a very specific embedded or otherwise constrained system, then you anyways want full control over the exact sizes of your types, as discussed elsewhere here.

Is this "wasting resources", as you say? Probably yes. Is it worth the extra development effort to fine-tune that on modern machines? Probably not - and it might even be premature optimization. (Yes - I agree there are corner case where it indeed will make sense, but those are the exception, not the norm.)
> But straightforward use of cat, grep, xargs and gawk is much less "custom" than depending on specific versions of exotic tools and committing servers for use as part of the current "platform".

There are often subtle incompatibilities between the versions of those tools found on different systems (e.g. GNU vs BSD). Worse, there's no test suite or way to declare the dependency, and you may not even notice until the job fails halfway through. Whereas on a Spark job built with maven or similar the dependencies are at least explicit and very easy to reproduce.

"Exotic" is relative. At my current job I would expect a greater proportion of my colleagues to know Spark than gawk. Unix is a platform too - and an underspecified one with poor release/version discipline at that.

In an organization where Unix is standard and widely understood and Spark is not, use Unix; where the reverse applies, it's often more maintainable to use Spark, even if you don't need distribution.

But my original point was: if you need a little more scalability than Unix offers then it may well be worth going all the way to Spark (even though it's far more scalability than you likely need) rather than hacking up some custom job-specific solution that scales just as far as you need, just because Spark is standard, documented and all that.
Speaking of credit annoyances, I've seen a lot of "dark patterns" appearing on the credit agency websites for ordering your Federally-mandated free annual credit report. Their workflow for getting the credit report is structured to push you towards signing up for some kind of monthly subscription to some monitoring service, to the point where it's very difficult to find the buttons to just get the free credit report. And if you do accidentally sign up for their monthly service, of course you can only cancel over the phone during business hours. Just waiting for them to start understaffing these call centers so that the waits extend past an hour...
Energy. A time crystal is at its lowest energy state.

A harmonic oscillator has energy in it - if you took away the energy it would stop moving.

i.e. to stop a time crystal add energy. To stop a harmonic oscillator take away energy.
should isn't a useful word when you're deciding what to actually do. If you want to change the status quo, start working to change it. But in the meantime you have to pay attention and look after your properties.
It makes perfect sense. Loans are borrowing you need to pay back. If you dont pay back then some honest hardworking person loses his savings.

When we ignored the basic laws of economics we had a mortgage crisis and thousands of people lost their savings and jobs.
Awesome. I will use your project!
We evolved near the equator. There are more sweet things there year-round. Don't forget about honey.

Fiber, fiber, fiber. Sugar seems to be okay when it is packaged together with its copartner, fiber.
It's a few things

1. Timelines. In the future these devices will just be screens. Transparent and flexible. So this is the timeline that leads to that future.

2. Economics. You can ship more devices because they're lighter so the revenue per pound is higher.

3. Sexual selection. The many arbitrary extremes that exist in nature in males function as points of difference with no function but the attraction of mates. Consumer 'mating' with a device functions the same way as sexual selection. Every purchase makes that phenotype more likely to occur in the next generation. Thinner has caught consumers eyes as an effective selective feature.

4. Mastery. People feel satisfied by achieving mastery. Finding ways to squeeze more stuff into less stuff is one way people feel like they're mastering stuff.
We've banned this account for repeatedly violating the commenting guidelines. We're happy to unban accounts if you email us at hn@ycombinator.com and we feel you'll only comment civilly and substantively in the future.

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You're still thinking about the wrong kind of transaction. Try "Super PAC" and other forms of paying for access/influence, or the popular practice of giving someone a $250,000 speaking fee or well-paying job they don't have to attend. These are obviously bribes, which would have been a scandal 50+ years ago, but we legalized them.

I'll assume you're already familiar with the legal, quasi-legal, and illegal ways money is moved into offshore accounts. The details change over time as regulators catch up, and I believe there has been some progress in recent years at stopping some of these practices.

> just to introduce

Of course not. There were many (profitable) reasons deregulation happened.
You can compile Cap'n Proto with -fno-exceptions, and it does a bunch of things differently to make that work. Basically, invalid-input exceptions instead replace the invalid data with a reasonable default value and set a flag on the side that you can query to see if there was any invalid input. Assertion failure exceptions (where there is no way to recover) largely turn into fatal errors.
> Another concept that I don't understand is that USA's social security number has to be kept secret or otherwise your identity can be stolen. How that is even possible? Doesn't your employer needs it?

I think adopting this framing is what makes it really bad. Your identity cannot be stolen. The whole concept of "identity theft" is bullshit intented to shift blame. It only so happens that some entities are incompetent at verifying people's identity. That shouldn't even be your problem, as you have no influence whatsoever on how others check the identity of people, so you should not in any way be responsible for dealing with the consequences if someone thinks that you owe them something just because they believed someone else's claim that they were you.
Wood has a particularly good response to bending relative to steel, masonry, and concrete and is likely to perform well relative to other materials during seismic events.
I would add that, one answer to replace all the welfare system is not a fix. Yes, the current system looks like a complicated pointless machine but it's a system that got that way because it needs to fulfill many needs. One solution for all sounds great but nothing is that simple.

Like knots in tangled string. We need to fix the system one knot at a time. We might even need to cut out whole sections but there's not one simple solution for the whole problem.

It's interesting how many of the techies out there would laugh at the idea of replacing the internet with just computers and wires - what could be simpler. Yet according to many, we can replace a complicated system like welfare with a simple system like basic income. To me this points out lack of understanding and as you said, reluctance to get ones hands dirty.
Not only that, but in other places in the world, there's actually a history to connect to these ancient places. Native Americans left relatively little historical record compared to ancient people in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. I'm much more likely to appreciate an ancient site if I know more about the people who inhabited it.
I thought this was an excellent treatment of the garbage-in-garbage-out aspect of this debate. Too often it seems people get wrapped up in the "Is it ethical to use a computer to judge someone?" implications, which are non-trivial, but also seem to be borne out of a general ignorance about the many ways we do allow computers (or rather, computation) to make judgements about people.

Also, it's an excellent example of the power of research and tabulation, though it seems the link to the list of departments they researched is broken.

I think the use of crime modeling doesn't have to be controversial, but the first step is demanding transparency. It's scary enough when the police are the primary collectors and judgers of data, but even worse when they leave it to a vendor and assume it's hunky-dory out of the circular reasoning that proprietary algorithms are good because they are proprietary.

> When the Fresno police briefed the city council about the Beware system, the council president asked a simple question about those color-coded threat levels: “How does a person get to red?” The officer didn’t know, because the vendor wasn’t saying. As the officer delivering the briefing explained: “We don’t know what their algorithm is exactly… We don’t have any kind of a list that will tell us, this is their criteria, this is what would make a person red, this is what would make a person yellow. It’s their own system
Fancy highly-scalable distributed algorithms have that annoying tendency of starting at 10x slower than the most naïve single-machine algorithm.
The Congress could use its constitutional authority over weights & measures to prescribe a national system of ID numbers, administered by the states, with assignment at birth.
Or/and "my resume will look good because big data and Hadoop and Spark and ..."
Cool. I didn't even find either of those on the roadmap a bit over year ago when I looked at it -- outside some speculative chat on forums/lists/tickets. It seems as if I need to give it a couple more months and give it a look-see again.
Can you elaborate on your point about government force? My understanding was that Moodys and S&P aggregated poorly rated mortgages and then gave arbitrarily high ratings as a whole. This of course created perverse incentives to sell mortgages to people with bad or no credit ratings whatsoever, as long as they could be repackaged and sold upwards.
Looks like she's losing her motor skills.

It is not terribly surprising. Both candidates are fairly old, around the 70 mark. I think we've all seen the before/after shots of presidents before and it is clear being a president takes a physical toll.

If Hilary is out of the running and Sanders is out, then who takes the position for the Democrats?
On the contrary, I think that is exactly why post-scarcity is going to devour the economy. Think about what happens when access to medical care and housing become the scarce resources, when it becomes pointless to buy more consumer goods because you have nowhere to put them anyway. More and more of the economy becomes diverted into the pockets of those who own real estate and the medical industry. Improvements in efficiency elsewhere just make the problem worse further damage those industries. An increasing portion of our economy gets siphoned into the pockets of a rentier class with little reason to spend it.
Hydrogen engines for Energiya, RD-0120, were made in Voronezh by KBKhA, which is still producing rocket engines. However this particular engine is practically lost - can't be recreated without extensive R&D program.

It's not enough to have the original manufacturer survive... Can Rocketdyne manufacture another F-1 today? So it's quite possible - though not certain - that Motor Sich wouldn't be able to create a unique enough engine, even if it did that in the past.
I would like to see the colors sorted by hue
I believe that the idea is the time crystal remains in its ground state the entire time (especially given the work of the author on anyons).
I find it extraordinarily difficult to believe that the US is the only "modern" (however you define that) country on Earth that has credit scores.
Possible heretical thought, could it be that predictive policing suggests the same high crime neighborhoods that are normally responsible for most crime, because they are responsible for most crime (at least the kind that the systems track)?

That would make them useless, true, but not racists (most of these neighborhoods would probably be predominately african-american, but they would also be predominately poor, which we know correlates with crime).
I got redirected to the http //www.thesofttic.com/ZiWblMur/win-f/gi/?SiteID=4905&conversion=11ee233b-a3f6-4b44-8d5f-9c578b58eb29 from the link. Anyone who know why or what that is? Is phys.org really infected with malware?
Many contemporary building codes require sprinklers for any building over four stories. To me, the neglect is a sign of economic conditions effecting development more than other factors. For example, if the location was highly desirable and the market for new space strong, redevelopment would make sense.
From what I've seen, CreditKarma doesn't have many dark patterns like that. It doesn't have to be this way.
Not sure if I'm missing something, but the main Google logo colors aren't reflected in the Google section. Is this just HTML color codes rather than images. I guess the challenge in an image is that most aren't solid blocked text.
Where T<1 is the tax rate, spending X on a write-off allows you to avoid paying X*T in tax. But you still end up with X(1-T) less money in the end.
The error rate is far higher than 1 in 10000. More like 1 in 4, and 1 in 20 with serious errors.

The credit rating idea was born out of the Southern morality culture. "Are they good people? Let's put a number on it and sell it!"

The flip side of that is that they can't possibly be wrong unless you prove it, and even then, they're so butt hurt that you called them out on it that they'll take their time fixing it, if ever. The idea is that they're right, you're wrong, and they have powerful friends who protect them from being sued for slander.
Then you didn't read and understand the article. His point is that this is how the system will eventually end up. When the people see their taxes go up substantially, they'll vote the UBI supporters out, bring in a means test and you end up with this bureaucracy.

As an example: see how quickly the Democrats lost control of both the houses once Obamacare was passed. And see how the Republicans are continuously trying to kill Obamacare.
Is there really tech-related job loss? Or does tech actually create more jobs?

I am from Canada, so that is the data I am most familiar with. The employment rate has almost never been higher (2008 was the highest), the unemployment rate has almost never been lower (2008 was the lowest). The US housing crash did take some toll on the Canadian economy as did the more recent fall in oil prices, but we're still looking far better than the historic norms when it comes to job numbers.

At the same time, I remember in the mid-1980s there was widespread media panic about how the robots starting to become common in manufacturing were going to eliminate all the jobs. A rise in employment, and decline in unemployment is exactly the opposite of what I would have expected in the following 30 years based on the panic at the time. The claims being made today are exactly the same as they were 30 years ago.
What? This flies in the face of of all current competent scientific research.
I get annoyed when people stop a discussion dead in its tracks by asking for references like this, especially when they can easily look it up themselves if they actually cared about the answer rather than winning.

If you think about it, any molecule that isn't sugar but tastes like sugar will have a similar molecular shape to sugar. Hmmmm I wonder if this will fit into receptors in other places in the body, not just on the tongue. Maybe it will affect gut bacteria. Maybe even trigger other events within our bodies.

If we would stop and think with an open mind, many of these arguments would become discussions, and we wouldn't need to play the baby card by asking for proof.

Remember how long it took to finally get enough proof in order to show others how wrong our mainstream religions are? And even with all the evidence we have accumulated, still people say, "show me the proof. I'm a reasonable man." Bullshit.

Let's not fall into this trap again. Many of these questions can be answered without slow, hard science. We don't need to hit everything with the biggest hammer in our toolbox before we can move forward.
Depends on what your definition of "liberty" is and how you balance different kinds.
Canyon De Chelly as an example of a place in the United States where people have lived "for nearly 5,000 years" and people visit there.
https://www.nps.gov/cach/index.htm

And many trees are thousands of years old, which is pretty awesome and makes them fun to visit :-)

It's possible we may learn more about these places as part of the grade school curriculum in the south western U.S.
Again, this is a "truthy" claim that is, at present, unsupported by evidence. Repeating speculations such as this does not make them less speculative.
The problem with mail-in ballots is that they can be (and often are) mailed in well before all the facts of the election are there.
The US is as far as I know the only country in the world who have a positive creditscore system.

At least in Europe it's mostly based on a negative creditscore i.e. you are trusted by definition but if you don't pay your bills you end up not being allowed access to credit.

In the US they don't trust you per definition and instead you have to prove that you are good with money by basically creating debt and then paying it off.

This is obviously to say the least absurdly backwards, but I believe there is a rational explanation and that is that the US is a country of immigration and so you had to find a way to allow foreign people without any history and no reason to trust them.
I think the pictures would be prettier if similar colours were together. Even straight Euclidean in RGB and then sorting will probably be good enough for this purpose, though you could probably get something fancy by using an actual colour difference metric.

The Google logo is missing, though. The green, certainly.
> Since this construct is in the lowest energy state it could in principle survive the heat death of the universe and continue forever.[5]

whaaaaat? We could leave messages for inter dimensional travelers at the end of time?
I too find the criticism strange.

At that point, you basically get to pick from being burned alive or hitting the pavement with the third option being burned and falling off the building anyway being the likely outcome. You might be that one in a million that survives the fall, its happened before. Heck, given rawfan's comment[1], they might not have had a choice anyway.

Its not suicide. They didn't want to die that day. Its choosing which way you are going to be murdered.

1) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12473220
Might want to reformat the URL so it's not clickable, looks like a malware drive-by site...
Hey thanks for checking this out!

Right now my scraping script only pulls the HTML color codes and doesn't attempt to pull colors from images. Additionally, a color code could be present in the stylesheet but not actually used on the site.

I have some information about this and other caveats at the bottom, but I'll put an explanation closer to the top to avoid confusion.

Thanks!
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