skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it depends on the region, but here in my pretty wet part of SW Missouri we have "Red Flag" days (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_warning) when we have to be extra careful, but we're simply not in real danger of that sort of disaster, although I did remove the tree "literally hanging over the house" and damaging the roof of the house I recently bought that was built in 1910, that's just simple prudence in many dimensions.

But the house is still surrounded by trees, including a couple of giant maples in the back yard which need topping, then again this is in city neighborhood with 0.06 or a bit more hectare residential lots, without a good fire fighting service it would have eventually gotten burned out one way or another. We've even got one city, Somerville, MA, which has enough fuel density in its residential buildings to support a true firestorm (and I've watched their firefighters in action, they's good).

On the other hand, out in the drier western part of the country, in plenty of it people ought to take the sorts of precautions you outline, but of course many are complacent and expect the government to come to their rescue, are just willing to make the tradeoffs (many areas aren't that dry), or I'm sure in some cases are limited by zoning from doing the smart thing.

Here we also had many decades of insane government forestry polices where simply stopping all fires was the paradigm. You can guess what the eventual result was, as well as how dicey trying to do the first controlled burn of a fire suppressed area is....
The best starting point is undoubtedly justinguitar.com. He offers a complete course in guitar, absolutely free of charge, with video lessons and transcriptions. His course will get you from "never picked up a guitar" to being a self-sufficient musician. He has glowing endorsements from Brian May, Steve Vai, Mark Knopfler, Tommy Emmanuel and Woz.

http://www.justinguitar.com/

Moving on from the beginner-intermediate level, I recommend TrueFire. They offer a huge range of video lessons from expert tutors in most genres. An all-access pass costs $19/mo, which is outrageously good value IMO.

https://truefire.com/
Well ls without arguments lists the most relevant thing, ie the files in the current directly.

So it would follow that tools do their thing based on the current directory, as specified by package.json/Makefile/Gulpfile/Dockerfile/Vagrantfile et all.
I used to do that. Made a point to switch mindset when I was crossing out the door of the building and immediately started thinking about my personal projects.

It's become much more difficult now that I work remotely and use a single place and computer for both work and personal.
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As much as I support higher minimal wages, I can't help but conclude that this will only accelerate capital expendures in human-replacing automation
And what when the robot goes to $4/hr? Eat less expensive food? Have fewer children? What when the robot goes to $0.02/hr?
Using a dedicated (de)compressor and then piping that as input to a tape archiver makes perfect sense to me:

tar cf - file | xz -9evc > archive.tar.xz

xz -dvc archive.tar.xz | tar xf -
Agreed that I left out an important segment, but I guess I was focused on the business case for the two extremes. The low end entry level stuff probably makes money for Fender due to the sheer turnover. The high end makes them money due to the larger profit margins.

As for the mid range, or 'working musicians guitars', it wouldn't surprise me if these were 'break even' or loss leaders for them. Most working musicians I know have a mid range workhorse guitar they use on bar gigs and open mics, but they also usually tend to have a high end guitar or two that they use for wedding gigs or purely for recording/private playing.
I have never understood what were the goals of these messages. People saying they have a fund of millions. Is everything arranged for me to send money to them? Simpĺe as that?
In an absolute sense you're not going to prevent any deaths unless you're preventing lives. Everybody alive is going to die.

One less death relative to what?
Ask HN: How to find a good freelancer?
I have the impression (please, correct me if I'm wrong) that is kind of a consensus at HN that Upwork and other freelance jobs sites are filled with low quality jobs and with not so reliable and professional freelancers on a race to the bottom price war.

Usually here you get advice from the freelancer point of view (create your own network, ask for referrals and etc). But what about from the client point of view?

If I have a web development job and I want to hire a great professional as a freelancer, how do I find him/her?
I think that is the case, people see a faded grey and just hit down.
Another important one: I just had to delete a conversation because my email was still in there. You should probably make the email stripping more aggressive, and make it look throughout the whole email.

Edit: just noticed I get a chance to edit the conversation. That's pretty cool, although of course it would be even better if I didn't have to :-D
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> The result of this is that your phone acts like a secretary on your emails.

And that's exactly what workplace electronics is supposed to be about, really. We were promised a future where computers would lessen our workload and make human secretaries redundant. Well, human secretaries were made redundant but for the most part computers did not replace them.
Thanks! This gives a general picture.

Can you also explain the bit twiddling bit in more detail? What operation it makes faster and how it falls into a larger picture?
As a non-climber, when I watch the Dawn Wall videos, there's an illusion that the surface is 90 degrees sheer, perpendicular to the ground. Understanding that there is actually a slight incline puts those tiny holds in a little more context, moving the concept of clinging to the wall's surface from "impossible" to "outrageous".
The problem with Spam has always been the minuscule cost of doing it. If the cost can rise above the profit, spam could become unattractive. Imagine if spam attracted a sudden swarm of bots, just as a new email addy attracts spammers now.
If they do so they will likely lose the very few leads that actually earn them money. Remember, for them it's a real business.
> it costs barely $8 an hour to use a robot for spot welding in the auto industry, compared to $25 for a worker—and the gap is only going to widen.

This is just wrong. Author does not know much about welding or car manufacturing.

- Car welding is a best case for robots. Single task repeated many times exactly the same way. Try different case and you get $1M/hour.

- $25/hour human cost is too low. With pauses, errors, delays... $100/hour would be more reasonable.

- Germany is exactly in this situation, but does not have problem with unemployment.
Their initial launch was to be confined to Germany (as far as I got told by a friend who works at the company), likely reduced the companies visibility.
My Nokia N9 has this feature too, I can set varying sync timeframes on each mail account.

I couldn't live without it.
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It is my feeling that at least some of the anger being expressed isn't so much about jobs being displaced by robots today or in the near future, although these are serious concerns as well, but instead the steady hollowing out of these manufacturing jobs through offshoring over a period of 20-30 years were the overwhelming financial benefits have gone to a very small portion of the American population, namely those occupying high positions within multinational corporations.
Not really sure why this would be helpful only with Scala in this case. Scala is not transpiled, it's compiled directly to bytecode just like Java so if it was helpful with Scala it should be helpful with Java as well.
One of the goals is to find someone who'll fall for such a scheme. If it was more plausible, they'd waste time on someone who'd end up not pulling the trigger when they realized it was too likely to be a scam.
This is awesome!

Makes me wonder how this can apply to image and video compression. You could send over the semantic segmentation version of an image or video, and system on the other end would use these technique to reconstruct the original.
I have inputs.space expiring on Feb 17, do you want it?
Of course, now you need to deal with docker itself updating constantly, and the client not being able to talk to the server if they're updated more than 3 months apart.
I tried it in firefox mobile. After inputting the first letter the cursor jumped behind it.

I tried to reposition the cursor to no avail (the whole edit area loses and regains focus on each tap).

Also, I can't delete stuff (backspace does nothing).

Edit: at this point I just quit trying.
>But look at any entry level (sub $200) guitar and the biggest problems aren't going to be the type of strings, but rather the height of the action (distance from the strings to the fretboard), uneven frets or warped necks - all of which would even make a pro player curse and struggle.

The situation has improved drastically in recent years. The no-brand department store guitars are still awful, but there are plenty of perfectly playable guitars at the ~$200 mark. Chinese-made guitars used to be unplayable junk, but they're now producing excellent instruments in the $200-$1000 range, matching or even surpassing Korean guitars.
I guess there's no point adding >14 on a gym wall as only a handful of individuals on the whole world could climb it.
To a first approximation all improvements in people's standards of living come from reducing the amount of labor required to make stuff. In the long run the average consumption has to equal the average production. You can play around at the margin with varying distribution, imports and exports, or getting people to work longer hours. But those effects are all tiny compared to the effects of changes in worker productivity over the last 100 years.
Personally I prefer the suckless[1] approach, but it's a step in the right direction.

1. http://sta.li/filesystem
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Wow. That makes perfect sense.
If you're wondering why this is useful, or if you need it at all, ask yourself if you would want to get an alert when nginx execs a shell, or opens /etc/shadow. Syscall auditing gives you the lowest possible interface to capture these events.

It's not for the faint of the heart - the volume of events to filter through requires some serious infrastructure - but it's an important component of a mature secops program.
Unicode is a list of glyphs, typefaces are sets of shapes which represent glyphs. Emoji are pictures. Coloured glyphs in Unicode, which include emoji, require compliant typefaces to include some shapes that have a preset colour, and this is illogical, as colour is not the property of the shapes of a type, but of the rendered text. This must stop before Mona Lisa makes it into the Unicode.
Basically, they spammer is hoping to milk you for "fees" that they will say are necessary in order to free up/transfer the money that they have waiting for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Prisoner
> There's no 'should' with technology.

This is a common belief but it isn't true.

Actually, government plays a huge role in deciding how technology is developed and broadly adopted by society. There is a should with technology: in the sense of achieving a desirable or expected state.
What happened to hashcash proposals to email protocols?
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Sure makes it easier to quash dissent, and find potential dissent as its gathering.

So, on a "completely" different topic, does anyone know of reasonably priced Linux phones (not Android)?
> Maybe guitar stores should start tossing in a free set of good strings with every new purchase. This would keep the complaints down, I think. Long term, a guitarist will keep going back for the good string as well.

This is happening because of the death of the 'mom and pop' music stores and the rise of the big chain retailers.

Back when I started playing (>40 years ago) the stores I used to go into used to replace the strings, and setup the guitar for whoever bought it. They even used to offer the first one or two string changes for free (just buy the strings, and they would put it on).

Quite often, they would have a guitar teacher or two working out of a room in the store, so that new buyers could tee up some lessons (or get a free trial lesson). It was a good symbiotic relationship backed up by good old fashioned service.

Unfortunately, the ease of buying good guitars online anonymously has changed the landscape a lot.
>> Haskell was and still is motivated by enabling software development gains

> The same can be said about nearly every language.

This clearly isn't true. For example many languages optimise for ease of use, shallow learning curve, programming in the small etc. Some optimise for efficiency and runtime determinism. Features like type-systems are great for software development (programming in the large), but do negatively impact ease-of-use.

> Haskell is first and foremost a research language motivated by answering a research questions

This isn't true. The Haskell committee contains many people from industry. Haskell just happens to have come from academia and is still heavily used in academia.

> Saying that I'm not persuaded by virtually zero information is no knocking anything

That's a huge exaggeration to suggest there is zero information. There are many experience reports published all the time at conferences and in academic journals, going back decades. None however will give you the quantitative metrics you seem to be asking for, because it is almost impossible to do such a comparison.
Great story, I like his book as well, but since I suck at putting ideas to work, they are only text for me :(

One thing that I haven't seen anyone commenting is that nowadays Facebook becomes the place where you test ads, write content, become an expert, and get clients... so many folks can't just quit. Heck, I still want to get started on it...

But maybe carrying a dumb phone during the day and coming back to the smartphone during the night is a way to try unplugging for a couple hours.
Fender Squier guitars start at around $150. They've been a popular first guitar for decades. Fender sell a substantial quantity of "guitar starter packs" through retailers like Wal-Mart and Costco.
Haha this is what we need.

In amongst the scripts to waste their time have a few to freak them out.
This is a tool that solves a math problem. (Where are more people?) If someone uses this tool for such an act, he/she will most probably find the most crowded target area on a particular time and that would mean MORE people would die.

How hard is it to comprehend?

Also pardon my french, for being a citizen of a country where almost a living bomb went off every single month for the last two years...
The plummeting cost of capital plant!

Which to me raises an important question. Why aren't these huge cost reductions showing up in the prices of products from competitive industries like autos?
Great book - but instead of applying the ideas I'm surfing reddit, facebook and twitter even more :(

Maybe I should re-read books more, and at some point the content ends up being used.
I had a friend who tried messing with spammers and then was hit with a massive DDOS.
They do, it's really slick how well they have it integrated.
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Same thing with automated driving. Open interstate is fine, try to navigate Boston rush hour in a construction zone...
Agreed. Asian made guitars nowadays are a several orders of magnitude better than they were a couple of decades ago. I guess what I was trying to say is that the chances of a finding a decent sounding guitar at the $150 mark is still a hit or miss affair. But at $300+ they seem to be consistent, and quite playable 'out of the box'.
I was going to say yes, but then I realized it needs a bunch of MX/etc settings on your end, so let me streamline the process a bit more (and possibly add something to the README). Thanks for the offer!

EDIT: Opened https://gitlab.com/stavros/Spamnesty/issues/7 to track this.
Unpythonic
There is no Balance and no Art.

Consider part of the reason work takes so long is the constant stream of updates. Updates have killed more than one conference presentation.

Yet, when companies are faced with evidence that people don't like updates, they force more, bigger, faster. Why don't they invest in fewer, more meaningful, careful updates?

Treasure the customer's device as you would their home.
>I have mapped Escape to Caps lock

I have mapped Control to Caps Lock, do you have any trouble reaching control? I find it very awkward with the Fn key there ...
I'm very interested now in what these ethical considerations would be.

Do you mean that if people put in bolts that it might somehow dilute the climb?
The "sketches to handbags" example, which is buried toward the bottom, is really cool. It's basically an extension of the "edges to handbags," but with hand-drawn sketches.

Even though the sketches are fairly crude, with no shading and a low level of detail, many of the generated images look like they could, in fact, be real handbags. They still have the mark of a generated image (e.g. weird mottling) but they're totally recognizable as the thing they're meant to be.

The "sketches to shoes" example, on the other hand, reveals some of the limitations. Most of the sketches use poor perspective, so they wouldn't match up well with edges detected from an actual image of a shoe. Our brains can "get the gist" of the sketches and perform some perspective translation, but the algorithm doesn't appear to perform any translation of the input (e.g. "here's a sketch that appears to represent a shoe, here's what a shoe is actually shaped like, let's fit to that shape before going any further"), so you end up with images where a shoe-like texture is applied to something that doesn't look convincingly like a real shoe.
I heard an interesting theory (alluded to in the story) that high-quality PC and console videogames caused a seismic shift beginning in the 1990s, as teens gravitated to an immersive, often collaborative indoor activity. If gaming (or apps, social media, whatever) are drawing away a large population of teens, not only are fewer people picking up a guitar or drumsticks but the number of available local bandmates declines, further weakening the allure of playing music. It makes a big difference if you have friends who also play. If your peers aren't doing it, music is more likely to be a solo activity which is not as much fun.

Another factor: from the 1950s to the early 2000s pop music heroes more often than not could also play guitar. I grew up in the 80s, and learned to play bass starting at age 16 by intently listening to cassettes of The Beatles, Who, Led Zep, U2, REM and the Sex Pistols so I could play with my friends and explore a new dimension of the music I loved. I was never a hotshot player, but did play in lots of cover and original bands through my late teens and 20s and some of my best friends today are people I played with decades ago.

My tween & teen kids have almost no interest in guitar-based pop music, although my daughter's middle school music curriculum included a segment on "90s music" which later prompted her to ask me, "Dad, did you know there was a song about a sweater unraveling?" (man, that made me feel old). They do listen to modern-day pop music, though, and sometimes to pop from previous decades that is not guitar-centric (Michael Jackson, etc.)

On the other hand, the apps and other tools that are now available to everyone--not to mention the ability to connect with like-minded people--can spark different types of musical creativity, collaboration, and insights. I did a double take a few months ago while listening to a radio special about Philip Glass and my son casually remarked that one of his pieces from the late 1960s "sounds like 'My Singing Monsters'." I hope my kids do get interested in creating music and find an opportunity to collaborate, but I accept that it may not involve rock music.
Adding to andriew's comment, x86's more strict memory model reduces the hardware's flexibility and enforces a more strict ordering than usually required. If you think you really need the x86 memory model, you're probably doing something wrong, but can get it (at significant cost) by adding lots of memory fences.

The Alpha was also interesting in that it tried extremely hard to avoid saddling itself or future versions with legacy baggage.

Unlike x86, ARM, MIPS, POWER, PA-RISC, SuperH, etc., Alpha was designed without a legacy support 32-bit addressing mode. Of course, if you link against a malloc implementation that stays below the 4 GB boundary, you can use JVM-like pointer compression. (If you need to support heap objects with pointers to the stack, you'll of course also need your stack allocated below the 4 GB boundary.) A lot of pointer-heavy code, however, can be rewritten to use 32-bit array indexes instead.

They tried to get away without single-byte load or store instructions (many string manipulations don't really act on single bytes), though they were added in a later revision. A friend hired to write compilers for DEC shortly before the Compaq buyout told me that hardware engineers had to show simulated benchmark improvements when arguing for new instructions. They pushed back hard to keep valuable instruction space from becoming a junkyard of legacy instructions.

As mentioned, they made as few memory guarantees as practical and forced applications to use memory fence instructions to make their needs explicit to the processor. This left them more flexibility in implementing later models.

The firmware (PAL Code) was almost a hypervisor/nanokernel, with the OS kernel making calls to the PAL Code. The PAL Code version used for Tru64 UNIX/Linux implemented just two protection rings, while the PAL Code version used with OpenVMS emulated more protection rings. As you remember, as long as access violations trap to the most privileged ring, you can emulate an arbitrary number of rings between the least and most privileged rings.
Using $20 bills wouldn’t make your all-cash transactions impossible. It would just make e.g. tax evasion, drug purchases, money laundering all a bit more cumbersome and conspicuous.

The burden would fall heavily on illicit transactions, while only slightly impacting most cash users, if at all.

(I’m not advocating for this, merely linking it as topical to the discussion.)

See Ken Rogoff’s NBER paper http://scholar.harvard.edu/rogoff/publications/costs-and-ben...
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I feel this can potentially revolutionize creative processes, for example in the clothing industry. You just draw up a purse or a shoe, let the machines generate dozens of variants (with pictures), and then you only have to filter and rank them.

You can pipe these product sketches directly into focus groups who tell you which product is most likely to sell. You don't need massive staff to come up with product variants any more.
Yeah, but as your comment says, for me, a lot of the value was in adding mitigations for applications that were not pre-compiled with said options.

Yes, some of them can be manually twiddled without recompilation, but it's not nearly as convenient to manage or deploy (though one imagines a GPO template to do all of the heavy lifting that's doable via IFEO would be a feasible thing), and for anyone not using GPOs, then you're reimplementing a poor subset of the EMET GUI over the IFEO parameters.