skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you have any sources for this? I don’t see how it can possibly be true.

For one thing I don’t see how you can define areas where everyone is poor. Even looking at a place like North Korea, the top government officials are very well off compared to the average person.

In general, poorer countries are much less safe than richer ones. Poorer neighborhoods are much less safe than richer ones. I can see the point that even in those cases it’s often related to inequality, e.g. theres gang related violence because gang leaders are much richer than the average person in the area. But that’s a tautology, because there’s nowhere that has absolutely no inequality.
> Retail jobs are some of the worst ones to have too
True, but they are also some of the only jobs nowadays that are available to people without college degrees, or people who have effectively aged out of the white collar or blue collar workforce, but still need to generate some sort of income. Notice how many retail clerks nowadays are in the 55+ set.
I don't really understand their interest in RateBeer, RateBeer really does not seem that relevant today. 10 years ago it was very important in the craft beer scene. Now it seems like a dying community.

In terms of reviewing beers, most people have moved to using an app like Untappd. BeerAdvocate, another forum/beer rating site seems to have a more active userbase, but even that is becoming less relevant today as people move away from forum communities.

Is that data on RateBeer of use to them? Are they planning on pouring money into it to position it as a competitor to Untappd? I'm not sure what the goal is. If the fear is they will secretly skew review scores to favor their product lines, that seems hardly worth the effort, as I don't think enough people use the site to drive purchasing decisions to make a meaningful impact.

I think people need to be aware of which beer publications ZX Ventures owns, or owns a stake in, as that will help you identify marketing fluff pieces vs real reporting. The fact that they go to some effort to hide their ownership of several brands they have acquired is concerning to me, but I also understand it is not in their interest to promote that fact. Many people unknowingly buy ABI products without having any idea the beer they are buying isn't in fact locally owned.
It depends on whether "government-provided" means that you now pay for it whether you wanted the service or not. If I don't pay my cable bill I lose my cable. If I don't pay my taxes...
We all agree that hypocrisy is not good, right? Or am I missing something?
How does proof of stake prevent double spending if there are no miners to validate blocks? I must be missing something here...
This could be really useful. In fact my brother could use some extra fingers. I guess I would just have to ladle some of this on his salad and wait for the digits to erupt?
Subjective measures are, inherently, “not directly tied to their contribution to company success”.
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Yeah, and it sure is a good thing we always pick the "moderate rebels" to provide material aid to, and i am so grateful that those "moderate rebels" we give weapons to never morph into horrific radical insurgencies that end up subsequently haunting us for decades.
In those places some malls are bustling with activity every weekend, others are shuttering. One of the most popular malls in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is in fact an outdoor "town center," a nomenclature I take issue with. https://www.bayshoretowncenter.com/
The free market has an assumption on equal information between agents in the system. If a company is buying up the sources of information on it's product that usually leads to a massive information imbalance
I feel this is similar to a game design issue.

You want a game in which early levels are easy enough that it won't take too much skill to get through. [Basics of society, access to housing, clean water, health care..]

As you get to higher levels, there will be challenges that some players can't get through [amassing enough money to buy a yacht], but that's OK.

Some players have cheat codes not available to other players [laws to help special interests] because they have an in with the game designers [government], and that's OK too as long as it doesn't go too far.

It's not a big deal if the most skilled players can get to really high levels - that's not the issue.

It's when the most skilled players make the game unplayable by the average player that you have a problem.
Back in 1990, some guy named Michael Abrash wrote about this in Dr. Dobbs magazine.
He actualy used computers in 1983. He published his first game in 1982 and worked on another game called Quake with John Carmack. Michael is an Oculus Chief Scientist, now, where he is deeply concerned with perception and delay.

To paraphrase the Dr. Dobbs article, his young child asked him why he never used his "fast" computer. He was initially puzzled by the question, as his current computer was a state-of-the-art max spec machine (486-233mhz?), but realized she was referring to his ancient Apple 2 or TRS-80 or such sitting in the corner of the office. While the new system was hundreds of times faster by every computational measure, user experience said otherwise and his child picked up on this. The old 1mhz 8bit box only needed a second or two to boot to a prompt, yet the state-of-the-art Windows 95 machine required 2 minutes to boot up. The new computer was faster. The old computer was more responsive.
Does the brain interact with programming like I does with natural languages?
> There's no reason to inject sexuality into technical things.

Flip-side, what about injecting technology into everyday things people might find sexy (e.g. clothing)? Is putting some lights or LCDs on a miniskirt less worthy as a project than sewing them on a hoodie? Neither one is particularly high-technology nowadays, but that's generally not something the Maker brand/movement cares about, and on one level the only difference is that different people are more likely to wear one over the other.

> It's not something that we really want to promote in our workspaces.

In the specific case here, Make did the "not promote" thing for years, and people didn't care all that much (@sexycyborg claimed she was banned by Make from presenting at Maker Faires, even when the local organizers were fine with it, and there were some complaints about that, but even that sparked no big outrage as far as I heard). It now only blew up when their CEO went beyond that.

EDIT: minor language adjustment
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Yes, there's already a huge gap between people who can take advantage of the progress and those who can't. It wasn't that wide before and it grows with the amount of knowledge necessary to operate in the modern world.

To prevent it from growing even more, we need to fix education systems.
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Many states have laws forcing producers of alcoholic beverages to use distributors in the first place. It's state law that creates the bottleneck which allows the big players to monopolize the market in the first place.
>The real question is why no malls either care to, or are unable to, attract stores that appeal to customers.

No, the 'real reason' has nothing to do with shopping. The article touched on the actual problem. It is way too easy to get into billions of dollars in debt. If you own mall real estate, who do you want at your mall.

Small businesses that attract customers, but have to pay you with money they earn.

Or

Large chains that earn earn billions by playing leveraged debt games, and will pay stupidly high rates for rent, no customers required.

Malls will survive just fine, the moment rents and property prices are back in touch with reality.
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This is a helpful way to view it. Apple's 2016 revenue of 215B was about 0.2% of gross world product (GWP)... Which means the power draw if extended globally would be 5x our current global use. Of course, it wouldn't actually happen that way, because Bitcoin itself would then cause the price of power to increase.

Edited: fixed mis-use of "world GDP" to GWP as per tantalor's comment below. Thanks!
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You have head of Jupyter Notebook / Jupyter hub, right?
>>> Surely you understand that averages are often misleading and can be worse than useless.

So why are you complaining in a conversation talking about averages?

>>> The US is the most diverse large country in the world.

Brazil and India would like a word. Also, irrelevant.

>>> Averages do not work well when comparing highly varied populations.

That's why you have averages. Again, how else would you compare countries?

>>> There are many smaller countries with better average educational outcomes than the US. But none of the countries with higher scores are anywhere near the size and diversity of the US.

And? How are those things relayed? Seriously, how is diversity related to federally provided education?

>>>The only country even close to the US in population is China

Well great, in a conversation comparing China and the US that might be relevant, but this is not it.

>>> If you want to make a proper comparison, you'd need to compare the US with something like the entire continent of Europe.

Why? You actually think population and diversity are even close? Or relevant? Just trying to understand your logic because it doesn't make sense.
Outlyr has not build DalmatinerDB they've used it and contributed a bit to it.
LOL! I know Casper well from the skip button on my podcast player, and could hardly care less about mattresses. This bubble is getting pretty big.
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Small changes over time is what killed Schlitz. A once famous brand that you probably haven't heard of if under 40.

https://beerconnoisseur.com/articles/how-milwaukees-famous-b...
"there are still literally thousands of other craft breweries to choose from."

Taste all of them? I'm not an alcoholic by trade man, reviews are necessary.
I remember lurking here on HN quite a while back (err, maybe a few months ago) and saw someone who was making the claim of the following:

Naomi Wu was a hack
Naomi Wu had multiple handlers.
There was some "shadowy guy" lurking in most photo ops.

I didn't think anything of it, other than a hater. I even saw one of these claims on a few other sites I visit...

Found it: https://imgur.com/gallery/O3Yq0 (Imgur indicates timesignature May 6, 2017)

To be honest, I have NO clue what's going on. I just have a good memory of previous stuff I've read and saw. Maybe this'll give more hints about what's going on here

content edit: Turns out the URL was from steveklabnik , which points towards this: http://sexycyborgisaliar.blogspot.nl/2017/05/naomi-sexy-cybo... and the cached content here: http://archive.is/GE0he

When you search for that URL, you see only 5 hits. The very first one is on http://krautkanal.com/b/12075357 by user mandalareopens. This just stranger and stranger. :/

Edit: For those that downmodded me, I don't believe this stuff. I'm saying there's a history of someone running a smear campaign against her.
That is the fallacy of relative priation, I think.
are people really missing the beat here? that makes me feel genuine sadness.
For example, why does it have to be government run instead of being a consumer co-op?
Perhaps my title was a bit sensational, but I was very surprised to see solid state LIDAR shipping already. Anyone care to speculate on their technology? I doubt it's an OPA (power output problem), so perhaps it's a MEMS?
OK, let's do it the other way. Let's pretend (in BTC's favour) that market cap and GDP are the same thing.

World GDP is around 100 trillion.

So by your own figures, if it were denominated in BTC or equivalent cryptocurrency, we'd require more than 100% of the world's current power output just to store and send people's money.

That's more power output than is currently required for all the world's homes, factories, hospitals, transportation networks and all the world's computing power, everything. Which also benefits everyone who uses it, and creates jobs for a few billion people

Do you now see why people don't think current crypto tech is a particularly optimal use of power?
What’s a sample use case for this? A Python-ish VM to eval user supplied expressions?
From places that don't promote silly theories, apparently.
I call it the 'AR Shower'.

http://images.gawker.com/18m28bzmemr1ojpg/c_scale,fl_progres...
Intels own guidelines say that DCI should be disabled by default, although on some systems that was not true[1], afaik (would like to be corrected if wrong) this does not impact vast majority of systems. This seems more like a frontdoor that is supposed to be locked tight rather than an backdoor. The bugs that actually enable DCI could be more likely candidates to be considered backdoors.

[1] https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTE...
I think bias and gender expectations among peers could have a very large effect.

It's striking to me watching my nieces play and how strictly they enforce whether something is for boys or girls. Also it looks to me like groups of women in an office enforce very different norms on each other than men do in terms of fashion, socialization, communication style.

How large is this effect compared to biases down the power structure? I don't know, it's an empirical question but everyone seems to pre-assume the answer.
Those don't have Google docs style collaborative editting.
Thanks for the guidance. His design for manufacturing series will be good for me to go through.
Haha yeah I'm not trying to be shitty with you.

Vim gives you buffer, window, cursor and range, plus eval and command. The eval/command stuff is a "shim", insofar as you have to wrap them yourself if you want more programmatic access; like you'd have to do `def getcwd(): vim.eval('getcwd()')` But for a lot of what you want to do, you're messing with buffer/window/cursor. I wouldn't call it a full-featured scripting API, and certainly Neovim's is better, but your posts suggested all the scripting API was was just an entry point to ex commands. There's a lot more than that, to the extent that it covers most of what you want to do.
Is there a good way of preventing unauthorized javascript injections? Some type of onReady cleanup script that can identify what is supposed to be there and then strip out everything else?
now it can't be realistically changed

why?
28 billion data points in 50 gigabytes are not impressive for time series use. That's nearly 2 bytes per data point, many time series databases achieve 1 or less byte per data point.
within roughly 5 years or so (very rough guess on my part), all of the available Bitcoin will have been mined. At that point, the mining part of the equation will be moot, leaving only the blockchain infrastructure to consider. Note that this may not hold true for various "forks" of the bitcoin blockchain, or for other cryptocurrencies.
And the Soon-to-be-released jupyterlab already have google-rt-collaboration plugin https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-google-drive
You may be interested in her FAQ: https://pastebin.com/V3474kYs

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How can you wear those clothes?

Not an issue here in Shenzhen. No one bothers me. They notice but there is no problem. Our sex workers do not wear this kind of clothing as Chinese men prefer an innocent/cute/childish look. You can see from my 360º videos on YouTube that aside from curious looks no one bothers me or cares very much. Mostly they enjoy the novelty and ask to take pictures with me.

Beside personal taste, the other issue is my appearance is effective. Female Makers- or Women in Tech are rarely featured in Chinese news, it's just not something that gets much interest and there is no community of like-minded women I can look to. Sexy girls are still the delivery vector for nearly all messages in tech here. If I want to get my message out- that these new technical tools are accessible, and that there are well-paying jobs available for women that master them, I have to do so in a way that will actually reach my audience. I'm sure the high road is nice- but in China, no one will hear a word you say while you are on it.

For people making negative comments- while sex workers in your country might wear some similar clothing, women in your country also wear and do things that only sex workers in other, even more conservative countries would do. While we all would like to think our country sets the standard for the World it’s polite not to impose our standards on each other- no matter how surprising the differences. You can be sure if I visited your country I would dress so as to not cause offense."
Well actually... https://github.com/jupyterlab/jupyterlab-google-drive
That really sucks for this guy now that it is canceled. Any chance of getting his investment of $1000/coin back I wonder? I know they [segwit2x peeps] spooled up B2X rigs a couple months ago and had been "mining" [correct me if I'm off] but it seemed like a very quiet group working on it. That post on the linuxfoundation site states that they did not want to risk dividing the bitcoin network when fewer than 30% were for the fork.
The CNN TV lineup treats politics like sports - Team Red vs Team Blue! Who will win? Here are some inflammatory talking heads, let's see what they say. Ooh boy, isn't this exciting?
> Unfair comparison. Bitcoin benefits all who hold it, not a single corporation.

No, that's not how economies work. "Bitcoin benefits all who hold it" is like saying "the USD benefits everyone who has a USD". It's a completely meaningless statement.

> But it's a useful abstraction that comes pretty close.

No, it doesn't come close at all. Bitcoin's market cap has absolutely nothing to do with the value that Bitcoin adds to society, and thus it is a completely meaningless metric to look at if you are trying to decide if it "merits" use of our resources.

>Those bitcoin paper millionaires are investing in startups like Pinkapp, and Pinkapp is hiring programmers. All of this is happening outside the legal system. What does that say to you about bitcoin's ability to affect the world?

Nothing? I don't know what you're trying to say with this. Just because people made money off of bitcoin and now can use that money to hire other people does not mean it is affecting the world any more than anything else that people make money off of.

I also have no idea what you mean when you say "All of this is happening outside the legal system." That is another completely meaningless statement. I assure you that investments in startups and hiring of programmers all happens firmly within the bounds of all applicable legal systems. But even if it wasn't, it still says nothing about bitcoin's "ability to affect the world".

You need to stop drinking the bitcoin koolaid, bro. You're spouting nonsense in an attempt to defend it.
What's interesting is that updated info indicates it happened before the engine (which was a block 5 engine, as you say) was ignited, when they do a "LOx drop" test, basically running liquid oxygen through it to test for any leaks:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/an-experimental-spac...

It may mean they had a simple FOD (foreign object debris) or contamination issue, not a design problem. Powerful oxidizers like liquid oxygen can make contact explosives out of all kinds of organic materials.
"Bustling with activity" yes, shoppers. I'm arguing against the idea that malls are social centers. They are not, and when they are it is because there are no other options. Nobody wants to spend time at the mall.
Federal absurd regulations are commie-scandalous while lobby absurd regulation are just fine ?

It's always the same. People don't see, don't control, when they try, resistance is so high they will cave before change occurs.
Please stop repeating the myth that tech industry is somehow extremely misogynistic or sexist. It's not more than other industries, in fact I strongly suspect it is actually less.
"Tight clothes"? No.

"A speedo barely concealing their junk"? Maybe.

To be fair, in a lot of her videos she's wearing something completely reasonable for a workshop.
I don't even care about other people's beer ratings. I just use RateBeer/BeerAdvocate to lookup ABV and caloric information.
IPython is uppercase I. We don't charge $999 for IPython X :-)
Check this out - seems to do what you want.

https://github.com/lengstrom/falcon

"Chrome extension for flexible full text browsing history search. Every time you visit a website in Chrome, Falcon indexes all the text on the page so that the site can be easily found later."
Yeah I didn't realize that there would be a lot of one-off in-house methods. Besides board/panel level strategies, I was curious physically what kinds of rigs or harnesses are out there, if there were any industry standard setups. But maybe it's doing smart things at the panel level and building custom testing rigs in house.
In general the malls aren't horrible. Since you are from AUS, the first thing you'd notice, is there are twice as many stores/sq ft of space per capita.

https://qzprod.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/marc-squares.png?...

The big problem with this is AUS GDP is about $47k per person. US GDP is 57k. So for only $10,000 more earned per person, we have double the retail space. This can't possibly work long term. US retail is in bad shape because of terrible monetary policy.
Social Security: Last year, 24 percent of the budget, or $916 billion, paid for Social Security, which provided monthly retirement benefits averaging $1,360 to 41 million retired workers in December 2016. Social Security also provided benefits to 3 million spouses and children of retired workers, 6 million surviving children and spouses of deceased workers, and 10.6 million disabled workers and their eligible dependents in December 2016.

Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP, and marketplace subsidies: Four health insurance programs — Medicare, Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace subsidies — together accounted for 26 percent of the budget in 2016, or $1 trillion. Nearly three-fifths of this amount, or $594 billion, went to Medicare, which provides health coverage to around 57 million people who are over age 65 or have disabilities. The rest of this category funds Medicaid, CHIP, and ACA subsidy and exchange costs. In a typical month, Medicaid and CHIP provide health care or long-term care to about 74 million low-income children, parents, elderly people, and people with disabilities. (Both Medicaid and CHIP require matching payments from the states.) In 2016, 9 million of the 11 million people enrolled in health insurance exchanges received ACA subsidies, at an estimated cost of about $31 billion.
You're still describing just a portion of the population, at best. Yes, your point about the myths is fair. But even with those myths dispelled, there's going to be at least XX% of the population that struggles with or is unwilling to put in that work.

Think about other super important areas of life like finances and health. Perfectly capable, developed, functional adults still routinely neglect these things because they don't want to 'deal with' the mental overhead of 'figuring it out'.

As long as this population remains, there will be a market for solutions that offload some of the 'work'.
It's "gross world product", not "world GDP".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_world_product
same with airports - just why do we need sooooooo many shops right next to the terminals? I understand travelers might need some basic stuff (food, water etc) but why other crap, especially so close to the terminals? no wonder airports are so huge
How is Raptor engine progressing?
Snapchat people are mainly interested in selfies. It was always going to be a stretch to sell them a product that was about other people. That suggests a bigger issue: that Snapchat's management doesn't understand its user base, and will therefore struggle to develop new products for them.