skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is we don't know how the EM drive is working (or are we sure it is working).

The 3 projects in the parents flat out don't work, and we know why they don't work -- or at least know to what extent they will work.

By the logic you have presented then we should be funding projects that wish to compress all 8 bit connotations into 7 bits. I can go make a nice video of how awesome it would be if we could do this. How it would change the world. Literally, if somebody could compress every 8 bit combination into 7 bits it would change the world overnight. Should we fund a product that advertises it could do this with a nice video and a website?
Autoimmune disease occurs when, for some reason, the body attacks its own healthy tissue, turning on the very thing it was supposed to protect. This, at least, is the premise: “auto,” or “self,” attack.

From the start, though, the study of autoimmunity has been characterized by uncertainty and error.

I hate the term and the very concept of an autoimmune disease. I can't wait for the world to conclude this was lazy BS that allowed doctors to gloss over their lack of understanding of what was really going on. I am heartened to see the above passage acknowledging that "at least, that's the premise" (aka the idea or current theory) and the next sentence acknowledging that this idea really isn't on very solid ground.
the deep cynicism here is how people think Turbo tax is doing a pubic service by making taxes easier and cheaper, that's how effective their marketing is. Convince the public there is a problem that only said company can solve.
2017 Volvo S90 vs. 2017 Genesis G90 – CRASH TEST
Seriously, why the hell is the US reviving the nuclear weapons program? It's against all humanity. What the world really needs are giant robots. As far as the vulnerability of trucks is concerned, I give you the Fast & Furious film franchise.
With the disclaimer that I have no idea what I'm doing and there are probably many flaws in this reasoning:

A metric ton of bunker is about $300 (http://shipandbunker.com/prices)

The same volume of diesel would be about 315 gallons and would be about (https://www.extension.iastate.edu/agdm/wholefarm/html/c6-87.... / http://www.indexmundi.com/commodities/?commodity=diesel), so about $500.

The energy density of the diesel is about 13% higher than the bunker (https://people.hofstra.edu/geotrans/eng/ch8en/conc8en/energy...).

Assuming identical efficiency (no clue on this point), you would end up paying about 50% more for the same amount of "energy." We would also be dramatically increasing the worldwide demand for diesel and we'd still have the leftover residual product from refining that was previously used to fuel these ships.

50%+ margin increase on containerized shipping seems pretty significant.
FWIW, around a year ago I did the getting started videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ176FUIyIUZ1mwB-uImQ...

Can you let me know if this is the kind of thing that you're talking about?
Not a fan of the "they cost more to make than they're worth" argument. How much does it cost to make a $100 bill?

Nevertheless, we Canadians have been without pennies for a few years now. I have no complaints, just less change, which is nice.
You might be willing to pay $20/mo, but how much do you think Tesla would be willing to pay to increase their range by 5%?
The run configurations let you check a box that drops you into the interpreter console afterwards. If you install iPython, it will be used. Is that describing what you're looking for?
Triggering mass immigration.
What about the M54? It looks like it would fit into a suitcase here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davy_Crockett_(nuclear_device)...
If you install iPython into your project interpreter, it will be used.
> The number of challenges to Harry Potter has risen to 646 in 2000 from 472 in 1999

> The OIF estimates that less than 25% of all challenges are actually reported.

646/.25 is 2584/year, round it up to 5000/year. Not "many millions".
I don't think that is something reasonable people can disagree on.

A desire to reduce abortions is one thing. Feeling that means contraceptives should be illegal is another.
> There’s a good reason why U.S. drug prices are so much higher than what people pay in other countries. Most other developed nations place limits on how much drug companies can charge to prevent them from taking advantage of the sick. A fair profit is fine. Price gouging is not.

Ok so what is happening here if it's not clear is this. People in the US are subsidizing so that people in those countries don't pay as much. Point being if people in the US paid the same price (in theory) the drug companies wouldn't make enough money to support their operations. As a result prices would rise for everyone and drugs in the US would cost less. I guess it's to simple for our government to enact some kind of 'most favored nation' clause whereby the discounts given to other countries must be given here. My guess is that that doesn't happen simply because it works in the favor of the drug companies (who will lobby) to have the current system.
(I'm the PyCharm Developer advocate.) You're right, we need to do some thinking regarding a project's "environment". It's something we're talking about now.
We already put people into feedback loops of administrative fines, and jail. You really think this would play out differently? Without incarceration, how exactly do you propose to collect your money? Once you figure that out, be sure to tell all of the parents looking to collect from deadbeats your secret, they need it!
The tone of this article is so strange. Seems like the author is almost surprised that a conservative would be opposed to civil asset forfeiture.

This position would be almost foundational to anyone who leans libertarian or conservative. You don't take people's stuff without justification.
Pi-hole is great, but there's no reason to dedicate an entire instance to it (assuming you have other uses for one) -- the resources used on my RPi 3 are negligible.
The choice is not 3 or 3,000,000.

Further, many homes ban HP without making a big stink about it.
laughfactory's point is that there are no nukes that actually fit into enclosure that one could call "suitcase".
There are a lot of people who work in the city but feel they need a house to raise a family. Unless you're making $400k+ a year, that leaves suburbia as the only option in my city.
Not that I believe you think it is, but this isn't exactly a startling new idea.

The same forces described in the article are also responsible for lobbying against simplicity in general.

There is a whole giant industry that would go away in a puff of smoke (or at least be drastically reduced) if individual taxes weren't unnecessarily complex.
There was also massive, almost institutionalized cheating on the proficiency tests to babysit the nukes at Malmstrom AFB. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/28/us/air-force-fires-9-offi...
Is there something similar for Javascript?
We (the US) managed to pack one into an 6" artillery shell that weighed 118 lbs (or 128lbs for the second version) - the W48 [1].

That's much smaller than a suitcase. Heavy, sure, but quite a bit smaller than the carry-on suitcase I was lugging around last week, and I've got a small one compared to the monstrosities that are considered to be carry-on sized now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W48
I saw this pic of an old playground and it's pretty damn alarming: http://dallaslibrary2.org/dallashistory/photogallery/images/...

Though, I spent my youth playing unsupervised in the Appalachian woods, climbing trees, getting stung by numerous types of bugs, falling out of trees, stepping over snakes, touching poison ivy, swimming in rivers, getting splinters, accidently cutting myself with knives, machetes, axes, & hatchets and I had practically no "bad" injuries (no broken bones or hospital trips)... a few close calls though.
They were guillotined 72 years ago today. And they deserve remembering
well, of course. imagine you are a business and the govmt could change a law and put you out of business. wouldn't you put as much money as you could into preventing that change?
this is why money in politics causes problems...
I used to think this way but now that I have kids, I get the appeal of Suburbia.
We'll need Darwin Bark spiders for the good stuff.
At what point is the nickel not worth the effort to keep around as well? It might be easier to sell everyone on the idea of rounding to the nearest 10 cents to keep prices nice and even.
I don't really think so. F# and Haskell are WAY more expressive and compact than JavaScript.
And they have probably among the best statically typed systems out there.
I guess you didn't use many languages in your career if you are in awe of JavaScript expressiveness..
On what grounds do you dispute the figure?
You would think that's the case, but the Republican Party in the US is allegedly the conservative one and has been the one pushing for more CAF:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/bc.marfeel.com/amp/www.national...
The problem is that every individual provision is popular with one group or another.

But we could move to a system like the UK has where taxes are calculated for you and if you don't have contractor income you don't even need to file. But this would need changes to things like the Married Filing Jointly status.
Yes the tx rate is increasing: https://blockchain.info/charts/n-transactions?daysAverageStr...

It never was 7 tps. 7 is the theoretical maximum (assumes the tx had only 1 input.) In practice Bitcoin never achieves this because the average tx has multiple inputs.

"...tells you what conclusion it's going to come to"

You have to examine the presented facts, not the messenger. This blog is mine, and I think I present decent evidence that it's not wasteful. You have to look at the whole picture, ie. the Bitcoin economy lead to $1+ billion invested in 729+ companies, etc... Investing x megawatt in a system that produces investments and jobs is hardly a "waste".
The persistence of the penny is a symptom, in my view, of just how apathetic and dysfunction the political system is at every level. It's a small annoyance, with a small fix that has been done by other countries with good results. That it isn't done is largely just a matter of people not participating in the process at all, and congress not really doing their job.

It's a small thing, but then, so is a canary in a coal mine. This penny thing has been an irritant for years, and the things presaged by accepting that are starting to emerge... like failing infrastructure.
That doesn't mean that:

1) it's not a luxury
2) that medical providers will pass the savings on to consumers
Also, this is arguably the most corrupt aspect of medical pricing. Putting these sociopathic predators under the thumb of good governance satisfies a moral as well as an economic desire.
Technology wlll replace 90% of All Workers in the US (mid. 1800s)
I've got an Elixir app running as a daemon to manage cleaning up some certain build related files for a build system. The daemon is a release started by the init system. N clients might call the daemon, and the daemon makes sure the files needed for the build, or maybe left over from the last build, or in the correct state. The client could talk to the daemon via a socket or TCP port, but distributed Erlang would also be an option.
All people who write code are programmers.

But some programmers are also engineers. Most notably, those who architect systems and invent new technologies.
>> why not just wait until A otherwise

1) For a VC: more performance info / better access to the A.

2) For an angel: most angels won't have access to the A, so seed rounds are their chance to invest early in a potentially VC track company.
Great idea in theory, but hard to implement. Tax breaks were often created for a reason. Take them away, and that special interest group will try to protect it and lobby to keep it in place.
If I were to run ZFS on my laptop with a single disk and copies=1, and a file becomes corrupted, can I recover it (partially)?

My assumption is the read will fail and the error logged but there is no redundancy so it will stay unreadable.

Will ZFS attempt to read the file again, in case the error is transient? If not, can I make ZFS retry reading? Can I "unlock" the file and read it even though it is corrupted, or get a copy of the file? If I restore the file from backup, can ZFS make sure the backup is good using the checksum it expects the file to have?

Single disk users seem to be unusual so it's not obvious how to do this, all documentation assumes a highly available installation rather than laptop, but I think there's value in ZFS even with a single disk - if only I understood exactly how it fails and how to scavenge for pieces when it does.
... or simply subscribe to Ad Free Time for $1.99 /pm

https://adfreetime.com/
4U solar banks (each one fits over four, or some multiple, of containers). Cuts the annoyance down a bit.
Uh. My ZFS-backed BSD NAS also has the hostname 'alexandria'.
Also, everyone wants a simpler tax code except for the parts that benefit them. Few economists think the mortgage interest deduction is a good idea, but try telling that to homeowners.
I challenge you to a game of International Warfare.

You get the truck, and I get the nuclear warhead. Sound fair?
Infidelity / Couples Psychology
I would be very interested to know how much of this is caused by a change in housing preference v/s a change in the nature of employment/wages for millennials. When you had reasonable expectation that your job would last for several years, you are more willing to invest in building up equity in a suburban home/community.

Also, the no.1 reason why people seem to want to move to suburbs is children (IMO, anecdotal etc.)... perhaps the falling fertility is making married/live-in couples more willing to live in a dense, urban communities?
Yes, several countries have done away with the smallest denomination. Nothing to miss about carrying less coins around

But the $1 bill really ought to be a coin instead
Typically conservative values stop at the law and order stuff.
Accidental detonation can include, "Sir, we have indications of multiple Russian launches!"... followed by ~15-45 minutes to decide it it's a glitch, or the end of the fucking world.

It has happened before, but fortunately without the detonation.
I prefer a 0.5-1.0 acre lot to a lot slightly bigger than the footprint of the house it contains.

I prefer to have the privacy that's afforded by having my house set 40' back from the street, with plenty of space between my and my neighbors' homes, rather than living in a house that abuts, or is 6 feet away, from my neighbors'.

I prefer a spacious driveway and an attached, heated, two car garage, to parking on the street a block from my house, and having to dig my car out after a snowstorm.

I prefer to own a home that was built during or since the 1950s, when Romex wiring was original equipment, rather than own something that still has knob and tube wiring with decaying fabric insulation.

I prefer a home built with drywall or rock lathe and plaster, over one built with wood lath and plaster.

I've found that most pre-1910 homes I've examined do not have foundations or basements to my liking.

I prefer to live in an area where I can leave my doors unlocked and my windows open at night without giving it a second thought. Or where, if I leave the house and realize I left the front door unlocked, I don't feel compelled to go back and lock it.

I prefer to live in an environment where junkies and bums are virtually nowhere to be seen, rather than an environment where I have to be careful not to step in human feces when I walk between two parked cars.

When I can get all that affordably in the city, I'll consider moving back.
Ah, I didn't know the correct english name. Thanks. :-)
Using a public server instance would seem less likely a cost/resource savings than a convenience factor if you are adblocking on mobile platforms (linked article was mostly focused on adblocking for an Android phone, presumably one that will be used on-the-go and not just at home).

Setting up an at-home RPi solution is probably possible for most people but a lot more cumbersome dealing with inbound server tunneling (which may technically be forbidden by their ISP), dynamic IP services, etc.
Little boxes, on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky-tacky...

You know, it's funny. Some cities are trying to quickly build out higher-density apartment buildings in/near the downtown areas, and from what I've seen the same concept applies. I'd love to see some of those fancy mini-arcologies spring up, but really the boxes are just a bit bigger (or smaller, depending on how you look at it.)

I do hope that malls become very cheap real estate before long; I think it's already happening in some places. I would just love to buy what is essentially a cheap, empty, commercially-zoned warehouse and stuff it full of things like laser tag, arcades and e-sports, a couple of lounge areas and coffee shops/bars depending on the time of day...but I doubt you could make something like that work without very cheap square footage and a lot of people within a 30-45 minute drive.
15.5 cents

https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/currency_12771.htm
If you do take ibuprofen, be aware that you probably need to also take extra B vitamins. It is known to deplete a specific B vitamin. A quick google suggests it is B12, but I suggest you do some research of your own to confirm that.

I took daily ibuprofen for years. It is commonly prescribed for my condition. My need for B vitamins plummeted when I finally got off of it.
I bet you were fun in college. Good-spirited pranks don't warrant jail time.
All he said was that they refunded the guy, seems like information that is pretty OK to share publicly especially in response to the claim that their customer support was terrible. In addition to that the person who commented shared a large amount of information about the support ticket themselves so it seems like they are fine with sharing at least that much information about this case.

All-in-all this hardly seems like a reason to feel "violated"...
And you can get cash into paypal without a bank account at all.

For instance, https://www.paypal-cash.com/index.html
Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro are considered a bit less safe than these others, but compared to some places in the US, every single country is very, very safe.
Wow. What next?
From that point of view, I'd suggest that the current problem isn't really the destruction of gatekeepers but rather swapping one set of mostly positive external influences (such as traditional journalists with strong professional ethics and critical reporting standards, and genuine expert commentators) for another much less positive set (such as online services that provide communications for the masses, but not in a neutral way, and media spin doctors as commentators).

You mentioned Brexit and Trump, which are case studies in the way people can be influenced by political campaigners, but I find a lot of the criticism of both of those results to be one-sided. After all, it's not as if the official Remain campaign in the UK or the Clinton campaign in the US were telling the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth either. However, there's less to be gained by fact-checking the losing side once the result is in.

Another recent example that I find more interesting is last week's UK budget. Much has been made of the announced rise in National Insurance rates for self-employed people. It's a controversial issue, because some people do exploit the tax system to pay less than they should by changing their employment status, but also because a lot of people who have never been self-employed themselves really don't understand how it works and tend to leap to conclusions that are objectively wrong. Sadly, rather than starting a potentially useful debate about different ways of working, different levels of risk/reward, and how the tax system should treat them, what has started is a discussion about how the party in power lied (because they gave a manifesto commitment before the last election not to raise the rate for this particular tax), and who can be made to fall on their sword this time to serve the entirely political purposes of who else.

In all of these cases, I think we would have been better off if we'd had a culture that fostered open debate and welcomed but looked critically at advice from those who might have more knowledge or understanding of any given subject. There are a lot of ways we could achieve that, but none of them involve communication channels that seek to influence which messages get through to promote a particular side of the debate. That threat is, in my view, even more serious than politicians who are blatantly lying, because we know some politicians lie a lot and can be sceptical accordingly, but without access to other information as well that scepticism might not make much difference anyway.
"network access" is not the same as "Internet access". It seems pedantic, but there are very large networks with no connectivity to the Internet.
Same old same old: show me a doctor who doesn't want you to be sick. Show me a lawyer who doesn't want you to get in trouble with law. Show me a priest who doesn't want you to sin.

It just blows my mind up to what degree TurboTax will go with this!
If you want something even cheaper, check out https://www.time4vps.eu/pricing/#!

If you purchase a 512MB RAM machine for two years it is €0.99/month!
>Simplify the tax code so anyone can do theirs on an index card.

Aim higher.

In the UK, your employer informs the government about your wages and HMRC figures out how much you paid and whether it's the correct amount. And if you want you can check the numbers.

In other countries it's basically the same but you have to log into the e-government portal to click 'yes, the values you have are correct'.

Obviously if your finances are more complicated then you need to file; but it's not very difficult.
Ask HN: As an app developer, what continuity plans can I offer?
Besides the one-off project pricing model, I'm looking to offer a continuity plan to customers. As a mobile app dev, what kind of plans can I offer at what monthly rate?
GP condemned the channers' game by calling it "an intimidation campaign to shutdown free speech" and "shutting down political speech they disagreed with." You are allowed to fly a nazi flag in the US. Are you actually saying you're OK with the suppression of completely legal, non-violence inciting speech you disagree with? That is the entire crux of GP's point.
I find Chrome to be faster than Firefox with uBlock on my Android device.
Humans have taken tools and industry to a whole new level, but there's nothing unnatural about that; it doesn't make us an "abnormal" species, whatever that means. But this is something well beyond just "the next step." We're directly and consciously changing our own genetic code. This is also not unnatural, but it represents an existential threat.

> Who knows where it'll go, but homo sapiens isn't equipped to be space-faring or even survive on this planet beyond a few billion years.

So? I don't see how that's an argument for human genetic engineering. If we want to perpetuate life throughout the universe for some reason, we can send probes loaded with microbes, maybe even advanced probes that can incubate more advanced animal and plant species to create an ecosystem. In your scenario, humanity is presented with its extinction through either natural causes or by being the architect of its own destruction. I'd prefer the former.