skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- Tetris: The Games People Play by Box Brown

- Tibet, Tibet by Patrick French

- Maya: A Novel by CW Huntington, Jr

- The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young

- Flask Web Development by Miguel Grinberg

- Buddha's Diet by Tara Cottrell

- A Feast of Vultures by Josy Joseph

- Genghis Khan: Life, Death and Resurrection by John Man

- Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari

- Cuckold by Kiran Nagarkar

- Goliath by Tom Gauld

- This Will Never Happen Again by David Cain

- Cure by Jo Marchant

- If It’s Monday It Must Be Madurai: A Conducted Tour of India by Srinath Perur

- Deep Work by Cal Newport

- Enduring Love by Ian McEwan

- The Soul of an Octopus by Sy Montgomery

- The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

- The Rosie Effect by Graeme Simsion

and a few others that aren't worth recommending; all the above are.
Vim is fine but Neovim is better and judging from the community involvement, will keep getting better at a much faster rate than Vim.
Bitcoin price is time-symmetrical between 2014 and now
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I wrote this in another branch, but I should repeat it here: I've had total success by cleaning with naphtha soap after contact with poison ivy.
I reread 1984 this year and it gave me trouble sleeping for a few weeks afterward. The writing is so perfectly concise that your mind adds visceral details that fill everything in for you. It makes the environment (political, physical, economic, etc.) and everything Winston goes through so much more real.
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Bitcoin's total value hits record high
Sometimes project management is illogical
I had one library manager admit to me that it was a bit of a guild system: really, the only place you use the proprietary bits of a library science degree is in a library. If they hired anybody who showed proficiency in Dewey Decimal System, processing books and conservation, who would ever get a Master's Degree in it ever again? and of course, these are not a significant portion of the equation anymore.
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Humans often do the same thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
isn't the whitelist bound to the user?
i mean if i register account as a publisher on some ad exchange, i should be asked for domains where i will be showing my ads. in that case i can not simply report that my username is generating traffic from cnn.com f.e. as this domain is not associated with my account.
or this is not how it works?
I think parent post is downplaying things a bit, but I'd take the risk of 100k people bring displaced by a nuclear accident over 100's of millions of people being displaced by climate change.
For the price they better not be anything close to a golf cart.
> How will baseline demand overnight be supplied with solar? How will people run their air conditioners and datacentres?

Coal, natural gas, and hydro, the way we've always done it.
Awesome. Thanks a lot. I'll have a look at those links with this context.
Being cutesy is worse than unhelpful, it's frustrating and patronizing.
Well, it's second after Java in TIOBE, which, while not perfect, it checks multiple data points, so it's better than most attempts at guesstimation:

http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

It's #8 on GitHub in projects per language:
http://githut.info/

And #18 on Stack Overflow:
http://stackoverflow.com/tags

(and I'd say most C projects are not as likely to go to GitHub compared to JS or Javascript ones. And C programmers are not exactly the type to ask questions on SO, compared e.g. to some language where one can be an "eternal newbie".

>Lots of things that used to be done in C is today done in C++ and lots of things that used to be done in C++ is today done in Java or C#.

Lots of things that are done by Java or C# where done by other languages back in the day too. Visual Basic for enterprise apps that are now a web Java/C# frontend, Delphi, 4GL platforms, Clipper, Visual FoxPro, etc. Even games were written in assembler for most of the eighties too.
Very good points. Another point for being brutally honest:

The people we all want have no trouble finding work to pay their bills somewhere. If they are working for larger companies, they likely receive the key company info in HR-mandated newspeak. Hearing a direct, honest view from the top can be instantly attractive.
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I think you also have to register with some US government body to obtain crypto export licenses yearly. Even if the app just uses the iOS https connection classes!
Moschovakis, "Notes on Set Theory". Fast paced introduction to axiomatic set theory without too many prerequisites. The 'NAND to Tetris' of mathematics if you will.
> It's no coincidence that the only success story for nuclear is a country where all reactors are government-owned and don't have to turn a profit necessarily.

I don't have the numbers, but I would also have to imagine that the government-owned reactors are the most expensive on paper because there will always be political powers that will want to make it appear more expensive than it is.
1995 called and said we invented all this crap years ago and all methods are all valid and needed in different situations.

http://zetcode.com/gui/tkinter/layout/
Simply studying populism is no longer enough
It is a little more complicated and it is not as bad as it sounds for her.

Undergraduate degree in sociology and a minor in anthropology. BA in sociology is not very employable but is the most common undergraduate degree for librarians.

Once the affordable care act (ObamaCare) was made into law the library (local public library) started making most non-librarian jobs part time so they don't have to provide health insurance. So today she works circulation but is not a librarian.

She has no college debt because she got a free education. I work at the college and they pay full tuition for some staff and faculty children. Her education would not have been worth the greater than $200,000 retail cost of her degree. We are very lucky to have her college paid for.

She will end up paying for maybe 80% of her graduate degree herself and take student loans out for the last semester.

She puts money aside in her roth IRA. We are lucky she is cheap and sees the value in saving for retirement. I guess her mom and I did something right.

Her mom and I both work for colleges. Her mom works for a public four year school and I work for a private liberal arts college. We see in both that many graduates are not earning what they claim the graduates can earn. As I said in my original post that this will catch up in Liberal Arts (and really non-technical) degreed students.

Her younger sister will be going to an engineering school where the graduates are earning, on average, 25% more right out of school than other engineering schools. We are hopeful she can avoid automation job collapse and maybe participate in the automation side of this phenomenon. "If you can't beat them then join them."
Not sure if you are serious, what does this have to do with genetics?
Which is sad. In part, society has rewarded those who don't have training, particularly in non-technical subjects. How many political advisors and policy folk have political science degrees?
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You mean you want eDonkey?
The world as 100 people over the last two centuries
For anyone who dies after January 1, California's Medicaid estate recovery only applies to money spent putting you in a nursing home or similar, not for all health care as you stated.

There are also more people with new private insurance coverage in CA than new Medicaid recipients, so that part of your rant is also false.
Oh alright, I misunderstood on a few points. Thanks for clarifying and tell her good luck from a rando person on the Internet.
NAC approved position recorders
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Only works if none of your prisoners are named Reed or Solomon.
Canada does have the advantage of having huge, almost depopulated areas with rivers suitable for hydro power. HydroQuebec can build dams pretty much where ever they feel like in the northern part of the province, with little of the collateral damage that similar projects would have in most of the US or in Europe.
> What is it that makes a human decide to lose interest in such a bugged state?

Repetition, the human brain has a reward function that is interested in finding new patterns. Using the same pattern to gain rewards has diminishing returns in the human brain, eventually we don't get enough reward and we try to find a new pattern. When this breaks down and the same pattern continues to get the same reward you can potentially fall into an addiction.

So in the case of this AI, simply diminishing its reward if it uses the same route every time to get that reward would prevent it from getting stuck in a loop.

If you want it to actually finish the race though, you might want to reward it a little for following the direction of the course. And it would make much more sense if it was rewarded for finishing the race first, humans are also a competitive bunch after all.

By not rewarding the AI for those things, they just did a very bad job at explaining the goals of the game.
Not OP, yes many Indians do live at home after marriage, the girl moves in.
It is true and AMD "fixed" it with a driver hack.

https://www.custompcreview.com/news/amd-aims-reduce-rx480-po...

The driver do two things to "fix" the problem:

1. Draw more power from the cable (it is what the card should have done in first place).

2. They put back on the card the behaviour the 380X have, that I am trying to get rid of, of clamping down hard on the TDP and throttling heavily.

And yes, the claims of this making the card faster ARE true, and also applies to older cards, AMD cards draw so much power and make so much heat, that if you UNDERCLOCK them, they can get faster, because sometimes the stable speeds with less throttling is a bigger benefit than the amount that you underclocked the card.

That said, last I checked (this was 2 months ago), the driver changes were Windows only, some guys mining bitcoin on Linux didn't noticed and happily melted their riser cables.

I really don't like nVidia behaviour as company, pulling shady tactics left and right, but AMD frankly shocked me with their shoddy engineering. (also see: recently Linux kernel devs REFUSED AMDGPU driver patch... AMD was warning in February that the patch they were attempting to do was crap, and they still went ahead with it, there was even some passive-agressive personal insults exchanged on official Linux kernel mailing list).
I maintain a list of my readings triaged by topics: https://github.com/abronan/readings

This year was rough for me as I had to deal with severe symptoms of anxiety that eventually led to panic attacks. I tried to understand the phenomenon and tackle subjects such as anxiety, consciousness and perceptual experience. Three books are especially interesting in that regard:

- The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness - Antonio Damasio - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125777.The_Feeling_of_Wh...

- Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety - Joseph LeDoux - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23398722-anxious?ac=1&fr...

- Seeing Things As They Are: A Theory of Perception - John Searle: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22104265-seeing-things-a...

The first two books are dealing with the neurophysiological aspects, with a focus on the brain and the specific areas involved with physical sensory experiences and/or consciousness. It explains how some areas of the brain are linked to fear and anxiety (fear conditioning, fight-or-flight response, etc.). Reading "The Feeling of What Happens" gives you all the necessary knowledge to fully understand the second book which is a tough read. The book "Anxious" also gives you a glimpse on different methods to treat and prevent symptoms of anxiety (Cognitive behavioral Therapy, SSRI, beta blockers, meditation, etc..). The last book is theoretical but comes as a good complement and gives you a broad understanding on the notion of perception (which is central to the first book).

Knowing which parts of the brain are involved with fear and anxiety and how everything fits together helps me controlling my emotions when physical symptoms of anxiety are appearing (the trigger to panic attacks).
If you're serious, or for those who may indeed be in a bit of an echo chamber, the Tiobe index, while it may have much to criticize, is at least approximately correct: http://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ Which yields Java being larger than C and C++ combined, which are the next two. Then Python. Then probably a long list of things whose order should not be taken too literally. All I'm trying to show here is that, yes, Java, C, and C++ are still the dominant languages. This is shown by a lot of other metrics too.
Nuclear plants are not good at rapidly changing to accommodate demand. Powering down a nuclear reactor is a big operation. Powering down a smaller reactor may be a smaller operation, but they still don't adapt as easily as gas turbines. Or batteries.

But the storage problem I was alluding to is the storage of nuclear waste. Some of it remains dangerous for an extremely long time, and storing it safely is far from trivial. There are several options, but they all have problems.

Similar to batteries for electricity storage, perhaps: there are millions of ways to store electrical energy. None of them are perfect, but on the other hand, they are improving rapidly.
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> my top-edited article is the South American dreadnought race,

Great article! It's a very interesting topic on which I know nothing about, had no idea the South American countries had an arms race at the beginning of the 20th century.
Existing nuclear power plants are old designs, much less safe than a new one would be.
No, I want a platform for decentralized apps that is capable of moderation/voting.

eDonkey still uses central servers.
My spouse is a librarian. There are cheap and expensive ways to acquire an MLS degree, depending on your financial means, and the pay varies substantially based on your location and the type of work you do. In the case here, their daughter is a grad student living at home and working part time to finance their education, which is perfectly reasonable for many people. Most public librarians earn around the average household income, so it's as viable a career as many other options, and it doesn't involve crazy hours or physically taxing work that can get difficult as one ages.
FuzzyZeus you are correct. However the free market is dictating that an MLS is required. this may change in time. Many librarian jobs are going away with the advent of great search engines and robotic book stack pickers.

She got 4 years of experience in the college library doing digital library work (scanning, tagging, metadata, etc.). We are hopeful this will sustain her once she is a librarian for ten or more years. Part of this is we notice in our little world that non-digital librarians don't want to learn digital library skills. Their loss her gain.

Wow this world is complicated.
Unfortunately, you don't always get that choice. my 401(k) doesn't offer a US stock market index fund option.
We can already store it. With more research, we may be able to store it more efficiently. But we do already have a lot of options for electricity storage.
See also Goodhart's Law:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law

"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."
Except when you need to open a file more than 100 lines, atom is nicer.
The nuclear family concept was always odd to me anyway.

Myself, my wife, and my daughter are building a house with my parents right now. If you can find a good job in the same city, I have trouble understanding why someone wouldn't want to live together.

The economies of scale and the benefits of having extra helpers around with our daughter (and 2nd one on the way!), more than outweigh any downsides to us. The psychological impacts to our children of having our grandparents around as positive continual influences seem pretty valuable to us?
Solar is not only photovoltaic. Thermal solar (heat stored in molten salt) provides electricity at night. See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouarzazate_Solar_Power_Station
Thanks. She is sitting beside me right now and I will tell her.
What can we do with this domain?
Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss

Ask GaryVee by Gary Vaynerchuk

Deep Work by Cal Newport

Give and Take by Adam Grant

Smarter, Faster, Better by Charles Duhigg
Usurious leaders who savagely exploit the majority of the population to the benefit of their oligarch friends are the single most dangerous threat to peace.

I wonder why people have such a hard time understanding this? The unholy alliance of elite finance, elite academia, and elite multinationals have ground the average citizen into nothingness. Nationalists, protectionists and populists are a very predictable and rational response.

I understand that HN's population skews heavily elite, but I am constantly perplexed by the confusion of the commenters regarding basic causality. Massive institutional collusion leads to populist uprisings. The sun also rises in the east.

Perhaps the elites truly believed their own propaganda about how they are the job creators, the messiahs, the shepherds of the lowlife scum that clean their sewers and take out their garbage? It is indeed the case that the best liars are the best at lying to themselves.

The elites needed a wake up call. Trump was the first, but he will not be the last. If he doesn't reverse the fate of the downtrodden electorate, he will be tarred and feathered along with the rest of his oligarch friends.

Piketty and countless others have written ad nauseam about this very issue, but few of the elite are willing to part with their precious billions. So we get what we have today.
Imagine if we followed the numbers, the empirical evidence, like insurance companies do. In this case the legal age would be raised from 18 to 25. This wouldn't make any real difference to politics because young people don't vote. It would be huge to consumer spending. Consider the following:

* Age to get a credit card, file a DBA, open a bank account, or get an apartment.

* Age to purchase tobacco and pornography (yes yes, I suspect most people get their porn for free online regardless of age now).

* FBI already refuses to hire field agents below the age of 24.

* You could not be tried as an adult in criminal court until age 25. The number of adult violent offenders in prison might decrease as much as 70%.

* You cannot get married until the age of adulthood. I suspect states would compromise on this one and allow permissible parental consent as young people will still continue to have children.

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My personal opinions are that people would be much better prepared for life, there would be fewer lost souls to the criminal justice system, and the consumer debt industry would be largely eliminated from all but proverty classes (like the payday loan vultures).
Anybody using a neovim MacOS app [1]? I'm a huge vim user, but mostly via MacVim [2].

[1] https://github.com/rogual/neovim-dot-app

[2] https://github.com/macvim-dev/macvim
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Scaling is highly dependent on what you're building. For many web applications the app server isn't really the bottleneck, it's the database; switching to JVM won't help with that.

For other applications Python is way too slow... although PyPy helps a lot.

As for things like static typing and maintainability, it's certainly possible to do with Python. You also have the power to write horrible unmaintainable code. Unit testing tends to be much more more important in Python. And you can add static typing to Python these days, via external tooling.

Some ideas and tools for building long-term maintainable Python, originally written as guide for Java developers: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/10/30/python-for-java-deve...
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight

- Rework by Jason Fried

- Rocket Boys by Homer Hickam

- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand

- The Martian by Andy Weir

- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
I wonder if the curtain will ever be completely pulled back on this, like on asbestos or tobacco. In the future, sugar may be relegated to a spice, like salt, pepper or MSG in percentage used in a person's diet. Fifty years down the road, a bunch of people mulling, "What were they thinking?" about our generation. not that sodium in processed foods doesn't need attention as well.
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They've been going up fast recently... to $0.065 per kwh now, still 4x cheaper than Berlin.
Another petty fiefdom where dissenting opinion is quashed.
Last time I went to look at elixir it looked nice, is there an accepted user-mangement system for phoenix yet? User auth is a combination of the three things I least want to implement myself:

1. Security. Small non-obvious mistakes are easy to make and very important.

2. High visibility. Risky, and if it goes wrong it's a major thing your customers notice.

3. Dry. It's just not particularly interesting for me, it's certainly solved in other frameworks (e.g. devise). I'm aware this last point is extremely selfish of me, however.
I finished up the Century Trilogy by Ken Follett. It turned out to be one of the best book series I've ever read. It follows fictional characters inserted into real history from the late 1800s to the late 1900s including both World Wars, the Russian revolution, the Cold War, the Kennedy Assassination, the separation and reunification of Germany, and more. I'm not a student of history, so I learned a lot about these events, and it's told from an individual, human perspective which I found very engaging. The characters in each book are often children of characters from the previous books, so you actually get to see the youthful characters from the first book age and pass on their stories, getting this sense of nostalgia for events from earlier in the story. Highly recommended.
I'm not really suggesting anything. I literally have no answers.

But I do think we (humanity) do ourselves a massive disservice when we push for automation for the sole purpose of reducing costs/boosting profits.

I also think that we need to remember it's real people being affected here. You say "spare them the unpleasant experience" - that's an almost comically insulting way to phrase it - it's really more like "spare them the emotionally traumatic and devastating experience of watching their future evaporate". You say "creative destruction", but you're really talking about lives being literally destroyed. And the key difference here is that (unlike previous time periods), there is no obvious future for these people who are losing their jobs to automation.

You rail against bankers not being willing to reconsider their careers, but what about cashiers at fast food restaurants? What about truck drivers? Train engineers? Miners? etc...

You say it's not something we should feel particularly bad about, but it absolutely is. I can't tell you how hard my eyes roll when I hear people talking in the almost kumbaya-esque way that I'm talking now, but we are all really in this together, and if we can't figure out a way to help people through the transition that is coming, well, what good are we as people?

Speaking so clinically about people's lives being destroyed does no one any favors. That's really all my point is.
> A few years ago HN's nested tables led to random font sizes on mobile. So there have definitely been problems in the past.

That was actually a bug in Chrome, that was trying to be overly smart and changing font sizes aggressively.