skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> However, the fact remains that network infrastructure is expensive and it makes sense to pass more of the costs of that infrastructure onto those who derive more value from it (that is to say, those who use more of the available bandwidth).

Which you do by charging different prices for different bandwidth or different amounts of traffic, just like you charge electricity based on the energy used?!

> What's wrong with Whirlpool subsidizing the electricity use of their customers?

Nothing is wrong with it, it's just nonsense. A business cannot subsidize the costs of using their product, at best they can sell you a package with the future costs already included in the purchase price, if they want to avoid going bankrupt.

> So long as the electrical utility allows any appliance manufacturer -- not just Whirlpool -- to participate in such a program, I don't see a problem.

... and at the same price, yes, then everything would be fine. And completely pointless, because you'd simply end up pre-paying for the electricity with the purchase instead of when you actually use it.

> You might argue that smaller appliance manufacturers don't have the resources to participate in such a program

That contradicts your earlier premise that any manufacturer could participate in the program.

> but that's just the nature of business.

This is not about the business, but about the customer. Whether it's "the nature of business" or not, it limits competition, and limited competition tends to limit innovation and to increase prices ... if you like that as a customer, then I guess you should be against net neutrality.

> Being big affords you certain advantages, like economies of scale. Smaller companies have to compete in other ways.

That's essentially an argument for monopolies. If you prefer to buy from monopolies ... strange, but sure, you probably should oppose anti-trust law in general.
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No, UUIDs aren't meant to be cryptographically unique. Session identifiers should be generated by your friendly neighbourhood crypto rng man
Even if there is a "clear pattern", that doesn't mean every instance of a man talking over woman is sexism. Not even close.

So even if you can prove there is a pattern, it doesn't invalidate his statement that "it's generally sexless"
Netflix is one of those sites that makes we want to run noscript. I regularly makes firefox unresponsive and eventually popup a "this script is using too many resources". When a large tech company can't create working javscript for a minimally interactive interface then something is seriously wrong.

Less javascript would be an improvement for everyone, not just the noscript users.
It's not about the newest number being the best number, it's simply an older number that changes our idea of the timeline. So yes, it there is validity in it because it's "new" data that differs from our existing data giving us a fuller understanding of the timeline.

And I think you're confusing me with the OP, I didn't ask any question at all, nor do I think the OP's question is legitimate. The OP is assuming incorrectly that current science states definitively when homo sapiens began, but it doesn't, it merely says here's the oldest evidence we currently have so we're at least this old; science never said we're not older. As we cannot time travel, we can never definitively say when homo sapiens began, it will always be an estimate based on the oldest fossils found and as such that estimate can be changed anytime new fossils are found that pre-date the existing oldest fossil.
The girl pictured (blue eyed, fair hair) is especially suited to cow's milk - it's in her genes. That's how people were able to live north of certain latitudes; by cattle meat and milk.

Perplexing.

[edit: link to HN discussion on the lactose tolerant mutation]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4710596
One then that would have seriously helped me a few months ago, when I did a little project to learn some C# and write a command line tool using .NET Core would be a simple list of "using" statements that I'm likely to see in C# books and other documentation that are not available in Core (or that need configuration or settings changes to make work). (Or maybe the other way...a list of all "using" statements that work out of the box).

The command line tool I was trying to write was to read my Safari reading list on my Mac, and construct an HTML page that contains the same information that I could put on my website, where I could then access it from my Surface Pro. Apple provides a way to export the reading list in XML, so that was my input.

I don't remember what it was now, but my first approach used some XML stuff that I got out of examples from some recent C# book, and it worked fine in Visual Studio Community Edition on my Windows gaming machine. In Core, though, on my Mac (and on my Surface Pro and Windows gaming machine) it failed to build. It was not finding something I was trying to include via "using".

I was not able to figure out if that thing is simply not part of Core, or if some build setting somewhere has to be changed to make it available.

(I eventually changed my approach and dealt with the XML through LINQ instead of at a lower level, so that I no longer needed whatever it was whose "using" was giving me trouble, and successfully got access to my Reading List from my Surface Pro).
https://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2007nl/mar/dairy.htm

>IGF-1 promotes undesirable growth too—like cancer growth and accelerated aging. IGF-1 is one of the most powerful promoters of cancer growth ever discovered for cancers of the breast, prostate, lung, and colon.6 Overstimulation of growth by IGF-1 leads to premature aging too—and reducing IGF-1 levels is “anti-aging.”7
> But vegans should be under no illusions that almond milk or soy milk is any kind of milk substitute.

When it comes to feeding infants, sure, but my usage of soy milk as an adult is definitely as a substitute for milk. I use it in virtually all the places cow's milk is typically used: in my cereal, coffee, mixed with chocolate syrup, in most recipes that call for milk.... No need to get so up in arms about call things like soy milk a "milk" drink/substitute. In the vast majority of cases, it functions exactly the same.
Your regular reminder that it's almost never worth it to pay attention to one single study, because of publication bias, lack of multiple hypothesis correction, and the many other ways for a study -- even one performed to best practices -- to be incorrect.

Wait for the meta-study, especially if the result is at all topical or exciting.
If the shares are not liquid 'cus the company is still private, then no you can't.
> Only employees of unicorns have any chance of getting wealthy from stock, and you're unlikely to be an early employee of a unicorn.

Define wealthy.

I have done quite well (not FU, 3-comma money, of course, but solidly 2-comma) from equity as an employee. In my current company, I joined a few months after the Series A (so nowhere near "early"), stayed through the IPO and many years of growth past that.

We were never a unicorn.

Amazon, Facebook, and Google are regularly turning SWEs into millionaires and a substantial part of that is from equity. Microsoft also had a good decade and a half of doing that. Netflix probably does as well. (OK, Facebook was a unicorn; the others probably weren't ever called that, though it may have fit.)
Solving a societal problem that is pretty complex and not very well understood with a computer interface to reduce costs instead of fixing the system to accommendate for real change might raise some criticism.

Depressed from your 2 part time jobs and driving Uber? There's an app for that! Oh, don't use it now - 4chan managed to learn the AI and now it's giving junk advice.

What about working for a better society that accomendates people instead of building crutches to maintain the problematic status quo while trying to make some money for yourself and your friends?
A blockchain viewer (showing most recent blocks) is in the works for the Betanet and should go live soon. Full chain explorer will follow for the feature-complete Testnet.
While I agree generally w/ this advice, in my experience, companies try to make that impossible or very difficult for employees. For example, most hiring offers are exploding: I've been given exploding offers over a weekend, over holidays: try getting a lawyer when you're not at home. Further, again in my experience, getting a lawyer is actually significantly challenging to someone who hasn't done it: you need a lawyer in the relevant area of law, and you need to know their price, and these two critical pieces of information seem generally to be the things left off the website.

You can argue that an employee should try to negotiate for adequate time, and maybe they should, but not all will. Those too timid to do so are effectively being taken advantage of; thus I find most companies' positions morally reprehensible.
I had an Antec case (solo or sonata or something like that) where I had to cut into the drive bays with tin snips to fit a 1080ti. Modern cases have more room for GPUs.
The Japanese were ready and willing to surrender before the bombs dropped - and they knew the war was lost as soon as the Soviet Union betrayed its neutrality treaty.

What they were not ready for, was an unconditional surrender. (And, in the end, they surrendered conditionally! The entire sticking point turned out to be moot.)

Truman and his advisers have deliberately pushed a false dichotomy of "Drop the bomb - and then drop a second bomb", versus "Invade the Home Islands." [1]

The reality was that there was a third option available to the US - a conditional Japanese surrender. It chose to commit a war crime for political, not humanitarian reasons - and it never seriously entertained the alternative. Once it had the bomb - the debate was not whether it was going to use it, but where.

[1] http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2015/08/03/were-there-alterna...

Some choice snippets:

"At the very least, waiting more than three days after Hiroshima might have been humane. Three days was barely enough time for the Japanese high command to verify that the weapon used was a nuclear bomb, much less assess its impact and make strategic sense of it. Doing so may have avoided the need for the second bombing run altogether."

"Two months before Hiroshima, scientists at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, one of the key Manhattan Project facilities, authored a report arguing that the first use of an atomic bomb should not be on an inhabited city"

"But the initial target for the bomb, discussed in 1943 (long before it was ready) was the island of Truk (now called Chuuk), an ostensibly purely military target, the Japanese equivalent of Pearl Harbor."

"And, in fact, we do now know that the Soviet invasion may have weighed as heavily on the Japanese high command as did the atomic bombings, if not more so. So why didn’t Truman wait? The official reason given after the fact was that any delay whatsoever would be interpreted as wasting time, and American lives, once the atomic bomb was available. But it may also have been because Truman, and especially his Secretary of State, Byrnes, may have hoped that the war might have ended before the Soviets had entered."
Yeah. All else equal, I'd rather have a taller child. If I could have invested $1M in the S&P 500 at birth or be seven feet tall, I'd take the height.
Mathematicians looking to make elections in the US more representative
I agree that height does not necessarily mean that an individual will be stronger / fitter / longer living. In-fact, being tall may play against these.

That said, no girl I've ever met has ever said, "wow, I really prefer to date short men". Perhaps some of them have said, "he's too tall", but most of them prefer tall men.

Most men that I know tend to prefer women shorter than them. And yes, some of them have said, "she's too short".

So, while more height in men may be inversely correlated to health, it is certainly desired among the multi-ethnic multi-economic cross-section of people with whom the topic of height has come up in conversation.
The sweetened versions have more calories. (for the ones that are 30 calories/cup unsweetened, something like 60 calories per cup).

Cows milk also has quite a lot more protein than most alternative milks.
Make with the numbers.
In this context all we really know is that the moderator was rude, and the person he was rude to was a woman. We have no way of knowing for certain if he acted that way because of her gender. Saying this is sexism is pure speculation.

To brand someone as sexist is very damaging to their reputation. That women in general suffer from a power imbalance is no excuse for attacking a persons reputation with no strong evidence.
I use my align_window3 utility on Windows: https://github.com/tom-seddon/align_window3

It divides the screen into halves and thirds horizontally and vertically, with one keypress setting size and position on one dimension. (The recommended key settings are vaguely mnemonic, but of course you can pick pretty much anything and then get used to it through practice.)

I can't remember the last time I felt the need for a finer grid, but the 4x3 grid here has got me thinking that maybe it could do with an update...
No.

Everyone talks to social contacts. CBT therapy is something entirely different.

Parts of CBT and DBT are skill training in emotional and cognitive behavioural regulation, that people have not mastered sufficiently on their own. You can teach these skills, and I'd argue they should be mandatory classes on them through middle school. IMHO, they are the most valuable skills that you can learn, bar none.

>There's every possibility that it would make the situation worse and it's hubris on the part of the medical community that a tool built by them is better than informal therapists.

There's hubris in your assumption of how therapy works, or in the tools it incorporates today. This application was released, along with a study demonstrating it's efficacy. It's not the first of it's type - it's just the chatbot format of a self help book. There will be much better versions, I'm sure, over time.
The players and coaches almost certainly have more to gain by becoming the first team to fulfill Moses Malone's promise of "Fo, Fo, Fo" and becoming the first ever team to sweep the entire playoffs, in endorsement deals, future contracts, and reduced wear-and-tear on their bodies. I believe at one point, NBA players did earn additional per-game salary for the post-season, but the league has now switched to a system where the teams are awarded fixed performance bonuses based on various milestones[1] (which, before they are sliced up amongst the various players, are on the order of a bench-riding veteran's salary), so there is no incentive for them to drag it out.

For the teams, the league, and perhaps most importantly, the broadcast networks, extending series is a big potential for additional revenue. One estimate I've seen claims that ABC missed out on as much as $45 million because the 2015 Finals didn't go to seven games[2]. If David Stern, who was notorious for appearing to put his thumb on the scales, were still commissioner of the league, I'd be watching the officiating of the next two games very closely.

[1] http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2016/06/02/nba-playoff-b...

[2] http://time.com/money/4373400/nba-finals-rigged-money-abc-ad...
I don't think so. Have you read https://www.gwern.net ? Also scientific research is validated much later with different studies, including meta-analysis studies.
Truman's actions here must also be considered in light of the argument that he had been misled about the nature of the targets for the atomic bombings. From his diary in July 1945:

"This weapon is to be used against Japan between now and August 10th. I have told the Sec. of War, Mr. Stimson, to use it so that military objectives and soldiers and sailors are the target and not women and children. Even if the Japs are savages, ruthless, merciless and fanatic, we as the leader of the world for the common welfare cannot drop that terrible bomb on the old capital or the new."

"He and I are in accord. The target will be a purely military one and we will issue a warning statement asking the Japs to surrender and save lives. I’m sure they will not do that, but we will have given them the chance. It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler’s crowd or Stalin’s did not discover this atomic bomb. It seems to be the most terrible thing ever discovered, but it can be made the most useful..."

( http://www.dannen.com/decision/hst-jl25.html )

Truman also ordered the immediate cessation of further atomic bombings without his explicit approval on August 10th (the military was planning to continue the bombings as further cores became available, which were being produced at the rate of a couple per month).

See also http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2014/08/08/kyoto-misconceptio...
Where Ocean Meets Sky: New NASA Radar Gets a Tryout
Depends on what you're trying to accomplish.

But setting up a data warehouse that builds out the KPIs you're looking for along with a dashboard to display them (the easy part, for sure) can certainly take over a month.
Sorry, no I haven't.

There is a new build system though, and they say it's a little faster: https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/De...
I love broccoli and had a lot of milk but my father is taller than me ;-)
Thank you for all the info the use case we are running a setup with dedicated PG RDS instance for each client some of them are pushing the RDS limits of 6TB potentially looking to move to multi tenant setup as managing 100+ instances is not fun. The read load is fairly light it's rare that more than a few people are running queries against an instance. Would it be possible to consolidate using Citus (are there any advantages as far as ease of management etc?)
>I'd really rather that you didn't put words in my mouth.

But you said: "Of course they want to tie the hands of their major economic competitors." How is that any different than Trump's crackpot theory that global climate change was invented by the Chinese to cripple the US economy? And you don't reject the idea climate change is a hoax, you try to duck the issue by saying it is orthogonal.

In an case, the question today is not why China signed the treaty back then, but it is doing now. As I explained, it is charging ahead with renewables. They are doing this because they are worried about global climate change doing damage to their own country, because coal is causing terrible air pollution problems, and because they see an opportunity to establish a major global industry. Your idea that they are doing it only to divert attention from their human rights abuses is completely cracked.

Oh, and if you are going to post a link supporting your position, it really ought to be one that is not hidden behind a paywall.
That was literally at the end of the article.
Right, but if you read the post that you originally started arguing with:

> I started off once thinking "yay, X% means I get X% of the company!" and then I found out the shares can be diluted. Then I learned "non-dillutable".

Then I learned about vesting periods, windows for exercising options, and a whole slew of financial terms and devices; each one seemed to come with its own unique "gotcha" that, if you didn't know about, would cost you nearly everything.

Everyone I talk to about these always says "well, don't do that one thing, or if you do that one thing be sure you do it in this way and you're set". The cumulative knowledge you need becomes pretty high pretty quickly though, and the chances of me doing the right legal and financial incantation at the right moment becomes lower.

Nowadays I go with cash. I don't get 'golden handcuffs' that hold me to a job I don't like because it might pay off later. I can calculate the expected value and risks with cash without tons of research. I know my legal recourses if I get screwed out of cash.

You'll see that it was right all along.
Snapchat didn't exist 10 years ago, so I don't see your point.
Yes, but the original problem statement was flawed (over constrained and confictingly constrained).

It was "pre-money $400M", "new investment $100M", "new investment gets 25%". Those can't all be held true.

You can change exactly one of them to remove the conflict, so it's either "pre money $300M", "new investment $133.33M", or "new investment gets 20%"
They mention this at one point; 4 is neutral on their scale so an average of 5.23 just means that people have a mild to moderate dislike of advertising in general. I don't know anybody who likes advertising (well, one person but they work for a marketing firm) so that makes sense to me.

It would be interesting if they could remove that bias though - it would make the differences more obvious if nothing else.
They did provide a fallback, old MapQuest-like UI without JS until a few years ago. Then they stopped, possibly because of the lack of users.
And if they're giving it to infants instead of breastfeeding or formula, it's borderline neglect.

Nothing borderline about it. Babies still die of malnutrition in developed countries, when it happens it is often from vegan diets.

I don't think that various vegetable derived products having "milk" in their names is the biggest part of the problem though.
That actually already exists and it's owned by Microsoft: https://mixer.com/
Yeah I've seen those but I was referring more to the potential health downsides not earnings possibilities:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/201...
You're right that "code unit" is the correct Unicode term for parts of encoded Unicode strings, which is exactly why it's the wrong term in this case, because the whole point is the filenames don't have to be Unicode.

So I can take the byte string [0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF] and use that as a filename on Linux, or I can take the sequence of 16-bit values [0xD800, 0xD800, 0xD800] and use that as a filename on NTFS. They're not made of code units because they're not Unicode strings.
Improving Zillow’s Zestimate with 36 Lines of Code
I was answering the parent's question: if by "alternative to Facebook" you mean that you want the thing that made teenagers use Facebook in 2007, then the answer is that Snapchat is a viable Facebook... somehow. (I'm not too clear on how exactly myself, but it seems to work for them.)
ShiftIt is alright: https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt

It's rather limited - make window fill quarter/half screen, make window fill whole screen, move window to next monitor - but it's very easy to configure, and supports XQuartz windows.
I think about this when I see wild turkeys in the area during early spring. The males fan their tail feathers and display their bright colors.

From a mate selection standpoint, the healthy ones have a full set of feathers that are brightly colored. Older and less healthy ones are missing feathers, or the colors are dull.

I think what we see in nature is a situation where what began as a selectable trait sometimes carries on evolving, i.e., becoming ever more colorful or pronounced, simply because it was easier to notice and measure, and at the same time, did not become a negative to survivability. If the female is attracted to the intense colors of males, and two perfectly healthy males are standing next to each other, but one is a little more saturated in color, she may select him solely for that reason.
Non-invasive technologies are super-cool because we may not actually want to disturb stuff until we have the technology to do it properly. Some stuff we may never want to disturb for cultural or other reasons.
Yeah, there are very good arguments for veganism but raw health isn't typically one of them. I'd say reducing cruelty to animals is the best one.

But almond or soy instead of cow's milk? That's nuts.

[hah pun not intended]
I agree, it needs to be talked about and I would say most of the stigma comes from other men (though surely not all).