skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I simply don't trust the government and I believe in the right to arm and protect myself at any and all costs.

But you are aware that your government has tanks, drones and vast selection of chemical weapons. Soon they'll have lethal drones small enough to make a person with gun just as harmless as a person without a gun.

People that want guns, I feel, think they are living with their minds in the future where they heroically oppose facist leaning government with their trusty guns. I feel they are in fact living in the glorious past when such thing was possible, not even in the present when goverment has all the power industry manufactured for military since the beginning of industrial revolution. Definitely not in the future when you'll be just labeled domestic terrorist and bombed, gassed, sniped from at least a mile or assasinated by a drone.

Guns today in context of opposing government are just imagination enhacers same way as D&D figurines, just less harmless.
While your general observation is reasonable, it doesn't apply to the GPs example of a farmer buying an expensive piece of farm equipment that they will not use just to reduce their taxable income. In the examples you gave the cell phone is actually used.
Tesla Semis owned by a coop would be killer for this use case, with charging facilities at the elevator. Very similar to the runs Tesla is going to use them for from their lithium evap pond partner in NV and the Gigafactory.
The Guardian article on Dec 6, 2017 quotes the stat from Newsweek which has a date of July 13, 2016 quoting a 2014 study showing the number at 15.2 per 100,000. The other cited source is a CDC Study from 2016 with data up until 2012 that shows Farmers, Foresters, and Fishermen have the highest suicide rates of any profession in the US. Strangely, the CDC study puts the number at 84.5 per 100,000[1].

I would really like to see a bit more rigor and comparison so I know what is really going on.

1) https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/65/wr/mm6525a1.htm#contribA... table 2
Nope. If you want something plug-and-play your best bet right now is a Roku. Around these parts I suspect Media Center PCs are popular too but you're limited by the browser (or what native apps are available).

This spat is dumb.
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Shogun by James Clavell. Probably the best fiction book I've ever read. Fascinating characters, amazing descriptions of feudal Japan's culture, society, and philosophy. Great storyline and suspense.

Truly an all around masterpiece. I've been to Japan once before and now I want to go back based entirely on reading this book. I feel like I'll see the country (and it's people) in a whole new light now.
> no other options aside from "your kid starves"

This hypothetical scenario has no basis in reality, at least in the US. Besides the fact that children in the US have access to free meals on a daily basis through public schools, food in the US is dirt cheap. Food deserts basically no longer exist in the US thanks to stores like Walmart. You can easily supply a nutrient-filled 2500 kcal diet for under $3/day in the US. For most people who are desperately poor and unable to do this, it is an educational problem; a lot of people just don’t know how to eat healthily.
"And, if your so poor you can't afford that, then it's irresponsible to have kids."

Hindsight is 20/20. What do you do if you already have kids?
Well now I need to know...
Ask HN: What are some alternative activities to replace using social media?
I have been trying to quit facebook and twitter, and have tried a couple of times. But after 1 week or so I find myself getting back to them again. I think I am failing because I am not replacing them with some sustainable alternatives. People here who have quit social media, how did you do so? What activities you started that helped you getting away from them? Any kind of insight will be valuable.
That's nice that you say you would do that. It is also divorced from reality; what you're describing as "fasting" is what normal people call fucking starving, dude.

People don't get to decide that suddenly they were laid off and the economy sucks so it's been a long time since they had steady work beyond the very-part-time job at the convenience store and they don't get to decide that their seven-year-old, born when things were great and when Dad was still around and your family had a second income, needs to not go hungry.

You are representing a callous, gross viewpoint and I genuinely hope it never comes back to make you regret it.
reliability was my first thought with these. It is a very clever technique. However, the mechanical spring properties would seem to be very important. I'm sure they have designed the spring to be in an approximately linear stress/strain region, but material creep seems like it would be more prevalent than traditional engineering materials. Perhaps if the lifespan of these objects is relatively short, then they would satisfy the reliability goal.
Can you add some live page examples? And can you add more average houses, like 3 bed 2 bath?

Most of us are a few tiers away from that 8000 sq ft, ocean-side, indoor pool property.
Looks at `/etc/hosts`

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Having ran MySQL in prod for a decade and PostgreSQL in prod for half a decade I can say without doubt that your data team is telling fibs.

Firstly we consider that there are multiple replication possibilities of both technologies- however I'm going to assume the defaults because that's pretty much what everyone uses except if there's an actual case for using something else. It's the exception.

But by default MySQL uses statement based replication (in a weird binary format with log positions and stuff) and postgresql does logical replication (as in, you transmit the binary differences of what you'll be doing to the replica's database files directly and the replica just follows along)

Both of these approaches have trade-offs depending on what you want.

Statement based replication is great if you want to have _different_ datasets on each side, You can transform the data or remove huge chunks of it on a slave and use it for a dedicated purpose. However that applies the other way, you can never really be 100% sure that your replica looks exactly like your master.

this bit me a few times with MySQL when I assumed that because the replica was 'up to date' with the master and it was set to read only, that the data had integrity- it absolutely did not.
I would like to see your data for this.

In 2012, the FTC put on their Robocall Summit. It was livestreamed, so I watched it. One thing I took from it was that there were many smart and dedicated people at the FTC, but that it was a hard problem.

One thing they didn't say, but I suspect is true, is that the FTC is not well supported by Congress. Look at how hard it was to ban telemarketing in the first place. Look at how energetically the CFPB is being undermined.

Dedicated people aren't enough. You need institutional support, including money, resources, and laws that actually let you put the criminals in jail.
I agree - IMO, meditation's benefits pale in comparison to the benefits of regular exercise. That's not to diminish the benefits of meditation but to emphasis the benefits of exercise. I find that with regular exercise, I am much less prone to depression and anger.
The application is not as important as the technology itself
Perception is reality at the points we're talking about. Being unable to see the way out means there is no way out. You underestimate the psychological toll being at the bottom of the barrel causes.
The NFC chip in the passport (the wire loop antenna on the page with your photo on) has a bunch of commands you can send it. Only passports made in the last 5 years or so have this. Old passports are paper only and have no such smartness...

Hook up an NFC debugger app on an android phone and put your passport next to the phone and you can send it commands.

Different countries passports vary, and take different commands etc.
We have a word for "fasting for the long term": starving. You are saying you would starve before taking out a loan on unfavorable terms. How long would you starve? One month? Two? At what point would you decide you'd rather deal with debt collectors than die of starvation?

> Fasting is actually quite good for your health and many of us would benefit from it.

We've reached peak HN, folks. Pack it in.
That's wasn't the point in mentioning 'financial gain", I mentioned that as an example of gaming a system for a nefarious purposes.

I mentioned this simply as contrast, that although the system was indeed gamed, it was done so with humor and without harming anybody in the process.
You have to do 1 or 2 years of school (Fachoberschule) first. My friend did this, but it's a path that not many people will choose, because it's hard to go back to school for such a long time after you started to earn money.
The problem there is that you can't do instant transactions. You need to transfer cash, wait for that to be received by GDAX, then trade. Unless you keep cash on gdax/coinbase, you will still need to buy coinbase if you are buying an unexpected dip.
This part is also important:

"Uber publicly denied that they would receive an individual’s spending habits from the Uber card."

The article is pure speculation about Uber's aspirations with a lot of links to credit cards.
Anecdotally, I know of a ex co-worker who CPU mined a few 50BTC blocks in 2010 and then misplaced the hard drive around 2012.

He is not alone in this.
It very obviously is. Nothing can grow at such an insane rate and be a stable, long-lasting thing. No one knows how high it will go, but that it will collapse hard soon is 100% sure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/En_passant
Sadly, this is a conversation I've had several times.
git won because of GitHub and StackOverflow.
Does anyone think this credit card could just be an ad for UberEATS?

> "Dining, including UberEATS"

I bet that subconscious thought could increase spending enough to pay for any given rewards.

Most everything in this article seems like a huge reach. I'm sure Uber wants to keep options open given the rough waters right now, but I doubt any of this is a real plan at this point.
It's not just what they grow, but how they grow it and sell it. The soil on many mid-country farms is bad because of years of growing with chemical pesticides and fertilizers and bad practices, something that is potentially reversible with alternate growing methods.

Commodity growers on huge farms distribute their food into large grocers potentially all over the world, to be sold at the lowest possible price. They must maximize yields at any cost to make money. Specialty growers sell into farmer's markets, CSA's, etc, at a much higher cost for the goods. This is why many of them are in coastal and affluent areas, where the buyers are willing to pay considerably more for local, fresh produce that has been grown organically.
This. Affiliate marketing payout for credit card signups is pretty significant.
Use an off the shelf wireless plug in switch and a Telldus transmitter then you don't do any high voltage or high current wiring at least if you are controlling a standalone heater.
how much experience are you looking for ideally. Your company page says you're looking for backend engineers and I am really interested in working with distributed systems. The catch is that I am inexperienced and a new graduate
You can check this Reinforcement Learning Course by David Silver on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0&t=836s

By the way, I believe David Silver was the lead programmer for AlphaZero.
The word "bankrupt" is only present in the title :-\
Spring and Open Liberty Activity?
Plan to set SF parking rates based on demand is approved
I use Amazon services even though I would never want to work there. Companies can be very pro-consumer while having poor practices with their employees.
sure its possible

wasn't from the people I saw, typically coworkers, friends, their parents
The misdirection is being used as a rhetorical device — you're supposed to feel a brief confusion when you get to the colon; it's then quickly resolved.
the point is, with the appropriate education, early enough, we can avoid these situations.

by taking on these loans, it's only going to make their situation even worse.
Augmented Reality seems to be the only answer to useless and invasive technology and excessive advertising. I foresee uBlock and Ad-Block will most likely be working with AR in the future.
Ah, thanks.

I'm delighted. Chess seemed so simple. I had no idea there was a special pawn capture.
How does that solve the problem that "all the farmers" need it at the same time of year, and thus one shared one isn't enough? What makes a Tesla Semi notably better than a conventional one?
Considering that most Android phones are built and sold by other companies, can you possibly imagine Google surviving as a company through that? Consider that if Google was to brick Android phones in the EU, Samsung, HTC, LG, Motorola, etc. would all immediately drop their platforms, globally? And not just those corporations would be suing, but carriers who sold the affected phones in every country applicable as well. Carriers in other countries like the US would also shift away from selling products that Google could arbitrarily brick.

At risk of losing their data due to a legal fight, everyone would migrate their email away from Gmail. Businesses would transfer away from G Suite.

Google would never even threaten to brick all Android phones, because even threatening it would likely put them out of business.
Good write-up. I'm curious about two more things:

1. What caused the crash on the synchronous replica? Was it just a coincidence and completely unrelated to the primary failure?

2. Given the three conditions necessary for the cluster to break, was the behavior of the Pacemaker software expected? I.e., was this a gotcha that should be in the Pacemaker documentation, or a bug?
The number times I see the word "design" in a statement correlates well with how high it registers on the bullshit-ometer.
'A Man on the Moon' is a terrific book focused on the astronauts. Consider also reading 'Apollo: Race to the Moon', Charles Murray and Catherine Bly Cox for more of the engineering perspective. They cover everything from building the F-1 engines used in the Saturn V first stage, to the lunar module, to the vehicles used to transport the assembled rockets to the launch pad, to the organization of mission control and the project overall. My favorite book on the Apollo program.
Ditto taxes.

I moved to California in 2014. In 2016, I got a letter saying I owed back taxes (state) for 2012 on an estimated income. Took quite some time to clean that one up :-/
Well, you can think of the "buffer method" (initially buy 2 units of an item, always add 1 unit to shopping list the moment you fetch the backup one) as a life hack, a piece of technology that's really awesome because it doesn't require anything than just a very small shift in your habits.

That said, I think people - myself included - complain about this example usage because of all the uses one can come up in 30 seconds, this one is the least generally useful, and most ridiculous one, and this is the one that the authors decided to run their story with. For me, frankly, it's a bit pathetic.

It strongly reminds me of another example - BLE beacons. There are plenty of useful applications that are also obvious when you understand what it is, but what was that the companies (I won't name a particularly well-known brand from my area[0]) decided to run with? Pushing ads into peoples' phones when they're shopping.

It's as if people are purposefully trying to not use technology for good, and instead focus on the worst parts of our culture - greed, consumerism and exploiting others.

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[0] - There is also another, lesser-known BLE beacon brand in my area, which started their copy with industrial and medical uses. Well, after the success of the retail-oriented brand, they too decided to go with retail instead.
Spectator invalidates Waymo's single remaining patent against Uber
It's not about the users it's about the developers, and no I'm not trying to troll. I'm sorry that what I said upsets you, but I don't think I was saying anything offensive. I admit "Stealing" is a loaded word and I was using it loosely, I didn't think it would upset people because I wasn't meaning it literally.
Kafka or RabbitMQ: depends on your messages nature
This is awesome!!

I definitely want to play with this.
At least for my family's farm in OK, a lot of the labor moves and takes the equipment with them. They move north to south with the season and the farm owners don't have to own as much equipment (in our case, none of us are farmers and haven't been for a few generations so a different situation). The farm manager still farms his own land, but he uses this same labor and their equipment with own a little of his own for tending during the growing season (the most labor and equipment intensive parts are harvest and planting).

Point being, the expensive equipment that is effectively being rented (with the labor in our case) isn't sitting idle most of the year. It's being used in different areas.
I think the point was that the large moving metal object (garage door) itself would mess with the signal enough to detect the state without any additional device…
Middle of the article:

>Edit: Uber publicly denied that they would receive an individual’s spending habits from the Uber card. However, that doesn’t discount their previous attempts to acquire this data and don’t prevent them from acquiring this data in the future from the card or other avenues.

Undermines the entire first part of the article...but don't let that discount it
Over what time? In the last few years the younger generation has been returning to the farm decreasing the age, but go back farther and the age as been getting older.
Ultrasonic waves are attenuated at a rate of 3-180 dB/m[1] (100-1000 kHz waves). So at 10 m a 150 kHz wave will have decreased in amplitude by over 300x. There's no amount of transmitters that can make up for the attenuation at high frequencies. It's not even possible for devices operating above a couple hundred kHz or farther than 10-20 m. A 500 kHz wave will decrease 200 dB over 5 meters, taking it from a shockwave (ie the pressure between pulses is vacuum) to undetectable. You'd need a transmitter strong enough to disintegrate organic material[2] but even the best detectors on earth won't hear it from across a road.

[1]: http://www.ktu.lt/ultra/journal/pdf_50_1/50-2004-Vol.1_09-A....

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonication
I literally put a smiley in my reply to indicate tone, and yet you still somehow miscontrued it. Take your own advice :D
Yes. I know lots of folks living in cheap Midwestern housing who think they're getting a great deal on the mortgage interest rate deduction, but who almost certainly have deductions at or below the standard amount.

I'd venture that a lot of people are typing all this info into their tax software, which summarily throws it all away without them really understanding that that's what's happening.

Regular folks just do not get this stuff and it's silly that we have such a complicated system.
SF puts strict limits on delivery robots
ok. my bad.
Yes. I know bright, competent people with PhDs who have fallen victim to professional scammers. Education does not solve the problem. Scammers make use of information and power asymmetries, ruthlessly exploiting weaknesses.

I guess in theory we could educate every single person on every single scam and give them all enough regular practice in spotting and dodging scammers. But it's far, far cheaper to just vigorously enforce the laws we have, and to update the laws as needed.
I think this is exactly correct. It's why the Raspberry Pi is so brilliant for the ARM ecosystem. It gives devs an easy way to get exposed to ARM and paves the way for higher end ARM servers, laptops, desktops, etc.

Power9 would really have to double down to have any chance of beating x64 and ARM, especially with RISC-V also about to enter the mix with its own advantages (openness). I think their only chance would be to actually sell it at cost or at a loss, at least at the entry level.
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Think about what that means. If I issue my own currency and "sell" it to myself, any amount I bought would be free
That could have something to do with the character of people who can currently afford college. I've heard it called an echo chamber.
Can anyone here prove their claimed benefits to actually stem from mediation? Any academic study?
Fizz Buzz in Tensorflow (2016)
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To compare: my camera uses 25 megabytes of storage for each single raw frame. I have no idea how much raw sound takes up, but you would have to move around a lot of SSDs to use that.
About a sixth of NYC families are food-insecure (https://www.foodbanknyc.org/wp-content/uploads/Meal-Gap-Tren...), and food deserts absolutely still exist (https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/vie...).

Please don’t make shit up off the top of your head.
Or your voice calling _"we are running low on soap"_.
> And it's not like cancelling the contract would've prevented the abuse.

Weinstein’s Complicity Machine

https://www.msn.com/g00/en-us/movies/news/weinstein%E2%80%99...
Biotech Company Offers Cryptocurrency for Your Selfies and Blood Tests
It's not insane if you look at the motivations behind who was pushing them.
Ferox, the forgotten archives
No doubt, your observation also applies to the world outside of politics too. Many artists get leeway because their behavior and failings are hoped to be independent (and sometimes a pre-requisite) of their art. And the rationalization we make may have little to do with absolute standards and principles, and more with proximity to the subject and the controversy. For example, I have no problem ignoring/boycotting Roman Polanski's contemporary work while I had a much harder time not caring about Woody Allen's continued work, at least until I read Dylan Farrow's essay about the abuse she faced [0]. It wasn't because that the weight of Polanski being officially charged with rape was more significant than the public evidence against Allen. I just hadn't grown up watching Polanski, where Allen's past movies have been among my favorite. With familiarity and sentimentality, it becomes easier to delay passing judgment, or to have doubts.

In the case of Moore, many of his implicit supporters may not love him. But if their priorities are a conservative and pro-life agenda, it will likely seem rational to them to de-prioritize taking a real look at the accusations against him. Nevermind that for Christians, it's practically tradition that the "work of God" is often carried out by the corrupt and the flawed (e.g. much of the Old Testament).

[0] https://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/an-open-letter-...
That's absurd. Why would they target diplomats when they could use criminals in foreign countries, or Guantanamo Bay detainees? Why use useful diplomats?
Except for that one girl that was 14 and thus underage of consent.
Ammunition is not difficult to obtain in Switzerland. Essentially anyone who can legally possess a gun can buy it from a gun store.

Government-issued ammunition is difficult to take home, but there's plenty of commercial ammunition that will work in the government-issued rifles.
Just to clarify, does this mean Amazon has no feasible way if adding support to control a Chromecast from their devices (e.g. Kindle Fire)?
In general, CoL differences at relatively high salary levels are absolutely dominated by housing prices.
'Black Mirror' season four hits Netflix on December 29th
Not sure I understand the point of the article. How is this different from what CloudFlare does (for free)?