skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First: these are awesome, and thank you for sharing.
(Esp. Spa.mnesty.com - that's hilarious and incredible at the same time)

I tried timetaco.com but it's not doing anything. I tabbed my way through the day (it filled in today's date - 2017, then 8, then 10). I select 5 : 10, which is about 3 minutes in the future, and then clicked 'Generate'. It just changes the date (all three parts) to red, and doesn't do anything.
(I'm clearly missing something - what am I missing?)
> Benchmark's stake in Uber is worth $9.1b -- many, many times the size of their fund.

I don't get it - their stake in Uber is part of their fund isn't it? So how can it be worth more than the whole fund?
> I'm curious if they generate enough energy that they could do autonomous station keeping with thrusters in the base.

I cannot help but think during conditions where station keeping is really needed that the wind power would be at its highest, so it should be enough given the design of what is where.
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Very nice explanation. Thanks!

15 billion (as per a sibling comment) sounds like a lot, but relative to other, IMO not so important things like said plane, it's not that much.

However I wonder if it would be worth it or if that money would be better spent creating a Hubble replacement for example.
I use this, it's really cool. Thanks!
In a funny bit of coincidence -- we didn't post this link to HN :) -- we just published a blog post today comparing Timescale vs. native Postgres:

https://blog.timescale.com/timescaledb-vs-6a696248104e

tl;dr: 20x higher inserts at scale, faster queries, 2000x faster deletes, more time-oriented analytical features
Yeah, exactly. These permissioned blockchain implementations rely upon some centralised source of trust (eg the government, network permissions, etc.) and I don't see exactly what distinguishes them from a distributed ledger. The core innovation and the whole point of blockchains is that they are permissionless and trustless. Or am I missing something here?
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There was a lot of progress on GC in the nineties, a couple advances in type theory, a new way to organize databases, and at least two new families of compression algorithm. It's not all downhill.
Believe so, but the major limiting factor is the amount of mass that you can carry to eject out the back of your ship.

The Expanse series is predicated on the development of a reactionless drive that converts energy directly into thrust without expenditure of mass. If such a technology existed, you could get going pretty fast just motoring along at a constant 1-g acceleration, and have "gravity" too.
It goes back further than that, i thought.

The greeks had the same notion: one wasn't "a" genius, one "had" a genius - a spirit (the logos?) which was the inspiration and source of creativity and brilliance.

The whole idea was around invoking the logos to garner this brilliance.
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https://bitbucket.org/wolfpld/etcpak/wiki/Home - A very fast ETC texture compressor. Being 80x-500x faster than every other compression utility (with not that much quality difference) was quite fun.

https://bitbucket.org/wolfpld/usenetarchive - A set of tools to process and view large collections of usenet/mailing list messages. For example, an archive of polish usenet is 56+ million messages.
You know, if Python 3 had been backwards compatible everyone would've been using it 10 years ago and you wouldn't need to waste time creating stuff like this. And more to the point, we wouldn't all have had to waste tends of thousands of hours of programmer time porting to Python 3.
We'll probably always need electricity, so we need some solutions, but nothing compares with reducing consumption -- principally each person using less and having fewer people to use it. As in business, you don't only increase revenues to increase profitability. Often lowering costs is more effective.

Starting points include getting past the belief that happiness or society depends on electrical power as much as it does. We need some, but nowhere near what we're using.

Also accounting for costs that are currently externalized.
Yeah, new parent really need to make sure they get the screenings and be very aware of their child's hearing. This can slow your child's development in the critical 0-3 years. This is not a grow out of it thing, quite the opposite in fact.
Anyone does not mean most, you may infer he meant something different but I prefer responding to what people actually say rather than what I think they meant as I'm not a mind reader and neither is anyone else and much disagreement comes from not listening to others words because you incorrectly think you know what they're trying to say. Tons of people (tens of millions) in the west continue to struggle with basic life needs, poverty is not remotely a solved problem in the west and he quite literally said it was.
You mean when a colleague comes over and want to show you what they mean by doing it themselves and you're like, nope, won't work.
No, not WoW. You can leave WoW whenever you want and come back later. It also consumes huge amounts of time, so it's not at all the same.

Dota / LoL / CSgo matches last an hour and have severe penalties for leaving, and they are very popular at internet cafes so I wouldn't be surprised if that was what's being played.

Let's be honest: that highschooler will almost certainly spend as much or more time on Facebook than on their assignment. The poorer the person, the more likely this becomes.

Meanwhile you get to use that extremely-uncommon corner case to penalize everybody else just because you dislike video games.

Those people reserved their computer time like everybody else. You don't get a say in how they use it as long as they're following the rules. It's doubly important to protect a shared public resource: we live in an era where anyone can attack X as immoral, especially when X is harmless.
When you have quotes from key people like Giuliani saying on national TV:
“So when [Trump] first announced it, he said, 'Muslim ban.' He called me up. He said, 'Put a commission together. Show me the right way to do it legally.'"

There is strong evidence the immigration ban is targeted at Muslims. If it weren't for quotes like that Trump wouldn't have had an issue with the courts.
The study is interesting but actual deployment of any strategy is still out of Google's control, so I fear this tool will live as little more than an academic exercise, same as similar tools coming from academia, supernational organizations and biased lobbies. That said, Google is also actively investing in electricity generation and that kind of effort may come more useful, if pursued with determination, so we will see where they actually put their money, other than their mouth.
This is awesome. I'm very curious what sort of crazy amount of spam gets fed into that unprotected text box though.
Previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14984473
Is 0.0.0.0/8 unused or something?
since there are robotics people in here, would someone mind linking me to videos or blogs about tearing down/talking about the motors and drivers used in cutting edge robotic arms such as those used in the automotive industry?
Make no mistake, Google Search is absolute shit. The larger issue though is that in general search is absolute shit.

I have a sizable library in my 1 bedroom apartment. It's about 1500 books. For the record I'll say if you find a local carpenter to work with, you can store a ton of books no matter the space you have. Also use Thriftbooks, I love Amazon but it's amazing how cheap things are on Thriftbooks.

Anyway I am also a DevOps Engineer which means I live and breath technology. I have every Apple product, including Carplay and an Apple Router (hah i view those as pretty niche), I also have a Windows computer because I think the Surface does some cool things. Despite all this tech, I am CONSTANTLY AMAZED how much faster I find answers in books, and particularly reference books. It will really shock you and make you question your world once you realize how much info Google hides from you.

A GREAT field to look into is "Information Architecture". These people are really amazing and you'll see all of them, the entire field (which is extraordinary for an academic discipline) look down on Google. The analogy that comes up time and again is Google is to information what McDonalds is for food, a poor / quick substitute.

Additionally you need to realize that unlike your local library or other sources, Search has been so polluted by marketers (which to be fair is understandable, they go where the customers are) that you really have to question all of the info you've found. Literally every time you search there are literally 10 million marketers trying to get you something else than what you wanted.

I had a friend tell me the other day that "the real Google
is Google Scholar". If you're looking for high quality info you can't go wrong there, and you can then head over to www.sci-hub.io or whatever it is and pick up the PDF. Google Scholar gave me tremendous respect for the research colleges and universities put out, and the benefits they've accrued by taking the business out of information.
Yeah, the "No True Scotsman" fallacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
yeah funny how the ceo's response was like "most of you agreed and the rest said we didnt go far enough" or something to that effect. suuure....

completely delusional and/or disingenuous.
Don't buy heavily processed food in mainland China. The fresh food is amazingly fresh. I'm visiting my family in China right now, and love going to the market every morning.

I agree on the airplane food. Take a high speed rail if at all possible!
Watson is the name of the founder of IBM, so there's a pretty good chance his name was attached to various things over the years.
ARKit and the mainstream adoption of AR
There is a very probable & simple explanation you have missed.

It is common to use a "competent" person to impersonate the actual candidate for remote and/or contract positions, especially in H1B scenarios. I used to insist on a video with a whiteboard or a follow up in-person interview.

In this case they just couldn't find a female in quick time.
> Negligible, based on the statistics.

This isn't something that's actually known.

> The differences, if they even exist, are minuscule, while the gender disparity is enormous.

Small differences can dramatically change outcomes.

> It strains credibility to imagine that the root cause of the gender disparity in STEM employment is innate, especially since the disparity varies across cultures and subfields.

"It strains credibility" is another veiled argument from authority. The "root cause" can be different for every culture. Let's imagine that a culture forces STEM to be disproportionately desirable because of societal/economic pressure. It will push more people into the STEM field that wouldn't have joined "naturally".

Then, let's imagine a culture where there are no pressures either way whatsoever. The "innate" differences (if they are allowed to exist) will dominate the outcome completely.

Now let's look at some real-world examples:
https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-professional/2015/jun/2...

Would you suspect that more societal pressure (in either direction) is applied in Europe/USA or in China/India/Latin America?
Great writeup!

Didn't understand all of it, but still found it interesting to read about such a low level debugging
Actually it's not, the model optimizes for the minimum overall LCOE (i.e. kWh cost).

Their paper's abstract does say: "DOSCOE shows that to cost-effectively remove the last 10-20% of fossil fuels requires a
moderate price on carbon and either low-cost nuclear power or carbon capture and sequestration. Alternatively, a hypothetical zero-carbon source needs to have a net present cost less than $2200/kW (with a 100% capacity factor) to displace existing fossil-fuel plants."
agree, strawman basically. many invalid points by this biologist will post later
http://www.notematics.com - AI Note-taking assistant for sales calls. Learning AI & building this has resulted in a lot of fun & personal growth!
On the pop layout I have a bunch of keys that are used for shortucts. You could remap any of those to CTRL + ALT + Shift + Insert or whatever other combos you hit often. Also, tying numbers on crackle is as easy as typing capital letters so I don't really miss the dedicated numpad (but no 10 key typing of course).
In the modern world, logging should be treated as tracking, because it usually is.
Sweet! I've been wanting to make something similar for my local transit line (they have a public JSON API) but I've been wondering how best to structure it.
It took me longer than I'd like to admit to get around to reading it, but that book's an absolute classic if you like the story of how things are built.

A few others:

* Kerry Nietz - FoxTales (FoxPro, mostly pre-Microsoft)

* Mary Walton - Car: A Drama of the American Workplace

* Chase Morsey Jr. - The Man Who Saved the V8 (Ford's flathead V8)

* Dealers of Lightning (Xerox PARC)

Related to that last, there's also a great Youtube video on the development of the laser printer. It goes into all sorts of details regarding the design of the laser scanning system, some corporate politics, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_Z6JNnIXgo&t=3297s
Playing games and other "frivolous" activities are a primary source of learning computer literacy for children. If you say poor kids can't play games on a public computer, you are putting them at a serious disadvantage compared to their wealthier peers, who are much more likely to have access to computers at home and generally have more computer time and latitude. You are putting an additional burden of restriction on an already disadvantaged group.

Years ago, I sent my mother-in-law our old computer when we upgraded, and I made sure to include kid-friendly software on it so my very poor nieces and nephews would have reason to get on their grandmother's computer when they were at her house. I saw this as a very important element in trying to make sure they didn't wind up on the wrong side of the digital divide. At the time, computers were not nearly as central to modern life as they are currently.
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Customer requests help the process with RDS along :)

https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/issues/65
I remember the first time I went to my CTO to get a retention raise and, frankly, how easy it was. I think you're right in that there's a decent amount of money left on the table because the managers don't reach for it when they can.

That being said, I've always been able to get _SOME_ money for retention, but I've not always been able to get enough. If they go interview somewhere else and their current salary is $120K, it's entirely conceivable they could be getting an offer of $160 with a bonus structure that's better.

I've even encouraged employees to leave before when it sounded like they were going to get put into a position for growth that we couldn't offer. If they're already feeling stifled or short changed enough to go looking, any move you do to keep them now is just delaying the inevitable. If I let someone leave with a clear conscience, that's someone who could come back to the company even better than they left (it's happened a surprising amount of times in my career). It's also someone who can help me and/or my company in the future, whenever our paths may cross again.

I have followed managers to companies and I've had employees follow me to companies. If you just adhere to the damn golden rule things are a lot easier for everyone involved.
In larger environments this is exactly what process exists for.

Even the nicest manager and teammates in the world don't have to proactively call someone out on being incompetent if every sprint their tickets are going unfinished, etc. And with the tooling, it's an automatic paper trail.
Small differences can sometimes dramatically change outcomes, but that's not a response, it's just handwaving. You have to specify the mechanism by which that particular small difference would result in an 82/18 split for CS, but a 65/35 split for mathematics.
Sure, but Snap and Pop on a keyboard named Crackle? Way more fun.
According to the chart in the wikipedia article, Hinkley Point C will have a strike price of about £93 per MWH. In comparison, ground solar is 80 onshore wind is 62 and offshore wind is 102.

Note that the Hinkley C strike price is set in 2012 currency and will be adjusted for inflation, so will actually be significantly higher when it goes into operation.

It can't be directly compared to wind strike prices for current projects which are priced in the year they go into operation.

Offshore wind prices are falling rapidly due to intense competition, new technology, and economies of scale. Nuclear, not so much!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/10/02/cut-throat-co...
I'm guessing funds are usually measured by invested capital, rather than how much they are currently worth.
https://github.com/lchsk/xstarter

Never planned to make any money out of it, I've made it because I needed it, and to play around with building a unix tool in C. It's pretty simple but it's definitely one of the projects I've had the most fun working on and I still have plenty of things I want to add.
I don't see why Amazon is the only company privileged to grow. The only reason they are capable of operating right now (as in - on their low margins) is the sheer size they had reached by this time - and they are going nowhere but towards becoming the sole monopoly in the sector.

That is - all of the power and a relatively low amount of taxes; given to their investors.

Here's another bummer: why are citizens forced to pay for the social security that is provided by the government to Amazon? For example police, roads and the airports that are the key parts of the infrastructure that are making Amazon work?

You could make a point that they are not making cash for the investors today. But the investors are making a fortune by having enough power to affect our living. I don't see why this should be in private hands and not a part of governmental institution in this case as they do not pay taxes for the same reasons.

On the other hand - it would be interesting to see Amazon becoming that hugely low-margin business that is only allowed to stay afloat by keeping their monopoly on the market but also keeping the prices low because otherwise there would be another competitor soon enough.
His argument from the wider variance in male IQs directly supports the statement of "fewer high IQ women", given some definitions of that term (i.e. where exactly you place the cutoff for high IQ). His follow up served to clarify the ambiguous term. I'm not sure where you're coming from here.
Recycling companies stockpiling and landfilling glass
let me shed some tears while you see the need to factor in private school.
> Well, I did say early on that such hypothetical discussions would feel off-topic in response to an article about an actual class-action lawsuit based on current law. Not off-topic as in verboten, but in the sense that such un-scoped discussions would probably be meandering and pointless.

You are welcome to feel that way, but many disagree (I've had very many abstract discussions on HN less related than discrimination legal theory is to this article), so your opinion on irrelevance here is irrelevant. If you do not want to entertain any ideas which are not recapitulations of the content of the article and related sources / irrelevant facts about parties, dates, politics, etc., I cannot help.

That being said, child labor should be clearly irrelevant here, as adults are considered citizens with full rights who can legally consent to a contract. Especially when young in this context can be 30 years old.

I would gladly go into depth about alternative solutions to discrimination as a societal problem, which would be less in the category of thought crimes, if you are willing and able to entertain hypotheticals.
Let's go! Who's with me? How much stronger do my bones need to be to live on the 1.7x gravity NeoEarths?
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She actually addresses the 'fascism' part toward the end, noting that Memo-man assigned specific moral values (and excluded other) to what he labels conservatism, but that specific set of values actually matches fascism. I do not take this to mean that the guy explicitly (or consciously) is facist, but that his values lean that way.
So this is based on Postgresql. How does it compared to other solutions that are written from scratch to be a time series DB like influxDB?
"Only exact literal words count for meaning" is the only fair way of interpreting any given nonfictional writing. Without that, you have nothing to stop yourself from falling into mass hysteria, conspiracy theories, witch burnings and the like, based on nothing more than a bunch of preconceived ideas about people you happen to have in your head.
Unless indicated otherwise, source [1] is used.

I read a bit about this when I first heard about it approximately a year ago, and as far as I can tell, there's no clean solution. There are essentially two main components of the opioid crisis:

1. Overprescription of opioid CPDs (controlled prescription drugs).
2. An influx of heroin provided by the cartels over the southern border.

In order to make headway in this issue, both of these sources need to be addressed ASAP. I know that for some people weaker painkillers do very little for them (vicodin does very little for me), but excesses in peoples prescriptions (getting 30+ when they need <10) and increasing prescription rates over the last two decades are huge contributors to the current crisis. And, despite the fact that border security has recently been taken up as a mantra for arbitrary bigotry, it might be necessary to qualm this crisis. I hate to say it, but if the wall could help, then building it might not be such a bad thing.

Some important points:

1. Opiate and benzodiazepine CPDs cause more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined, and have since 2002 (25,760 deaths in 2014).
2. The population of abusers of heroin is approximately one tenth of the population of abusers of CPDs. However, the number of deaths due to heroin is approximately half of those due to CPDs.
3. From 2002-2011 the number of CPD abusers initiating heroin use was 3.6% of the total number of CPD abusers 2002-2011, but was 79% of new heroin abusers because the size difference between the CPD/heroin abuser populations.
4. In 2013, the CPD abuser population was estimated to be 15x the heroin abuser population. In 2013, it was estimated to be 10x.
5. In 2013, 78% of heroin admissions had been in treatment once before and 27% had been in treatment five or more times before - in other words, the relapse rate is extremely high.
6. Comparison between opioid medication prescription rate [2] and deaths due to heroin OD per 100000 [1, pg. 55].

For anyone who isn't alarmed by the opioid crises, here's a statistic on deaths in the USA due to heroin overdose by year (which the CDC estimates is undercounted by as much as 30%!):

2007: 2402

2008: 3041

2009: 3278

2010: 3036

2011: 4397

2012: 5927

2013: 8257

2014: 10574

2015: 12989 [4]

And don't forget the 250% jump from 2013-14 in Fentanyl-related deaths [3]!

1. https://www.dea.gov/resource-center/2016%20NDTA%20Summary.pd...

2. https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/prescribing.html

3. https://www.deadiversion.usdoj.gov/drug_chem_info/fentanyl.p...

4. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm655051e1.htm