skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are.

It's very hard to acquire those skill sets if you need to choose between having enough money to pay the bills, and spending time and money on acquiring those skills. Or alternatively, it's a lot easier to attract people with those skills into your community if you have the money to pay them for their skills.

My point remains, I think you'd see people in blighted areas sink a lot more of their resources into community improvement if the opportunity cost of doing so weren't as cripplingly high as it is now.
Hehe, true.

I once saw a documentary about "big animals" in the past.

Like, why did we have giant spiders and insects while they have a rather simple respiratory system that doesn't scale very well.

Because: trees!

Somehow plants managed to create wood, which bound the C from CO2, but the rest of the biosphere didn't know what to make of the wood. So there were more and more trees and more and more C got removed from the atmosphere. A much bigger part of the atmosphere was O2 and so the insects could grow bigger.

But in the end the fungi figured out how to make short work of wood and in turn released much of the C again into the atmosphere as CO2, so the animals shrunk again.
Exactly. I was wishing for an AWS based cli accessible credstore service for a while and didn't even know this existed until just the other week.

One big problem with AWS and their incremental features / improvements is you never hear about much of it, or its buried in a post from Jeff's blog that you have to watch like a hawk to keep up with.
Vegetarian hot and sour soup
Your problem is with a concept called "taxes".

You can be dismissive about it all you want, but you're the one who has a fundamental disagreement with how civilized society has been run for the last hundred years (or longer if you look outside the United States).

Your satire fails to hit the mark of making someone look ridiculous, because they are describing a long-established status quo. Society isn't going to think someone describing the status quo is ridiculous or crazy for defending the status quo.
That assumes that a basic income would only motivate people to do nothing, which seems more pessimistic than realistic.
This is one of my all-time favourite fun facts. First learned about it in Tell Me Something I Don't Know: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/tell-me-something-i-dont-kno...
I just don't get the logic.

If, today, the trailer park owner is not required to provide adequate sanitation (which strikes me as heinous btw), why would UBI change that? Either the state couldn't care less or their are laws that are being flouted. Either way, it's not clear why a change in distribution methodology would change either.

The bit of your argument that I completely agree would occur is that the trailer park owner will charge the renters more. That's pretty much a given. Whether or not the renters will receive anything for that rent change is likely to be an orthogonal question.

My concern with UBI isn't that it won't work. It's that it's a right winger's wet dream.

I mean, imagine. With a great fanfare of fairness, we give everyone $x00/month. Dismantle all the means tested benefits for pensioners, disabled etc. Then watch as successive governments either ratchet it up or ratchet it down depending on their persuasion and the state of the economy. And as a target for when things get tight, it's a bloody big one.

The only really meaningful change from the status quo would be that the the truly disadvantaged would get royally stiffed.
Minimum wage isn't just "you have to pay workers enough to survive", it's also "you have to acknowledge that workers are worth amount X".
But not the conservation mass-energy. What's to say we're not burning off our fat in a nuclear reaction? :-D
>Their innovation is primarily in making more people work for less and take on all the risk.

Work for less than... what? Their side gig had Uber not existed? I see these companies' primary innovation to be that of communication. They allow supply to connect and communicate with demand in much more efficient way than ever before.
It's pretty obvious when you do long fasts.
Every time I fast for more than I week, I lose several kilos doing nothing, not going to the bathroom even once except to pee.
yeah they're all kidna terrible. I started a roundup review but gave up due to costs of downloading each app.

I've settled so far on Linea. It has plenty of problems but hit my key points. I was aiming for a paper-like experience to replace my favorite tools: a technical pen/pencil and a nice graph paper pad.

- Use finger to erase (like a whiteboard).
- Focus mode with no toolbars / chrome.
- Good-looking graph paper background.
- Technical pens and pencils.
- Zoomable.

All the apps have layers - that's table stakes. Linea does NOT allow you to make selections and move components individually. I think I might do better design work with a few technical restrictions.
You're assuming readers are managing snowflake servers, and I'm assuming they are in an containerized/autoscaling/more modern environment.

SSM wins for mine. I think you're right that the file approach wins for yours.
Did you know that 99% of the murders in China are committed by Chinese people, whereas less than 1% are committed by Europeans? The Chinese must be murder-crazy!

Obviously if you want useful information about homicides broken down by race, you need to control for population segregation (among many other things). If black people are culturally and geographically separated and tend to only interact with each other, then of course they will tend to only murder each other. But for example they will also tend to only marry each other.

This argument is presented with the veneer of science and math, while failing to control for factors that anyone who took stats 101 would know about. That is a pseudo-science dead giveaway.
Regulations are extremely useful in things like building integrity codes (quake tolerance/etc) but that's because in these cases they serve a useful purpose in preventing exploitative behavior. It's not easy for a regular person to tell the difference between a building that could stand for centuries and one who's foundation is ready to tumble if somebody sneezes too hard. And the latter is vastly cheaper to build - so there's a major incentive to exploit people in a way they could not be reasonable expected to appreciate.

But in this case, why are regulations actually necessary? It's quite self evident that going to go see two trains collide is not exactly the safest activity. But so long as the consumer understands this, I see little difference between this and something like the Running of the Bulls or even independent activities like wingsuiting.

One of the most bizarrely entertaining experiences I had was in the developing world. At a festival there was a large wooden tube that was several stories tall. Looking at it top down it'd look like a donut. The outer ring was a ramp that circled all the way to the top with intermittent standing room facing the inner ring. The inner circle was mostly solid excepting these openings. So what was it?

A small door opened at the bottom a motorcycle came out and started driving around the inner tube climbing all the way to the top of the building before zooming back down and zipping all around. And he'd drive with one hand grabbing tips people would hold with their hands on the various levels with his other hand. And the 2, 3, and 4 more motorcycles came out and all were driving around the building doing the same thing. And then finally a truck came out of the bottom and started driving up the building as well. About that time the building was violently rocking. Absolutely insane, but absolutely fun. Everybody in there had a ton of fun at a moderate amount of risk - and I cannot imagine how much money those drivers were making in tips alone. Certainly the equivalent of thousands of USD for a night's work.

The only thing I thought was "Never in a million years would this be allowed in the US" and it's an experience I'll fondly recall til the day I die. I remember seeing something remotely similar at a circus when I was young. Except it was done inside an isolated steel ring in the center of a stadium with everybody seated about 20 meters away at the minimum -- that was.. cute. And I think that's kind of a shame. Who in the world is the government to not allow people to engage in risk taking behavior so long as the risk is mutually appreciated? If anything, I'd be okay if there was a requirement of all participants and observers having sufficient commercial medical coverage such that in the case of an accident the victims would not be a burden on the rest of society.
Don't forget that that money will also be spent on things, it doesn't just disappear, probably at least half of it comes back right where it came from while in the meantime making sure that those people in the USA that are currently living by third world standards are maybe getting closer to BRIC level of life.
The TLDR:

> Physical activity as a weight loss strategy is, therefore, easily foiled by relatively small quantities of excess food.

> Our calculations show that the lungs are the primary excretory organ for fat. Losing weight requires unlocking the carbon stored in fat cells, thus reinforcing that often heard refrain of “eat less, move more.”

"Eat less, move more." If anyone isn't aware of that by now, I don't know what to say.
Agreed that this seems to be a no-brainer. But then again, if you look at the responses in this thread, apparently it's not a no-brainer to some people.

On the other hand, if you read the article in full, the debate isn't just about distractions and multi-tasking. Even when not being distracted, the use of a laptop to take notes is less effective than hand-writing notes. This is because laptops encourage a note-taking style where you don't necessarily need to actually process the information before typing it out:

> The researchers hypothesized that, because students can type faster than they can write, the lecturer’s words flowed right to the students’ typing fingers without stopping in their brains for substantive processing. Students writing by hand had to process and condense the spoken material simply to enable their pens to keep up with the lecture. Indeed, the notes of the laptop users more closely resembled transcripts than lecture summaries. The handwritten versions were more succinct but included the salient issues discussed in the lecture.

In another study[1], it was found that this happens even when students are warned against this "transcript" style of note-taking.

It all very much depends on the person doing the note taking, the information being taught, and the person doing the speaking, but in general it appears that laptops encourage bad note-taking and bad listening habits that hand-writing notes don't.

1: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/body/taking-notes-by-hand-...
Show HN: Screenr – A clean screenshot annotation tool for Chrome
Have you ever tried to go duck hunting with a revolver?
Wrong.

A liability is a source, an asset is a sink. You take debt to buy a house: the debt is a liability, the house is an asset.

What's neither an asset nor a liability is your (net) income (i.e. wages, returns on capital, etc. minus spending). So:

assets = liabilities + net income.

From this equation you could erroneously deduce that

net income = assets - liabilities

but I hope I don't have to explain why this is a stupid conclusion.
Thanks. I tried this, must most embedded boards I find are usually weak in specs. I am looking for something capable of running 16-32GB of RAM, a powerful processor >= 2.8-3.2GHZ which I believe this is not the idea of a embedded board. Or am I wrong?
Also, I would like something that I can easily, say, swap RAM when needed, and etc.
Some roadblocks to the broad adoption of AI
It sort of does, though.

That's where the concept of taxes comes from. You use the services that the government provides in order to create value. As such, the government claims part of the value that you created.

Ideally, then, the government reinvests into other services that future generations will also be able to use to create value.

We can have a disagreement over how much the government should be able to claim from individuals, but I have seen very few people advocate for no taxation.
Gaming laptops.
Also, u/luu started a list of interesting bug post-mortems. It hasn't been updated in awhile but contains a lot of the classics (many which have made the rounds on HN):

https://github.com/danluu/debugging-stories
Outside of the "how to pay for it" question (which has never been addressed beyond vague "tax the rich" promises) there's another problem: how to save people from themselves. One could think of this as an annuity, and try to cash it in for total cash value today (e.g. lump sum payment): get $200k today, and sign over the rest of the checks you get for life. Then what do you do with bankrupt folks? Sorry, you had your chance, now you starve in the streets? Of course not -- so you still need another safety net for those people.
Thanks for posting that link - after reading the article, that video was the first thing I thought of. It's a great talk that is simple to understand.
Aren't miniITX-based PCs low on specs? Say, not currently supporting say up to 16GB of ram and so on?
I am confused by this...

> We suspect this misconception is caused by the “energy in/energy out” mantra and the focus on energy production in university biochemistry courses.

I understand from the article that chemistry (Which I can't understand) tells you that it is converted on CO2.

But still. Clearly I can move because I have energy that I acquire from food. How is this wrong ?
From about 100 packages, I've had a handful come past the "guaranteed date", one that was entirely wrong (someone else's items), and worst of all, one that was missing an item that took a huge argument with a CSR to get a refund over.

I wouldn't call them rock solid. Even if they were, it's not something that has to, or justifies, mistreating employees.
Warehouses are dirty, dangerous, and filthy. Every one has expectations for speed. People are a liability, not an asset.

I knew two people who worked at an Amazon warehouse. They both said it was pretty chill and easy. It's a matter of perspective and contrast.
No but it does grow the economy. Things you buy with the borrowed money count towards the GDP.

If you have people buying and selling nothing that's going to be a small economy.

If you have the same people, with the same wealth, buying and selling stuff to each other, that grows the economy.

If you have the same people buying and selling stuff faster, they may still retain the same wealth but the economy will grow even further.

The size of the economy is about the number of transactions, and printing money or borrowing money can definitely grow the economy (IF that money gets used to accelerate economic transactions).
How to Be Happy
I believe you're thinking of Final Draft.
Have you tried Hamachi? That's exactly how it works. It's not a VPN that routes all your traffic, it's a virtual LAN. You get a private IP, and can communicate with other devices on the same network over their private IPs. And yes, nodes connect directly to each other.
You have to chain a video encoder to a CDN that supports live video streams. There are small players that do this, but now Amazon is a gorilla that does it (along with Azure).
As I did.
This is one of the nicest things about backpacking as a hobby. You can get to places way out in the darkness, especially if you have the skill to go off-trail.
If courses can make you wealthy, we won't be having this conversation? Isn't OP also basing his personal experience what works?

Seriously, be open minded about subjective opinion. There is no right/wrong. If my method works for me, it works for me. My starting statement said there is no one definite way to live.

So let's respect that.
Also for Wal Mart and other low paying/low benefit service jobs, the oft repeated theory that American taxpayers essentially subsidize it (and the profits that accrue to management/shareholders) and federal benefits such as medicaid/welfare/food stamps make it possible employers to pay such low wages. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2015/04/15/...
No it means not eating is more environmentally friendly.
5 ways to turn the ‘hour of code’ into the ‘year of learning’
Syria is inseparable from Iraq (it's ISIS for a reason) and almost certainly would not have happened, and happened at the scale it did if it wasn't for Iraq.
That's why I never take notes. I just give 100% of my focus and retain a lot more information.
I thought labor conditions at Costco were supposed to be pretty good.
Hey there, author here!

Screenr is a small tool we built because we were tired of drawing arrows and crappy colored text on our screenshots. Let us know what you think!
The premium we paid was $5000 a year.
Non-Local Neural Networks (FB AI Research/C. Mellon U)
Apparently. What on Earth is a page consisting of nothing but a message telling me I need to install a browser plugin doing on the front page of HN in Current Year?

Also, "The Blockchain." You know, that one single blockchain.
Ask HN: Best Textbooks worth owning on various subjects?
I still have two major textbooks on my bookshelf - and I refresh them every few years. Having been out of education 15+ years I'm now seeing the need to broaden my base.

The two I come back to are:

1. Computer Architecture, a Quantitative Approach.

2. The Molecular Biology of the Cell.

Both are surprisingly accessible texts. And full of detail.

Any others that people would recommend? I'd love to get a refresher on Linear Algebra, Western Philosophy, AI.
Person A saves $1000 from each paycheck. She invests it in index funds, and nets ~8% returns over a 30 year period.

Person B saves $2000 from each paycheck. She behaves like the average investor, and nets ~2.5% returns over a 30 year period.

Who do you think is going to wind up with more money? Person-A by a long shot.

The amount of money you save every month is undoubtedly important, but it's only half the story, and it's somewhat common knowledge. The way you invest your money is the other half of the story, and this is where most people seem to trip up. Personally, my parents saved a ton of money because it's common sense that it will lead to future prosperity. However, their investment strategy and track records are abysmal. They buy near the peak, sell during the recession, and sit out of the markets entirely during the recovery. They could have easily ended up with a retirement portfolio that's 2-4x larger than what they ended up with. I've tried telling them numerous times to approach investing differently, but they still refuse to listen. If there's anything people need to be educated on, it's on investment strategy.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/advisor/2014/04/24/why-the-aver...

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/042415/what-average...

http://www.bankrate.com/calculators/retirement/investment-go...
I had/have the same problem.

Since a while, I subscribed to „AWS this week“ on YouTube from a cloud Guru. This is just 5 minutes, and you have a good idea what‘s going on. (I have no affiliation)
Is there a cash analysis of that anywhere? I guess the question is what happens if BTC drops n% for n days...
Reading books on a Palm Pilot... that brings back memories! The Sony Clie was a great little gadget.
The fat molecules burned usually have about twice as many hydrogen atoms as carbon atoms so you end up with about as many CO2 molecules as H2O molecules. Carbon weighs about 14 times as much as hydrogen and most of the oxygen in both comes from the atmosphere. So when you lose weight, 7 parts go to CO2 and 1 part goes to water. A very very tiny proportion goes to energy with mass-energy equivalence.
I've had to do this. You don't take any toys. You take the kids and throw some dry food and clothes in the car.

Luckily, my youngest hasn't had to experience this. But his two older sisters have.
I feel that, if you're going to put a bunch of work into setting up donations and bugging people to get them to donate and all that, just charge for your work. There is absolutely nothing wrong with charging for your time, or with asking for what you believe your labor is worth.
It's better for HN to let the reader dig for information. It attracts the curious.

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=by:dang%20%22work%20a%20little...
That means you either don't know how bitcoin or a ponzi scheme work.
Yep. Lots of eg cancer research charities.
Buying an inferior product or a dysfunctional product is much more expensive than the subscription and it's even more expensive if you factor in wasted time.
Isn't the only way to attempt to fix this as a customer is to not be a customer? As a shareholder one could try to change things in other ways.
Last I read (a while ago), he was Director of Research at Google (not just AI). This was after being Director of Search (Quality), IIRC.
I can't help but groan at some of the "obvious" health and weight loss platitudes that get smugly thrown around.

"Calories in, calories out!"

"You can't outrun a bad diet!"

"Weight is lost in the kitchen!"

Sure, things ultimately boil down to intake-vs-expenditure. However, it IS more complicated than that in practice. As software developers, we complain when management makes decisions based on inadequate or poor metrics. But likewise there so many more benefits to physical exercise that aren't captured by a diet and exercise tracking app.

During times when I've been 100% sedentary for long periods, I experience overwhelming cravings for sugar and crappy foods. When I force myself to take up any consistent exercise, even just a 30 min walk in the morning or lunchtime... then the cravings subside and regular meals are sufficient. This is fairly common.

Exercise has so many physical and mental health benefits. But even just looking at weight management alone, exercise tends to ramp up your metabolism for hours after each exercise session. Something that doesn't get captured by your tracker app or wearable gadget.

So often, when I hear somebody smugly minimizing the importance of exercise to health and weight management, it's a person who is too-clever-by-half. They're constantly dabbling with soylent shakes or paleo/keto fad diets... because the truth is they're just lazy and don't want to get off their ass, and look to rationalize that.

EDIT: At least half of these replies are completely missing my point altogether. I'm not saying that there is a binary choice to be made between "good diet" OR "exercise", and that you should make the latter choice rather than the former. I'm saying that treating this as a binary choice in the first place is ridiculous.

Exercise correlates with proper eating, it's not incidental or ancillary. It's ineffective to tell someone to "go the gym" without changing their eating habits? Well sure, but telling them to "go keto" without worrying about physical activity will be no more successful a year out. It's the pretense that most people can consistently stick with one of these things, and not both together, that is absurd.
2 pounds a day. That's how much CO2 you breath out, and the hard limit for weight loss.

You can lose more than that, (see boxers before a weigh-in), but that's all water loss, and is temporary. And, with a strong likelihood of death.
But is it really?

I'm sure those who know Erlang well will correct me on this, but if it is doing IO of any sort, it is limited by the number of IO operations (posix/db calls) under the covers. There can be atmost as many as the number of kernel threads created by the VM, which is typically equal to the number of processors.
"For anyone coming straight to the comments looking for an answer to the question: it turns into CO2 (and a bit of water) and you breathe it out."

That is why you weigh less when you wake up in the morning (pre-bathroom -/+ yes some sweat).
Use this old con artists tool to talk to anybody
It makes printing a bitch but overall I wouldn't mind if more articles were formatted like that, yeah.