skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We spent 2.2% of the all federal outlays during the peak period. Could you imagine the political outrage if that happen today. That would be spending 88 billion dollars on putting a man on the moon.
So CNN and other american and european media giants found a good excuse to counter The Russian “Firehose of Falsehood” Propaganda with fake news all over the Web?
Lying in the abstract is not a sign of self-control, nor is swearing a sign of a lack of it. Swearing and/or lying in specific contexts, possibly. Considering the context is facebook, i doubt swearing is a good proxy for lack of self-control
Thank you.

I agree it is a difficult challenge and I am looking at 100+ year timescales.

That said we can certainly make machines that for example recycle plastics in to new mechanical parts and machines that grow food in a fully automated way. But portions of The Machine are intentionally more fanciful in order to stimulate good discussion.
The HSR drove down airfares over night when it opened so you ought to praise it.
It's inter-related. If you don't have a lot of needs you don't have a lot of expenses.

If you're prepared to live in a cardboard box you can save a fortune on rent. It's also a deliberately low standard of living.
These days when I travel on a train I can work efficiently, play computer games, Skype my family or watch a movie - the personal cost of a slow train compared to a fast train isn't as high as it used to be. So maybe technology has reduced the economic benefit of a bullet-train network.
DV certificates are not meant to certify who operates a given site. They only certify that you are securely connected to the authorized server for the domain name, instead of being MITM-ed.

So, in effect, CAs issuing DV certs for websites, including phishing sites, is a feature, not a bug. If users are misinterpreting what a DV certificate means and doesn't mean, then it is up to browsers to make clear the difference between DV, OV, and EV.

A Domain-Validation certificate is just that. We shouldn't expect it to act like OV or EV.
Not satire; they are including stock comp
I absolutely agree and I envisioned this as a way to free people from the need to work.

People only work by choice in this imagined world.
I've heard of Wuhan before, mostly because of the Chinese tennis player Li Na [1], who was born there. She did quite well at the Australian Open for several years (including winning it once) and became quite popular with the local crowd.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Na
Oculus accused of destroying evidence, Zuckerberg to testify in VR theft trial
30k salary = 17XX € per month.

Let's say a flat is 500k. I hate to disappoint you but you'll never afford to buy a flat.
"thin" might be a better example that is more consistently pronounced with the unvoiced 'th'?
The the story of The Machine, I took a Marxist view that if the people own The Machine they can share the outputs of the machine without capitalism.
Damn, I made a mistake, you're right. Completly forgot about that tax (the huge one) :(.
Updating right now !

Edit : I've updated it, thanks for spotting that one. I should have talked about "net" revenue when doing my calculations !
> As far as we can measure, spacetime is discrete.

Did you mean to say "continuous"?

Quoting Wikipedia [1], "physical spacetime is expected to be quantum because physical coordinates are already slightly noncommutative."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_spacetime
This, really scared the crap out of me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqaGFV-s3Hs ? [Edit] Maybe I'm wrong and I hope I'm wrong.
And the technology we used today to launch skyward today, is substantively identical in form and type to the Saturn V. The CSM and LM are substantively similar to what Russia is still using to put people in low earth orbit. The shuttle arguably was a much more complex platform with very little return.

Comparing 13 missions to 135 missions, and trying to extrapolate from those 13 missions is disingenuous (slide rules or not) - the fact is Apollo 1 did kill 3 people (on the ground) - and almost killed another 3 in Apollo 13.

As much as I disliked the STS - it only had one launch failure (Challenger), due to operating the launcher out of design parameters (which was quite arguably a faulty design) - it had one other failure (Columbia) on reentry which is in some ways is similar to the defect that hit Apollo 13, it was basically a manufacturing defect.

The reason I say technology has not greatly changed is to compare it Orion Spacecraft - which is essentially a modern implementation of the Apollo CSM. Same technology, but with better and more advanced materials. This is no different than comparing a 1929 Model A to a 1969 Ford Galaxie 500.

If the political will was present, we could build another Saturn V Class launcher today - we choose not to, but even the replacements for the Shuttle (SLS and Constellation) have proposed reusing literal technology from the Saturn Era.
To paraphrase the green box from the post:

Distinctive Features of Contemporary Propaganda

1. High-volume and multichannel
2. Rapid, continuous, and repetitive
3. Lacks commitment to objective reality
4. Lacks commitment to consistency

This just strikes me as modern. It's not only Russia that does this. There are online movements that use the exact same technique.
I'm pretty sure you could wire this up with CI to run and give you output. The only feature that you can't get out of GitLab right now would be suggested code reviewers. The rest looked like they'd be pretty visible via the UI.

disclosure: I work at GitLab, but this is opinion is my own, posted on my own time, reading HN.
Its always amusing to watch bureaucrats & friends to rationalize their extortion/authoritarianism. Bitcoin/Mass-Talent_Wealth-Migration cant come quick enough.
Are Birds Smarter Than Mathematicians? (2010)
I think I might take what the RAND Corporation puts out with a grain of salt, given their ties to the military industrial complex.
Everyone's public transport system looks shabby compared to Tokyo.
Every community seems to be different. Different sets of rules.

In the town where I grew up there are Mennonites, and now more Amish people. Apparently - the reason they don't use electricity from the grid, is because it's possibly made on 'Sunday' - ergo - they can't use it.

They all have generators to make electricity for their barns, equipment etc..

No electricity to the houses though.
Take "SFR Red" otherwise. They adjusted to have all the same offers as free.
In US history (see, e.g. 'A History of the American People', Johnson), environmental, economic, and social problems were often solved by moving in to new territory. If you can think of the Moon as the Eighth continent, it may well be how we solve our present, pressing environmental, economic and social problems.
I have to admit I haven't been to the U.S. for years so maybe it is the same.

Compared to the UK though - coffee tastes much better and there are more unique cafes and they are everywhere in Sydney. Every suburb has multiple hip, unique, cafes.
Keybase is elitist, they follow the easy trust method of giving trust to a very few people within specific networks.
The oldest direct evidence are dated feces from a island cave 14K BP. Then there is a lot of bones 13K.
For a UK contract (and probably USA), there is a clause that says 'if any party decides to end the contract, so be it, and there will be X weeks/months of notice".

For a French contract (CDI = permanent), it's not possible to terminate the employee unilaterally.
So how about comparing rather than with Signal, instead with Conversations (https://conversations.im/)

It's XMPP based and offers many Signal-like features. Seems very similar to the goals of this.
> There already is high speed-ish rail travel in the Northeast and it's very popular. But, for example, even if you could magically offer 6-8 hour train service between New York and Chicago, relatively few people would take it given that flying would be significantly faster.

Texan living in NYC here. I disagree. I would happily pay to take a 6 hour train to Chicago over a flight anyday. LGA/JFK are nightmares to book last minute flights and high-speed rail is a favorable experience to flying sometimes.

In contrast, there's no "useful" rail network in Texas — at all. If there was a rail network, like the single-high speed line proposed between Dallas and Houston, it would totally dominate and disrupt. People fly to/from cities in Texas all the time.

There are many many cities that would benefit from a rail network because the cost would be considerably lower than flying. If you build it, they will come.
It should not be taken as a complaint, it's just what it is.

New world nations were founded on the premise of immigration and building a better world for yourself, people joke about the American dream but to some extent that is true.

Being an American or even a Canadian is more about the future and what you make out of yourself.

Being Dutch, German, French or Italian or many other nations is more about the past, you are who you are based on where you come from.

I'm not sure that this can change, nor do I necessarily think it should change, every nation and every nationality has it's own unique definition many of those are based on shared heritage and history which is tied to ethnic and familial roots.
It's "easy" to become a Dutch citizen but it's nearly impossible to become a Dutch national, in the US there is very little distinction since virtually everyone there is a migrant at some point or another, and while if we go back to the stone age you may also call European migrants for the US it's much more recent history.
The majority of the US population is 5 or less generations "American", compare it to the average Dutch or French native family and you get quite a different story.
Bots will replace people before they replace apps
Indeed, thin is the examplar given in Wikipedia for /θ/.

It also has further explanation of th is sometimes voiced and sometimes unvoiced depending on context.

One thing to note is that some English speakers pronounce /ð/ and /θ/ as allophones, likely due to their identical orthography. At the beginning and middle of words, it becomes voiced /θɪn/ and /θɪŋ/ (thin and thing) becoming /ðɪn/ and /ðɪŋ/, respectively. At the end of words, it remains unvoiced.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_dental_fricative

th-fronting always catches my attention as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th-fronting
You've misunderstood. I get 26570 euros at the end of the year, after paying taxes, food, electricity, flat, insurances, common life stuff. This is the "bonus".
I also moved to another company and greatly increased my revenue :).
> Seems to me like the German system is very high quality, and that the UK let too many weak candidates in to University and so the first year (and every year) is getting easier to compensate...

This kind of generalisation is obviously useless, think Cambridge. Not that I'm defending all English universities, most of them aren't great. But that's true everywhere.

A big problem in Germany is that the transition to Bachelor/Master degrees has resulted in courses that are in need of refining. Badly in some cases. I'm mainly critical to the way German institutions handle undergrad degrees. Their research is top notch, and many of my friends from England went on to do research there. I think that's also an indication that English degrees are rigorous enough.

UK admissions is in principle more rigorous, by far. It acknowledges that school marks aren't everything and consideration for individuals with unusual situations or evident passion outside of school is given. Since offers are extended on a case-by-case basis, it's more fine-grained and the overcrowding, Darwinian filtering doesn't happen.

It's very easy to confuse working hard for working smart. Both will can get you to the same place, but in terms of personal development, one has to be nurtured and the other burns you out.
Oddly enough, I received similar advice from my parents, 35 years ago when I started college. This was of course just at the dawn of the personal computer age. My mom was teaching programming at a nearby college, and she literally thought that programming was too easy to spend 4 years learning in the classroom. People were getting programming jobs after one year in her course. Also, nobody had any idea where the industry, or the economy, were headed.

Both of my parents started their careers as scientists in industry after getting graduate degrees in the 50s. They saw people with science background being able to go into practically anything, including programming, business, entrepreneurship, and so forth.

I learned programming in high school, and fell in love with it, but I had an internship at a computer facility, and also looked ahead at the typical CS curriculum. It all seemed terribly boring. So I majored in math and physics. Oddly enough, the people who were doing things with computers, that interested me, were in the physics department. I developed the ability to design computerized electronics for measurement and control systems -- which became my career. This was even before "embedded systems" was widely taught in EE departments.

But realistically, a large portion of the software industry today does not require people with a science background. What I don't know is if I'd still find it boring.

Perhaps my parents' attitude was along the line of "you can do anything with a liberal arts education," but with the stipulation that the liberal arts include math and science.
The Amish attitude towards technology is a pretty good model of what an eventual Mars colony will need.

When (or if) people finally travel to Mars to stay, the biggest risk to the colony will be being dependent on imports from Earth. It will always be expensive to send ships from Earth to Mars, so it is folly to assume that resupply missions will continue indefinitely. So a colony which hopes to be viable must be vigilant not to be too dependent on outside goods.

This is the same as the Amish attitude. Every item from outside is regarded as suspicious; it MUST be rejected if it produces a dependency on the outside. Best if it can be made inside the community; perhaps acceptable if it can be repaired and used indefinitely even if it only comes from outside.

So a Mars colony will evaluate imports. Anything that can be made locally on Mars is best; things which can be repaired and reused indefinitely are okay; things which increase the dependency on the outside world will be shunned.
Can rpi not do h265 decoding already? I thought Kodi was popular on the rpi. I was thinking about setting one up as a media player, but not if it can't do h265.
Yeah but here is the thing about Jerry,he is the only clean comic who is funny at all. Outside of him almost all the great comedians will throw a fuck or a shit in there. Dave Chappelle and Louie CK are far from failures.
Not just popular media. The internet in general seems to assume being 'American' is the default and online communities seem to have a lot more American users than those from other regions (even compared to other places that also speak English).

If you ever want proof... well, go through your YouTube subscriptions and ask yourself how many of the channels are by people from the US. For me the number is about 50-60%.
Paris metro system definitely has an amazing coverage. I really enjoyed using it, but I'm athletic, love walking and don't have any injuries. On the other hand, I recently had to use it with someone who's knees aren't so good - I never realized how steep those stairs are and how few escalators are there. If you have any kind of disability or kids with strollers, it's definitely not the most comfortable way to travel.
It has been written ('Apollo', Murray and Cox, highly recommended) that the Apollo engineers did exactly that.
The 'issue' is that English is not really it's own language :)

Or rather, it's a relatively modern language.

1000 years ago there would have been forms of Germanic, Scandinavian and French being spoken - and 'English' developed as a mangle of those.

The proper French people I know do not consider English to even be a proper language. :_
A lot of people think the Amish are against technology. In fact, they carefully consider the technology's effect on themselves and their community. Will it really help, or is it just a new thing which will cause unintended consequences? For instance, some Amish groups accepted cars, and their community disappeared - when anyone can drive anywhere the community collapsed. Now there are no Amish who allow cars. The same thing would happen with the internet.
Tech people like ourselves automatically assume that technology is some advance, or improvement. Our peers tell us this, our incomes depend on us believing this.
In fact, technology does not improve the human condition in most cases. It erodes it. We would be better making careful decisions like the Amish, but our civilisation is locked onto this myth of 'progress'.

Technology should be for us, not the other way around. Unlike the Amish, we put the cart before the horse.
A surprisingly uninformed article.

The article does not consider these issues. The extra people:

1. need to be trained.

2. can screw up customer service, misfile things, enter numbers incorrectly, etc.

3. Occupy space - there are limits to the number of people that can be in a factory.

4. Create a distraction - (asking "beginner" questions)

5. Diffuse responsibility for completing tasks. (If the same amount of work is spread over 2 people - who is responsible for a quality outcome)

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Companies only hire people when there is a need. Sadly for the purists: the economy is driven by the true job creators - the middle class.

Focus on rebuilding the middle class and reduce the wealthy imbalance. (Yes this means the rich will have to pay up a lot of their wealthy in the form of taxes.)

Through out history, this has been shown to be the best way for a healthy economy.

P.S. you are welcome to disagree if you can talk about the 1873 bank panics (and through the 1900s), the Great Depression . Every example of wealth imbalance has resulted in a stagnant economy.
'Robot Lawyer' Makes the Case Against Parking Tickets
Fun fact: the CSIRO is the only Australian organisation to have a 2nd level domain name, lacking the .com and just using .au. This is because they were the first organisation to use a domain name in Australia and got in before the regulation specified it to be .{com|gov|edu|etc}.au
I've got a dual dynamo/drum-brake hub, the Sturmey Archer X-FDD. It works quite well-- but only at normal biking speeds. Below 10mph it's flickery and annoying.

If a horse isn't in a hurry, it usually travels at a walk, which is something like 5mph. So bicycle dynamos won't work well for a buggy.
I got this one (illegal cock fighting, maybe not illegal in the country it was filmed in).. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZIS_5SyxSg
Ya I wish it would leave a trail on the side of the videos you've gone through.
It's not about money. There are no jobs in the tech industry in France.

Moved for the job. Stayed abroad for the job and the money.

Then whenever you look at what the country has to offer if you ever go back, you're like: "Fuckkkkkkkk" (yeah, it's that much of a disaster).
The Potential Trajectory of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae
Link for those that do not wish to use AMP: http://www.wsj.com/articles/exclusive-peek-at-spacex-data-sh...
By "moved west" I presume you just mean farther west into the state, rather than the west coast? I'm from near Mercer, PA and I haven't noticed any decline in the number of buggies on the roads near there.
As the saying goes, any time there's money on the table, people suddenly come back out of the woodwork and start knocking...
Does it matter they appear in your history?
The UI is almost the same.
Netflix, Reddit, Vimeo, porn sites, and weird/inconsistent selection of other sites are "blocked" (only a simple DNS filter) here in Indonesia.
> Today, loop unrolling is usually a lose if it makes the loop much bigger.

Is this true?

For example, suppose I have a loop that does 1 million iterations and an increment of `i += 1`. If I unroll that to have an increment of `i += 10`, now I only have to do 100,000 iterations. That is 900,000 eliminated branches.

What am I missing?
Oddly addictive.
i've got a really cushy job making great money, and the work life balance is tolerable, but i feel that it's not that exciting. i have had lots of ideas, but i finally think that i've figured out what i really enjoy which is sports and technology. i have been working on madsportslab.com for about a year now, i taught myself golang and swift as part of the process and have released my app to the appstore, now just have to start the marketing part.

the cmo definitely agrees in theory that she can deal with me going full time on this, but i seriously doubt that and think it would make things really bad.

financially i could easily live a few years without salary, but i need to support my daughter so this makes things difficult where i live.

i am thinking of leveraging kickstarter and will continue to work on this as a side hobby, but once i see any traction, i may seriously consider taking the plunge
If only manipulating my child were as easy as solving borrow checker problems. At least the borrow checker tells you what you're doing wrong.
Story about Russian propaganda immediately flagged and removed
The "news" on this site recently had a story about Russian propaganda and what could be done about it. It was immediately littered with what seemed to be "propaganda" comments about how the article couldn't possibly be valid. Then it was removed from HN.

What gives?

Original item and link:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413878

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE100/PE198/RAND_PE198.pdf
> The ultimate goal is to have 45,000km of high-speed track. Zhao Jian of Beijing Jiaotong University, who has long criticised the high-speed push, reckons that only 5,000km of this will be in areas with enough people to justify the cost.

Do you agree with this 5,000km figure? If not, what figure would you choose?
Read this. "The Potential Trajectory of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, an Emerging Threat to Health-Care Facilities, and the Impact of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Toolkit"[0]

[0]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4772438/
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>In fact, technology does not improve the human condition in most cases. It erodes it.

I agree with what you said but think this is a little strong of a statement. I guess it depends on what you mean by technology. I'd rather live today than in the 1900s because of medical technology alone.

It's like anything. Technology just is. It's what people with free will do with it that can be harmful or helpful.

With that said, I agree we should be more diligent to at least be aware of how technology is affecting us personally, then act accordingly.
Yes it looks like I was thinking of those trains, they don't look this old. They run on the Reading-Paddington line.
Anyway, there's no excuse whatsoever for this design, however old they are!

After 3 years, I am still not quite confident opening those doors. I try to let another passenger do it for me.
Does anyone know if there's something like this available now to experiment with? I've been looking for a new way to ultra compress images and never heard of these techniques before. Looks like Google hasn't released any tools yet to the public, if they ever will.
I disagree - we may not have built large settlements by the coast but there are thousands of small towns on the coastlines of the world that were essential in the exploration of the world that drove settlement.