skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? You've not been paying attention then. Further the risk exists that we cross a tipping point before we even know it. There are sensible arguments for stopping polluting industry now, by any means necessary. Glib rationalization isn't a counter-argument. Science would be, if we had good enough models to know.
Also autism is not a binary diagnosis. It is a gradient of symptoms, and saying that kid is autistic doesn't say much about his condition.
In the 1960s the Democrats and Republicans switched places on a lot of issues. It wasn't taught very well to me in school, and for a variety of reasons its not discussed much in the current media. Ovbiously, the parties themselves don't want to make a point out of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy
I'd take this as a sign the fossil fuel industry is dying. Trying to ban your competition is usually a last resort for dying industries.
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I haven't gave it much thought, but I'm on Firefox, and my session is sometimes lost (maybe once or twice per month), asking me to re-login...
Few things wrong in your post:

> So your scenario of paying off debt for one year just pushes the inevitable out one year.

There is enough debt out there that the poor can spend many years paying it off.

> Raising the minimum wage eventually has a similar effect. Ask yourself why a loaf of bread isn't $0.05 any more (it surely was sometime in the past 200 years). The obvious answer is inflation. But why? Why did prices increase over time? What economic pressure caused that?

Milton Friedman and Anna Schwartz wrote A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960, where they made the claim "inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon" [1] Thus, the reason why a loaf of bread isn't $0.05 anymore is because of the expansion of money supply, not because of raising minimum wage. The article suggests financing basic income through tax revenues -- and even doing so without raising the deficit. It is not suggesting expanding money supply. Milton Friedman himself even supported the kind of basic income described in the article, which he called a "negative income tax" [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetarism

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Friedman#Social_securit...
Working on projects that is very useful for other groups of people rather than yourself. When you think less about yourself you get paralyzed less and move forward.
Right, this is the kind of information I was looking for (maybe some actual ISA documentation; the instruction encoding method itself, etc).

But for this specific point -- I thought all of the Xtensa series used register windows? Or did they both have them but the ESP8266 never actually use them (somehow?)
> Asterisk is completely scriptable.

I'm absolutely positive Asterisk is better than Toshiba in that regard. I've invented some absolutely hideous hacks to get Toshiba systems do complicated call flow. But for a minuscule office with less than 8 phones, say a chiropractor or hand made guitar manufacturer, Toshiba does the basics, does it well, and is much easier to install. The systems don't do much, but they do it well. The pbx can hang in a damp and dirty location for years and still work. Internet service here is too unreliable to have a hosting solution or sip trunks, unless you want to pay AT&T thousands a month. The wiring can be 50 year old 25 pair, and the phones work fine. Businesses don't want to switch to ip phones since they don't have the cabling infrastructure for it.
Not sure why others are so unwilling to do the same.

"Unwilling."

Going back into your comment history it appears you have had some struggles along these lines, so maybe ixnay the condescending illiteracy angle.

Did you used to have any previous HN accounts, maybe from the period where you were being "upended?" Probably some gold in there, too.
That's disingenuous at best, and frankly you should be ashamed to present such a weak argument.

And in the 21st century, as you mention, the "populist Republican president" is pretty blatantly playing an inside game and an outside game, cursing the industry and political establishment to the public, then going inside and shaking hands and sitting down with the same people, going so far as to put them on his cabinet and deep inside his government.
We have a great method of storing carbon. It is also technologically simple, very stable, and, would you believe it, completely free! It is called coal. It was already stored in the ground millions of years ago. We just have to not dig it up and burn it.

Also related: oil, peat.
I'm not advocating Anarchy. That's never going to work. We need laws, and I would love to change the laws regarding the income tax.
- Acura (luxury branch of Honda) has the NSX.

- Mazda, coming up with a new RX concept

- Hyundai... no comment
Perhaps autistic fathers are taking more time to find a mate, and they also pass on their genes.
I am not a security expert, but as I understand it, passwords sent in the clear are vulnerable to being intercepted. Even if users of your site don't have much to worry about from those accounts being compromised (this may or may not be true), lots of people use the same password for more than one login, so their accounts on other sites could be compromised too.

That's definitely a significant security risk, even if it wasn't being explicitly labeled before now. It sucks for independent website operators like you, but I'd probably blame your hosting for making it difficult to secure your site rather than browser vendors for protecting their users.
Where's the interesting part?
Straw man. No data to support that; just a scare story. How about: cost of goods continues to drop as automation continues to expand explosively (as it has in the last 10 years). Standard of living rises steadily as the workforce decreases.

What's the difference in the two scenarios? Data. Which we don't have. So certainly a UBI should be carefully introduced to keep the economy stable.
I'm a lot more sympathetic toward the latter myopia.

A lot of blue collar people can't imagine what they'd do if they could no longer get a job in their current industry. Severance is meager, pensions are drying up, and retraining assistance (if they'd even accept it) is virtually nonexistent. When faced with "progress" making your way of life and standard of living untenable, that gets really really really scary. I'd challenge you to remain entirely rational if your job -- no, your entire industry -- went away, the bank decided to foreclose on your house (which is now worthless anyway, because there are no jobs where you live), you were unable to feed your family, and you didn't even have the money to move somewhere else where prospects were better.

On the other hand, we have a ton of tech people around here who, because of their privilege, are unable to put themselves into anyone else's shoes, even for a minute. It's basic empathy, and seems to be in short supply sometimes.
FOSS often plays catch-up, because true innovation is really hard and takes a lot of time and resources. It's frequently too much to ask of an all-volunteer workforce. It's not that they can't do it (ultimately the people writing FOSS are the same people as those writing apps for companies) it's just that there isn't the same set of motives in place.

This is why in earlier days, GNOME's goal was to catch up to Windows, and why a phone operating system (a pretty standard thing that everyone has) is now a target.
Any hard Engineering branch, Mathematics, and some of the more rigorous Biology stuff will do as well.

I honestly do not understand why there appears to be so much desire to get into Data Science when becoming a Programmer is equally lucrative and substantially easier to bootstrap into.

Edit: Seriously, programmers make as much if not more than Data Scientists for what ends up being substantially less stressful work (all things being equal). I suspect if the people pursuing DS actually ended up doing the work and living with the responsibilities they'll regret their time investments.
Why would you cross any border with electronics with data on them? Especially if you went to 33C3? Especially in this climate?

Why didn't you just SSH everything? You can easily resync your contacts/data on your phone after you cross the border. You can keep the few you must have on the recently reset phone. If you travel often, why don't you have a second phone for just this to save you time?

I'd think most of us have tech junk piling up. It's less effort to reset or have a 'travel drive' than top go through all the paperwork to (maybe) get stuff back.

Maximum laziness. If customs asks you to unlock your phone, nothing gets you through quicker then quick unquestioning compliance. (Of course the current climate is stupid and needs to change.)
The ESP32 datasheet is really woefully inadequate for this part; it mostly describes the chip, but I guess what I'm really looking for is things like "A description of the ISA itself", i.e. the "LX6 datasheet", so to speak. So I want something like the the actual instruction encoding, instruction listing, etc for the LX6 series and what it supports precisely.
"on spectrum" is a pretty loose definition though. I bet a decent chunk of the hn crowd could be made to fit onto the extra-mild side of the spectrum if one tries (myself included).

That's not meant to trivialise a real problem...point is the cut-off point is decidedly vague so stats like these are dicey at best.
They used to stand for letting people live and not be bothered by the government

When was this?
the biggest problem i see is now i want to raise my prices to get more of that UBI pie
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There is not much difference between the parties on this level. You ultimately get elected by making it rain for your constituents.
Yes, just as, as a man who's of below average height, I also can speak for little people.

No wait, I can't...
It's also worth noting that Porsche are different from Lamborghini or Ferrari.

Last year Porsche made 230K cars. In their history Ferrari have made 130K. Lamborghini made 3.2K cars last year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porsche#Production_and_sales

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrari#Road_cars

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamborghini#Products

Porsche are pretty much a normal factory car. They have low volumes and go fast. But that is pretty much where they stand. Ferraris and Laborghinis are far closer to being hand made.

Factory made cars are more reliable than hand built cars. People who have owned these cars have told me using a Porsche for a day to day car is doable. A Ferrari or Lamborghini probably isn't reliable enough.
Perhaps because supercars are ridiculously impractical. They are too low to handle speed bumps, they are cramped inside and have little to no luggage or passenger space.

Those tradeoffs are to make them fast. People who drive them care about performance, and will likely have a second car for more general driving.

No one would want to buy a car that made those trade offs without getting the performance in return.
Maybe we can make it blink by adding and removing the password field
So you admit that byte strings and Unicode strings are different data types, yet you claim that Python 2 is the sane one for choosing to both using exactly the same class?
Not sure but the correlation of Apple device walking in the door and entire home network hanging is pretty consistent.

I presume the router periodically issues "who has 192.168.1.10" or whatever and upon getting responses from two different MAC address just gives up.
The first graphic is geniusly deceptive:

"See, we take a little bit from everyone, shuffle it around a bit and return it back to everyone. Hooray!"

When it reality, the actual result is the red section loses dots which just go blue green and yellow groups.
For those reading the comments first, AutoMicroFarm was one of the startups selected by the HN community to get funding; read more here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11633270

Also, as the founder states in the blog, if you have any suggestions on improving AutoMicroFarm, or questions about it, please post a comment.
The author is in Serbia, according to his GitHub profile.
Also seeing this issue
if FSF wants a intelligent assistant it will have to collect usage data, no? a little against the whole principle... but if the data are open, that would be kind of cool ;)
So you're saying that everyone who's promoting UBI is actually just doing it to incentivise poor people to work?
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I know there's some controversy about the open-source-ness of the Raspberry Pi. Can anybody here guess from the specs whether this device will have similar issues?
Why should it be?
The Fiero comes to mind.
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With depreciation and older m5 models, you could definitely fit the initial and maintenance costs of a m5 into a middle class budget.
Sure. And when they're, you know, ten, with a sore throat, some cervical lymph node tenderness, no cough, no tonsillar exudates? In other words, every case of sore throat that walks in the door?

1/5 chance it's Group A strep and worth throwing abx at. And... then what? We know the stats, we have a non-specific presentation, and the traditional reason to throw abx at this patient is because we want to minimize the chance of a subsequent heart or kidney disease (post-infectious immune hypersensitivity rxn). 4/5 chance they don't need abx; 1/5 chance that they'll benefit, but not a lot. But, hey,... how do you even attach a utility analysis to "and a small reduction in the likelihood of heart and/or kidney damage"? The magnitude of the risk is hard to comprehend, subjectively, in the face of the small reduction in incidence. And you will see those consequences play out; you're going to see so many sore throats that the small odds will manifest.

This isn't one of those, "stupid doctors, they don't know what they're doing!" things. It's something that doesn't readily yield to utility metrics.
Maybe a call through to Future Publishing could have been tried first. If you don't ask then you don't get!

Of course this would have meant not collecting 'FBI grade' skills along the way, however, picking up the phone, flattering some folks at Future Publishing and getting the goods could be considered 'social engineering' and as good a skill as getting the debugger out.
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I used to live in a very expensive area of London [1] (my university owned about half this block, my room in first year was probably worth £0.5M...).

Many people on the street owned Porsches, Ferraris, and there were two Lamborghinis, most were used daily. But, I think there was a restriction of one car per household parked on the street, and most would only have been driving a very short distance through central London -- usually at about 5-6am, before there was much traffic.

BMWs, Mercedes and Lexus cars were more common than the sports cars, and Porsche cars more common than Ferraris and Lamborghinis.

[1] https://www.google.dk/maps/@51.488953,-0.1788157,3a,75y,230.... (take left turns, I think there are five Porsches, and something I don't recognize. But this is probably the weekend, when most of the rich people were away, and normal people "borrowed" the parking spaces. A Porsche shop is 2 minutes walk away, the Lamborghini shop about 5 minutes.)
> if it turns out to be a net loss because

Doesn't this assume a fixed loss? What if this encourages the former behavior to grow?
You never know, UBI may turn out to be a good thing: it may result in creating a healthy shortage of the workforce, which may lead to a more efficient economy overall.
I built a non-trivial webapp in nodejs + Typescript but abandoned it due to these issues:

1. You can generate source maps for your TS files, but node can't use them. There is some support for source maps via the node-source-map-support, but it doesn't play well with a lot of stuff out of the box. Just getting accurate stack traces in my logs turned into a project of its own.

2. Most node libraries don't include type definitions, and what is on DefinitelyTyped is more likely than not to be out-of-date and inaccurate. Having the wrong type definitions might be worse than none at all, which means for the most part you'll be declaring a lot of stuff as "any." It makes even preserving the types in your own code difficult, as anything that touches a 3rd-party library is going to come back as the any type without additional annotation.

3. Similar to 2, if you want to use a promise-based approach to deal with the "callback hell" induced by node's continuation passing style, you are probably going to need to use a library that does runtime mutation of the many libraries that don't support promises, which means that any time information you do have about 3rd-party libraries is going to get lost.

4. The last two items, combined with the lack of runtime type checking, means that your types are going to be difficult to maintain and can easily become inaccurate without feedback from the compiler to let you know that something is wrong.
That's interesting. I was referring to 1% w.r.t. the USA, where the cutoff is actually ~250 k after taxes and adding back transfers. http://www.economist.com/node/21543178

Really brings to light how bad global inequality really is!

So through a US lens, I'm guessing a certain percentage of HN readers who work in senior positions in the valley or NYC would be 1%, and of course a random assortment of other readers, but the vast majority of software engineers etc. would NOT be 1% on a single income.
Yes. One of the positive aspects of this change is that it punishes the people who are either unable or unwilling to migrate to SSL.
Ask HN: What's the one thing a new engineering manager must learn or know?
I've gotten varied responses from not micromanaging to nobody's intentionally trying to do a bad job. What's your take on this?
Oh hey I've been following your book so far, pretty neat!
In this context "long term" is the time it takes for the market to respond by building more schools or housing or whatever, which generally takes a low single digit number of years (like one). To which the response then becomes, so what?

And that's assuming your argument is true, which in general it isn't. If you raise prices then some of your customers will go elsewhere. That's why sellers don't raise prices already. If you raise prices and your competitors don't, even if your customers have extra money, people can still count and a dollar is still a dollar. The profit-maximizing strategy isn't to raise prices, it's to expand capacity as quickly as possible (which in many cases is immediate) so that you can make your existing profit across more customers who can now afford your product, without losing them to competitors with lower prices.
The tough part in the US is that it just needs treatment. As an adult that means you are either employed and skilled enough to get health insurance through your employer, or go on disability and live in poverty (while probably getting poor treatment).
> Do you think those blue collar coal workers are going to be amenable to switching careers so they can service wealthy ski resort visitors? All while making much less money?

The value of their time is determined by the market, whether and how in demand their skills are. They can make themselves amenable to whatever other career options are available, or else make themselves amenable to starve waiting for the resurgence of a dying industry.

The days of lifetime employment in a single career are rapidly coming to an end - globalism and automation are constantly reducing the value of employment in many professions, or making human employment obsolete. Those industries which haven't been gutted by these trends yet will be, inevitably. Nearly everyone is going to have to learn to take what little they can get when they can get it, in time.

And instead of pandering to blue collar workers, Republicans should actually be trying to help them prepare for the future, rather than yearn for the past. But they can't, because what would help would be subsidizing education and healthcare to reduce the crippling burdens of debt on the lower and middle class and make it easier for people to find other jobs, and possibly institute some sort of basic income so that a lack of employment won't be devastating, as lack of employment becomes the norm for more and more people.
If you're posting here then you're probably high-functioning enough to be subclinical. But not all autists are. For many, some form of intervention is necessary to help them cope and live meaningful lives. This is the sad reality.
Thanks -- does the fact that the top 1% and bottom 99% show different distributions not imply they are gambling on different scales though? Is it as simple as the 1% gamble on a log scale and the bottom 99% gamble on a linear scale?
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What's compared is usually the "homologous regions". That means literally "similar because of common descent", but in practice, it means "similar enough that we think it's homologous". Since parts of genomes can become duplicated, we sometimes have more than one homologous piece in a different species---and then it's typically excluded from the comparison, because we don't know which of the two pieces to compare to.

As a practical example, it has been reported that humans and chimpanzees "are 98.6% identical". That's shorthand for "in the detectably homologous parts of their genomes, 98.6% of the nucleotides of chimpanzees and humans are identical". This ignores about 25% of the chimpanzee genome and 20% of the human genome, for which no homologous sequence is known. It also ignores small insertions and deletions, because it's unclear how to define similarity in the presence of those.

There are definitely "similar regions" we have no clue about. Comparisons are definitely not restricted to protein coding regions; we typically compare at least whole genes. That includes introns, which sometimes contain regulatory elements, but most of the time nobody knows what, if anything, they do. The same goes for the untranslated regions of genes (5'- and 3'-UTR), which definitely contain regulatory elements, but for the most part aren't understood. And there are probably homologous intergenic regions, too, and we know nothing about their function.

I don't remember exact numbers about human-mouse comparisons, but I don't need to to know that we end up comparing incomprehensible stuff: We "understand" 1.5% of the genome---that's the protein coding pieces. That's shallow understanding, but at least something. We could pretend that we also understand any piece of the genome that contains a few scattered regulatory elements. Counting very generously, that might be 15% of the genome. The remainder is completely mysterious. In the human-chimpanzee comparison, ~70% of the genomes are comparable. Clearly, we have no idea what most of that stuff does.
There are four generations of Miata. I think the newest looks better than most of the stuff on the street today, honestly. (how do you not like the Miata RF?) It's all shockingly generic looking now, IMO. Somehow, incredibly, Maseratis have become popular where I live, but they seem to have done it by looking like Toyotas. (at least they still sound incredible) Even Aston-Martin and Jaguar make stuff that barely rates above "cool."

I spend a fair amount of time wondering why nobody makes anything with a more bug-eyed look similar to either the classic 911 or even the classic 60s sports cars (Lola, GT40, 904, etc.). Modern safety standards and crumple zones probably have something to do with it.