skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An idea is worth next to nothing unless you're the first to come up with it AND execute it.
> It's not tied to their work specifically, but it is some sort of arrangement where it is to some extent conditional upon their needs

the irs is going to see employees, subject to all the normal rules, and the city is going to see weird mixed commercial/residential property with strange density, and get all up in a fit.

don't get me wrong, i'd like to see you succeed, and i think the world needs some similar things, up and down the scale of a person's ability to handle the world. but there's a whole lot of bureaucracy that doesn't already have a form for what you want to do, and so will oppose it simply out of reflex.

(which is why i think your legal bills will be significant)
I think it's asinine "free market" religious nonsense. If we had done this ~100 years ago with phones being rolled out to rural areas, the free market would have said pay $1000 a month for phone service. Instead the government forced everyone to pay a subsidy so it'd be cheaper in rural areas, and even cheaper for poor people anywhere including cities.

No one complained about this.

So now the idea is privacy is a commodity to be purchased, and freedom from ads is a commodity to be purchased. It's every man for himself, that leads to more distrust, less cooperation, and more acrimony and I think it's incompatible with a civil society. This classist variety of Republican/conservative/capitalist - whatever label to put on it - is vile. It's neo-aristocracy, and it's anti-democratic.
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It's the only viable fix we have currently, and if I were elected god king of a nation I would push initiatives to build not only enough capacity with atomic power to meet demand but excess to keep costs very low.

People are worried about automation, the nation that can cheaply power automated factories and server farms in the future will prosper.
You raise an interesting point. I'd recommend shooting the HN team an email about making use of canonical URLs for de-duping. mailto:hn@ycombinator.com
Exactly, but the use cases for it cannot be easily put into obviously delimited things. There are use cases where Redis is a good fit as a primary database, and use cases where it should not be used even if data is ephemeral, to make an example. The right applications depend on the exact problem, and even problems that are not a fit can be re-stated so that they become good enough for Redis, and similarly, problems that in theory are a great fit can be mis-implemented easily. As I said IMHO it's a matter of understanding how Redis works exactly... in order to make great choices both in applying it or not, and how to apply it.
PHP is stateless. You don't get to keep connections across requests.
Yes it is science illiteracy. It's being blind to a much larger diffuse harm in the face of some concentrated but much smaller harm.

It's arguably the most harmful kind of science illiteracy because it has the biggest impact on public policy. Everything from people opposing mandatory seat belt laws, to being overly concerned about e.g. genetically modified food or cell phone tower radiation.

I'm sure you mean well, but really, people who hold exactly the opinion you hold are in the aggregate the reason for literally millions of deaths that didn't need to happen worldwide since WWII.

We had all the data to indicate that burning fossil fuels was causing massive diffuse harm, nuclear was realistically the only alternative in most cases, but people didn't go for it because they were afraid, even though all the science showed that there was little to worry about in comparison to what we were already doing.

Sure someone installed a reactor backwards, but how are minor incidents like these at all relevant compared to literally tens to hundreds of thousands of deaths per year because we keep using the alternative?
This is how we do it in New Hampshire. It works fine here too.

Perhaps the problem is scale? New Hampshire is one of the smaller states, and the UK is obviously quite a bit less populous than the US.

Or perhas it's just a need for instant gratification. There's a reason New Hampshire was one of the last states to be called this year.
It depends on the timescales of the predicted problems. I believe the studies predicted choppy waters whilst the UK divorces from the EU (short to medium term) which in my view is likely. However that's not the same as saying that leaving the EU is in principle bad for the economy.

Secondly there are plenty of economists that think Brexit will work out fine but that is a somewhat unfashionable view so they keep their heads down. Such is the nature of groupthink.

What is it exactly that you think will cause the UK's economic demise?
Would you say the same things about executives as you did about unions? There have been a few failures of companies and industries at their hands as well.
figured it out:

1. Add the following in my .zshrc file:
export PATH="$(yarn global bin):$PATH"

2. "yarn global remove [package-name]" then "yarn global add [package-name]"
Scary. How long this pattern continued? The owner of the firm wasn't aware of these sode effects?
Brexit: Things to Do Before the UK Is Out
How to act like you're bright
Instead of using a VPN I think I'm just going to create a script that randomly requests various websites 24/7. So don't cut off the signal to your ISP just drown it in a lot of meaningless noise
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Living in a world where technology seems outdated after 3-4 years, having reactors reliably serving up power for several decades is kind of amazing.

On the other hand, this does keep the number of people in the industry small. Sure, demonization of the power source, and regulatory standards that inhibit the development of new technologies also help, but it seems like this would be a problem regardless.

I've always wondered what the demand/pay is for engineers looking to enter the nuclear industry is like.
Am I the only one that when I hear about retreats wonders how much it costs per employee, and given the same situation would rather have that money in my pocket?
Trust me, the only people with pre-birth control nostalgia are misguided men who are still alive because a) they didn't die in childbirth and b) don't have to have a period every month. I suppose you think that life before the polio vaccine was better too because not winding up in an iron lung is an accomplishment and how DARE someone just get a small needle in the arm without having to put in years to avoid dying a slow, paralytic death?
I am a midwest Obama voter who voted for Trump. I don't like anything about him in all honestly. I voted quite literally because of Assange. I followed each leak that was dropped religiously and had a lot of fun bonding with others who searched through them on various reddit boards uncovering information.

All this is to say that generalizations like the one you made are almost never correct, and never tell the whole story. I voted for Bernie in the primary.

Acting like the subcategory I'm in doesn't exist and only furthers misunderstanding of the various complex social systems that were at play in this election creating the outcome.
I like the apply for jobs with json ;)
So, on the one hand we can have effective legislation right now over reasonably well-defined privacy concerns.

On the other hand, we can work for a decade to introduce regulation over the hard-to-define concept of an ISP monopoly, and then spend more decades going through the inevitable break-up and re-conglomeration of these entities under different forms, like we had with the telcos through the last half of the 20th century. In 50 years we may have a landscape that resembles that of the current cellular carriers: three or four large players in most metro areas, fewer rural options, and little real choice among them in terms of QoS or T&C. I suppose this would represent a slight improvement over the status quo?

This is the problem with so many free-market proposals, they would have you off tilting at windmills instead of directly addressing a fairly straightforward problem.
You're citing a self-interested source. That's a nuclear industry trade association. Sort of like asking the Tobacco Industry Association about the healthfulness of cigarettes.
VPNs do that so long as ISPs don't inhibit, block, deprioritize, or charge extra for traffic that isn't over known protocols that they can mine for salable data; which, given that the same political actors that oppose the FCCs Privacy Report and Order also oppose the Open Internet Report and Order that prohibits that action means that VPNs may not long be an effective mitigation of the policy problem, because of an intimately linked policy problem.
"After all, accounting used to be done by hand". Picture of keypunches and an IBM 402 or 403 tabulator. That's machine accounting. Nobody's using an abacus or doing pencil and paper arithmetic.

There's a recent estimate that about 50% of jobs are automateable with current technology. The future is already here; it's just not evenly distributed. Strong AI is still a ways off, but mechanization and computerization of work is coming very fast.

The next big milestone is probably not strong AI. It's good eye-hand coordination for robots. Robot manipulation in unstructured environments still sucks. Baxter was a flop. (Rethink Robots, Rod Brooks's company: invested capital, $115 million; sales, $20 million.) Universal Robots in Denmark is doing better, but they're tiny, about $3M in profit. Nobody can build a robot to do an oil change on a car. That problem should be solveable with current technology.

Figure out how to handle cloth with a robot and you own the textile industry. China's government is putting money into that problem to fight off competition from Vietnam and Bangladesh.
Leaving the ECHR is however the stated policy of the current UK government, and leaving the EU will allow it to actually do so.
You're right: selling the data would be selling the golden goose. Instead the data is milked for all it's worth by pimping it out to advertisers.
Poverty has been shown to have a significant effect on IQ - about the same amount as alcoholism according to a study a few years ago:

http://www.businessinsider.com/poverty-effect-on-intelligenc...
They're pretty much the same thing from the employee's perspective. Unless my human capital is appreciating somehow (improving skills, leadership opportunities, better networking, etc.) then I'm lowering my profits when I take a lower salary.
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The problem with the sunset feature is if you're playing a game it absolutely destroys the FPS I get. Unfortunately I think the shortest interval is 20seconds, which is a pretty long time to be playing a competitive game that stutters.
Any recommendations for a secure, fast and reliable VPN service? I'm in the US. Use would be for privacy, especially in the face of yesterday's vote.
I've got some bad news about hydro dams for you.

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

> 1,917 deaths

> 26,000 dead from flooding, 145,000 dead from subsequent famine and epidemics, 11 million homeless.

> 1800 - 25000 people killed

> 75 fatalities, due to turbine failure

There's also the part where we have tapped out the Earth's exploitable hydro capacity. Hydro output is expected to grow by ~20% by 2050. [1]

Unfortunately, it needs to grow by ~200%, if we want it to replace even half of the electricity currently generated by coal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroelectricity#Future_potent...
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Pollution from fossil fuels kills relatively quickly. Pollution from nuclear fuels remains dangerous for thousands of years. The deadliness of all forms of power depend strongly on regulations.

The jury is still out on which will kill more in the end. Though so far nuclear is looking really, really good.

See https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d... for some statistics on how dangerous things are so far.
Try hiring people outside US. You would be surprised how many decent developers there are in other countries.
That itself is not a strong argument against nuclear power - because the exact same thing happens in every industry. If you look around carefully - at your workplace, at the shop you buy your food in, at the construction workers building that block nearby - you'll find staggering amount of fraud and incompetence almost everywhere. It actually makes one wonder how our increasingly complex world still somewhat works.

So keeping in mind that incompetence and fraud are commonplace and not something industry-specific, you have to consider what the numbers tell you about the safety of each option, and those numbers turn out to favour nuclear energy. Keep in mind that those statistics implicitly take into account all that incompetence and fraud you're worried about.
[a,b,... indicates individual lines in the file. Shuffling fragments of array elements seems silly, of course.

Swapping the order of two functions seems like an important thing for diff to do.
Always happy to clarify!

My logic is roughly this:

1. The comment I replied to was talking about harms to health by being sedentary.

2. A lot of people on HN are young professionals with desk jobs, which at first glance seems more sedentary than most service jobs.

3. I thought it would be enlightening to realize that many of those service jobs can cause one to be more sedentary than a desk job. If I had not experienced it myself, I would not have considered this.
A lot of sex happens outside of trusting relationships. The woman with whom I lost my virginity tried to trick me into being the father for a child that wasn't mine. It most likely isn't representative but as a polyamorous man, with financial stability, I can assure you that a lot of women I've met would gladly have an "accident" with me. I sleep easier knowing I had a vasectomy.
In the meantime, in real world nuclear decommissioning currently increases the dependence on fossil fuels, and so every nuclear plant decommissioned in practice has a significant cost in lost lives from fossil fuels.

E.g. Germany's rush towards decommissioning after Fukushima has had a massively detrimental effect in Europe for this reason.

The death toll as a direct result of fearmongering against nuclear is by this point likely to be far larger than the total death toll of all nuclear incidents. If we hadn't had nuclear in first place, the cost in lives lost to other forms of plants would have been far greater than that again.
I had the same attitude. What changed my mind were two documentaries:
1) Pandora's promise
2) Thorium remix
How about instead of making all sorts of dumb websites, and diversity programs, they just HIRE a diverse crowd and PAY them fairly?
The stratechery guy is smart and is articles seems in depth analysis ,and he seem to know his business stuff, but whenever it's articles meet hacker news , they see lots of criticism , especially with his understanding of technical matters.
> The best chip out of Intel can’t fly, ... , can’t dogfight,

It can https://www.google.pl/amp/www.popsci.com/amp/ai-pilot-beats-...
Obviously words are a lot cheaper than action, but it's at least a small consolation that the current Government, for all its varied faults, remains a pretty globalist and free-trade one (despite being responsible for one of the most protectionist and nationalist actions in the last century).

Which is to say that I don't think the nationalist right-wing will be mollified entirely by the exit negotiations. If the UK had the equivalent of a Front Nationale government leading Brexit right now I'd find that much more worrisome.
It's not a solution for one simple reason: policymakers can create a "policy" that simply makes them illegal. They don't have to defeat them on technological grounds.
I think what most people usually miss when dismissing the "condoms fail" argument is that while it's indeed unlikely that condoms literally break if properly used (they're stress tested to ensure a ridiculous level of quality so while possible that's still extremely rare) "user error" is not exactly unlikely. It's also extremely likely that user errors will be reported as condom failures instead.
The author confuses labor with purpose. Praxis can be purpose, but not all labor is meaningful.

Humans have always struggled to find meaning in life, from religion to existentialism. I don't think technology has or will change that fundamentally.
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what's a good vpn software to install on a server?
Not all meetings are for deciding on action items. Sometimes you have to meet so that everyone is exposed to the same information at the same time. Sometimes, you meet to decide action items, even if everyone already knows what the action items are, so that people know that their input was factored into the action item.

And yes, sometimes you have meetings so you can waste time/spread the blame/look busy.
Russia can only do what they can do, that's not the scandal. If you have members of the Trump campaign openly working together with them, they need to go to jail.
> How many will care if artificial intelligence destroys life if it has already destroyed meaning?

This line sounds deep, but I think it incorrectly conflates work with life having meaning. If eventually there isn't a need for large swaths of the population to work, then so what? I don't think the elite aristocrats in previous centuries had any problem with not working. Humanity can adapt to find other sources of meaning, like the pursuit of art in its various forms (although I'm assuming that computers can't replace art). I think a better question is if society can adapt quick enough to fill the void left by the absence of work.
> It's hard to describe how a good salesman can have you saying yes to things you aren't comfortable with.

I recommend a book that describes some of these tricks pretty well. It helps protect me from such manipulation (some of the time):

https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Rober...
Postmodernism and its impact, explained
> This works well in companies where managers don't have a lot of imagination and who's first reaction is to fire staff when the going gets tough.

Not really that's US-style or French-style management and the result is hard clashes between labour and management.
I think the effect that the leaks had on the election is very overstated. It seems much more plausible to me that Hillary was a bad candidate who ran a poor campaign. She played up her "experience" even while Trump received his party's nomination for not being a Washington insider. She has the charisma of a moldy onion. She had her husband meet with the Attorney General at an airport while she was being investigated by the FBI, who subsequently decided not to prosecute her. She half heartedly campaigned in several important states that ultimately decided the election. I could go on, but the point is that Hillary "hacked" her own election.
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No, the OP is correct about it. The narrative being presented is muddying the issue. They're not out there to convince you, me, or most of HN, who I'm assuming are literate or informed individuals. They're out there trying to convince the low-information voter, cast doubt, and generally give them enough mental-ammo to convince themselves that their preferred vote is the "right" one objectively.
Another view is that this demonstrates that the plants are engineered to be safe enough that despite these types of mistakes, incompetence and fraud, nuclear costs far fewer lives than the alternatives.
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This argument, applied to any industry, is so tired by now.

Yes, a VPN company caught selling info would crash and burn. The invisible hand would ensure this, etc etc. But only if they got caught, and even then it's not like there would be any actual legal punishment (outside of a lawsuit if they were contractually obligated to not sell the info, I guess). And if selling that info meant double the profits, I doubt the owners who were willing to lie to their customers would feel all that bad or embarrassed. They'd probably also be shameless enough to re-brand.

And all that is ignoring the fact that with VPNs privacy becomes a privilege only to people who can a.) afford it and b.) understand how to use it. And finding a VPN that won't sell your info on the side requires the time and know-how to research it, not to mention even considering that a VPN might sell your info requires interacting with news orgs or people who might bring this concept up.

Chalk this up as another "HN readers don't realize most people don't read HN", color me surprised.
Out of interest, which EV do you own?
Two points:

1) The fact in a latter comment you seem to have priced yourself out of being unable to afford this service doesn't make it not worth while

2) I imagine if you're looking at 500k rps you probably qualify for an enterprise level plan where you'd have a sit down chat and negotiate terms rather than just extending the pricing linearly.
Several different species, really. The UAW is at least as dissimilar to the Screen Actors Guild as it is from Audi's union.
This is why I'm kinda getting on board Courtland Allen's belief in indie startups. They're a counter reaction to that unicorn obsession of the current startup world. And the developer and entrepreneurial ecosystem is now such that launching and running small, competent businesses with useful products/services is easier than ever.

In other words, yes, the ecosystem is starving out traditional startups. But it seems like it's making a breeding ground for indie startups. They don't suffer the cost of a $350k/yr salary, which gives them a nice advantage.
> I think federalism is a good idea because, at the end of the day, I want to be ruled by a government that represents my community, not some abstract mass of people.

What size do you think is the best for a democracy then? 10,000 people? 1000,000? The US is as big as the EU and certainly has a lot more centralized legislation.

So many issues today (taxes, trade, environmental protection, immigration, etc.) involve very large groups of people (if not all people), and so it really makes sense to have a body of representatives from all those people together. Some issues may only affect the local community (however big that is) and so of course the local community can take care of those.
Wired became infamous for their "Here's the thing with Ad Blockers" modal:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CeqLfB5WIAAPZZh.jpg
https://www.wired.com/how-wired-is-going-to-handle-ad-blocki...

However, either they've removed it or uBlock is currently winning the blocker blocker fight since I actually can read that article (I hadn't tried.)
Most Asian and European people have neanderthal DNA.
I wrote an NES emulator. There's a background color, a scrollable background tile-map[0], and 64 hardware sprites, which can each be drawn either on top of or below the background.

The hardware itself doesn't even contain a framebuffer; calculating palette effects and compositing the background and sprite layers into a final image is done by the hardware in realtime, 1 pixel at a time, and fed to the video output pin.

However, many game cartridges actually had RAM to store their graphic tiles in, rather than a set group of tiles in ROM. Graphics would be stored within the program code and transferred byte-by-byte into the PPU's (Picture Processing Unit, aka the GPU's) memory space. Legend of Zelda worked this way, along with a lot of other well-known games. Look at Elite for an example of the NES emulating a framebuffer using that method to render 3D polygons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoBIOi00sEI

[0] The background has 4 screens worth of area in a 2x2 screen grid, and increments addresses during rendering to simulate a toroidal memory space, allowing for smooth scrolling. This is a (perhaps overly) simplified explanation; things are slightly more complicated.