skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Might be a decent way to METI since it'd not require much energy or high angular resolution at the other end.

I really don't think this is a good idea, unless we want a massive object accelerated to a significant percentage of c to get lobbed our way. :)

Disregarding the effects on atmosphere loss, wouldn't a machine like this eventually be more or less essential if humans ever decide to move in long term? At least, if we want to hang out on the surface (in bubbles, of course).
Then laugh at the tragedy of your impending genetic extinction.
Yes. Not sure why people don't see this.
The issues under discussion are as challenging for black men as they are for men of other races. Possibly more so, since they have to deal with all the racist bullshit in addition.

I wouldn't have thought gay men were under consideration here, since we're talking about marriage to women.
Aren't you leaving money on the table?

Depending on how expensive your service is, bespoke could be a nice "extra."
Indeed.
And Vancouver seems to have a simpler method too:
A tax of 1% of assessed value.

In Paris, they need to come up with a "market rent" figure for each and every property to tax. Do they have those numbers? Using assessment value as Vancouver does, seems a lot easier.

Also, I wonder what's a bigger number: 1% of assessed value, or 60% of market rent. The previous 20% of market rent seems to be a low number, compared to the wealth stored in the property.
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In my experience WiFi clients at 2.4GHz never end up using the high MCS indices whenever they transmit (whenever the channel is clear). This has something to do with the fact that the CCA thresholds are fairly high, and that high SNR (30-50dB) is required for activating the high MCS indices[1]. I don't think these SNRs are achievable in a typical setting.

It is true that MAC backoffs are also a contributing factor to the throughput being low. The CCA assessment procedure detects both wifi preambles and non-WiFi interference (pure energy detection), which is why I say interference is modeled as noise. CCA does not for example, have some intelligent coexistence algorithm for dealing with zigbee or LTE-U or other ISM traffic.

[1]: http://www.revolutionwifi.net/revolutionwifi/2014/09/wi-fi-s...
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Yep, that's what I was talking about.
> In a world where the population keeps increasing, automation is and will continue to drive unemployment, and environmental destruction is rampant... you're concerned that we're going to die out for lack of breeding?

Neither unemployment nor environmental destruction is incompatible with population decline.

The unemployment rate is independent of the population size, because fewer people means less demand which means proportionally fewer jobs.

And unchecked evil corporations can perfectly well automate environmental destruction and carry it out with a minimum number of people.
Toronto is now also completely out of control:

http://www.greaterfool.ca/2017/03/04/its-official-its-a-bubb...

Normally there would be an epic crash in the near future, but I have come to the conclusion that this time really is different, and I'm not joking.
> "Idle hands are the Devil's workshop."

I was almost having a mental countdown until this exact expression popped up.

What you wrote is true, but that unemployed population didn't have any money or their needs met.

What would happen if living was really easy and work either unneeded or just downright impossible to get?
And these constraints were developed over millenia (some are probably the result of natural selection, others by experience) and for the most part are documented in religious/moral codes of "good" and "sinful" behavior. Our ancestors were not dumb; they could identify what behaviors were beneficial and detrimental to society.
I believe this is the workshop referenced, and they do have a LiveStream that you can watch.

http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/V2050/
Similar, but not quite the same if you learned Korean more than 20 years ago. Evidently younger Koreans do not distinguish much between the two sounds.[1]

[1] http://linguistics.stackexchange.com/questions/2619/how-to-d...
Sadly, I feel like a great number of comments in this thread could be summarized as:

If a woman prefers a man with wealth or status, she's a gold-digger, and feminism is wrong about women -- they want traditional gender roles. Women are just naturally drawn to wealth and status despite what feminism says they should want.

If a woman has sex with a man regardless of his wealth or status, she's a slut. Feminism is wrong about women -- they are naturally attracted to "bad boys", not "Good guys" who are responsible and work hard. "Good guys" are being cheated out of sex by women. If they support feminism despite the fact that women no longer value social/economic status, which reduces their chances to have sex, they are "white knights".

If a woman won't have sex with a man, it's because she's a frigid bitch -- feminism has made men irrelevant. Feminism is responsible for suicide bombers and spree killers because they couldn't get sex from women.

It's amazing to me how much pseudoscience and entrail-reading comes into discussions of gender. It's so tightly linked to our experience of the world that it's almost impossible not to spin one's own experiences into quasi-rational explanations.

For example, this quote from the article: "A substantial number go on to have children with a second partner, or even a third, creating complex and unstable family lives that are not good for children."

Says who? Human beings have pretty much always lived in extended clans with "complex family lives". The nuclear family is a pretty recent invention in the history of homo sapiens. The whole article seems to be trying to paint a picture that humans lived in nuclear families from the dawn of time to just a few years ago -- that it is taking children away from the way they are meant to be raised. In fact, this is bringing humans closer to the way they've pretty much always lived, in extended clans with complex family trees, with incredibly complex language for describing those relations.

"This creates challenges for the people (usually women) who have to raise a child without the economic or social support of a partner. Their struggles are why the authors see such an uptick in children living in poverty in the aftermath of a decline in manufacturing employment."

This is just terrible writing. Women raising children without support of a partner would, by definition, not be affected by the decline in jobs for men. The whole article (and many of the comments here about it) are filled with these kinds of self-refutations and self-fulfilling prophecies. People just start with a conclusion when it comes to gender and work backwards.

I'm wary to offer my own opinions on these issues, because they might be just as full of confirmation bias, question begging, and social proof-seeking. Maybe human beings are just really bad at discussing this topic.
> Carried to its logical conclusion, you wouldn't want to buy a used car from someone if they received it for free, regardless of how much they're charging vs. market rates.

Great point. These objections to Instacart are not just bizarrely irrational, they are at odds with how the service economy works.
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> Also, once they own such property, they could rent it for the time when they are away. They could make a lot of money this way.

And they could make a lot of aggravation this way if they get a nightmare tenant.
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It's just systems theory. The optimized whole is not equal to the sum of the optimized parts.
The point I'm making is that a buying decision depends on much more than just the price you're paying. All kinds of information go into people's decision-making process. For instance, if you knew that the duck-fur coat (or whatever, I don't know if that's a real thing) you are about to buy was made by torturing ducks, you would be less likely to buy it, even if the price, by itself, was reasonable. This is why a lot of companies that sell animal products go to great lengths to keep such information from consumers: because the resulting information asymmetry benefits them.

The idea that at the end of the day the product/service is either worth it to you at X price or it isn't is simply wrong.
I live in a resort area that doesn't have many full-time, year-round residents. Every year we have issues with FedEx saying they attempted delivery but no one was home, even when people are sitting at home all day. While we can't prove it, what appears to be happening is that either the local warehouse is waiting for multiple deliveries before they send a driver to the area or the driver is just waiting for more than one delivery before he comes to the area. It only happens with FedEx and I would assume that it has more to do with the majority of their ground drivers being independent contractors.
I don't believe it's any of those things. Though, certainly the ergonomics of a traditional studio, and the equipment therein, works best for engineers who learned in those environments and using those tools. Those engineers happen to be the most experienced engineers working, so they are probably, on average, better than most younger engineers with much less experience.

However, the reason some of the classic records sound amazing today is because they cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to make, in a time when hundreds of thousands of dollars was a lot of money. This is reflected in the rooms where they recorded. The quality of the studio itself is every bit as important, maybe even more important, than the equipment within it.

When recording live musicians, a bad room literally cannot be overcome with good equipment. And, thus, simulating a great room with equipment is harder than simulating a great console, or a great EQ, or a great compressor. Digitally removing the room "badness" and putting in "goodness" isn't something that people have even really tried.

Records made at Abbey Road studios sounded great because the room sounded great, the microphones sounded great, the board sounded great, the EQs and compressors sounded great, and, the musicians sounded great playing through their great sounding instruments. They had everything working in their favor, and that moment of everything coming together nicely was captured by excellent engineers.

So...the reason most records don't sound as good as Dark Side of the Moon is not merely that there aren't a lot of consoles comparable to this one. You could probably find something that would be a sufficient substitute (and maybe even a laptop with a very good AD/DA could substitute for much of the equipment in a studio). But, any mediocre piece in the chain, starting with the musicians and the room they're playing in, will make a mediocre recording.

Pink Floyd, a very talented bunch of musicians and songwriters, had a massive budget, a truly inspired bunch of songs, and a lucky bunch of connections in the industry to get them the best people and the best gear all in the best studio in the world, and the result is a classic that sounds better (by some definition of "better") than 95+% of big budget records even made today. There have been similarly high quality recordings made, but it's rare...and I don't think a specific set of equipment can do it (after all, lots of other records were recorded in the very same studio and didn't sound that amazing). A lot of stuff has to come together for it to work out that way.
Some - actually most - ends up paying their renters

Some - actually very few.
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Looks impressive, well thought out interface. That's also an impressive grid of browser compatibility.
The simple reality is that women do not respect men they have to provide for.
Skip to 1:36:00 for the start, 1:40:00 for the actual details.
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The discussion I'm reading is absurd. Why has no one suggested a credential yet? Every other profession has it. It's insanely inefficient for our industry to behave like this. Software development and engineering is mature. We need candidates to build stuff not spend time reviewing cs101 or hours doing coding assignments
How hard could it be to design a circuit that would reshape the video signal into something reasonable? Or to feed the video signal into an analog input and reprocess it in software?
This trend is downright offensive when you realize that many cities with vacant home problems also have homelessness problems.
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> Their systems are incredibly stable. In fact, I don't think I can recall a single bit of downtime ---which was actually down to their system--- since November 2015 when I joined.

Downtime is downtime.

Ignoring and shifting the blame to third parties will not fly with customers who are unable to buy their groceries. Just saying ;)
A key point in the difference that might help explain it:

> On 13 September 1999, Gelsinger was injected with an adenoviral vector carrying a corrected gene to test the safety of the procedure

vs.

> Doctors removed his bone marrow - the part of the body that makes blood. They then genetically altered it in a lab to compensate for the defect in his DNA that caused the disease. ...

> A virus was used to infect the bone marrow with new, correct instructions.

> The corrected bone marrow was then put back into the patient.

This was a self transfusion in the lab rather than an injection of a virus. After the virus infected the bone marrow, it would then have been tested to make sure that there are no immune responses with the material and that it is safe to return to the patient.
Try making her laugh. Try listening to her. Be honest. Don't open by trying to fuck.#

Yes, it's a skill that like any other, requires deliberate practice. The skill, however, is being a generally enjoyable person to be around.

#(If it seems like the last point contradicts the honesty, don't go around making sex your goal. Most humans are horny, it ain't anything you really need to draw attention to.)

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e2: A known effect of attacking (without confronting the core of the problem), or suppressing, or dismissing parties expressing certain beliefs or engaging in particular behaviors is that the opposing party reaffirms their actions or beliefs. Two-way intelligent and earnest discussion makes both sides amenable to the reasonable positions of the other.
Akamai is firing a decent batch of people.
The recent post on payment processing is helpful, if you haven't read it, to help you know what is failing (the processor), and where they lie in the chain of entities responsible for payment processing.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13791913
But that's not how caffeine is removed from the brain - that entire flowchart says "liver cell". Is one to understand that as the liver cleans blood of caffeine, and this low-caffeine blood eventually goes up to the brain, caffeine diffuses somehow (across the blood/brain barrier) into the bloodstream and is then carried to the liver?
Site is up on my end. Anyways, here's the GH page for anyone interested: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium
Yes, if you take something like "Minimum Description Length principle", there may exists circles in physical world that are best (most economically) described with a perfect circle + some noise.
What is outside the frame of reference?

QM isn't outside the frame of reference of the scientific method though. It's as proven mathematically and empirically as general relativity is.

So the only irrational thing here would be to claim that the quantum world isn't as real as the classical physical world.

Agree on the last part though. we might (are most likely) all be missing the point
Maybe it is based on store. I don't know - and that's the problem. Like I said, Instacart (as far as I could tell at a glance) doesn't make the information easily available. That's the problem.

I did some casual searching and discovered that they supposedly have page (https://www.instacart.com/store/prices) where they list their markups per store, but it doesn't work for me.
I see this and it's very frustrating. The things you mentioned are what make it such a difficult problem, especially "competition from disability, welfare and black market income sources." So often, it's papered over and misleadingly described as something else entirely for politically expedient means, as if there was a time we could go back to where we were safe from these forces.

The truth is, we never were and never will be, and we have to be always vigilant about fighting it by working to provide opportunity and safety nets. I despise that the conversation is always framed in moral terms regarding whether those who need safety nets "deserve" them, when the question should really be about whether we're serious about winning the competition against non-productive income sources, state sponsored or otherwise. The conversation is perennially hijacked.
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Agreed.

So far in my search, C# leans toward Microsoft shops seeking C#/.NET whereas C/C++ has been companies searching for embedded software roles.
What Shockley and (especially) Feynman did is well beyond a 95th percentile of ability.
What were you denied entry for previously?
Because Germany has protectionist tariffs similar to those Trump wants to implement. E.g it is not cheaper to outsource plants to Mexico and import BMW back to Germany.
good point.

still, the uscis budget is not even a drop in the bucket:

https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=795314
Precisely.

I'll also add there's huge benefits to live collaboration and apprenticeship, namely the ability to solve roadblocks with the help of others at a pace that's likely to be faster than working alone.
You have to experience it to care.
What's sad to me is that all those folks in those shitty, worn-out parts of the country, they're the perfect target market for a universal basic income. Why? Cause in the really poor counties, there's already a de-facto UBI, in the form of disability payments. It's just not formally universal, and people have to jump through a lot of hoops to maintain it. Simplify the whole thing, and pump some money into these places that have nothing and never will again on their own.
How do the rest handle it?
Ask HN: What's the actual fallout been from the Cloudflare bug?
So I understand what happened with the Cloudflare bug, that https POST request content was leaked into HTML documents on the same or other servers and some of it was cached by search engines or malicious foreign powers. Whenever something like this happens the HN community whips up into a frenzy with people coming out of the woodwork that appear to be experts saying that "this is the end" and "this is so bad, we're f*cked".

Meanwhile - none of my friends in the
"real world" (outside the HN bubble) seem to be affected by this at all. I have a client that's a Cloudflare customer and they got an email saying they just weren't affected. And I haven't seen any huge leaks or items in the press about some terrible hack or theft that has brought someone or a corporate "down".

Should we always take news like this with a grain of salt? When can we tell when an attack like this is a fundamental undermining of the entire internet infrastructure, an attack that will cripple a few major companies, or just an issue that revealed some data but was mostly just overblown? Would love to hear some opinions!
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>But recently, I realized I’d gotten tired of Apple’s attitude toward the desktop. The progress in macOS land has basically been dead since Yosemite, two years ago, and Apple’s updates to the platform have been incredibly small.

So, like creating a full blown new programming language (Swift)? Or a full new filesystem (AFS)? Integration of Cloud storage directly to the desktop? Siri on the desktop? Saving RAM through memory compression? Continuity to transfer work across desktop and mobile (and different desktops) seamlessly? All things added in the last few years, with few of them still ongoing.

Sure -- they've totally abandoned it /s.

>Take a look at Sierra: the only feature of note is Siri, which is half-baked as it is, and the things that did get ported over from iOS are half-done too.

That's hardly "the only feature of note". But even so, I wouldn't want Apple to continue to change much in OS X, except refining things.

>and so I was tempted away in early 2013 when Apple released its second-generation 15" Retina MacBook Pro.

So, you're merely 3 years of the platform, but have an opinion on how Apple "pivoted its attention" regarding OS released based on just a couple of OSes? Because I've been here since 10.2 and most releases weren't about breakthrough features, but refinement and minor changes (often regressions).

If it discussed the state of Mac Pro and Mac Mini the post would actually have a leg to stand...
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I'm glad to see the quick convergence on Python. I've evaluated Python every ~2 years since 2006 for "data science" tasks (machine learning, statistics, data munging, and visualization). I'd argue that Python only properly covered this full data science stack 1.5-2 years ago. R covered this stack adequately probably around 2011-2012. Matlab had this before 2005.

What makes Python a superior language to Matlab and R is the ease of software development. It's an easy, pleasant language to work in, and I trust it for production tasks (I've written production R code and it's fairly hard to read and fragile).

What's even better is data science is moving 100% into Python 3 (from 2) by 2020:

http://www.python3statement.org/
I agree that the problem is complex systems, not biology per se. But physics is able to be quite predictive because it is able to isolate one basic phenomenon at a time and model it with great precision (gravity, electromagnetism, particle physics, etc). Then, if we want to build devices based on these phenomena from the ground up, we can also do that and predict their behavior with great accuracy (e.g., behavior of a electrical circuit).

This is not currently possible at all in biology because even the most minimal functional, self-reproducing biological system is very complex. Indeed even a single protein is quite complex. I suppose by "complex" in this context I mean: lots of acting entities, and many physical laws operating at once rather than just a few.

Physics does have predictive problems when it is applied to weather, climate, etc, because those are complex systems. But that kind of the thing is a minority of the subject matter in physics.