skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who are you?
A/S/L/Job title? just curious..
Few years is eons in this field.
the majority of usage goes towards power generation (https://water.usgs.gov/edu/wateruse-total.html). urban areas consume the power, but they dont produce it. they hide their water usage in the rural areas.
If you speak out for yourself, awesome. Just as it's awesome that Quinn Norton felt able to take on Scoble herself, including threatening violence if he didn't back off.

But not everyone feels able to, or not everyone are strong enough to be able to fight off an attacker.

And sorry, but it's not always going to be possible for bystanders to tell if you're able speak for yourself and choosing not to, or if you're terrified of someone.

In this case, note that the article involves lengthy attempts at escalating concern and attempts at defusing the situation during which it is clear that the first woman is too drunk to know what's going on. After which Quinn takes direct action. In the former, the person in question clearly was not able to look out for herself (that's different from whether she the following morning, after having sobered up, would have liked things to continue), while nobody else had to stand up for Quinn.

Nobody is saying we should step in instead of you if you're able to take care of yourself. But we also shouldn't stand by and let you get assaulted if your for whatever reason isn't in a position where you can. And that's not about gender - women shouldn't stand by quietly either.

I do agree with you in the limited extent that it could have been worded in a gender-neutral way: Guys can be victims too. It's not specifically about helping women, but about stepping in if someone might be in distress or are unable to meaningfully consent to something.
A friend of mine works in a commercial real estate consulting company. One of his former co-workers was non technical, but kept insisting they use Mongo for their projects. He believed it would automatically boost the performance of a system. I guess he thought of it like installing a turbocharger in a car.

I have no idea what his sources were for this, but it signals Mongo's marketing power to me if a non developer would become so avid about it.
> Healthcare

We'd have to either normalize suicide or prevent aging in order to get to a world where the demand for healthcare is basically met for everyone. Before we even get there, we've still got a lot of people whose healthcare costs are infinite with current technology.

The NHS is fantastic, it doesn't operate in a post-scarcity environment.
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> "This means more time to implement JavaScript features" - yes, because JavaScript isn't getting enough features fast enough :-p

AFAIK Mozilla does not drive the evolution of ECMAScript (not on their own anyway), so it would be a way to provide new features faster, providing better feedback during phase 3 (and possibly even phase 2) and providing time to implement features they could not so far (e.g. ES6 TCO)
Yeah, but this one G+ is useless so they will not kill it.
I think the point of GP is rather that VPS shared hosting is ubiquitous, i.e. "host on a shared machine, get hacked sooner or later".
Almost, yeah.

Mastodon, and conceptually others like Gnu Social, are twitter-like alternatives, but that's not fairly telling the full story of their capabilities. These platforms bring with them decentralization benefits like classic email does. Remember when so many people's email addresses were not something like @gmail.com or @hotmail.com? When they used their own domain names (either personal, or for their organization, etc.), such as joe@whatever.net, or jane@something .org, and lived on their own servers, though could still interact - that is, email - people from other domains, servers? Mastodon - and again others like Gnu Social - can, and in fact SHOULD live on separate servers and domains...though still allow for interaction. This is the bigger benefit, and personally, i believe what makes mastodon and other similar platforms pretty cool.

Now, the benefit of decentralization above may not be compelling enough for someone on a personal basis to set up/manage their own server...and for that, there certainly are several "largish" mastodon servers where you could create your own account...and STILL interact with folks on other servers, etc.

I acknowledge that i sound like a salesperson for mastodon - i assure i'm not. I'm just a fan of decentralized platforms, and admit that mastodon's UI is easy to use. But if you're curious, i invite you to start an account, and see for yourself. Worse case, you can always abandon it if you really dislike it. Visit https://joinmastodon.org/ and scroll down to the part that helps you choose which instance to join...if you're stumped, simply join the main/first one (https://mastodon.social)

Cheers!
Bill Gates invests $1.7B in U.S. schools
(Genuine Question)
Is an article only considered good if it generates a large discussion?

What about if people read it, found it thought provoking, but didn't have anything to add, to discuss?
> If I turn them off, half of my mails still get sorted somewhere that I cant see.

When the tabs were first enabled, I deselected all of them except the primary tab & haven't had any problems. The primary tab is essentially my one tabbinbox. I did...

Gmail.com > Settings > Configure Inbox > deselect all except primary

Or do you have a different issue?
Using one small example to try to make an extremely large argument, is the core to what has been wrong with your entire premise in this thread.

Meanwhile, I responded to your premise about US technological inferiority (that the US has to steal most/all of its technology) with a massive example list that demonstrates most of the modern technology world was in fact invented in America. That's not much in dispute though, it's actually universally understood.

Europe is rapidly falling behind China and will soon be the third best technology region behind the US and China. You can see that represented in its lack of meaningful technology companies of scale. Where is Europe's Alibaba, Tencent or Baidu? They don't exist.
Google’s AVA data set raises the bar for identifying human actions in videos
It's still a sore spot. It was like a knife in the ribs. A really long knife. Serrated. And floppy. Spinning, too. Laced with Carolina Reaper sauce.
Here's a paper she edited on corruption. The conditions are there: http://www.pnas.org/content/112/34/10651
Just wanted to say, props to NYT for the beautifully designed article.
Since it sounds very similar to RPython it probably does both: it generates a regular (native) interpreter, and generates and merges a JIT inside that interpreter (with all that implies of e.g. tracing and runtime code generation).
In the first place that's not what I said, thus straw man on your part. Secondly, surely if the UK cannot provide enough staff from the existing UK population the question should be primarly how to address that, rather than the easy fix of stealing other countries' talented people; thirdly, no one is talking about zero immigration; fourth, current policies do not mandate that EU immigrants must find work; fifth, what happens in future decades if the UK still needs cheap workers - going by your logic, why not invite the entire world to come to the UK? Sixth, EU immigration has lowered the wages of British labour; seventh, surely rather than the ponzi scheme of bringing in cheap labour we should all accept that we need to treat workers with dignity, pay them a proper wage and if prices need to rise to enable this then so be it.
Ajax was invented for Outlook Web Access.

I guess Gmail brought it to the masses, along with a decent amount of free storage.
Possibly worth remembering: Iceland (and Greenland, where the vikings hung on until the fourteen hundreds) had significantly warmer climate a milennium ago.
Well, I guess it's a matter of preference, then, because I definitely feel like having to press 3 keys instead of one is indeed a problem when you have to do it four or five times per sentence :)

A side note, btw, regarding CTRL-[ : it seems not to be well known, and it doesn't work on things that use "alt" to access file menu (like gvim), but using alt + <normal mode key> in insert mode instantly drops to normal mode and execute that key. For example, I usually leave insert mode by doing A-j or A-h, I never hit the ESC key.

My favorite trick is `A-e a` when inside parenthesis to jump just after it and still be in insert mode, like when writing parameters to a function and jumping out of parameters list to add the `{` character.
44 year old male in Chapel Hill NC. My $dayjob title is "Solutions Architect" and my side-project / startup title is Founder/CEO at Fogbeam Labs.
Biddle: self-hosted application distribution for Node.js
The comments here are giving me more questions than answers...

I genuinely don't know what it's about. At my university, the work to do (5 years in my case) existed out of studying for exams, sometimes group projects to build something (not something usable outside of a presentation for points), and in the last year a thesis (not at all as publish-worthy as a phd paper). This spanned "bachelor" and "master" but those names were actually retrofitted to an older system.

The article and comments talk about labor by students in university.

My university was in Europe. Please enlighten me, do students do actual labor in US universities? I'd love to understand what this is about. Thanks!
Ultimately you're not going to get the best deliverability unless you have access to the DNS records you are sending from, because you won't be able to pass DMARC.

However, you can still pass SPF and DKIM checks by using your own domain, which involves taking advantage of SMTP's envelope sender address. This can get you acceptable deliverability, assuming good IP, non-spammy content, low volume sending, bounce management etc.

There's a pretty good StackExchange answer here that explains the differences between SMTP envelope and message aspects in more detail: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/30732/why-is-it....

There's also a good MSDN blog post series on the various email authentication techniques and how to get them working: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/tzink/2013/04/24/how-to-set...

The gist: set up an address, and SPF and DKIM on a domain you control, and use that address as the SMTP envelope sender. Then "spoof" the FROM header.

The caveats: this technique is still used by some spammers; some clients will display "From: (your domain email) on behalf of (actual sender)"; some MTAs use SenderID which applies SPF to the FROM header's domain; some (but not most) providers almost need DMARC to get bulk email to the inbox nowadays.
That happened about 50 years ago in the developed world. A well off family in the mid-1800's would purchase a new set of clothing once or twice a year. Each person would have maybe two or three pairs of shoes. They had enough funds heat their homes during winter. Poor people had far less. By the 1950's, a developed economy could easily provide that level of comfort to everyone. We just (mostly) chose not to.

Today, it's quite cheap (relative to average incomes) to provide for basic needs if you define basic needs to food, a few sets of clothing and a heated place live. Problem is, we define that as being in deep poverty now. Now most people living in developed economies include things like 12 years of basic schooling, health care for most ailments, a dozen sets of clothing, reliable home heating, indoor plumbing, various in-home kitchen appliances, indoor plumbing, communications tools, some entertainment, the means to travel many miles every day, etc, etc as "basic needs". 100 years ago, at an absolute level anyway, this was an upper class level of wealth.

In other words, the bar constantly rises as society's overall wealth increases.
I've gone my entire life owning at least one pair of skis at a time. Although it's a physical object, the sport of skiing brings me a lot of joy. Could be synonymous to computers, it's the activity of developing|coding|building something that brings me joy, not the "thing" itself.
24 year old male in Boston. Software engineer at a startup.
Indeed, the example image shows html rendered plain text. Not monospace.
Or the classic example of Craigslist.

However, for all these projects, the UI may be relatively primitive, but the UX is outstanding because it's stripped to exactly the things the user needs to accomplish what they're trying to do.
So the list of offenders contains only those sites that run Coinhive in the background so the visitor is unaware?

[Note that the 'h' in Coinhive is lowercase, perhaps fix that on your site. Also, the site's title should be Who runs Coinhive? and the text above the domain entry field should read Let's Expose!]
That's really the question though:

Who produces the food, water, shelter?

What are the required incentives for them to continue dedicating their scarce time to continuing to produce it?

What are the incentives or rewards for them to invest in the infrastructure, equipment, etc for them to create that?

Who maintains it and how are they compensated for doing so? What benefit do they gain for committing their time to the endeavor while everyone else enjoys the fruits?

Air is an example that actually fits this well. With air, distribution and production are handled by systems that don't require people to construct and maintain. All of those costs go away.

I don't see a point where post-scarcity is realistic until scarcity of time can be addressed.
Why will unionization solve the glut of PhDs? If there are already too many grad students when conditions are miserable, why will improving the conditions reduce the supply?
Just like when it comes to GIF, there's the "correct" pronunciation, and then there's the one that makes sense.
>What I find most impressive about the DotNetAnywhere runtime is that it was developed by one person and is less that 40,000 lines of code!! For a comparison the .NET framework Garbage Collector is almost 37,000 lines.

Keeping the code base small is a double edged sword. The trouble with everything going web-based these days is that script kiddies (myself included) should have some awareness of how memory is being managed and when to worry about holding IEnumerables in memory. Your write-up here is interesting and it's the first I've heard of Blazor. This is all very fascinating you have me reading the codebase now.
I was going to say "what about research projects that only a billion dollar company can absorb", but now that I think about it an industry consortium seems like a better outcome for society than a monopoly dictating the industry's focus and creating artificial scarcity. It's undoubtedly less efficient, but spreading the work around many organizations reduces the "bus factor" and the duplicated effort of competing incompatible standards.
Not a germanophobe; but that the trajectory of a single autocratic western empire (what would result from this police force in my view) is not a new idea, and infact the EU is to some extent simply an economic-focused philosophical follower-on of the holy roman empire, which in turn was the philosophical follower-on of the actual western roman empire.. The fact that the german central bank dominates the economic discussion does make for a bit of fun double entendre however.. which is not to say that this is either good nor bad - i'm of mixed feelings as concerns our view of historical systems..
it's just rediculous that it pretends to be some sort of 'free market democracy'

> All answer to democratly elected politicians.

In much the same way that when acting in cabinet, the 'prince electors' were still subject to their local populace.. it is a second tier.
Mastodon has a single-user instance mode: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/blob/8392ddbf87f5522c4...

Most instances would federate with you immediately since they're on a blacklist model, but some instances (such as awoo.space) operate on a whitelist, meaning they'd have to vet you first.
Yours is a very novel, clever idea! Being a fan of decentralized platforms, i sort of hope that these platforms get their UI, set, etc. designed in so simple a way in the future, as to allow (non-techies) to manage their own future...but what i forget to think about is not the "how", but the "why"...Your idea certainly offers a good motivator for enticing people to hop on the decentralization train, and legitimately be in control of their own data. Thanks for sharing!!
Medium adds paid paywall
Product Owner is a terrible name and Scrum sucks
In Germany: https://www.floss-shop.de/de/hardware/
All those who relied on Google for things like Reader are much better off running their own news aggregator (the Nextcloud "News" [1] app being a good example of such). Especially given the latest spate of censorship by the likes of Youtube (-> Google), Facebook, Twitter and others I'd say it is irresponsible to put this task into the hands of an entity like the aforementioned. Irresponsible both because there is no way of knowing what they decided to filter out of the news stream and because it makes it even easier to profile their users by tracking what you read, for how long you read it, etc.

[1] https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/news
Surprising to see iptables articles still being posted. Guess with the article being from a decade ago it makes sense, but here?
> Ah, but what is a "full life?" Might someone believe that they need something more rare in order to attain it?

That's indeed a fuzzy term right here. Can't come up with a better one, though. I'm thinking here of a life of an average person, though, not about outliers.

> Isn't "post-scarcity" just taking the limit as supply reaches infinity, and thus just another term for "asymptotically cheap?" Do we really need a "fresh new" economic theory to talk about this?

Maybe? Whether you call it "post-scarcity" or "most stuff is asymptotically cheap now", our current economic theories (and practice) don't handle near-free things well.
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Outside the US, you can do OTC derivatives via Spread Betting. Eg, give me/take from me a pound for every point this stock moves for/against my bet. Most spread betting providers in the UK carry NASDAQ stocks.

Note the downside is unlimited when you short via spread betting. Eg, there's no maximum value of a stock, so you might get proper f'd.
First()/last() aggregates in Postgres
Basically markdown output converted to html
Generally I buy the argument, but I don't think the fact that it's easier to act when viewing from mobile was given enough weight. I think that probably made a huge difference. I'd love to see those stats.
Basically this, except the 3/8" drive version (which Snap-On apparently no longer make)

https://store.snapon.com/Handled-Drivers-Square-Drive-Handle...

That's the only tool from Snap-On that I've ever owned, and since they don't make them anymore, I'd just about fight to the death to protect this thing.

A friend of mine once made the comment that "Snap-On tools feel like sex". That might be a bit of hyperbole, but they are very nice. But crazy expensive. I think that driver handle cost me around $80.00 back in the 90's.
In more than one industry I work with it's nigh on impossible to gain access to DNS records for bulk mailing purposes. Third parties may hold control over domains, and your emailer may not be important enough to get someone to actually put in a work order to get records changed etc etc.

Not always easy to fix the human side.
Yes, learning Kana and Kanji is very important. You'll learn Kana in less than a week but it takes time to learn Kanji. there are 2136 characters which are high school level.

I followed this thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/6q4h6a/a_...

What I have done so far:

1. one chapter of Genki Elementary I
2. 60 Kanji via memrise and "remember the kanji"
3. Given up on Duolingo till I read Genki
4. Use an app called LingoDeer, it is awesome.
5. Started watching Japanese anime. Haven't understood anything but "thank you" and "good morning" yet.
Make sure to look at the revenue growth rate before you short (or encourage HN to do so). What happens if that growth rate continues for another year or two, and they have a standard growth multiple? You’ll lose your shirt.

It seems like you’re trying to value the company in a manner that doesn’t make sense for this stage of a company, and you could lose a hell of a lot of money.

For the uninitiated in the stock market: you shouldn’t really be shorting anything, especially not growth stocks, and abso-freaking-lutely not immediately following an IPO.
In the US graduate students typically do "grunt work" as part of their program. For example, you might be a research assistant, where you help out with your professor's research. Or a teaching assistant, where you help a professor teach a low-level/intro class (things like grading or preparation of class materials). For this you receive a small stipend.

The original idea was that a professor takes you under his or her wing to teach you and help you with your research and in exchange you help out the professor with what they are doing. Nowadays graduate students feel like they're just being treated as cheap labor without the professor/university holding up their end of the bargain.
Probably Amazon.
Still the problem is the people working mindlessly, not the books.

The alternative would be to not ever improve our knowledge.
I was making an uninformed joke. You are right, it's right there in the wikipedia article: "Code can be compiled JIT.".

Let me repeat: God approves of JIT compilation.
I've always been convinced that a true post-scarcity economy requires some pretty sophisticated AI and automation for the reasons you specified. A potential solution for technological unemployment is UBI, and UBI is enabled by the technologies that cause the unemployment, which is appealingly tidy in my opinion.
9.7M-year-old teeth fossils raise questions about human origin
Does Terry still post here? I just went to my settings to turn on dead posts.
I use US/intl (also the new Dutch) layout for Nordic languages, Dutch and German. You get all the characters for Scandinavian languages easily with the EURkey layout (AltGr + aow for äöå). I did bind en-dash and em-dash to AltGr + - and AltGr + _ respectively because I use those a lot.

I have also tied CapsLock to the Nordic layout (Swedish/Finnish), so when CapsLock is on, you can blindly type and get those öäå characters on a regular qwerty layout. I never seem to use that, but at least I'm rid of CapsLock. ;)

I write both code and text in different languages, and in international environments just getting used to a standard qwerty layout has turned out to be the most efficient option.
WebAssembly has a lot of potential. It would be nice to write web apps in a language other than JavaScript that can compile down to WebAssembly and run in the browser.

Will there be a day where we can make desktop class apps that can run in the browser and not have to wade through the insanity of what is out there now...Should I use ReactJS, VueJs, Flow, Svelte, AngularJS, EmberJs, nextJS, on and on and on.

Pick an approach and standardize? Or just let people ship large WebAssembly binarys with their own runtimes and UI frameworks.