skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad you are keeping your mind open.

>I think you misunderstand the premise of UBI. UBI is not intended to allow for hyper-consumerism.

I was referring to your argument for redistributive basic income, where you imply that the consumption-boosting impact of basic income would boost economic stability.

>What makes you think that the Scandinavian countries have been economically stagnant?

GDP and wage growth rates.

>I really don't see the US as an example of a massive shift to a social democratic model. The USA has no socialized health care, has no socialized retirement scheme, very limited public education, no socialized child care and certainly no socialized care for the elderly. I could go on, but really; the U.S. of A. is no social democracy.

The only accurate points in this paragraph are the US not having universal healthcare or universal socialized childcare.

The US has a publicly funded retirement scheme (Social Security) and spends more public money per capita than almost any other country in the world on education.

While it lacks universal healthcare, it spends extensively on its public healthcare spending, which covers the elderly, through Medicare, and the poor, through Medicaid.

Moreover, social welfare increased 4.8 percent per year on average, between 1972 and 2011 [1]. This represents a massive shift to the social democratic economic model.

And it's not just the US. Almost all advanced economies underwent this transition over the last 40 years, and it has been associated with stagnating wage growth and less economic dynamism.

[1] https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-is-driving-growth-...
I used to hand-code Postscript files back when the Apple LaserWriter was launched. I had a little kaleidoscope-like thing that did patterns for Xmas decorations, and once I did a text-to-workflow routine to print out diagrams. It's all gone now (I did part of it on a VAX and part on an SE/30), but it was lots of fun at the time.
I bet your phone can do that too, no need for a separate device.
Is there a comparison of its accuracy against traditional methods? Admittedly, this machine assisted modeling sounds really interesting.
We will probably end up in a world where anyone can be surveyed constantly. Minority Report probably was not far off. Once enough patterns of behaviour start to tricle into government databases eventually they will get enough data to identify patterns identifying various pathological people before they hurt themselves or others. Then the question is: what to do with the data.
As an interesting example, conditions and restarts can be used to implement an interactive system that is composable with other programs. For instance, you can implement a simple y/n question handler as follows:

(defun fn1 ()
(if (yes-or-no-p) (print :yes) (print :no)))

(defun fn2 ()
(fn1))

[yes-or-no-p](http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_y_or_n.htm) is an interactive function that reads from the stdin. However, you cannot programatically answer "yes" to fn1, as other functions in the call stack (fn2) has no way to know that fn1 halts because it waits for the input from the stdin. Instead, a condition system allows this:

(defun fn1 ()
(restart-case (error "yes or no?")
(yes () (print :yes))
(no () (print :no))))

(defun fn2-interactive ()
(fn1))

(defun fn2-automated ()
(hander-bind ((error (lambda (c) (invoke-restart 'yes)))) ;; handler
(fn1)))

When you call fn2-automated, an error is signaled, handled by the handler, which invokes a restart 'yes, then :yes is printed. Interactivity is still maintained by fn2-interactive.
There must be a real hellhole down there...
This is because over long distances synchronizing power phases becomes a seriously problem, with serious consequences. By running HVDC you avoid the issue by pushing the phase synchronization to the endpoints.
I disagree. What about the support rep, who needs to look at the customer's orders? What if it's a e.g. digital games store, and you want to have kids accounts which can be reviewed by their parents' ? What if you sell to businesses, and you want to let employees purchase stuff without having access to the address and billing info, which is configured by a master account?

You're just tying yourself down for no good reason.
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I'm not that familiar with TLS client certificates so I'm not qualified to say, but if you consider other developers as your users, then the UX problem remains.

Web developers in general are more familiar with other forms of authentication so unless you have a strong reason for picking TLS client certificates I would suggest picking something else.

In other words: I would be more likely to try out an API if it was based on Basic Authentication. ;-)
A Developer Advocate or Evangelist is a sort of guerrilla marketing role. The aim is to get people to use their employer's product same as any other marketing position, but they do it by pretending to be just a normal developer who happens to love company X's products.

Y'know it's kinda like Instagram models - they look like they're just cool people going on amazing vacations, but it's all actually paid for by sponsors, like the airline.
Of the fakes: Some NGO:s are vetting film material to tag specific ones as credible evidence of e.g. states behaving badly. They compare time of day to known weather patterns, cross reference previous film to see if something has been reused etc.
Automation will have a bigger impact on jobs in smaller cities
We're talking about gaming here - Steam machines had to compete against consoles as well. And they were more expensive, ran significantly less games than PS4 or XB and were slower to boot.
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Not just print, but also the ability to natively _manipulate_ PDF, because the Mac still has the display Postscript stack from the NeXT era and PDF essentially an envelope for it.

It's underused these days, but still available to apps, and they can interchange data in that format. Linux support for PDF isn't anywhere near as integrated.
It seems like economist uses Javascript to create the "You've reached your article limit" dialogue. Simple press ESC key to stop JS from executing on Chrome so that you can read the article.

Also here is my TL:DR summary of it if you're still trying to fight through the pay wall:

There is a thing called grating coupler that works like little high frequency antennas that receives light signals. When you put a whole array of them you will be able to do various scans of light signals to simulate the camera pointing at different direction, or fisheye, telephoto effects without the need of tilting or moving the surface of the array. The underlying computation relies on the ability to calculate and control the timing of signal travelled from each antennas, plus some classic signal interference and phasing issues. An 1cm x 1cm array will contain 1 million such couplers which would create a similar sized image as an iPhone 7 rear camera, but since there is no lens involved, the camera can be made a lot thinner.
Steve did not want it and did not want the ugly above ground garage.

So he chose to build in the midst of a mostly residential area far from any mass transit (even bus service is minimal, with one line going up Wolfe and another along Homestead) and with one freeway that is already a parking lot during rush hours. Winning!
1) Elements of Distributed Computing 1st Edition
by Vijay K. Garg (Author)

2) Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms (2nd Edition) by Andrew S. Tanenbaum et al.

3) Daniel Abadi. 2012. Consistency Tradeoffs in Modern Distributed Database System Design: CAP is Only Part of the Story

4) http://book.mixu.net/distsys/ebook.html

5) https://github.com/theanalyst/awesome-distributed-systems
https://github.com/google/leveldb
That's pretty much how you prove the infinitude of primes :-)
> Instead the correct solution is that if you have gmail open, in a single click you should be able to generate a high-entropy gmail address (that does not deplete the namespace) and link it on your end with "syncfusionpdfsuccintly".

This a reasonably priced paid service that does already exist, it's not from Google and no, I won't name it neither publicly nor privately because I used it for years and I don't want their domain to be banned by those requiring your email address for everything. If you know how to search you will probably find it.
Basically you sign with them using one valid email address, then on their interface you can create as many addresses as you need (IIRC there is a limit but I used even dozens at a time without problems) and add a keyword to them.
All of those addresses will be redirected to the email you signed with, but the From: field will also contain the keyword you specified so that if you create an address for each service you sign up for, you instantly recognize who is spamming you when they use that address. This is very effective and I filtered out a lot of spammers.
I'm surprised there are no more services like this one around, or probably there are many but they keep a low profile to avoid being banned. That's why I'm not going to name that service, sorry. But it does exist indeed and is technically easy to implement.
>And if PDF viewers only allowed the newer version, you’d break support with every PDF made.

That is not at all something that would have to be true.
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Weird. My Thinkpad only has an Intel sticker.
Absolutely correct! I guess a comparison with various levels of "rows" and concurrent access might be needed before judging any way...
Seriously impressive bridge.

(It's a video a few minutes long and worth watching. I rarely watch videos on news sites, but glad I watched this one.)
That is the same internal goal that SoundCloud has. Play counts is just what users want to see. All of SoundCloud's internal optimization is around listening time.
According to this[1] comment it's on their mind but doesn't seem like a priority.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14728476
My question: why did your advisor stop updating his fantastic youtube channel[1]? I'm a huge fan of his ability to communicate the concepts.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC9zrtAkl6yY4dpcnWrCHjA
Thanks for the work on and link to gperf! Looks interesting, to say the least.
You'll notice that Wikipedia includes it in: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unconfirmed_impact_c...

it's existence/size/effects is controversial to say the least, TV shows about it show up on the History channel along with all the ancient aliens crap
Okay, fair, we didn't do multiple Raft groups or membership changes. If I can find the code, I'll dust it off and give those test suites a try. The project's test suite had a 0MQ broker that could be programmed to selectively drop and delay messages while operating the KV store implemented by the student code. This is pretty similar to Jepsen, though Jepsen might have scenarios that the instructors didn't consider.

I didn't claim it was easy to implement tens of thousands of Raft groups among the same machines (why do you need that?) or to be resilient to Byzantine failures (if that's what you mean by hardware errors).

I don't think we are fundamentally disagreeing: you argue it's difficult to implement various extensions to Raft, we seem to agree it's not that hard to implement the core of Raft.
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Based on what? The 1st investor should know better. They should say, "we believe in you, and we want to offer the additional funding." This is not a game. If OP has something that investors are interested in then they should be able to raise cash for the good of all shareholders. The OP should go to the original investor and offer them the first right of refusal. This is a business. The angel should say, "cool here is the 150K" if they believe in the company. This is either a new angel that has have never done this before or an angle that is trying to take advantage of a new founder. The right thing for the OP to do is to tell the investors they need addtional funding and ask if they want to particpate.

For what it is worth I have invested in angel rounds, arranged for a startup to receive angel rounds, done a few startups and have held board seats. Also to the OP - warrants with a note is something to look at.
You should have lunch with the non-science department guys and see where they're at. I would bet it's pretty similar, not everything but lots of things only 40-60% done, PMs and some devs have lots of awesome ideas that can't all squeeze into the next planning horizon. The difference is things at least get shipped in that state and worked on incrementally with lots of flags to hide the roughest edges, ideally at some point things are worked on enough and declared 90+% "done" and only worked on in maintenance mode but there's always new things shipping half-baked.
Probably having Apple as a customer mattered a lot to Intel, so they were willing to be flexible. The HPs and Dells of the world are important too, but they can't afford to offend Intel, since they're all in a fierce low-margin competition with a bunch of other vendors that sell basically the same product. If they're at even a slight cost disadvantage, their profits evaporate.

Apple had more leverage because they sell a product that's unique that their customers are willing to pay more for, and because they had a plan B if Intel refused to accommodate them.
you're afraid of naming the service but if Google implemented my suggestion they could never be blacklisted. (Unless their high-entropy email tags followed some easily identified pattern.)

I'm not asking for the service to "exist". I'm asking Google to take twenty minutes and fix their solution, which already works but is security through obscurity.
Google NYC office, which occupies most of a building that's a full city block and 15 stories high

But all corporate use, with no residences? How does that not aggravate, rather than help, a neighborhood housing shortage?
I find it fascinating that (pressure) grouting is shown as something revolutionary and new here.
Somehow I suspect that the same people who like overcompressed music (to drown out everything else) love a big dynamic range in movies (gut-shaking explosions when dialog is at comfortable listening volume) and that those who like music with silent parts really would not mind being able to leave a cinema without a minor tinnitus. It's a confusing world.
As I mentioned, Google already offers this. Just add a tag with + to your existing gmail address and you instantly create a tagged new one.
I don't need to be sold on China and their incredible achievements. Have visited, enjoyed my time there.

It was meant as lighthearted snark, since the bridge collapse only just happened a few days ago. I'm sorry it didn't come across right.
Have a look at this :

http://christophermeiklejohn.com/distributed/systems/2013/07...
When you are using 3G/4G, and not connected to Wifi, your phone still checks all the Wifi accesspoints continuously. When you know for yourself you don't connect to an accesspoint on that location, there is no point in having your phone search for one. You can save on battery there.

A personal experience from me (anecdotal)... I was using Wifi from my cable provider that is available all over town. But that means when going into town, I am jumping from one accesspoint to another, sometimes with good and bad connections. My experience was that a battery charge didn't last that long. Disabling that accesspoint on my phone made the batterycharge last much longer.
Observations of a Female Drug Discovery Scientist Working in Pharma
Marin County just exempted itself from dense housing laws

Counties have no such power. Such NIMBYism is implemented at the state level courtesy of CA's longstanding one-party rule
Yeah the timing seems not coincidental.
You can't self-proclaim yourself a leader, it's up to the team if they treat you as their leader or just a manager. I always chuckle when, in some companies, the higher-up managers call themselves "the leadership team". Yeah, they wish.
Yes, it's called PDF/A.
Right. So he should have done what? Moved the campus someplace how far from his employee base?

Please let me know where in the Bay Area there is enough land for an Apple size campus and working mass transit?

My last startup - we send out a survey of where everyone lived before we moved. Guess what, screwed everywhere for all locations. Ending up paying each employee for Bart/Caltrain pass. Did not cover more then 30%.

The system of transit is the issue and the government and politics around it. Unless you are FB or Google that pays for private buses. That works so well for the haves vs have nots. It just makes it worse.

In the USA public transit is a joke for 99% of the country and is likely not to change. We are a car nation.
Landlords invest in city centers by buying land and then developing it. If they rent it out, then they need to spend money to maintain it. Or they can sell the land to new landlords. Whoever owns the land takes on the risk that it might decrease in value, such as during the time of Cold War subsidies of white flight,[0] or during the time of NAFTA destruction of inefficient manufacturing.

Again, you are using island mentality, that it doesn’t matter where the land is as long as you can drive there. In reality, location matters tremendously because infrastructure doesn’t scale that much. The San Francisco Bay Area now has the most ridiculous commutes in the country,[1] yet a couple Bay Area suburbs have gone bankrupt recently (in accordance with the other links that I posted in this thread). Increasing density is not just about maintaining greenbelts,[2] but it is also about creating more financially sustainable patterns of living.

Also, I find your idea of destroying everything to build more to be very odd. Surely, in physical terms, it should be quite possible to tear down a 2-story single-family home and replace it with a 4-unit, 3–5-story multi-family home. And in a functional market, you can clear out a 3-unit building to build a 5-unit building, because everybody would be able to find another place that they can afford. Developers don’t all have to be mega-developers with skyline-altering skyscrapers.[3]

But Prop 13 has perverse incentives against that, too: Creating a taller building will trigger a tax reassessment and increase your property tax rate; not to mention all the stupid costs of zoning and the approval process. Currently, only the mega-developers have the resources to build successfully. Thus, the rules that were intended to improve social equity have instead increased inequality.

[0] https://www.treehugger.com/urban-design/why-sprawl-was-cause...

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/11/02/job-boom-intensifies-t...

[2] http://www.sfhac.org

[3] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/6/12/the-power-of-g...
That's a good idea, for sure. But all that stuff can be faked too. And the most resourceful players will have the best fakes.
> Y'know it's kinda like Instagram models - they look like they're just cool people going on amazing vacations, but it's all actually paid for by sponsors, like the airline.

Superb analogy!
Good to know, I haven't used it. I haven't really done much with scripting in Lisp (I think I'm actually still within the first 10k written lines of it, for whatever that metric is worth) so for filesystem and OS tasks I haven't gone much beyond the standard and some sb-ext functions. I don't really have a need or desire to move from bash or python for scripting; it's the larger programs that make me wish I had Lisp around when I don't.
In metric-land, standard measurements for things are used to make things like that easily divisible.

E.g. IKEA cabinets are 60 cm wide (90, or 120 for larger cabinets), common countertop depth is 60 cm, and so on.

That way we get to use sane and consistent units and we can easily see/measure the middle of a 60cm piece of wood or whatever.

It also tickles me how eyeballing these things is apparently something desirable. Whenever I work around my house I measure everything twice to be sure...
Well, grammar doesn't have to map strictly one to one.

Microsofts LINQ is a good example of this. Instead of using SQLs natural language "select foo from bar", they reversed it into "from bar select foo". Just for autocompletion to work better (you don't know which columns are available until you've selected table). This doesn't make it any harder to understand than SQL, except maybe the very first time you read a query but you'll get over it in 5 minutes.

Most programming languages also require you to write seconds(10) instead of "10 seconds". It's no major problem.
Yes, that's an eerie tale. I'm reminded of The Last Trumpet Project by Kevin MacArdry. Featuring retroactive immortality through wormhole brain scanning.[0]

0) https://anarplex.net/hosted/files/last_trumpet/LTP.pdf
Good point actually. Maybe a huge part of the possible customers went for consoles instead.
Very interesting indeed.
I can see an era where the bandwidth used is paid for by the end user (low cost).

Data between seeds could also be chargeable but at a lower level than the end user - allowing the node to 'seed' the content and collect the bandwidth.
This incentives the network to sustain itself and get rewarded for increasing availability.

ISPs and/or even access points like Cafes and Hotels can seed for themselves getting the bandwidth $$

My understanding is Eth blockchain could also allow part of the 'coins' be given back to content creators? though I also understand there may be scaling issues.
I think she was exaggerating, slightly. In reality, we have a lot of laws that, on the face, have some purpose, but are being used in terrible ways. Even the fire code, frequently, is used to make places less safe.[0]

For the most egregious example, the California Environmental Quality Act was supposed to preserve the good parts of the environment, but the overwhelming majority of the times that it is used, and the overwhelming cost of complying with it, is against development inside cities where there is no pristine nature to protect.[1]

[0] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/3/28/how-fire-chief...

[1] http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/commentary/sd-ut...
I see. Sad to hear that.
yeah i have been working in company working on scale , hundreds of tomcats, scores of teams , big fat useless SRE team. We are also not able to scale to limits we want because of intrinsic reasons. But love to learn some real fundamentals and patterns .
The PWRficient processors started shipping a year after Intel's 64-bit mobile processor (Core 2). If PA Semi had delivered those chips two years earlier, Apple would probably have used them and put off the Intel switch.
This has nothing to do with eyeballing, I hope I did not give that impression. In the imperial measurement world there are also standard sizes of things but that's not the point. Using a fractional scale (not necessarily imperial!) does have benefits in some situations, such as measuring and working with some arbitrary object placed in front of you. Measuring twice is not unique to the metric system and is very common in the imperial unit world as well.

Not everything in the world is (or should be) provided by Ikea :)
Using the Brave browser with the block scripts option enabled seems to work, too.
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