skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a no brainer that the coming change will cause people fear for their livelihood. And fear is a great motivator. It will not matter if the fear of automation is true or not, there will be a lot unrest.
Your personal anecdotes don't prove OP's anecdotes wrong. I can re-assure you of OP's view with my own personal anecdotes, but I wouldn't go as far as to say you are "wrong".
Maybe digging is impractical in a lot of situations?
I was a fan of what was released initially, and thought the uproar was completely ludicrous. But I also didn't pay insanely close attention to the hype machine.

When my more "invested" friends pointed out all the things the developer said would be there, that weren't, I thought, "Well, it'll probably come later." And behold, now some are. Maybe more will come.

As a game, I probably lost 40-60 hours playing the initial release of the game. I treated it as a weird independent/art house game which was more about an experiment than about a crystalized game loop experience.

It was fun, and interesting, and what systems were present were pleasant enough.

Having played with the update, all of the updates are great and worth revisiting. It definitely changes the feel of the game.

It's not a "great" game, but what it is is great. You can fly around a universe and see things literally no one has ever seen before, including the developers. There are some mechanics to make exploring easier, some things which make you more powerful, and a loose, cryptic plot.

It's easily worth the 60 bucks, which is all you can ask of it.
I believe I saw a test where they put a white sheet over some ice in Greenland, and came back a year later. The ice under the sheet was multiple inches higher than the surrounding ice.
> intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), which are formed by the runaway coalescence of stars in young compact star clusters

How exactly would this work to produce something with a mass of 10^5 solar masses? Isn't that a bit large for the combination of a couple stars?
Clearly they did not create a “minimum viable” product if their customers were so unhappy with the end result. As a startup, they failed completely at determining what that “minimum viable” was.
Huh - I'm always interested in ways to make A/C more energy efficient. Squeezing and un-squeezing gas seems so COMPLICATED compared to how easy it is to heat things up. Entropy is a cruel mistress. Anyways, it sounds like this is the important bit:

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So Raman and electrical engineering professor Shanhui Fan made panels containing layers of silicon dioxide and hafnium oxide on top of a thin layer of silver. These radiate in a unique way: They send heat directly into space, bypassing the Earth’s atmosphere. The panels do this by emitting heat at infrared wavelengths between 8 and 13 micrometers. To these waves, the Earth’s atmosphere is transparent. What’s more, the panels reflect nearly all the sunlight falling on them.

For the new fluid-cooling system, the researchers made radiative panels that were each one-third of a square meter in area; they attached the panels to an aluminum heat exchanger plate with copper pipes embedded in it. The setup was enclosed in an acrylic box covered with a plastic sheet.

The team tested it on a rootop on the Stanford campus. Over three days of testing, they found that water temperatures went down by between 3- and 5 °C. The only electricity it requires is what’s needed to pump water through the copper pipes. Water that flowed more slowly was cooled more.

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So it sounds like how space stations kick out heat; The ISS uses that sort of thing[1]. You flow coolant through things that heat up, like solar panels or a warm environment, and then you pump it into these bricks that don't absorb heat from light. The coolant warms up the bricks, which emit that heat as infrared radiation. Planetside, I guess that you can't let the infrared radiation be absorbed by the atmosphere, or it won't cool anything.

So, maybe this could take the compression out of our current cooling systems - compress/heat up, expose to outside temp, let cool, decompress/cool, expose to inside temp, repeat.

My main question would be, is it capable of cooling beyond the ambient outside temperature? If so, how? I might be misunderstanding or missing something about how the 'blasting energy away as IR radiation' thing works.

[1]: http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/products/HeatRejectionRadia...
> serves as a building block for Proof of Stake networks.

Can you elaborate on this, as there is almost no mention of PoS in the post?

From a high level, your response to my previous comment can be interpreted as the validators being "hardcoded" upfront, which would be very different decentralization properties from PoW systems.

What assumptions does Tendermint make in contrast to PoW systems, and what applications do you see it being most useful for?
>Many economists say there is no need to worry ... specifically the Industrial Revolution during the 18th and 19th centuries – did not lead to major social upheaval or widespread suffering.

The fact that many economists state this is, if true, a pretty strong condemnation of the current state of that field of endeavor.
> Or maybe they are, but it consists of running a political party on that platform, encouraging people to vote them in.

> As a society, you can absolutely tolerate them without the use of force, at least until the point where they actually get the majority of votes (but at that point, they are the society, and you're an outgroup in that society).

You just answered your own question
I think the price hike is mainly due to decreased refining capacity, I doubt a hurricane in Miami/SF would have the same effect.
Virtual socialization is more of a shy extrovert thing. An introvert will get exhausted after a lot of socialization, virtual or physical.
A bartender is effectively at the helm of a revolving door of relationship opportunities.

There are very few jobs where simply "doing your job" gives you this opportunity.
As far as I know, no one has seriously tried to revoke the license on software that they have released under GPL.

The cases involving non-exclusive copyright licenses that do not specify a term usually just involve a couple of parties.

> I honestly don't believe that you can make such an offer allow man years of work to be built upon your offer, derive benefits for years based on providing such an offer and say sorry changed my mind.

That would be the argument defendants would use. In particular, they would use that to argue that "promissory estoppel" applies.

As I noted, non-exclusive copyright licenses that do not specify a term are revocable at will unless there was consideration or a substitute for consideration. Promissory estoppel is one kind of substitute for consideration.

If I had to bet, I would bet that a promissory estoppel argument would work to save the license, at least for people who already have copies.

People using GPL v2 (or other free/open licenses that fail to say anything about being irrevocable) and who want to ensure that if someone else ends up owning the copyright they will not try to revoke the license should be able to do so by wrapping that base license with something like the following.

(Don't actually use this. It's just an outline of the general approach one could take, written quickly. A real license should be drafted by a lawyer experience in software licensing)

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0. This license is called the "No Backsies License for <base license>".

1. Licensor grants you an irrevocable license to <name of software> under the following terms and conditions.

2. This software is dual licensed under both this license and under <base license>.

2. You may copy, distribute, make derivative works of, distribute derivate works of, run, display, and perform the software according to the same terms and conditions specified in <base license> for those activities.

3. You may sublicense <name of software> to others under the terms of this license. Your sublicensees receive all rights to the software that you received from this license or from <base license>, including the right to sublicense it. When you distribute <name of software> or a derivative work of <name of software> to someone else, you automatically sublicense it to them under the terms of this license.

4. Licensor will provide a <base license> license to anyone who receives the software from you, directly or indirectly, under conditions that according to <base license> result in them receiving such a license. This license is provided automatically, with no need for the prospective licensee to notify or contact licensor or for licensor to take any action.
Confusopoly: http://dilbert.com/strip/2010-11-21
If the Industrial Revolution is any analogue, there will be plenty of inter-state wars, revolutions within states and competing ideologies within a few decades...

The optimist in me says that there's been a period of 70 years or so without major wars between different state powers, and maybe MAD will hold up -- but in the theme of prologues repeating themselves...
This could be a really interesting discovery if it holds up. Astronomers have long known the existence of stellar mass black holes and supermassive black holes. But intermediate mass black holes (between, ~10^3 -- 10^5 solar masses) have been much more controversial. Now there are probably a handful of solid detections of IMBHs, but they are all in globular clusters. This is the first IMBH found in the Galaxy itself.

This is important because the formation mechanism of both IMBHs and SMBHs are unknown. There are two main competing models for SMBH formation: direct collapse and accretion. In the case of direct collapse you have a big cloud of gas that just collapses into a SMBH as the galaxy is forming. In the case of accretion, the SMBH starts off as a collection of stellar mass black holes which then merge into an IMBH, which then accretes gas to become a SMBH. A problem for the accretion model has long been the lack of any evidence for IMBHs --- this could change that.

It was also thought that if IMBHs existed anywhere, they would be in globular clusters. There the stellar densities are high enough that you might expect stellar mass black holes to coalesce into an IMBH in a reasonable amount of time (for reference, a globular cluster packs about a million stars in the space between our Sun and the nearest star). The fact that there is an IMBH in the galaxy might mean that it's considerably easier to form IMBHs than previously believed.
Ask the dumb questions
>I'd say it almost certainly does significantly change their chance of divorce

Where's your data to break the Null Hypothesis?

Though, if the author of the article wanted to back up their claim, they would attempt to show to what degree drastic changes in career/income had ok divorce rate.
If you want strong direction, then open world is the wrong end of the spectrum. Give me a large world with lots of complexity and I'll entertain myself for hundreds of hours. Give me a directed plot and I'll probably stop caring in about 4 hours.

It seems to me there are two very different views of story telling in games. One camp wants games to be strongly directed minimal choice stories with a very specific narrative and it's entirely ok to curtail player agency to tell that story.

Another camp thinks the opposite: player agency always comes first and there is no set narrative but the one that players create for themselves. This comes with the potential that said narrative can be dumb.

I don't think either camp is wrong, just different ways to tell a story. I really favor the later, and I really hate when my agency is abridged as a player because some writer wants to tell a story I don't care about. At the same time, I'm sure plenty of folks have the opposite viewpoint.
Wonder if dating is also tougher for these less outward-facing professions, so they'd rather stick together than be thrown into the meat market again?
It does seem hard to believe, perhaps they mean a square foot of mussels on a boat bottom causes drag equivalent to towing an extra 1700lbs?
>In the latter case, any professional shaming—which is the only shaming of Murray I’ve seen—is justified.

Why? The guy obviously wasn't trying to make a bad game. He was just inexperienced, got in over his head, and failed to deliver the product he wanted to build on the timeline he promised. I would have assumed if any community understands that failure isn't an unusual result in the face of ambitious goals it would be the HN crowd. Meanwhile since the game's release he has continued to work on that product to get it closer to everyone's initial expectations. I understand being disappointed by the whole thing, but the vitriol directed his way was somewhat disturbing.
They call it "opsec".
I don't know the infowars site and its reporting quality, the original article points to it. That's also why I was asking for more info.
Winners of the 2017 Turing Tests in the Creative Arts
"We should listen not only to economists when it comes to predicting the future of work; we should listen also to historians, who often bring a deeper historical perspective to their predictions."

We should also listen to ecologists.
No offense, but did you read the article? It's directly addressed:

> So Raman and electrical engineering professor Shanhui Fan made panels containing layers of silicon dioxide and hafnium oxide on top of a thin layer of silver. These radiate in a unique way: They send heat directly into space, bypassing the Earth’s atmosphere. The panels do this by emitting heat at infrared wavelengths between 8 and 13 micrometers. To these waves, the Earth’s atmosphere is transparent. What’s more, the panels reflect nearly all the sunlight falling on them.

A little further research shows that the atmosphere is opaque at numerous wavelengths and it's probably safe to assume that they intentionally targeted the opaque ones: https://i.imgur.com/eUmTltm.png
Well, it is "just a game"... an innovative, highly creative game with some really interesting features.

I suspect the real creative talent behind the game got used and pressured by product-manager types to ship far before it was ready because of all the money and promises involved.

Throwing a fit because of "honesty" in game pre-marketing is sort of like asking for your money back because a movie didn't fulfill the expectations set by the trailer. Yeah, good luck with that at the multiplex, but also keep in mind that many people got their money back for the game.

And anyways, cautious folks who expect absolute honesty from their game vendors, would do better to wait for the 3rd party reviews before jumping in headfirst with their 50 bucks.
Writing a CSV Todo App with Elixir – Part 1/3
I know that this is slightly off-topic so feel free to downvote if you feel so inclined:

There's a lot of money that goes into disaster relief and recovery. I think that's great and very worthwhile, thoughts on charity accountability notwithstanding.

What I wonder, though, is if there are any organizations that provide pre-relief (prelief?) for disasters. For instance, the comment in this discussion about the airlines overbooking for flights out of the Turks made me think, "we've known that this is a possibility for a while, could aid funds be provided to get folks to safety in advance?" I know that there are a lot of logistical problems to solve (where do they go? for how long will they stay? what about their lives/livelihoods at home? how does an organization maintain accountability with donations for a disaster that has yet to happen?)

Anyway, it's just a thought. I didn't know if such an organization existed, or if it's even feasible.
It offers something you just can’t get anywhere else, but it does so in a deeply flawed and annoying way.

This just described Elite Dangerous for me. Multiplayer MMO Descent:Freespace scratches a deeply satisfying itch that I've had since I was a kid, but that game's flaws are absolutely maddening.

Is there a word to describe the maddening annoyance at something being so close, yet so far away, for objectively silly reasons?
Curious, do they make allowances for swingers and the like, where the extramarital sex is consensual?
Saying that correlation is usually accidental is a stretch. Basing that claim on that (admittedly amusing) website is even more of a stretch: the time series on that website are all highly autoregressive with minuscule sample sizes, which makes spurious correlations extremely likely [1].

Speaking (very) roughly, the fact that they are autoregressive constrains how 'kinky' the shapes can be. Visually speaking, the time series will have a small number of inflection points and will appear interpolated between these points.

This greatly reduces the search space: you just need to line up a couple of kinks in a space of ten samples, or match two smooth and vaguely line-shaped objects, rather than find a convincing relationship for 100s of observations not tied together in time.

[1] http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.611...
Let's rewind a bit of history and look back to what the Democratic Party did to civil rights and a race for the next 100+ years after a bold Republican emancipated the slaves. People everywhere can do horrible, horrible things. Read your history books, and try hard to prevent history from repeating itself.
At the local level you are paying taxes for education. At the federal level you are paying taxes to keep dollar afloat. Guess what's cool? We can have the federal government spend more without raising your taxes at all!
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Well, let's imagine that happens before marriage. Anyway, the point is well taken, IMO, despite the possible nitpicking about specifics.

If it helps imagine going from "misc. personal appearance workers" to "massage therapists."
Wallets are not an essential component of a blockchain. Blockchains are simply a linked-list of data, with each new block of data ensuring the integrity of its previous block. That's it.
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I'm an iOS developer with over 2.5 years of experience in Swift. I began my career as a CPA and spent 5 years working in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments at 2 of the large public accounting firms (last promotion was to manager).

As a large part of my transition to iOS development, I built the iOS app Routinist, which helps you achieve goals and build habits by scheduling them into your daily routines. Since April 2016, Routinist has 70k downloads, 720k sessions, and 7.5k monthly active users. Through the process of building this app and 33 App Store releases, I’ve learned much about coding, user experience, design, marketing, and business.
Well considering you didn't give an example...
Which aspect? The respect, or the interest in research that equaled it? :)

I suspect you mean both. And I agree. I'd probably agree with all permutations of meaning here, actually.
I don't envy software developers under immense pressure to deliver a AAA title on time. Having to predict whether or not you can get that feature working flawlessly in 30 days isn't easy in a vacuum. Much less with your Marketing dept being overly optimistic with your prediction.
> Why are these necessary components of poverty?

Try getting a checking account or a share account in a credit union when you have a checkered history of overdrafts or bounced checks.

Frankly your comment reads like a person who's never been poor lecturing poor folks.

Frequently what we'd describe as a "financial decision" isn't a decision for poor people so much as a desperate attempt at keeping one's head above water. It's hard to do what you might call "the rational thing" when one is starving, has hungry kids, or has to choose between food, utilities, or medicine.
The problem is that with ACs/power plants, the net temperature will rise if you do this because it's a closed system.

Power plants and ACs are not 100% efficient; the power plant converts chemical/nuclear/mechanical energy into electrical energy, releasing heat from work lost.

Your AC will convert electrical energy to cool the air around you, but because it is not 100% efficient, the total temperature of the system will rise.

There needs to be a way to get rid of that lost energy and remove it from the system. If you put that into the ground, it's still in the system. Ofc, even when they try to 'beam the heat to space', much of it will end up staying in the system (earth) as it reflects on clouds / water vapor, etc.
What you are describing is not unique to math. It is required in any discipline. In fact, it is required in any social interaction. People are constant;y building common vocabularies. The words and phrases you use at work are different than the ones you use at the neighborhood block party. Even among different friends you have different vocabularies. "Elbow" means something different to plumbers, fishers, basketball coaches, and musicians. "Panama" means something different to a very small subset of your friends. Humans are constantly building common vocabulary, and everyone maintains several different vocabularies simultaneously.

To complain about the effort to build a common vocabulary is to complain about the effort of participating in any society.
I remember for a school project long ago I had to interview a bunch of people in nursing homes. Many of them had been in marriages that spanned several decades so I asked them how they made it work.

Shockingly everyone said basically the same thing: agreeableness. Supposedly, having low or nonexistent levels of disagreement, whether financial, moral or otherwise is the key.

So with this said, I'd be curious to know how your profession affects your agreeableness (especially in respect to power dynamics). I wish I asked if they choose to agree, e.g compromise, or if they and their partner were naturally agreeable.
Do bartenders, as an occupational demographic, suffer higher rates of alcoholism or alcohol abuse? - or lower rates owing to them seeing first-hand what alcoholism looks like? Does this include people who do bartending as a short-term job or gig (like students, the under-employed, people transitioning between careers)?
As much as I'd like to agree with the statement, I can't say the same about Vivaldi/Opera because they have left a bad taste in my mouth when they sued their former employee who went to work later for Mozilla for $3.4M (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5629255). That lawsuit was dropped later, but as a dev, I wouldn't feel comfortable working for a company that could sue me later in life.

By the way, I used to be exclusive on Opera many years ago and I loved how well it worked and how fast it ran, until Chrome came out.

I wouldn't say Vivaldi is good and Google is evil. I think they differ only on the degree of evilness.
Please. He was lying up until the last weeks to release, where no practical development on the game was taking place. I’d see your point if promises were made years before release and the company was unable to deliver. But there was clear malice here.
Hasn't Miami been sinking a bit over the past few decades? I would imagine it wouldn't take much storm surge to flood parts of the city. In that case, they really don't wanna be on that side of the storm.
My kids love LEGO, but the price of buying new sets seems very high and off putting to me. So instead only buy sets at xmas
Stdbool vs. Windows
In the late 1990s, when I was writing code that needed to run on an eclectic collection of platforms, the worst of them in terms of weirdness and unreliability was Unicos. Irix was probably second, and HP/UX third. As far as I recall, AIX was weird, but reliable. Solaris was solid, and Linux was pretty good, but still somewhat new at the time.