skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
- You get foxes that eat them.

- You get dogs that eat them.

- Wolves, hyenas, lions.

- Lions die in winter.
It's postgres or postgresql, not postgre.
PoS will never be adopted by Bitcoin. The mining pools that have invested in PoW won't allow it.

Every attempt to date to improve transaction rates on BTC have been hampered by a small group of developers who have a vested interest in it not scaling for reasons explained here: https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/6rxw7k/info...

Bitcoin won't get any of the improvements you hope it will because there is too much money vested in keeping it exactly how it is today.
Exactly. Price aside, the growth is insane. Things are being built. Merchants are coming back online. Within a few months the sentiment will start to change for BCH.
It seems like you say that with the goal of proofing me wrong with an example. But what you say is

(a) an argument helping my thesis by showing that you can program functional languages quite well by using mutable recourses

(b) the biggest users of what you write there are also the biggest enemies of the status quo you describe. Functional programmers really hate that computers are so unlike what they love.
> some greybeards are still pretty attached to that idea

"Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask yourself, 'Why was it put there in the first place?'" G.K. Chesterton
Isn't Uber currently losing money? I think the money for this is coming from VC firms.
It's up to the judge to interpret law, which includes following precedent set in previous cases. Severability clauses have been upheld, or struck down, in a number of different circumstances which can be compared to new examples.

It is reasonably predictable for most situations how a judge would rule, which is why contracts have common boilerplate.
Self-driving cars may help seniors who face driving challenges
I have mostly managed to avoid working a normal job. Here are some things I have done:

College. It let me continue to live with parents and not get a job.

Military spouse and full time parent. It let me see the world, but when I got divorced, starting a career from scratch was challenging. Also, my quality of life went way up with getting a job and no longer being a homemakers. Homemaking isn't exactly a profession that gets a lot of respect or pays particularly well and the retirement plan tends to suck.

I have been doing freelance work in recent years.

I will recommend the book "How to survive without a salary" by Charles Long. If you can pay off all your debts, pay cash for a cheap house somewhere with low taxes, raise a garden, etc, you can get off the hamster wheel and do as you choose to a large degree. But it takes a lot of time to arrange and most folks don't actually want to make those sorts of sacrifices.

This is part of why so many people buy lottery tickets. Wanting an answer with no down side is a popular desire.

(No I am absolutely not being snarky. This is reality. Finding one's "dream job" and being jazzed to go to work every day is the exception, not the rule.)
Lorde of the Flies: Why College Students Reject Reason
Who take money from our pension funds for example.
> which has to worry about things like liability, legal hiring, risk analysis, proper management and dispatching

Apart from official hiring issues, why do you think they're free from the other ones? They're all natural things you have to deal with one more than one person is involved.
Ask HN: What should I ask my CEO at lunch?
I have been invited to a luncheon with my CEO (of a Fortune 500 company). I work in BI and data science. What should I ask or tell him? Thoughts?
It depends on the city. Uber is not uniformly profitable everywhere.
they also create wealth by investing in new services.

Money creates money, it's not a scarcity resource
The problem with the observational approach is generally that it's really hard to decorrelate the results. In your proposed experiment you control only for the project itself. What if good developers generally prefer modern programming languages, so they chose Roslin. Does that imply that using Roslin is a better language for programmers that are not as good? Does it even show that they wouldn't have been even more productive using Java?

From the other direction, even if you get the value of controlling for the project itself, that might also add some bias. Could be that for a project with that setup waterfall actually works pretty well, but is it representative of projects overall? Are most software projects comparable to developing a simple Android app with a well defined specification up front?

I do agree that it would be good to do this kind of experiments where multiple teams get tasked with building similar systems to figure out what works. But I don't think it makes sense to actively avoid controlling for variables. That would make the results very hard to interpret and much less usable.
In these countries there is a larger tax rate and a much larger safety net for those who cannot or do not work. In addition, the government provides basic services like health care and, in some countries, child care that do a lot to close the gap. In most of these countries, they don't really have a conception of working "full time" vs. "part time," due to provided health insurance, meaning that people generally have meaningful work life balance. They also have better law around collective bargaining and the rights of employees. But yes, they're not like the USSR where everyone is provided with some kind of job.
Good point. I really wish congress would codify this so that things like net neutrality would have no excuse for contention.
Correct. The effect is based on where the interchange from black to white occurs. If the interchange occurs at the peak or valley of the sine wave, we perceive no curves. If the interchange occurs at the straight part of the sine way, we accurately perceive the curvature. Really neat!
Ask HN: Why haven't any adventure travel startups taken hold by the mainstream?
Just something I've noticed. Maybe I'm missing something.
Unethical Life Tip

Catch the cat and release it 50 miles away
What's his view of ML / AI / big data?

What's his view of privacy and big data?
Here is a NiceHash hack transactions visualization:
I've heard this advice a lot. Have you ever followed this in real life? How did it work out for you? I worry that cops have the potential to make my life very unpleasant if I annoy them.
Our system isn't perfect, and capitalism overall is shit, but actual socialism somehow manages to be worse. Americans aren't clamoring for socialism.
> This means our concept of IQ is likely inherently flawed

I'm not sure I'd say flawed so much as I'd say myopic. Which is absolutely still a flaw, but a very specific one that allows you to contextualize the results of an IQ test rather than discard them as worthless. IQ measures a subset of human intelligence pretty effectively, but misses the bigger picture. There's large parts of human intelligence that can't be measured using a test like that. A test can only provide stimuli for the mind and measure its reaction over the short period of time while taking the test. Among other things, it can't measure long-term recall or the ability to rehearse/learn information and skills over time, both qualities people would naturally associate with intelligence.

It's our need to have a single spectrum from mental retardation to genius-level that's led us to try to create a test which assigns a number to intelligence. But intelligence is multidimensional and an IQ test just fills in some of those dimensions.
indent-buffer probably is the emacs command unless python mode overwrites that.
just add i2p and nobody can stop you
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his job depends upon his not understanding it!"
The article begins by labeling standardized tests of intelligence as IQ tests, I was following that definition.

The correlation is between people who do well on the tests and disorders. It could be that more preparation for the tests, the SAT classes for example, leads to both of these results.

Auras have no repeatable way of being measured. IQ tests show something, even if labeling that intelligence is wrong.
For more happy thoughts, many of the ones that only eat inside dine on food produced by human slavery:

e.g. Nestlé (Purina) admits slavery in Thailand while fighting child labour lawsuit in Ivory Coast

https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/feb/01...
Yes indeed. My opinions around "net neutrality" would change a lot IF the FTC was responsible for the media component, as it sits the lobbing allows for too much conflation of issues.
> Money creates money, it's not a scarcity resource

Feds create money, in the US.

> they also create wealth by investing in new services.

Wealth for themselves? Wow, isn't that great for me?
Why do you say the slices have gotten smaller? The absolute percentage of people in poverty in the world has had a very rapid decline over the last 50 years. So something we are doing is working.
How is it organised in the US? In Australia/Vic while the are volunteer firefighters, they're working with the state organisation and are being put on the same level/block as the career ones in the structure: http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/about/our-structure/
I agree, it seems disingenuous to describe IPFS as the only way to implement a decentralized web. For example in our group we've explored the idea of essentially a decentralized Merkle tree where the document id's are resolved via P2P gossip, like in early versions of Gnutella.
right, but you can set the fee to 20 cents, if you are willing to wait for a confirm
In the context of this conversation, where your efforts won't go to improve the wealth or power or status of your boss, I'd say you'd have to get pretty socialist to solve that problem.
You seem very focussed on the money-side of the equation, however for most people job satisfaction consists of more things like feeling part of a team, being friends with colleagues and growing as an individual. e.g. some companies enable you to solve problems you cannot do anywhere else, or allow you responsibility that you wouldn't have anywhere else.

Maybe the easiest to identify what would make you more satisfied with a job is to think what job you would sign up for if you suddenly have all your money needs solved (aka win the lottery).

The high risk of becoming an entrepreneur is exactly why the labour market is not allocating profits to employees, if it were very easy to build a successful company that can employ others then a lot of people would go and do just that. consequently, the war for talent would ensure profits go to the few people willing to work for somebody else.
Slashdot is still used? I thought HN is the replacement of what Slashdot once was.
Things you can’t do in Rust: compose functions
And the 11 billion invested. Luckily that money is burned at a breath-taking rate and we can see the closing of Uber sooner than later.
If the test administered to Feynman only went to 130, as some do, then a test score anywhere close to that, such as 125, can be assumed to have "ceilinged the test." It can be viewed as a floor for the person's IQ, a minimum score suggesting it is at least that high.

Thus, Stephen Hsu's assertion that it must have just been a bad test with a low ceiling suggests to me that Mr. Hsu knows a great deal less about IQ tests than I know, so I see no reason to defer to his opinion.

Maybe there is some nuance I'm missing, but those two paragraphs seem to be arguing the same point - that a 125 score was probably not accurate, but hitting the ceiling of the test? I.e. you and Hsu agree. Here is Hsu's full quotation (never said "bad").

To understand this score we have to remember that typical IQ tests (e.g., administered to public school children) tend to have low ceilings. They are not of the kind that Roe used in her study. One can imagine that the ceiling on Feynman's exam was roughly 135 (say, 99th percentile). If Feynman received the highest score on the mathematical portion, and a modest score of 115 on the verbal, we can easily understand the resulting average of 124.
SegWit was activated. Lightning is working. Mimble Wimble and Schnorr signatures are in development.

I understand big blockers are upset they didn’t get their way. They need to understand the reason big blocks don’t have consensus is that they increase propagation delays and propagation delays leads to centralization. Core devs are pursuing many alternative and intelligent scaling avenues.

Also, miners don’t determine consensus rules. If PoS works, another UASF initiative will arise and everyone running a node can decide the new PoW scheme. The fact that you don’t understand this leads me to believe you don’t have a good understanding of the technology yet.
Technical Professions Progress from Magical to Boring
Your comment was needless and contributed nothing to the parent comment. Then again, you knew that, demonstrated by you making a brand new throw away account just to make your overly aggressive comment.

Not sure if you were afraid of the downvotes or having your true feelings connected with your identity - as if anyone would care. Either way, quite the cowardly move.
Marvellous, one whole order of magnitude! If you manage another factor of 5000 and Bitcoin will reach what Visa and Mastercard (and, separately, another cryptocurrency) managed several years ago.
Got an application from a developer that looked terrible. Was ready to dismiss it, when I happened to notice there were patterns to the garbage, and it was really too terrible for anyone. Asked her to send me the original and I found the culprit:

It was two columns.

That was all it took to throw off the resume parser at Indeed of all places. So what you're doing will be hopelessly destroyed by any resume parser out there. That is likely the reason for the performance.
Yeah, I'm familiar — I'm a FreeBSD developer. Pkgbase is a feature in development; it's not officially complete or supported in any release.
If I had a choice between having a reputation as being very smart or having a reputation as very hard working, I’d choose the latter.

25 years in the working world have utterly convinced me that being hard working is a much higher contribution to civilization than being super smart.
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://m.phys.org/news/2017-12-physicists-discovery-exciton....
Of course, but it’s hard to argue that because a trade is advantageous to you, you cannot attempt to create the conditions where it’s even more advantageous. And in negotiations, you should strengthen your BATNA (best alternative to no agreement) and that of the other party’s. So you could see class struggle as a strategy to improve the starting positions in a negotiation, if that makes you happier :-)
they barely keep up with inflation! (Arguably even fail to do that based on which consumer price index metric is used)
He's specializing in use of force for self-defence, not necessarily shooting. The argument goes like this:

"Many people advocate that in the aftermath of a defensive use-of-force event you say literally nothing to the police except that you want to speak with your lawyer. And that 'Say NOTHING' approach is one way to go.

At Law of Self Defense, however, we suggest you consider an alternative, the 'Say LITTLE' approach -- meaning, saying a few very specific things, then asserting your rights to silence and counsel. Among the things we suggest saying, even before having your attorney present, is that your use of force was an act of self-defense.

One reason we suggest this is that most claims of self-defense are simply BS claims by bad guys, and these are often fabricated after the fact while they're sitting in their holding cell. If you defer claiming self-defense until hours after your first interaction with the police, you begin to look a lot like one of those fabricators. And if you DO, you can rest assured that this fact will be brought up in trial."

There's more details in his book and classes that are not freely available online.
Do you have references for this? I've had nothing but good experiences with HIBP in the past.
Actually, I will rephrase, the clause appears to have no effect.

In the event that one part of the contract is nullified, it's up to the court to determine if that modification will nullify the contract or not, it depends on the circumstances.

The presence of the clause cannot prevent to cancel the contract, the absence of the clause doesn't mean that the contract is cancelled if any clause is found invalid.
While he doesn't touch on IPFS iirc, this talk by Mathias Buus is what got me excited about decentralization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tf14VpeHlE

He does a great job explaining e.g. Merkle Trees in a practical manner that made me immediately go "Wait, I could use this for X and Y?!"

Recommended watch!
Yeah, like, it's as easy as not responding with an answer when they ask you if you know how fast you were going. It's not that hard and if you're polite and you're white you're probably going to be okay.
I love the movie line, and I too long ago learned that user feedback about software I'd written could be nonsense or pure ego, BUT - I think you missed the "other elderly" point at the heart of the complaint. I'm over sixty and I'm constantly stunned by how computer illiterate other sixty-year olds are (and yes sometimes thoroughly flummoxed by UI changes myself.) If you're twenty such changes are trivial to overcome - you just ask your buddies what they did. Above sixty - your friends have no idea. Google usually isn't a solution for such general questions, either, particularly if a "magic term" is needed that they won't know. The young turk UI programmers, seem to assume everyone has better than 20-20 eyesight, single-pixel hand-eye coordination and a lot of background knowledge and UI intuitions that elderly people don't have - because they may update their equipment and software only every decade or two!

I suspect the answer may be a secondary, vastly simpler interface that can be maintained as a fallback for the elderly, without breaking the bank.
They're not running in places with cheap hydroelectric. It's cheap coal. It's all coal.

https://qz.com/1054805/what-its-like-working-at-a-sprawling-...
Auras have no repeatable way of being measured. IQ tests show something, even if labeling that intelligence is wrong.

There are people who claim to see auras. How is this different from people trained in administering IQ tests? The average person is just taking the word of some test taker that it means thus and such.

At some point, you simply have to trust the person telling you something. Even when people use machines -- and IQ tests are not measurable by machines like MRIs -- the person has to read the output. How do we know they weren't high on LSD that day?

I mean, this is veering into territory of "Zhuang Zhou dreamed he was a butterfly," * but I am being sincere here. I intend to step away from this particular thread because I don't think people think I am posting in good faith, or being sincere. So there is probably no good that can come from trying to further engage in discussion of a matter that I have thought a lot about and think is a serious issue.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuangzi_(book)
Isn't Uber losing money on every ride?
You can play with the colors here:
https://www.geogebra.org/m/MTGuYMTC
You’re upset the core devs didn’t let Bitcoin become a centralized coin? If you refuse to acknowledge the benefit of SegWit or the other scaling solutions then I can’t help you.

Big blockers have their Jihan and Roger coin now. Stop trying to steal the bitcoin brand. If there was consensus for big blocks then Bitcoin would have activated. Jihan and Roger couldn’t convince the educated people that their proposals would work. Now they’re throwing a tantrum.
In this case it's just about sane defaults and options. You could take any binary-update Linux distribution and update from source yourself if you wanted to. It was always an option. All of the build machinery and sources were published from the beginning.

With the BSDs, you didn't even have the option of binary updates or packages until quite recently.
BING BING BING

Guaranteed it's the latter. Intel isn't about to give up the huge contracts it has with NSA.
When the correct answer is “bitcoin“, what is the question? I genuinely, genuinely, don’t see any task for which it is the best solution — not even for anonymous online payments or secret ways to store wealth.
>The reality is that we live in a world of scarcity,

Since the 1980s we have been producing enough food to feed everyone on earth. So to take that example, of that basic necessity, there is no scarcity. From that moment on making sure nobody starved ceased to be a problem of scarcity and became a problem of distribution.

>and have unchangeable biological impulses toward hoarding resources and other exclusionary survival behaviors.

I have a biological impulse to kill people who cross me, to shit on the street, to steal things I want, if given the chance. The proof of that is that for the vast majority of the existence of our species this was how we behaved. Nevertheless I tamed those impulses. No reason why the impulses of hoarding for myself to the ruin of others can't be tamed as well.
The Tesla Model S P100D – Chris Harris Drives
If I want to completely escape a contract, as opposed to only part of it, I care very much about whether a severability clause will be enforced.
Looking really good!

I recently started working on something similar: http://politisee.com, with a little different goal. Rather than calculate the net result for a single person, Politisee for a single person, Politisee tries to summarize and compare plans, and shed light on how they perform broadly to society (i.e. at all income levels). However I do plan to add the personal side too. For now I'll be linking to yours.

One of the challenges of the broad approach is getting everything into an apples-to-apples comparison. I'm definitely going to be taking some inspiration from your work.
Which cryptocurrency supports 60k t/s?
Two New Reports Say Microsoft Underpays Women and Stifles Career Advancement
What a great time to be alive. On the server and desktop fronts we develop and interact with software that runs mainly on the x86 instruction set architectures (ISA), designed and created more than 30 years ago. Today we get to see videos of engineers adapting algorithms and extensions to a relatively new ISA to efficiently handle modern workloads. While the software side has seen significant in roads with opensource at all levels of industry, data centers with respect of the hardware is mainly proprietary and I think RISC-V is the first step to change that.
How Europe Conquered the World
I was trying to convey that fostering an environment within which tools and methodologies can be understood for their specific merits is more important than the tools and methodologies themselves. Or: a tool shouldn't be a crutch, but a training aid. At least, that's how I interpret it.

Obviously, the true spirit of the agile manifesto is the non-prescriptive, ambiguous wording.

Unfortunately, 'scrum' has come to be known as 'agile', which I think is an unfortunate consequence of all the cargo-culting going on. Rituals are fine, as long as they have any depth and identity to them. The Scrum rituals are shallow, simplistic and feeble. Without identity it is no wonder many participant want them to be over as soon as possible...
Naive question: when does the executive and cultural behavior represent enough of a risk to be a tipping point for investors to completely pull their investment?
Why I don't want to grow up
I don't think so.
A single super smart person has a far far bigger impact on society than billions of hard working people.
Our society would still be surviving by hunting if it wasn't for the smart people.
Seriously, I never thought that I would read something like this on HN...