skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not aware of it. But you know, in some other company (don't even know which) I remember a story where after the data loss the CEO contacted the user and tried to do whatever he can including sending hard drives to speed up uploading new copies.

In my case it was 90GB, a whole single machine. The fact that they were pretty causal about it, is worrying. But I still use them for some use cases because they have unlimited storage with software for Linux, although I don't depend on them.

Quote from the support ticket:

"I have looked again for your data, but we are unable to locate the archive anywhere in our system.

I am sincerely sorry that we have let you down as there is not a reason that I can find that this data should not be here.

If there is anything that I can to for you, please do not hesitate to ask and I will do so."
Alright, I'll continue to live in my OCD fantasy world where staying in reasonable shape is normal.
Gigster sued :-o
Andreesen-Horowitz funded start-up, Gigster, led by Roger Dickey hit with 12-count lawsuit in federal court in Chicago. Can't say we didn't see this coming.
"You're making a fallacy by saying that these problems you mention are core to Marxist thought."

Nope. I recognize that "Marxist thought" doesn't specifically advocate such things.

Nonetheless, those things always happen.

So far the scorecard is about Murderous Hellhole: 100, Utopia:0.

Usually one only needs to be burned once or twice before deciding that touching a hot stove is a bad idea, even if that glowing burner does look really pretty.
I reserve the right to respond to what people say. Commenting on the accuracy of a label is worthwhile regardless of whether the label was meant to be precise or loose.
Since some people have been bringing it up in this discussion, the K language was developed by Arthur Whitney[1], not Ursula Le Guin.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K_(programming_language)
America is already finished.

In my country, you can work in a warehouse. You get job security, full health coverage, and 18 per hour. There are worker safety regulations that actually get followed, regular breaks, shade, and ppe provided if you're working with dangerous chemicals. You're not out in the sun all day. The US agricultural industry can't provide any of this. Why would anyone work for them if they weren't a poor immigrant planning to take their wages back to Mexico, where 16 is at least a living wage?
I work at an academic hospital, and I've seen how the incentives drive policy. Frankly, it's terrifying.

> Nobody at an academic hospital makes money every time you get sick.

Of course they do! Every time you go in for treatment, they make money, and there only incentives for preventative care come from government/Medicare mandates (e.g. hospital readmissions, ACOs.)

Let me color the picture a bit more vividly. At a public pitch competition within the university, a department head--and judge of the competition--laughed at an ML start up: "you do realize we make money from the procedures you're trying to prevent."

> Discharging patients is a high priority.

Hospitals are often penalized for long stays by insurance.

> Doctors are constantly trying to figure out how to do preventative care with the sorts of "frequent flyer" patients that tie up emergency rooms and hospital beds.

Aside from tying up resources, high-utilizers can't afford to pay for services and the hospitals treat them at a massive loss. Naturally, a hospital would like to free up these resources for patients who can pay.

> It's doctor as antagonist.

I never said this, and nor do I believe this. Doctors are victims of this system. I even made the point that doctors hate the EHR because it's been warped by hospital administrators into a billing-centric machine with umpteen documentation requirements at every turn.

For this reason, many who went into medicine for altruistic reasons end up disenchanted with the health system that's been wrecked by those running the business.
To be fair, dd was mostly a toungue in cheek reference to the overly baroque JCL command for IBM mainframes.
I am probably in the minority, but I hate remote teams. I have worked with remote teams in various timezones all my life and it has pretty much destroyed any semblance of love of work that I had. Calls in the mornings, calls in the evenings, lack of white boarding capabilities, not able to quickly tap on the shoulder and ask a question, not able to have team outings or in promptu happy hours etc. has exhausted me. I am now looking for a job with a 100% local team.
> Where did Marx and Engels write about 100M dead bodies?

More to the point, where did Marx and Engels write about narrow vanguardism instead of broad class consciousness, bypassing capitalism rather than moving forward from it, or any of the other central points of Leninism, which (and not Marxism) is the common ideology shared by the people responsible for those 100 million dead bodies?

The only people trying to put Marxism, rather than Leninism, into effect have been in developed capitalist (and now, in part due to their efforts, post-capitalist mixed) economies.
> 3. I assume that the employees' salaries are then adjusted for COL (this is the crux). This presents an arbitrage between the $10k and salary adjustment.

The bryanh has said they don't adjust salaries post-move, theough I imagine future raises/bonuses might not be as competitive as elsewhere in the bay area e.g. another you might might have taken to stay in the bay area.
I don't know if I can do it, but I will say:

1. I am in a tiny out-of-the-way place, and nothing remotely like this exists here (hint: there are three meetup groups, two of which are defunct, and one of which caters to moms who want to meet with kids).

2. It doesn't have to be YC. Who else can do this kind of thing? Onemonth.com? Udacity? They don't seem to be as current as Ycombinator.
Subway seeking $210M against CBC after 'factually incorrect' chicken report
You're probably right that Ed was referring to the mean. However, Real Median Income was only $29k in 2008 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N

While Real Mean Income was $42k https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MAPAINUSA672N
Porsche Design’s expensive 2-in-1 laptop hits the FCC ahead of April release
The C/C++ memory model is also inspired by the Java memory model which dates back to the mid 90s and was updated back in 2004.
I lost a bunch of weight with calorie counting and then gained it back after 2 years. But I'm fine with that. I started losing it again recently and I've already lost about 8lbs. After you do it a few times it gets easier as your skill in it gets better and your body & mind become more resilient to being in weight loss mode.

The way I'm doing it now is so easy (subway, chipotle, trader joes & calorie counting) that I feel fine in being in a yo-yo of a slow gain of 10lbs over a year and then losing 10lbs over a month or two.

It's not a useful attitude to be fatalistic about weight loss.

I track my weight regularly to make sure weight gain doesn't creep up on me.
>Middle class kids legit can't afford to work in fast food because they need to spend their school years doing something more valuable than that.

I agree fully. Especially once you get to college, you need to start looking for internships and having more things on your resume makes you that more competitive.
Corvette vs. Mustang, the True Definition of Taking Out the Competition
The thread isn't about raytracing at all.
IMHO, The measure of successful weight loss ought to be at 7 years from the start.

There are three cycles to control: 1. the hunger cycle (short, daily), 2. the hypothalamus equilibrium (aka "set-point", 6-months+ cycle, controls inhibitions [1]), 3. the hydrocarbon cycle (i.e. 1+ year hormone release by non-flush fat cells [2]).

We also know that decisions made in the hypothalamus are responsible for energy regulation,[3] and we also know that those decisions happen before we are consciously aware of them.

In other words, the feeling of hunger and short-term control appears to be a surprisingly small portion (pardon the pun) of the dominant forces that control long-term weight - namely hormone cycles and decision making.

So while the 100lbs loss is an achievement, I'd be more interested in hearing how someone kept it off for several years – since that's presumably the ultimate goal and it requires overcoming what appear to be exponentially more difficult challenges.

(The links below touch on supporting the above, but I think I should be able to find the papers/references for all the above.)

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3084499/
[2] https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2010/...
[3] http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(14)0...
Judging from your recent comment history, I'm thinking you're a troll.
Great question. More than likely everyone has a different answer, but each person, group, nation etc... has some implicit goals. I would argue the current human goal is "reproduce successfully" as that is what is baked into our genes - I doubt that is actually optimal though.

The failed idea of a coherent extrapolated volition (CEV) that came up years ago was (roughly) the idea of using revealed preferences to understand what Humanity's goal is. This would give us a benchmark for what an AGI's goal should be.

So if you want to be able to measure the capability of an AGI in comparison to human system, you need to understand the set of goals in humanity and then compare them to the AGI outcomes.

The concept of goal direction in AGI is hugely contentious - but make no mistake there needs to be a goal if it is going to actually function at superhuman levels.
New Zealand has been nice for ages.
We need to test this - but I'm almost sure we have the latest version of each comment in BigQuery.
How much better is a Wawa than a Sheetz? When I lived in Virginia(9 years ago?) I would visit one near my work and I could order food on a screen and a few minutes later an invisible person would push it through the service window.
Do you have a source for that? They appear to be a reputable, though conservative, think-tank [1].

I cannot find a rebuttal of the author's interpretation that the 91% statistic is largely due to reclassification. The author appears reasonable. Here is a quote from him:

"The state has rightly focused most intensely on the homeless who sleep on the street and who have serious problems with mental illness and addiction. Hundreds of people have been moved from the street and shelters into housing. Whether the overall numbers have plummeted the way Utah reports should not distract from these positive steps [2]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Enterprise_Institute#...

[2] - http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865650317/Utahs-big-drop-...
Gotta get those extracurriculars and community service that colleges look for on top of getting good grades.
If you're looking to learn the basics of the stock market, play Railroad Tycoon 2 -- I can't speak for the original (didn't play it), but the sequel at least can teach you quite a bit.
EPA gives Flint $100M to help repair pipes
but the masses haven't been able to travel internationally for ages
If you use Gmail via webmail at https://mail.google.com or have a MUA like smtpmail.el in Emacs connect to smtp.gmail.com, Gmail is still sending your mail.
not sure status=progress is that obscure a command, it was added relatively recently as well (in terms of dd).
It can actually be extremely expensive if you are addicted to free to play games. There is literally no upper limit on how much you can spend in those games.
One thing I'll often use dd for is recovering data from a failing drive. Can head ignore read errors? dd can.

As far as I'm concerned, dd is lower-level than most of the other utilities and provides more control over what's happening.

The author does have a point that the syntax is strange though.
But that hasn't been common knowledge until relatively recently.
Your argument seems to imply that if an AGI tricks us into giving it the ability to destroy us, that's basically okay because its goals are "better" than human goals.

Yea that's about right.

I don't consider goals that are compatible with the destruction of humanity to be "better" than goals which are aligned with human interests.

Well of course you wouldn't, neither you nor I would possibly understand what a superhuman-AGI does or thinks.

I don't think people realize that actually creating a superhuman-AGI is effectively creating a God in all the forms that people interpret it now.
> to obscure your browsing data...it's completely fine

You prefer taking your logs away from the potentially-prying eyes of regulated ISPs and giving them to an unknown, unregulated person? Free VPNs are a medicine that's--at best--only as bad as the malady.
> It's not a useful attitude to be fatalistic about weight loss.

Nor is it useful to promise people trips to the top of Everest on a hand glider, but that's empirically what most weight loss advice entails.
Virtu is a huge market maker. They are/were 3-5% of all equity trades in the US [0]. They make $200 million a year in profit [1].

[0] https://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/VirtuOverv...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtu_Financial
>>BUT my claim is that you have MORE monopolies in (certain) unregulated markets. I can very well be wrong...do you have any evidence to that point?<<

Not to be too cheeky, but do you have any evidence to support your claim that we would have more monopolies without government intervention?

If you look back through U.S. history, how many monopolies has the government actually broken up? Not many. And I don't think anyone can seriously argue that the threat of antitrust action by the government is what has limited the existence of monopolies.

On the flip side, the government has created or protected thousands of monopolies. As the parent mentioned, virtually every city in the U.S. has granted monopolies to local service providers. On a grander scale, U.S. policy has long perpetuated monopolies for the likes of Standard Oil and U.S. Steel by imposing tariffs on foreign goods and raising barriers to entry through licensing and other regulatory hurdles.

It seems self evident to me that for at least the last 200 years U.S. governments in total have done far more to foster monopolies than they have to dismantle them.
I hit 100 lbs. overweight after Hashimoto's destroyed my thyroid. Now, on thyroid meds, I'm about 20 lbs. overweight, but it's hard to maintain even this. If I'm not careful, I can gain twenty pounds in a month without batting an eye. I've yoyo'd several times since being diagnosed.
Super Mario 64's camera system made me appreciate the R and C buttons. But as an early outing into the genre, it was impressive not to need completely manual camera control all the time.
I went from 250 to 185 (currently 183) in 7mths about 20mths ago, it's stayed off.

All I do is count my calories everyday and add 10%, if it's less than 2630 (my BMR based on age, weight and activity) I'm good.

If I go 200-300 over one day I go 200-300 under the next.

Weight has been completely stable.

It's the running total in my head that works for me as an incentive to not over eat.
That is REALLY interesting!
I'm going to spend some time reading into this!
I've been overweight for almost all of my adult life, and the level has been either steady or rising over the years (31 now).

The only thing making me loose weight was 5 month studying abroad in Ghana (I'm from Germany).

The ridiculous thing about it was: I didn't intend on loosing weight there. I ate as much as I liked whenever I liked it.
Still, I lost about 15 kg in 5 months, and I didn't even notice it until the end of the trip when another student told me that I looked like it.

What I noticed as a big difference in my habits:
* no Drive-In, no McDonald's, no Burger King, no other franchise. So, no junk eating while driving (e.g. from work)
* no fridge at the hostel (at least none you would want to use). So, no "I'm bored and will just get something from the fridge"
* I'm not a cooking person, so almost all food required walking the 5 minutes to the small market. Not a long way, but it keeps somebody like me from boredom eating
* the fucking heat =D no movement and a lot of sweating ;-)
> FTTH is a one-time expense. The maintenance cost of underground fiber shouldn't be any higher than wireless, and then you don't need to worry about spectrum or wireless line of sight obstructions or interference or any of the other problems with wireless.

Most of the country doesn't bury utilities.[1] Point to point wireless is a lot cheaper than burying fiber, and also a lot cheaper than maintaining aerial fiber that can be torn down by storms/tree branches.

[1] My fiber line hangs free from a telephone pole and is secured in the middle with a bent nail. But hey, that's one of the reasons my neighborhood in nowhere Maryland has fiber, while most of Silicon Valley does not.
It's a difficult, dangerous, unpleasant job and the wage rise they are talking about still puts it at half the average wage for workers in the state. Why would they want it?
Thinking of a new layout language to stream HTML and CSS to the browser
HTML/CSS laid out in a more reusable manner. This url(http://codeandpublish.com/) is a rough sketch (demo) of what the language would look like. You'd be able to use simple commands in conjunction with a cursor (focused DOM element) to build webpage layouts in a streamable manner.
Respecting both your disclaimer on #3 and the older date on the article, it's amazingly depressing to realize that probably most participants in a program DON'T reach their goal weight. This is saying that even of only the relative few who do reach their goal, still, the vast vast majority will not be able to maintain it.

Personal experience, I worked hard to lose about 40 pounds and keeping it off is an interminable nightmare. First, people said "oh, when you lose the weight you'll feel better and other people will treat you better..." and so on... Well I lost the weight and I don't feel any different and people don't treat me different (except for all the awkward "wow you look so different" type questions).

It feels like it's not worth it. Plus the fact that every day, day in and day out I have to struggle with limiting my calories and monitoring my weight. It just takes all the joy out of life. (Of course this is personality dependent! For me, stuffing myself with sweet, rich food until I felt like I would burst is just one of the best most satisfying feelings ever... if I could just somehow reprogram the mental pathways there......)
> You could describe literally any ideological statement as 'projecting' by that standard

Yes. It's a natural part of communication, where we model others and use those models to interpret meaning. In this case, I could have said "You're assuming too much" and it would likely have conveyed my meaning more clearly and prevented an ultimately pointless digression into what "projecting" means. That's a failure on my part.

> No solid evidence, no. But not an unreasonable hypothesis, and one that he gave the OP an opportunity to rebut. Nothing wrong with that.

I beg to differ. It pulled in an entire topic that didn't necessarily have any place in the discussion. I could make any number of assertions here that might imply my belief about your state of mind, and doing so and allowing them to be rebutted does not justify their use. For example, "do you think I'm wrong because he's black, because that's ridiculous?" With that statement, I've implied there may be some racism on your part, which is uncalled for without far more evidence, regardless of whether that's the only interpretation I can think of or not, given the little information present (a hypothetical, to be clear). In this case, the possible implication (possible only, because the interpretation allows for some ambiguity) was that tptacek might be capable of branding someone a monster purely because they support President Trump, or supported candidate Trump. If someone feels the need to discount this specific scenario, there are far clearer ways to do so while avoiding that implication. For example, pointing out the natural shortcomings in communication while interpreting someone else's statements. E.g. "Is that because of support for President Trump? I can't think of any other reason you'd call him a monster, but that seems extreme, so likely I'm just failing to see the point you're making. Care to explain?"
Couldn't there be an even stronger requirement like "obstruction-free"? I could imagine code that is "obstruction free" but which severely slows down execution for itself or other threads.
With the rollout of the Dreamliner and budget long-haul airlines, I would expect this trend to continue. Even if it is a bubble, would solving this problem not also improve infra for residents?

I guess there is a danger in building facilities that are only useful to tourists. Perhaps they should invest in hotel rooms that are either:

1) clustered near universities so that if tourism does collapse, they can be converted into dorms.

2) Easy to merge two rooms, add some fixtures, and create studio/1bed apartments.
Genetics and educational attainment
They are actually available for free on the Stanford online course website.
Seattle, and to some extent Portland, are trending in the same direction.
Do you have a link for sources 1 and 2, perchance? Also, I don't think you amortized the interest? As you pay down th bond, the interest cost goes down, so you have more to pay towards the principal...
my point is simply that many types of expression and speech are not protected by the first amendment. period. there is nothing contradictory or ironic of a journalist challenging the first amendment in court.

break it down this way: some guy literally tried to give another guy a seizure. are the means by which he tried to induce the seizure even relevant? would anyone really suggest taking action with this intent should not be punishable?

a lot of people want to say "oh but free speech...?"-- as if to imply you're free to kill someone as long as you only use words to do it.
Access to open data is growing in Detroit
It sucks your original comment was flagged - I can see how people may have thought it was a bit harsh, but it was true. You don't see how it can happen.

Speaking only for myself, it's simple: I'd never known anything different. I'm 6'2", and was ~230lb when I graduated high school. On January 9th of this year I was 318lbs, and decided to make a change.

I'm 285lbs now and still dropping a few pounds every week. My clothes are starting to fit poorly, I've had to adjust my watchband twice now, and my wedding ring will barely stay on my finger.
At least in Japan, that hasn't happened. The homeless and semi-homeless are an entirely separate group of mostly 50+ (former) construction workers and day laborers. The hikikomori-likes who cannot live with their parents stay in manga cafes that offer cheap overnight rates for a comfy chair and a PC in a booth. They need some kind of job to pay for it, but not much.
SunOS should be in there too, not exactly sure where.

-Off NET/2 or Reno probably.-

Correction, off 4.0.something or earlier.

See wikipedia.
My comment was intended to target every graphics technique, including raytracing. `N dot L x diffuse` is still used in raytracing, for example.
The NASA article discusses a deliberately simplistic model that does not consider the deflection of airflow over the top of the wing, but it would be easy to overlook the caveat if you don't already know the answer. Further down the page there is a link to a correct Newtonian flow-turning model.
And, as far as I understand, it's a story about suicide.