skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm shocked that they are so brazen as to frame one of the categories as "entitlement spending".

What's wrong with calling them that, those are entitlements.

> Technically, retirement benefits are things to which retirees are entitled to.

Which is why they're called entitlements.

> This is the literal meaning of the word "entitle", not the pejorative that it's become.

It's only a pejorative to some and those same people think liberal is a pejorative. Nothing remotely wrong with the word entitlements, it's not pejorative to anyone who understand what the word actually means.
The i7-7700k will give you a slightly better performance in games, but mostly only in games. In Multi-threaded workloads - and isn't a cpu in this league mostly relevant for those? - the Ryzen 7 is a bit faster than the i7-7700, and very close to the 7700K[0]. This is before overclocking, which one would definitely do with the smaller R7.

Also, the IPC of the i7 is not that much better, as evident by the good gaming performance of the Ryzen line. The 7700K however with its higher clock arrives at a higher single threaded performance, making it reach higher FPS.

[0]: https://www.computerbase.de/2017-03/amd-ryzen-1800x-1700x-17... - application benchmark, article is in german, but the chart also readable without speaking that language.
Ask HN: What are some “damn good” fiction books to read next?
As an avid reader, I've been jumping back in to the world of literature after quite a long sabbatical. I purchased a Kindle back in December of 2015 and it's been a great investment thus far.

Basically, I read tons of non fiction and follow breaking tech news on sites like these so I get a little burnt out when I go to read books like:

- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (https://www.amazon.com/Algorithms-Live-Computer-Science-Decisions/dp/1627790365)

- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095)

I recently read:

- Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore: A Novel (https://www.amazon.com/Mr-Penumbras-24-Hour-Bookstore-Novel/dp/1250037751)

last fall and loved it; diving back into the world of fiction and fantasy. Do y'all have any other suggestions?
Possibly, but where I live we get the same sort of tourists from China. I'd love to see some of the more interesting parts of Chinese history in person, but I'm not entirely sure I want to brave a whole lot of people acting like that to get to them.
AMD Ryzen Threadripper demolishes Intel Core i9 in price vs. performance stakes
It should not be legal and probably isn't really. It is a basic morality thing? Contracts should be fair. If you book a flight then it should be clear your booking is subject to availability. If it is subject to availability then to maintain the principle of contractual reciprocity you should be able to cancel without incurring a charge as you too are 'subject to availability'. Currently it is not fair. They should not be overbooking fixed seats and expect people to help them out for bribes no less to the implied 'desperate for money' college student or a backpacker. What a disgusting world view that encourages. As to those who were subjected to violence and forcibly ejected - they should be able to sue for eye-watering punitive damages in the tens of millions (money being something so dear).
I have the 4930K processor (6 core, 12 thread processor from 2013-ish).

It's painful trying to do the same workflow I do on my desktop on a 2-core laptop. Because I have the power, i've started really using the ability to multitask to it's fullest. Having multiple VMs running, being able to run the full suite of unit-tests on every save, run linters/static analysis as often as it can, etc...

Builds don't slow me down, npm-install goes much faster and doesn't really cause any choppiness, I basically don't need to worry about CPU efficiency in any of my tools.

I feel it's more than paid for itself over the past 4 years (it was only like a few hundred more than the 4 core machine) in time saved alone, ignoring the reduction in frustration or distraction from having to wait on things to finish or wait for the stutters and stalls to stop.
The Chemicals in Your Mac and Cheese
SoundCloud reportedly has only enough funding to last for 50 days
This looks super interesting. I built out a spreadsheet of (very rough) projected financials for a business I was considering trying that was going to do something very similar; essentially gear rental for camping. I wasn't able to find a way to have it make sense as a solid business (margins were so tiny), but I still love this concept and would totally be a customer of a business that offered this. I'm moving to the Bay this month, maybe I'll give this a try! :D
Does your strong disagreement mean you think for most SOHO environments it's better to have ZFS without backups than backups without ZFS?
Right, but the efficiency gap isn't obsessed with net 0 districts, it is looking for excess wasted votes. No matter how you draw the line through your circle, the net wasted votes across the districts will be 0, so the state wide efficiency gap will always be 0.

I think it's actually literally impossible to use a straight line there for partisan gerrymanding, so it isn't a real useful scenario.
Chinese tourists in Thailand Buffet - All U Can Eat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBCLXZmMQNs

Children peeing and pooping on the floor on airlines (while being supervised by their parents)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GT0kj1AWSfc

Absolutely no shame. In some cases, you literally have to alter your society once Chinese tourists start to come in significant numbers, they are simply incompatible with many modern norms.
The Moon has water ice in spots (and its low gravity and lack of atmosphere make that pretty easy to get into orbit) that could potentially be used to stock up a refueling depot for exploration further out in the system.
Below 37MPH, I actually trust Tesla's AP (v1) a ton. At slow speeds, it doesn't nag you about putting your hands on the wheel very often either. I still pay attention (no phone reading, etc), but I've never had to take over control at low speeds.
Yeah, it's formally a part of the Java platform, and it's widely used, but I'd recommend becoming adept at using several different kinds of frameworks before I single one out. JSF, like all frameworks, will have advantages and disadvantages, and I'm sure there are Spring vs JSF holy wars, but the best advice someone can give a budding programmer is do not get caught up in that until you actually understand the underlying principles.
I'd imagine that a circle/sphere would add all sorts of manufacturing, engineering, and build (ie actual installation in the box) concerns.
I agree. I've been reluctant to click amazon links because I know ads will follow me around for weeks if I look at a single product.
That would be a neat option, but I don't think its possible at the moment. you have to take all or nothing.

You raise a good point though. If they could make electron more modular it would save on a lot of that bloat everyone always complains about. I bet half the apps could make do without audio, image processing etc
And the issue with this is the health care system, where the private companies get all the healthy individuals who can pay premiums, but the government has to pay the bill for those who can’t.

Single Payer would be less expensive than this.
This doesn't make any sense at all. CNAMEs don't help with running multiple sites on a single IP address, it's just a convenience in the DNS. More like a symlink really, it means 'when you're looking for X try Y instead'.

If you want to run a web server on port 80 without the server having root access there's many ways to do that, the firewall can rewrite the packets so they go to a different port, you can give the web server the right to open port 80 without root privileges, you can proxy the requests etc.
BloomAPI locks down $2.4M to fix medical record releases
Hi Walter,

I'm a fellow founder based in SZ, it would be great to get in contact. Your Myanmar-focused financial services startup sounds interesting. I always try to meet anyone doing something I find interesting :)

Could you drop me an email at gabriel@moju.io? Any other HN readers based in SZ, also feel free to reach out :)
From what I was told by my friend who worked at Bombardier - the company would fly their Toronto-based employees (who needed to work at Montreal) everyday from Toronto to Montreal and then back at the end of day.

He had to fly 5 days a week MON-FRI. And this is about 10 years ago.
there's some truth to this, but generally it's important to remember that a good portion of the pressure to "make the same song" originates with audiences. there's a delicate balance to strike here.
A 25mpg, single occupancy car going the same Oakland to LA distance would use about 15 gallons of gas. Or about 300 lbs of CO2 (*depends on ethanol content)

So a fully occupied PC-12 releases less greenhouse gases per person for the same trip.
Project for Sale: “Make Batch Files”
Q: What is it?

A: It's a visual drag-and-drop builder for Windows batch files.

Q: Wait... it's a desktop app? For Windows???

A: Yes.

Q: Are you retarded?

A: arrgghhhh....

Q: Where can I find it?

A: makebatchfiles.com

Q: Why do you sell it?

A: First, it does not fit well with my primary business (software documentation tools). Second, because it does not fit, it is a marketing orphan, i do not have time to market it. Third, I need some cash money for another project I am really interested in.

Q: What dev tool it was created with?

A: Delphi XE2.

Q: How much?

A: 3K$.

Q: How can I contact you?

A: popov.dmitri@gmail.com
because space is more than us and it isn't us. It gives us a non-nation based activity to pursue that is greater than the whole of earth. It represents new frontier, new resources and ways of thinking that transcend this planet. It is a form of evolution and of freedom that isn't shackled so much by our self-made problems of earth.
There are new mistakes to make and that's super appealing.
> NASA is made up of people, they can move freely.

I don't understand what point are you trying to make with this.
>Either way, this idea that you subscribe to a stream makes reconnection and place-holding (cursor) semantics difficult

This is true. It's also a problem if you drop a packet - you need to build up state again on the client side.

If you're writing a book about event sourcing, I should think you'll spend a good deal of time covering trading systems and order books since these are an area where event sourcing (AIUI) has been used for decades.
It's not for everyone...

My neighbor's daughter bought the house across street from her, but it was only a couple months before the epic yelling matches in their driveway started.

I think those Agile guys might be on to something when they talk about Separation of Concerns. =)
Wonderful video, thanks!
That's exactly it. Right now, barring government action, so long as I can keep students coming to my door there's no incentive to perform.

Schools like ITT Tech have shown, in my mind difinitively, that if you're willing to pay enough for student acquisition you can have absolutely terrible outcomes, still saddle up students with tens/hundreds of thousands of dollars in student debt, fail to get them jobs, and for some inexplicable reason they'll still keep coming.
I think they mean it is true in the same sense that "anyone can be president of the US" is true, e.g. true in theory, but in practice, it requires significant wealth which most do not have. I would have worded it differently than calling it a "lie" though (since it technically isn't).
Honestly no. I think to make this work you have to filter out inconvenient news which opens the path to manipulation.

I would like something like "bare news". Just report what happened but don't try to explain or editorialize.
Why do people do this on HN? Karma grinding or just promoting their xyz.net domain?

PS I found this submission while researching whether there is any discussion on HN about this uber&yandex cooperation.
The overall company is worth $3B though, right? Seems like a good deal for Uber since they do half the revenue of Yandex. Uber was never going to be allowed to win Russia and they can lower the money they were pouring into Russia, sans this one time $225M. Probably save more from however much they were hemorraging. Just like with the Chinese merger, I think this is a good thing. Gets Uber to stop burning so much money.
As automation and robotics advances, I'm sure that'll be true.

Right now, if you compare something like Curiosity against a geologist with a shovel and access to a small lab, the geologist's gonna win.
10% of your income for 20 YEARS.

Man, it is funny that people get mad at Bootcamps like app academy for charging 20% of your income for a single year....
Used car 'time bomb' complicates auto industry transformation
Sounds exactly like what MySpace users said about Facebook.
Thanks for the suggestion. Will try and share the results here
As an ancap... yeah, no. HN is far from it.
Meanwhile people are still dying for lack of access to healthcare, infrastructure is failing, education is remaining poor...

I agree with the slash the defense budget part, but NASA doesn't need 300B/y (and would have a hard time spending it even). They need ~30B/y (i.e. double their existing outlay) to do SLS and continue existing operations, and it needs to be in a lockbox of some kind such that future political swings require a huge amount of horsepower to disrupt it (like a congressional super majority vote).
Of course, as argued in the linked article. But I don't agree that it's very centralized as it is now, which is the context I responded to:

> The best indicator of how this is not accessible by everybody is how centralized this industry is nowadays
Maybe someone cleverer than I could? HN's markup is not amenable to achieving the desired effect AFAICT.
This. (Disclosure: I'm co-founder of Adioso/Volantio btw)

Just confirming the above: The no-show rate is actually relatively stable in _most_ cases, which is why airlines try and optimize for this by selling past physical aircraft capacity.

In some markets it's illegal, in which case the average airfares are often notably higher.

This can have a more extreme effect than is immediately obvious: Because "last minute" fares (the ones that often fill up the aircraft) are usually the highest price and are critical in how airlines are able to make flights profitable.

Additionally, the most common no-shows are those who have booked early (the cheap tickets), meaning oversell allows the airlines to make space for urgent last minute travellers when the earlier ones don't turn up.

Without catering for no-show, it's feasible that air fares could end up a LOT more expensive (potentially 20%+) to remain profitable, depending on the distribution of prices in the demand curve leading up to departure.

You can certainly not do it, but on average, customers end up worse off (and the market is relatively good at optimizing this).

The biggest problem (in our mind) is that airlines don't have a good "safety valve" in cases where things go wrong. That's what we (attempt to) fix.
Opteron feels o//
Not a lot. Most software isn't very parallel. I think 2 fast cores would be the sweet spot for most people, for the foreseeable future.

I think a question like this will get very biased answers, since most people aren't very inclined to post "paid a lot, don't really use it" and rather stay mum.

BTW taken out of context, "people with many CPU cores" would mostly consist of 8-core Android phone owners. They also do little with all those cores.
"Can anyone weigh in via personal experience: how much Chinese would I need to learn to avoid getting pigeonholed to tourist areas in these cities? Is Mandarin spoken pretty uniformly?"

I think this depends more on the traveler than on the city/nation. I don't think there is anywhere that language necessarily pigeonholes you to tourist areas - it's simply how comfortable or uncomfortable it makes you.

That being said, I think you would have very good luck in Hong Kong, for obvious reasons. Beyond english accessibility, I find Hong Kong to be the most fascinating and interesting city in the world. I love to be there and miss it when I am not.

If you can find some kind of personal connection there - a meetup or hackerspace or ... anything ... it is definitely helpful and will get you off the beaten path much more quickly.
We can't even cope with the environmental issues that we have on our own planet, so we avoid that and instead look to plaguing the rest of the solar system and beyond? Good grief.
The average MPG of a new car is only about 25, and the average age of cars actually on the road is over a decade. And 60MPH is a slower highway cruising speed than I've seen anywhere outside of big cities or congested areas. 75+MPH is far more common.
Why is job search such a hot topic with start-ups these days? Maybe I'm just not creative, but I don't see what urgent need should be there.

In general you just need a blackboard with contact data and short descriptions. Improvements are not needing to send your CV because the employers can just see it in your profile (feature is already there, at least in some). then searching, filtering and notifications are nice, so that you don't have to manually scan all offers. We also have that. Actual job matching is not possible, because descriptions aren't that detailed, CVs aren't that detailed and both job and applicant change in the timeframe of a usual hire too much. But we also have that, manual through head hunters and probably also automatic.

So, I can't find an urgent need. The market is more than full with job boards. And actually even big companies don't like to pay for these services if it's not about a key position.
I remember him offering double-digit mortgages, hostages, failed rescues, overall "malaise". The Carter era was a disaster. I respect his charity work and his service in the Navy but he was a terrible president.
Actually, Orion is already outsourced to ESA.
I don't know much about how DNA works, but by inserting ATGC sequences, does that not mess up the bacteria's replication process or something? How would the cell 'read' this encoded gif in the DNA? Would it try to build a protein because of it, or would it ignore the sequence? Do cells usually have a checksum-type of functionality to detect if their DNA is valid/unmutated? The article itself didn't make any mention, but could there possibly be negative impacts to the cell hosting this data by having its DNA altered?
If I had exactly 100 widgets to sell, I can't take payment for 105 in the hope that at least 5 people won't show up to collect their purchases. That would be straight up fraud as I am knowingly taking payment for goods or services I know I can't provide to some of my customers. If it happened as a one-off accident then of course I can give refunds and offer something in compensation, but if I make a habit of it then the authorities would almost certainly start feeling my collar.

Even allowing for the complex financials and T&Cs of the airline industry I really struggle to see how this is acceptable. If it in any other industry people would be arrested.
Gamedev is a good candidate. Compiling in parallel, running different processes that transform resources, running a not yet optimized game engine in debug build, etc.
Well, yes, though then the logo basically disappears.
Roman Lee in SF is quite brilliant. He's helped me, my cousin, and my brother with all our immigration questions and decisions.

rjlee@usvisaatty.com
They're now going to use robots to beat passengers up?
I just googled that. They apparently have an exclusive among major brands. Yuck. To be honest, for me, the last time I built a pre-made tower was 1994 or so. I'm really waiting for boards and CPUs to show up on Newegg/Amazon, at Fry's etc.
What's your experience that gives you such an impression?
From the article: "Cars are full of tech that gets outdated fast - so people are leasing, not buying"

What possible solutions are there for this?
Yeah, `x --> 0` works. Also `0 <-- x` if you don't want to include zero (and `x --- 0` if you don't have a shift key.)
Yep, although those aren't really very (at all?) popular yet :/
Who penetrates what?
What Insider's Say About Yahoo's Problems
Segment raises $64M led by Y Combinator
I think that trying to reach difficult goals will spark new innovation. Also, it's not like there's a direct trade off.
Indeed, I wouldn't say it's objectively wrong, but it's a big culture shock and can leave you feeling pretty upset if you come from a place where queuing behavior is more regular. Especially since so much of China is so crowded, so having people go in front of you "unfairly" can really screw you over, not just set you back a couple of minutes.
Anyone have any info on the amount of data that was encoded?

It looks like it was a low resolution image with 5 frames, so I expect it to be about 1 Kb, max?
With that environment and people, we could easily enforce C++ rules in the same way.

Stuff you don't want in C++ code can be rejected by a pre-commit hook which scans code. That header can't be #include-ed, that crazy operator can't be used, etc.

Also, with open source compilers, you can implement your own warnings. (Been there, done that; in the role of an embedded distro/kernel/toolchain person some years ago, I hacked g++ with custom warnings).

If there is something we don't want in C++, and it doesn't "grep" well, we may be able to diagnose its presence in the compiler and treat that as an error.
How likely is it than storing arbitrary data in a bacteria's DNA would allow it to create something dangerous for humans?
DNA of many organisms has "dead" sequences that currently don't do anything, but still get copied/replicated. (or are only activated under certain circumstances, which even can be programmed in some sense by adding specific other sequences around them)
You're right regarding sales/support responsiveness.

I've found the quickest way to get a Comcast rep on the line is to select the menu option that states "I'm having trouble submitting my bill payment." :)
I think it was just humans who were wrong. Every time (IIRC) that it's been indicated that humans were used as an energy source, said indication has come from a human. Human batteries are a "simpler" explanation for why the Machines want to keep humanity enslaved, and it's unlikely that any of the humans are really mentally prepared to recognize that they're actually the CPUs (and possibly even the data storage).
Why is that disappointing?

NASA today exists, in part, to do exactly that, and has benefitted tremendously from their SpaceX partnership.