skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think retraining is much more likely

me too. i also think it's more likely to fail, because there's no way in hell that we can muster enough resources to effectively retrain millions of people in the current political climate-- or the one of the past two presidencies here in the US (just trying to get in front of the partisan bickering, as it's not my main point at all). a half measure isn't going to work here.

>But the economic realities are what they are

agreed. the economic realities are going to be that the people who we end up not retraining due to political inaction are going to be impoverished as they grow older, resulting in their children becoming more impoverished as well. sure, they might try to retrain on their own, but that's a tiny, tiny minority.

>I just don't see how that will realistically happen in the next 10-15 years.

not under our current levels of distractedness and passiveness, no. a tipping-point crisis will crystallize the problems caused by the slow burning of an obsolete workforce. i don't know when that will be, but it's coming.

>This is a problem that has to be solved with innovations in business and/or technology. At least until we can gain the political position to make major changes to our financial and economic ways of life

political positions to solve slow and quiet problems don't tend to materialize before it's too late to do anything meaningful...

my main point here is that a lot of political capital needs to be built regardless of proposed solution. as it stands, the common people are serfs who stand to lose their ability to work the land... i think that it's likely that the concept of american "democracy" itself will enter into a severe crisis as a result of the economic/jobs problems that we're having.

so, where to begin in the rats nest of problems?
Shaping Curves with Parametric Equations in WebGL
http://freepascal.org/ is a thing.

Also, there is Lazarus which seems to be the FreePascal-alternative to Delphi. I took a look at it when inheriting a Delphi application at work, but it crashed on me a lot. Still, it's there.
It comes with WiFi, but not a tractor. Or even some small powered push-type tiller. Do they assume the farmer has an ox or a pair of mules? For $50K, they should at least throw in a decent garden tractor with a 3-point hitch and some basic attachments. Priorities.

For comparison, see this article in Modern Farmer.[1] This guy has revenue of about $100K per acre and has books and tools on how to replicate his farming techniques. He's working on a turnkey small farming package, and has a track record of making small farms work.

[1] http://modernfarmer.com/2016/10/jm-fortier/
Doesn't look good for the kind of weight-loss consumers would look for. From the article:

"While hardly any inflammation occurred in the subcutaneous fat of obese mice and cGMP signaling was largely intact, things were very different for the deeper-lying abdominal fat: through the significant weight increase, inflammation had spread and the fat-burning turbocharger cGMP largely came to a standstill."
The ROI on this for the customer seems pretty terrible. Farms aren't known for their high margins. And in places like Oklahoma, the minimum viable commercial farm is about 640 acres. I'm having a hard time seeing how spending $50k on this farm kit is going to produce a commercial return. I could see how it might enable subsistence farming, maybe, but if you're at that level, you don't have $50k to spend.
I have Sadik Khan's book on her work in New York http://www.jsadikkhan.com/streetfight-the-book.html
It's not that they are very good at it - it's that this is typically all they are going to be looking at. They're also better (and have better tools) at searching patent databases than nearly anyone who doesn't do this daily.
It is the stuff around the cpu that is improving. Those 2013 chips cannot properly drive a 4k display. Even a 2014 macbook pro with amd graphics is sluggish on 4k. But, a modern skylake with intel 530 integrated graphics can drive a 4k screen at 60hz without any mouse lag.
> I think people doing altruistic things do enjoy them, but they don't do them because they enjoy them. They do them because they need to be done, and the enjoyment is a side effect.

What is the difference between the two conditions? The only one I can think of is that removing the side effect does not change the behavior, but removing the main motivator does. How is this significant though? Is it easier to lose enjoyment from altruistic activities than to lose a sense of responsibility? Is pleasure more fickle than duty?

That distinction, IMHO, also makes the definition of altruism so narrow as to be useless.
The context of my comment (at least) wasn't "the obesity epidemic", it was "it seems impossible?"
According to Wikipedia, it was developed to treat hypertension and angina, then the researchers discovered a happy (and very marketable) side effect during trials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sildenafil#History
it seems to be 10% faster and use 15% less power, so that's something.

source (german): https://www.computerbase.de/2017-01/intel-kaby-lake-test-cor...
For some reason, VB is one of the few languages my brain refuses to learn. I can read it when it's not too badly written, but I am glad I don't need to write it.
I've never understood the lure of dashboards.

Ok First, there are those, who care enough about the data, and for them dashboards are just not enough. Not enough data, not exactly what you are looking for and there's the element of ambiguity behind the large red bar on the chart.

Second, there are those who don't care enough and are honest enough to admit it, they would rather talk to someone who understood the data to get a sense of what's going on every once in a while.

Third, are those in the gray area in between these 2. They don't / can't care enough about the data but they also won't/can't admit/accept it. Dashboards, to them give an illusion of control and being in the know. And from my experience there are more of this type than the other two. So clearly Dashboards are a 'thing'!

I monitor my stuff based on scripts that I own and write myself Excel, Python and shell scripts. What I need is a reliable notification mechanism that's easy peasy to setup and move around. I could imagine a dashboard of this historical data that I have hand-picked but I don't think I will ever get there.

So, yeah I'll build this dashboard and keep people happy while I keep tabs based on what I can trust.
I meant more like blackjack where you are playing against the house.

The vast majority of gambling is not poker. It is slot machines or blackjack.

Client side stuff wouldn't matter for gambling Vs the house stuff (which is what most gambling is!!)
Some Highflying 2016 IPOs Cede Ground as New Year Brings Flotation Optimism
I have a hypothesis that keto actually works just because the psychological effects of the ketone bodies result in less food consumption. Acetone (which accumulates in the brain on a ketogenic diet) is a sort of crude anaesthetic, and possibly, anaesthetics can reduce hunger.

If the (surprisingly large amount of) anecdotal evidence on /r/keto and similar messageboards is anything to go on, keto is very effective for losing a large amount of weight, possibly the best dietary strategy. But I don't think anyone really knows why.
You also claim that the Dutch "have designed in an hour or more of exercise per day into just getting around." You're using two entirely different measures so your comparison is useless. If only "deliberate" walking exercise counts, then there are probably lots of Dutch getting no exercise.
I wonder whether it could be possible for Apple to build in a hardware accelerator for the x86 emulator into the chip?

...Though at that point I suppose they'd basically be building an x86 co-processor into it. No idea if that would actually help performance or not.
my problem with scala seems to be its future. it's so convoluted right now :( (i quite like scala btw)
The reason there is diminishing returns is simply because intel doesn't have to try. Shrinking the process is terrifyingly expensive and difficult, yet they slowly are doing it.

If intel has no competition, they tweak the product enough to give it a 2017 sticker and sell it at the same price. Because why not?

Only more cores will save the performance trend. So if Intel had any competition in the enthusiast segment, the enthusiast i7's in the $350-500 range would have gone from 4C/8T to 6C/12T to 8C/16T in the years since Sandy Bridge.
I seriously thought it was their way of sayin ski...Gonna go hit the scree slops!
Objective-C on legacy project for AT&T. But I feel ObjC won't go anywhere.
>There is no evidence of the existence of people who can eat whatever they want and stay skinny.

Sure there is. They're called 18 year olds. Sadly the effect fades at round 25.
Do We Need GraphQL?
I'm waiting for AMD Ryzen so I can plan the move away from my 2600 (not K).
I wonder how effective it would be from a diet perspective if you were to add things that are anti-inflamitory to your diet. (I.e. Green Tea extract suppliments)
AMD's Tricore vs Quadcore... something (I think Phentoms??) were definitely this. Some Tricores were able to turn into quad-cores with some firmware hacking.

The IBM-Cell in the PS3 was a different approach to the same problem. The Cell was specified as 7-SPUs and 1-CPU, but in actuality... the manufacturing process made 8-SPUs and 1-CPU.

IBM assumed that one of the SPUs would fail during manufacturing, so they only promised to deliver 7 of them per PS3.

You can literally see the 8 SPUs: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e0/Cell-Pro...

There's lots of ways to approach the problem. Manufacturing is an imperfect process: not everything is made identically. So the manufacturers have to figure out how to test for differences and... if necessary... sell the same "manufactured" chip in different bins.
crystal-lang.org states:

Language Goals

* Have a syntax similar to Ruby (but compatibility with it is not a goal)

So it's more about being recognizable than being compatible.
> That's what Nagel is disputing

We have many many evidence that random mutation is enough for describing the biological evolution on Earth. If the mutation is controlled by someone than it is done according to random distributions as far as we currently know. He should provide evidence if he thinks otherwise but he is not doing it and not qualified for it, thats only what I see.
An experience in worldbuilding and game design with Agile techniques
Many airlines do not consider Central America or Caribbean to be actual international flights from North America.

You can usually tell in whether they offer a true business class cabin or just a first class cabin like other domestic flights. :/
Whatfor?
How will they come down on it?
It also expired at the end of 2000

https://fees.uspto.gov/MaintenanceFees/fees/details?applicat...
Ask HN: How to actually get clients when starting to freelance?
Hi HN,

I'm a self employed guy living in Paris. I know how to code (mostly websites), and I'm pretty good at conversion optimisation (landing pages, AB testing, email marketing, etc). In 2017, I'd like to give freelancing a try, but how can I find my first few clients? My current plan looks something like this:

Go to 2-3 developer meetups per week; talk to 4-5 people per meetup; introduce myself as a web freelancer; be friendly/helpful; exchange emails; wait to be contacted.

With this I would be talking to ~10 developers per week, and I feel like it will take me months to just get one client... What I am missing?

Any advice on this would be really helpful. Thanks!
Second. Time flexibility and total compensation are the only things that make software development more appealing to me than any number of low-skill jobs. They're biggies, but the job itself is energy-draining and inherently unhealthy (yes you can compensate with exercise, but that's the point—you have to) at best. I'd take one of those sorts of jobs where you can read/write/study during copious down time, or a semi-creative job with a fair amount of gross motor skill work (certain construction and landscaping roles, for example) over it any day, if the only concern were the work itself.
I assumed for the price that would be the first thing in the box. Seriously, a man can do quite a lot with a PTO and some hydraulics. Add to that the ability to move this power around the field and you can really get some work done.
It was always a mistake to call it a law in the first place. People treat it like it's gravity or something.
> IMO, all languages should follow this trend as it is an essential component for many stuff.

On the one hand, using different kinds of clock (clock_realtime and clock_monotonic) for different purposes currently is the only robust option when deploying on systems you do not control. On the other hand, using just one monotonic wall clock [1] for all purposes on a properly configured system is so much simpler and intuitive for programmers that it is difficult to justify the burden of multiple clocks, all the more so its necessity.

Thanks for the list!

[1] https://developers.google.com/time/smear
_something_ about the browser (either chrome or firefox, fresh profile, no extensions) is eating ungodly amounts of ram however, and it tends to be at its worst with JS heavy sites.

EDIT: no addons either
It seems the issue is not only the DRM but the 10-bit HEVC decoding

(But then again, I'm fine with streaming at Blue-Ray resolutions or even less)
To me, the economic difficulties of the millennial generation are an indicator that primary-training through college doesn't really pay off as well as it used to because the margins have been eaten at both ends. Schools cost too much with debt individually loaded onto the student, and the wages from jobs that are available have been optimally minimized by years of corporate 'efficiency'. I don't think this is a fundamental problem of people choosing low-paying majors, it think it is a fundamental problem of our economy not knowing how to productively employ enough people trained at some level of education regardless of major (and really it doesn't know in large part because it accounts for wages in a way that incorrectly captures the relation to optimize ofr system-wide economic improvement).

The limits for displaced workers are similar but worse, the margins at both ends for re-training are even smaller, and the payoff periods to provide return on training-investment are much shorter. Companies have basically divested themselves of in-house training because they themselves can't/aren't building financial models to justify the training investment. But somehow individuals with some level of minimal gov't 'help' are supposed to pickup the tab to do it?

In our economic philosophy, there needs to be an a channel that allows for optimization in ways that conventional economics cannot account correctly. E.g. we have to start to differentiate between capital power used to lock-in markets vs the use of power to be competitively offer value to society in the long term. If the profit accounting is wrong, then the optimizations are wrong for society or the physical world and we collectively make a mass of individual decisions in a bubble of financial rules that don't pay off for the whole system.

That's the only to fix economics in the long run in mature economies - otherwise the imbalance of power between capital and labor creates downward pressure on wages that drives the long term destabilization of the entire system.
I mention Taubes because I find he's approachable. There's plenty of other material out there supporting similar ideas independent of him. I think you're too quick to dismiss the effects of metabolism and it's affects on fat utilization/deposition.

I agree that the psychology around eating should be studied more.
You can get gently used 2013 T420 Thinkpads on eBay for around $150 with an i7 processor, NVIDIA dedicated graphics, and 4GB of RAM. For non-gaming, it's just not worth it to go anywhere beyond that.
Toronto was a fairly big city already in 1900. LA started growing massive in 1890-1910, but really exploded after.

Vancouver went grew 250% from 1900 til 1911, which was right around when cars started being affordable for the common person. Vancouver also is somewhat restrained by being on a peninsula.

LA started growing massive in 1890-1910, but really exploded after. LA added 3.7 million people since 1910, but Vancouver only 500k.
+1, love arriving downtown when taking a Euro train... sadly many corporate policies require booking flights OVER trains due to negotiated travel deals in Europe.
Eve because logic programming.

EDIT: I can't believe nobody else mentioned Eve.
We (as the tech community) have inherited that role.
How one defines truth is probably outside of the scope of my reply, so I'll abstain from commenting on it.

However, suffice it to say I would rather have a plurality of viewpoints, where some may be misleading, than a singular viewpoint handed down to me.
Forgive my ignorance. What do Rust and Go call their data structures that are analogous to classes?
China begins first freight train service to London – Xinhua
Exactly. I have read over and over that US IQ rates tend lower than international. The point is it's even worse to try to train up US citizens to jobs requiring higher cognitive capacity.
The target market for this container seems to be Africa, which does not seem to have the Colorado potato beetle.
Does it have to travel to its homeworld to learn the full range of its shapeshifting abilities?
I have often thought about trying to build something similar to this for a while using either Bitcoin or Ethereum. Although I have been discouraged by laws against online gambling in most US states.

Does anyone know if this sidesteps gambling laws somehow? Or is this based in a jurisdiction that doesn't have laws against online gambling?
Just checked for a family: four kids one parent: around $4000 from us to Germany... One way
It's a catch 22 because diversity reduces the potential for class breaks but also increases the probability that any given system is insecure in the first place. (Less resources can be devoted to securing each unique system.)
Sadly the Delta product is more of a rebranding of Comfort Plus... more food service but not anything very comfortable. If they would just offer the equivalent of domestic Delta First as a premium economy that would be a start for me!
DTrace vs. System Integrity Protection
- I have more than one keyboard and more than one computer/laptop:). The new thinkpads have non-standard home-row placement. All my external keyboards have standard home-row placement.
If I ONLY used Thinkpads, I agree that getting used to their quirks would be viable (certainly explains the vehemence of certain brands;).
However, the non-standard home-row patterns of new Thinkpads make them an unwelcome part of my ecosystem.

- I swap drives once or twice a month these days; used to do it more often.
Main usage pattern was day/work and night/personal computer - by swapping the drive, my work "computer" had no personal stuff or data; my personal "computer" had no work stuff or data:).
Secondary usage pattern is easy transfer of large amount of data - for example, I may have 300GB of photos to process for a wedding on one drive that I put in the ultrabay to process via Lightroom.
I bet LA and NYC are low carbon only because they don't actually produce any electricity inside their borders.
Since Yang's name is probably not familiar to most HNers, I'll just add that he's a theoretical quantum physicist; Nobel Price in 1957, etc etc.
> All that fat that's been stored is still going to be burned as energy assuming one is eating within a caloric balance.

No, if you are eating within caloric balance, the fat will not be burned for energy.

> we need to start treating obesity as the mental health issue it is.

Obesity is not a "mental health issue". It's a symptom. There may (or may not) be mental health issues underlying it.

> It's a food addiction

Food addictions are a real thing, and obviously where they exist they can contribute to obesity. It's also clearly the case that obesity is not simply food addiction.

> What we do need to understand more deeply is why people eat too much

There's a lot of work that has been done on this.

> The answers are going to look a lot like drug addiction

If you mean "they are going to be very complex sets of environmental, genetic, and physical and mental health factors that combine differently in different people, and that often the most effective interventions will be more indicated by the current state than the root causes in individual history", I'd agree that it will look a lot like drug addiction. In fact, we already know that obesity is, in that respect, like drug addiction, so that's just predicting the present, not future results.
Typographic Portraits
Very nice. Having a one-line wrapper for the fast, native ways to do bulk data import for databases is fantastic on its own: http://odo.readthedocs.io/en/latest/perf.html

I ended up learning how to do this from the various SQL shells. But, that was a bit of a cognitive load, especially when the CSV files were complicated. AFAIK, for example, SQLite won't properly ignore commas in quoted fields, so you have to throw in an extra utility (like csvkit) to change the delimiter before importing into SQLite.

sidenote: through Odo's homepage, I discovered this amazing library for generating network graph diagrams, NetworkX: http://networkx.github.io/
Ok? That doesn't really disagree with my point.
Couldn't agree more - I often see this pattern in programmers - they try to think in cursors instead of sets and end up really fighting the instrument - not using it as intended.
Sorry, it is not clear

The i3/i5/i7 is clear as market segmentation. But you never know which generation is the current one. Also there remains to be seen a clear differentiation between models "inside" i3/i5/i7 division
This completely misses my point as I'm only using IQ as a stand in for cognitive abilities, cognitive abilities that are required to retrain and function in non-repetitive occupations.
The classic reply to that is if those jobs were still available, we'd have to give up all our post 1950s technology.

You starve people enough, hunger drives some interesting responses. If keeping your iphone means watching your kid die, lots of people will totally go for some kind of neo-Amish 1950s revival. Or just go full on Amish. Currently the Amish standard of living is somewhat higher than the general population and that is only going to increase in the future as the median standard of living continues to decline with technological "progress" and environmental change, while the Amish hold relatively constant, which is going to drive lots of recruitment.

If you give a choice of living under a bridge while starving in iphone-land or being a successful carpenter in Amish-land, well, kinda a no brainer choice there...
Sure. I'd rather it just went with the one with the strongest signal, however. I shouldn't need to juggle SSID priority order based on which room I happen to be in.
Languages generally take 10 years from someone starts working seriously on them until they are ready for wide adoption.