skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're talking about two different issues here. First is the architecture/software of a mainframe system, with all of its redundancy and scaling. Second is the issue of hosting and maintaining your own hardware. On the first issue I'll admit I don't know enough about mainframes, perhaps they provide redundancy transparently to the programmer, but I'm a bit skeptical. Perhaps you simply think the redundancy is transparent because you understand the mainframe infrastructure deeply and internalized it? The second issue I'll push back on.

If you just want to host your servers on EC2, the SLA is 99.95% uptime. So that's about 4 hours of downtime due to outage a year. Put your servers in a multi-AZ autoscaling group and you're pretty solid. Bonus points for having autoscaling groups in more than one region. If you don't want to use any of the other services AWS provides, you can simply use them as a basic hosting service and get pretty amazing uptime. I've never used an old mainframe system, can you get greater uptime than that? Including hardware failures, power outages, network outages?
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"Eliminate childhood poverty" is a lefty type of goal. It is unattainable. Instead, we should empower individuals economically and maybe more would succeed! Social programs only treat symptoms, and what is wrong all through rural America and around the world is the wealth never trickles down!
This is gambling for almost all users, and yes I used robinhood for a couple trades. Use https://stockfuse.com and you won't actually lose your money.
But the parent argument is going in the direction of "people shouldn't have the freedom to use this type of product."

No, my comment was in the direction of: "It's bad if your core business is getting unsophisticated people making trades (bets) with credit."

It's the same reason we all know it's a bad idea to give someone a 400k mortgage on an ARM when we don't know if they can pay it back or not. Great way to find yourself in a recession.
Hmm. The JPMorgan Chase building is surrounded by red squares, but for some reason the map indicates zero white collar crime there. I looked at a little town I used to live in and the whole town had one single bright red square, with the rest blank - the one red square was the location of a breakfast restaurant and some gift shops (nobody lived there.)

If there's any useful information to be gained from this map, I'm not finding it.
"Unfortunately, we live in a world where collaboration is necessary. So, what's the solution?" - There are specific examples of Deep Work collaboration in his book. Deep Work =/= No collaboration.
Snapshots are there since a while through VSS ;-)
Thanks for the translation! :)
"curricula is nowhere near as rigorous as required for engineering" this depends on the degree. For a BA that's true, for a BS less so. For a BS, the first 2 years of math and science were virtually identical for all engineering/science/CS student at my uni. That included calc1-3, plus 1-2 semesters each of the "real" physics/bio/chem classes for sicence/engineering students. After that it got a lot more specialized though we still had to take some 400 level maths with the math majors. He was just trying to say "Look I know most people who write to you can't do rudimentary physics calculations, but I most certainly can"
If you gave me a choice between running $1k through a blackjack table, or backing $1k of an unsecured loan for margin trading by a random Robinhood user, I might go for the blackjack.
>when you let algorithms optimize the shape of the legs and back of a chair; they start to resemble animal bones

Evolutionary algorithm evolves biomechanics…
interesting. the widespread dissemination of knowledge should make it easier to bootstrap ourselves up even after an apocalypse, but we certainly have tried to use up the easily accessible energy and minerals.
John Day: Connected Communities Need Strong Foundations [skip to 34:00]
His Foundation episode with Kevin Rose is pretty good as well.

http://foundation.bz/7/
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I hear this all the time, but the culprit is always someone sending spam, who does not consider it spam. Usually stuff like missing unsubscribes, spammy language, sending bulk to bought email lists, etc.
Yes, there is a chance, but there are very tight regulations about the company's capital requirements that are designed to ensure you're protected. The only thing you're particularly susceptible to is outright theft/fraud on the part of Robinhood.
So? I'm talking about whether or not it matters when they do.
>How strict were the driving tests where you learned?

Please be aware that the rather strict driving test in the Netherlands means that you are trained for at least 40 odd hours, or let's call it 60 hours on average, to drive at the speed target. Going too slow means you're unable to handle the traffic, and going too fast is illegal, so this strictness can instruct people to drive at the speed target.

Yes, I did name them targets, because that's what they're used for. It looks like a target, it acts like a target, it's called a target. Legally, they're limits, but I don't think you'll ever see many people driving at the limit. Always at least 1 or 2 km/h faster.
Black Mirror "Nosedive" anyone?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosedive
Energy storage for a few hours is easier than fission. Seasonal energy storage, on the other hand, is much more difficult.

This is why I think a mix of clean power sources (including some nuclear) is going to be optimal.

I am of the firm belief that there are MULTIPLE feasible ways to solve the clean energy problem that we, as a society, could probably do if we put as much effort into it as we did a world war. Examples:

<>nuclear France (ultimately using breeders of uranium or thorium)

<>hydro/geothermal Iceland

<>over-built intermittent renewables buffered with grid storage and perhaps either a little hydrogen seasonal storage or a mega-grid connecting north to south

even exotic solutions like

<>inertial or magnetic confinement fusion

<>space-based solar power (which is easier than fusion)

But the optimal (both in time and money) solution is to use a mix of clean energy sources (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, nuclear) and some storage and some demand-response (smart meters are a pretty obvious solution, here) and some increased geographical grid interconnection (UHVDC power lines).
Super, we can add "appropriate dress" to our "citizen scores." No more lime green spandex tube tops at the grocery store, or your credit rating will go down.
I'm skeptical we'll need as many workers for $threatened_industries in 2040-2050. I think its a little unrealistic to think we can keep up this ponzi scheme of employment as-is. Even now a great deal of unemployment is kept in check by various tax incentives to corporations paid for by taxpayers. Mary is paying Bob to employ Jane. That's not very sustainable in general, let alone with automation keeps chipping away at jobs.

I believe worklife in 2050 is going to be very different today. The same way my dad worked 10-12 hour days normally and I do 7.5 with Friday 'work from home' which is almost a day off.
Would be nice, if there is a mobile friendly version.
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I recall reading about research (So this is third hand information) that one of the most effective ways of solving poverty are simple periodic cash grants. This was specifically about comparing unconditional cash grants to conditional once.

The idea being that this steady supply of money allows one to stabilize. This has 2 direct effects. Firstly, people can feasibly make long term plans. Secondly, the added baseline means much fewer things are 'sudden death'. If your car breaks down, perhaps you can get it fixed soon enough that you don't lose your job. In the same vein, perhaps this money allows you to get a car, making it possible to find work you couldn't get to with the bus.

There are definitely cases where the lack of money in poverty is a symptom, but I'd wager that in the vast majority of cases, lack of money is the root cause.

Whether the humane issues are the cause or symptom of the problem, they need a solution beyond cash, but cash can do a lot of good.

The prime exception are compound cases. I'd say cases where foster care gets involved are exactly those cases. These children need emotional and existential support much more than 'money'. My point is that these cases are exceptional even within the poor class. For the class in general, money could do a lot of good.
Well, the manufacturer provided lock is a piece of string connected to an index card that says "do not open", and the bikes are being regularly used in crimes against the public at large.

Given the owner of the bike could conceivably be held liable for the use of their bike to commit crimes, the janit0r who decided to clean up this crap comes across as the lesser of two evils.
If we only need to power a dark-age "amount" of technology, windmills and water-wheels (or small hydroelectric dams if you're lucky in choice-of-location) would cover more than enough, no? And it's not like any of those are hard to build, or require any advanced principles; they get more efficient as your tech-base improves, but people living on frontiers in the 1800s were knocking them together for their family homes as soon as electricity became a thing that anyone had any use for.

And that's assuming we don't still have access to, say, the hardcopy US Patent filing records. You could get very far indeed with basic metalworking + modern knowledge of the optimal energy-collecting shapes for rotor blades.
Some of that gear may be worth more than you might expect.

The V4s still sell quite well for some reason, some of the other analog gear is still in demand for circuit bending.

If the projectors are decent they can still hire pretty well too.
"I can’t think of another time when a national leader has broached such a sensitive topic so frankly and so publicly."

Was Gates not around when everyone was talking about which bathroom transgender people should use?

Typical cisgendered white male billionaire.
I think this is mostly satire - it's based (sort of) on real data but it's satirizing the idea of predicting crime with algorithms. From the attached white paper:

"We therefore plan to augment our model with facial analysis and psychometrics to identify potential financial crime at the individual level. As a proof of concept, we have downloaded the pictures of 7000 corporate executives whose LinkedIn profiles suggest they work for financial organizations, and then averaged their faces to produce generalized white collar criminal subjects unique to each high risk zone. Future efforts will allow us to predict white collar criminality through real-time facial analysis."

https://whitecollar.thenewinquiry.com/static/whitepaper.pdf
UK government irate at Twitter’s surveillance API crackdown
If it's accurate that 99% of their reports are bogus, that's a pretty decent reason to dish out a little ridicule.
One of the design goals for COBOL was that non programmers should be able to understand it with a little training. That would allow non technical managers to have a bit more control over their projects than they would have with Fortran, Algol or PL/1.

I don't know how well that worked out, but other than Hypercard all other languages I am familiar with (and they are many) only make sense to those who can program in them. So though Java is often considered to be the modern COBOL, at least in this regard it isn't.
The method they're describing is only permanent for devices without a removable startup disk, right? If they run this on my raspberry pi, for example, just reformatting the sd card and following the same process as when I first got it should immediately fix this.
Fonz.js – How do US phone numbers work?
This is quite straight forward, and I'm surprised no one has done it (to my knowledge).
You simply wire the camera in such a way that powering it also powers the LED. If done properly, you couldn't hack this with software.
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But we also use the speed of light to define other units after we found out, by experiment, that it was indeed constant.
It seems that some languages provide a pretty good abstraction, memory-wise ;)
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This is an interesting problem that almost all guide book authors have to contend with, bringing knowledge of a topic may expose people to risk, but I think it's maybe a false conclusion.

It's a given all guides have false information, it then begs the question are guides worse than no guides? I think this can be easily answered more information is better.

You can give people information but you can't understand it for them.

kudos for making the app :)

What do you think your app would identify this as?
Carpet mushroom?
http://imgur.com/a/Rqc64
Have you ever seen a large peat moss power plant? Ireland has some. They're gross polluters.
Nope, perhaps too young for that?

That said, the guy doesn't even have a Wikipedia page! So how should I know?
> Didn't sanders tax plan involve closing loopholes used by big companies and taxing the wealthy more heavily?

Steve Mnuchin talked about closing these by simplifying the tax code during his senate hearing. This was Ted Cruz primary pitch for his tax plan... and in general on of the staples of tax reform people on both sides of the party.

Bernie Sanders also said he would be comfortable with a 90% top tax bracket too, which completely failed when the socialist party tried to do it in France.

Regardless, the goal should be increasing tax revenue, not tax rates. And the US government already takes in a massive amount of money.

There's probably a million ways for it to be better spent and still dramatically improve the social safety nets and offer public healthcare. Yet whenever these goals are discussed it's always in the context of adding more and more spending.

And re: closing loopholes, the usual result of these efforts such as Obama's various attempts, were to add even more complexity to the tax code. There are many ways to reach a goal. Just because you want lower taxes and a dramatically simplified tax code doesn't mean I'm against social policies.
Having multiple methods for data binding isn't a downside. Different situations call for different approaches. Opinioned frameworks need to get it right but Vue gives us the freedom to implement different approaches.
Hi. I'm one of the project creators. Happy to answer any questions.
and not just medical devices, but life-support machines running with known security vulnerabilities?

There's nothing inherently wrong with connecting medical devices to the internet, and running an outdated OS on your specialized equipment is fine too as long as it's not being connected to any unsecured networks. But running a known insecure OS on an internet connected life support device has got to be a violation of some law or ethical regulation.
Breakthrough in multiple sclerosis research as scientists find possible cause
Trump can slow the decline of coal consumption but he can't reverse it. Investors in new generating plants expect them to operate for decades. The regulatory pendulum is going to swing back against coal within a decade. The optimal thing to do if you own an old coal plant is to run it as much as you profitably can right now, don't invest in major upgrades for the future, and be ready to scrap it whenever the EPA resumes actually protecting the environment.

The Chekhov's gun waiting to go off in electricity demand is electric vehicles. When they become a non-trivial part of transportation they'll be the biggest new demand driver for electricity in two generations. Hopefully they'll arrive in a big way shortly after the big wave of coal retirements is finished; otherwise they could keep marginal coal units lingering for a while longer.
I had built it a few months ago. I wanted to write a stable CLI and wanted to automate something that I'd have to use GUI for.

I setup CI, wrote few test cases and also made a style convention. This was the first project where I setup CI, write tests, adhere to a standard, and write good, atomic commits.

I learnt to use `argparse` module.

It is possible to upload more then 1 file with description and name of the gist as of now.

There is also an option if you want the gist to be secret or not. Though currently, the gists are made anonymously, they'll not be associated with your account. That is something that I should implement in near future.
This feels excessively complicated to me. what's a track? what's a channel? why do I need filenames for everything? why does it take 3 minutes for a new user to write a single line of 'note' ?

a beautiful notes app (to me) would be one where you start with writing a note
You're being disingenuous. Conservatives do say the lazy fail to prosper. However, that should not be interpreted to mean that all those who fail to prosper are lazy.
Posted yesterday
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14185818
Awesome! Thanks for the update, super stoked for that. Can you also export through GDAL?
I don't understand. If someone is giving out free balloons but only during certain hours, you shouldn't call it free?
devices that can kill people have another level of security then random iot devices.
Hedge Fund Leads $27M Investment in Domino Data Lab
Index funds (over time) tend to beat most professional money managers, much less amateur speculators.
I think part of this is the poor community in Utah is much closer to the overall community in ethnic, country of origin, and religious terms. When the poor community is 'other' it's harder to view them part of the overall community and thus care about their problems.
The first few paragraphs of OA brought to mind Path to Power, the first volume of Robert Caro's Lyndon Johnson biography. The chapter on electrification and the impact it had on women's lives in rural Texas is a real eye opener.
> It's bad if your core business is getting unsophisticated people making trades (bets) with credit

I would agree, if there were evidence to support that primarily unsophisticated people are buying premium. However, I doubt this is the case (I'm sure someone will put together numbers on this eventually). I'm a competent trader who avoids leverage, simply because I don't want to pay for a membership (it's not just a loan; you need a gold membership, too, which is an added barrier to entry).
If you'd like to continue commenting on Hacker News you'll have to do so civilly and substantively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Retailers are going bankrupt at a record pace
Most of the dissemination is digital, which isn't so helpful if there is anything that kills power supplies. Saving coal might be a good part of a global disaster recovery plan, but I think we'll need the whole plan before we can really tell if it is a useful part of one.
>I think its your responsibility to keep reinvesting a portion of it in high growth startups.

Well then it wouldn't be your money if you are obligated to spend it on certain things.
See, you're overcomplicated things so much with your precision, you're really missing the point. You can communicate by giving flowers, but you won't be able to convey this conversation with them. Nevertheless, on the occasions when you might use flowers to say something to someone, if you instead try to use a lengthy thread on Hacker News, your precision level will be very high but you will completely miss the point.

You should consider taking up Toki Pona as a hobby. You should try and take meeting notes in Toki Pona at work. You'll be surprised at what you find yourself thinking—even though you won't be able to use the notes in the way you would your normal notes.
The perfect example of not having empathy unless it directly affects you are the endless conservative politicans who don't like rights for gay people until their own kid comes out as gay. It's so frustrating to me, this lack of empathy.
Isn't this point exactly what is meant by saying that they lack the political will?
He's providing an economic benefit to society - internalizing (to consumers) the externality of IOT botnets. It's now on the consumers to further internalize to cost to manufacturers through product selection, class action, or both.
Because Rust is not a GC language. I should have perhaps explained that better. My round about point mentioning Rust was that instead of putting "*" all over the place you could just have types that represent such (pointers) or the opposite (ie value types) depending on what the language defaults to. I mean the pointer in some senses is effectively abstract wise Pointer<SomeType>. However I suppose this is difficult with out generics.

That is I don't mind the explicitness of Rust because I guess I expect it just like C/C++ but I probably incorrectly expect it with Go lang. This is mostly because I come from a JVM background where I expect the VM to figure out what is more optimal and consequently also have very little experience using in/out parameters.
There's more context in the article. The author was asked to resend their report without PGP, because using it was a hassle and usually not worth it.
As someone who has run multi-terabyte Lucene-based installs, managing gigabytes isn't that interesting ;)

It's competing with a project with hundreds of committers, an amazing ecosystem, tons of diverse users, etc.
So you have one datapoint and you can declare the obsolescence of bookmarks?
What does this have over Standard Notes?

https://standardnotes.org/
Can Amazon's Echo Dot Make a Good SIDS Alarm? – I, Cringely
I use Robinhood for passive funds. VOO, VYM, UPRO, SHY, etc.
there is a place to argue that when machines enforce social expectations over fleshy peers the panopticon analogy no longer applies, or has to move to other domains. When there is not an invisible human or culture on the other end of your panopticonic cell, the peering machine eyes that give you fashion/social/love/life advice have the same affect on the newly adapted society as the walls themselves had on the society before it. And the level of harm (implied by "dystopian" label) is debatable. I would argue that the human condition and its cultures will continue to exist largerly as usual so long as we are able retain 1 secret. With each new technological shift the unadapted generation thinks the last secret has been lost and dystopia has finally arrived. So its worth taking predictions from techo doom with a grain of salt.

Regardless, this product is absurd, niche, insecure and as a result will probably have little sway. Amazon would literlly have to give it away for free and subsidise the cost on some uber (pun intended) hope of monopolising and destroying the entire brick-and-mortor fashion store industry to have any hope of significant impact, imho.
If you want to tug on heartstrings with the "what about medical devices" argument, it's probably just as likely that a mirai botnet will impact a life support or public safety network than that brickerbot will.
The comparison is with an 8-year-old version of lucene. Lucene is (optionally) constant RAM now.
> what conditions need to occur where a man who most likely can get another job easily enough and who has switched jobs before decides that ending his life his a better course of action then switching jobs.

From my perspective (which isn't as bad as considering suicide over changing a job...but still pretty bad in terms of depression), there's a huge mental block in terms of ability to interview, especially given the terrible interview practices across most of the industry (5+ hour algorithm regurgitation sessions).

This would require "studying" algorithms for hours a day to refresh my memory. In my currently depressed state there's not a chance that I could bring myself to do that once I'm off work for the day...nor could I possibly imagine even participating in the interview process itself right now even if I felt confident in my ability to vomit back algorithms to the interviews.