skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool country. Is the 11 year old president son still wearing a general uniform?

Come on. This regulation movement is made only to have bigger control over the people. Nothing more.
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Well, I'm supposing that the form cannot be submitted with a blank field or textual comment, because it's programmed that way.

Assuming that, is it then aggression/immoral?
I am not a conservative at all, but I can do basic math, and I can tell you with 100% certainty that the federal government's debts will never be paid back.
BART is honestly not as bad as people make it out to be. It's fast - really fast. People overlook that. And it's super frequent during rush hours. MUNI trains do have cleaner and nicer cars but they're so slow above the ground. MUNI buses on the other hand are always stinking.

However, what I uniformly hate about all modes of public transportation in the Bay Area is the casual, lethargic passengers who take their sweet sweet time to get in and out and clog the doorways. New York on the other hand was extremely courteous (in my limited experience) by on boarding and off boarding as quickly as they can.
Is there an NVidia career fair in San Diego (UCSD? SDSU?). Huge ruler nerd (also, pencils, calculators, engineering paper, etc).
> If this happens, transaction fees will go down and opening a channel will not cost $50

Bitcoin can process about ~3.5 tx's a second. The global population is about 7.6B. 1MB blocks are not sufficient..

Edit: For the record I think the obvious solution is both on and off chain scaling. Why it's even a debate I'm not really sure. I blame the illuminati.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuddy-duddy

In case anyone else does not know.
How do you block them on your router? I'm using Pi-hole but I still get Youtube ads through my Chromecast.
We've been having some issues with Firefox yes. Sorry about that. Do you remember specifically which screencast it was?
I mean, it's not just about privacy. There's also security concerns involved in the decision to wire up your home for video.

I have a camera pointed straight down at the entry area/living room of my apartment. I'm on the 1st floor with a streetside entrance. I sure as hell want to see why my alarm system went off and if it's a real emergency, privacy be damned.
I had one at my old job, but my current desk is too short to use it without bonking my knees.

If interested, I made a little tool to gather cadence data on a computer instead of using the provided monitor: https://github.com/lfowles/deskcycle
There are still plenty of other degrees of interestingness in between "known" and "definitely aliens."

These alloys could very well be mysterious not so much for their composition, but for their condition, or their use at all in aircraft.
Well yes, but Android was supposed to be an OS for digital cameras, and YouTube was supposed to be a dating site.
My neighbor does this. Has a van with a residential permit which he uses to store recyclables. Occasionally someone will fuck with his car, but no hobo wants a bunch of soggy cardboard.

He's clearly running a business and that can is just for storage but he's breaking no city rules which is shocking.
Stripe maintains a big list of prohibited businesses. Some of these are honest consumer protection. Others are there to try to instil Christian values into our money, for instance you may not use Stripe to sell sex toys.

If you ask Stripe, they'll tell you that these restrictions are there because of the requirements of Stripe's partners. And that is exactly the problem.

If we are heading towards a cashless society (and we are), then we need an electronic payment system that does not consult the Bible before deciding whether to allow your payment or not.
JSON Resume (https://jsonresume.org/) allows for JSON export. It would be nice if Resume Nation adopted that, or a similar, export format.
Watch the Tom Delgone interview with Joe Rogan for some entertainment and conspiracy in this vein...
Monitoring software (elastic, splunk, etc..). That stuff is expensive!
About AI, Unemployment and future of abundance
I could see speeding up shows to 1.5x if I was a reviewer and was watching them for work. But speeding up your entertainment seems strange to me. It'd be like ordering French Laundry to go.
If it exists, it's probably some facility where broken debris from research aircraft are stored. Edwards is always testing something, and when something breaks, it gets studied.

I once worked in a hydraulics R&D facility which had a scanning electron microscope. Parts which failed were examined to find out why. Their screen usually showed broken edges of something under high magnification.
I wouldn't go this way, personally (David vs Goliath). At least, not after exploring almost all other options.
> It's not a stretch to have groceries delivered all the way to your fridge

I think I'm mostly kidding... soon you'll be able to have a housemates as a service. You pay random people to come to you home, open the fridge, and drink the delivered milk right out of the container.
These "bitcoin = tulip maina = .com bubble" articles get a bit boring after a while especially if one is relatively deeply involved with the space. This has been discussed at very great depths thousands of times already.

What shows how superficial these articles are is that almost all of these articles (and most of the mainstream media articles) single out BTC, (which is less than 50% of total crypto market capitalization) without going into specifics of the given coin (like discussion of cons and pros of on-chain scalability solution vs. second layer scalability solutions, POW, POS, small/big block sizes etc...)

I think it would be a bit more interesting to speak about the price of a continously rebalanced, market-cap weighted index of the top 10 coins or something for mainstream purposes. This would prevent these articles focusing too much on the current state of BTC (which they cannot really focus on anyway without going much deeper), zoom out a bit more, and put the focus more on the possibilities in the whole evolving cryptocurrency space, which would be more interesting for a mainstream audience (they just don't know, because everybody tells them bitcoin, bitcoin, bitcoin).
Apple’s cash to remain near $270B after repatriation and share buyback/dividends
Fun times. It is fortunate he has the means to pursue this interest, I would have been so jealous of him when I was in HS!

I wonder what he is using to do metalization. There is the sputtering setup and the etching setup. Some nasty stuff involved in that. You can of course do quite a bit with polysilicon conductors but if he wants to do more useful things (as opposed to 'look it wiggles!' sorts of things) I'm guessing he will need some permits from the city :-). There is a reason nearly all the old fab sites in the bay area coincide with superfund cleanup sites :-(.
My son is going through the exact same thing! My theory is that there’s a dopamine adaption going on, or sthg like that. For him, it’s the same with audio books or digital games btw. The longer he consumes content, the longer the cool-down phase lasts after that, though the max duration is about 15 minutes — after that he is fine. What he does differs everytime, but it ranges from swearing to crying to just poking at food with an absent look, saying nothing.
Oh God, not Tech Celebrities....
I was recently in a city in SE China which is having great success with these bikes. A scan with Wechat unlocks them. they have team size of guys in Uniform going around clearing them up and cleaning them all the time, which is probably not as feasible in the West
Better article with real numbers: https://medium.com/@johnnyknocke/the-mta-loses-six-billion-d.... TLDR version: when it costs you $2 to do the same thing comparable European systems can do for $1, you’re going to have a bad time.
Bless This Oafish Koch Heir and His Hideous Shirts
New Genome Scores Predict Breast Cancer Odds for Any Woman
Oh Moment #37 ;)

Still my fighting game of choice to this day.
The layout feels like the good old iframe days.
Apropos of nothing much, I think I've still got the 8MB alpha version from about the year 1998 burned on a CD here somewhere. As I recall, run the executable and CS is added to the opening menu of Half Life.

Why do I remember it being 8MB? That's an odd thing to remember.
Why do people keep apologizing publicly? Do they actually think that helps?

For all you guys that are interested in a key insight: once dealing w accusations of abuse the worse response you can have (regarding your personal career) is to apologize publicly.

Fight or stay silent.
This basically sounds like OLE. Ah memories!
I meant satoshis are a reasonable "smallest unit" even at absurd valuations.

But that's not necessarily impossible to attain. If BTC wins and the world switches, the resulting bubble might be that big.
Just finished Lala Land, didn’t notice any.
And how many of the 3% who don't own a TV do you think also don't own a phone or computer that they use to stream content?

If I were staying on campus in a dorm room today, I probably wouldn't bother with a TV. I would have my laptop, phone, and/or tablet.
By ditching usernames, OKCupid is removing a crucial protective barrier
It's always impressive to follow someone derive a full theory (general relativity, quantum field theory...) from the basics on the blackboard, and in the end it is off by a factor of 2 or pi, and everyone has to hunt for the place where it was misplaced - demonstrating that this was indeed a live derivation.
DARPA's AI Spectrum Management Challenge Completes Its First Round
Not to be a grinch, but I followed a lot of his videos, and I think he has not yet actually put 2 transistors on the same die, it's the technological threshold for an IC. I think he is working on making patterns (and that's interesting, because nobody is working on cheap masking), he made some individual transistors with masking tape, but not combined yet.

But his videos are very cool, and I'm looking forwards to more. I didn't realize he was that young.
Look at Ad Free Time. You have to have certain routers. I don't use a Chromecast or any other device like a Roku, so dealing with them is an unknown for me.
Hunting for the reason why the Western US has so darn many odd volcanoes
That smells fishy to me. I'd look for hidden fees and watch for price increases.
Maybe people are optimizing for considerations other than their career?
The full stack is

* Microsoft Universal Foldable Keyboard

* iPhoneX

* Blink

* Mosh

* tmux

* scaleway small baremetal instance

Works like a charm. And at iphone resolution even 8pt are nicely readable.
Travelling Santa Problem
What is OLE?
Ublock doesn't cover mobile devices though. And even if you block it on the router, once you leave the house it's only available via vpn. And if you're going that far and making it available for your whole family and are on the hook for support... Maybe it's easier to just pay a few bucks a month. (Unless you're really enjoying doing it by hand, I guess)
Facebook's new tool reveals if you're being scammed – ONENAIJA
That's a good suggestion. I'm getting back onto long distance racing--perhaps I'll start running to the office again.
I didn't know about the affordable care act, that's wonderful news! Anyway, I stand corrected, thanks.
Microsoft went that far when they copied macOS and deliberately changed things like moving caption buttons from left to right.
Not even random. They could generate channels based on their observations of what you "switch channel" from.
Allright, I'll bite.

Let's do a simple budget for a $400K household. This puts you in the top 1.2% of incomes, nation-wide, by the way. Say, 40% of that goes towards income taxes (A bit of a high estimate, even, since taxes are progressive, there are deductions, your 401K isn't taxed, but whatever).

That leaves $240,000.

Two adults, so $40,000 goes to your 401K, no questions asked. It's the responsible thing to do. You're already saving as much as a median SF household takes home, but that's fine.

Two cars. You can buy a working car that will probably last you seven years for $10,000, or ten years for $20,000. Let's ammortize it at $2,000/year, with another $3,000/year in gas, insurance, oil changes, tires, etc.

That's $190,000 left over. Let's say you take two nice family vacations, for another $20,000 total. That's not living frugally, since you're spending more money on fun then what someone making your coffee makes in a year, but that's fine, you're definitely middle class.

Let's say you save another $50,000/year. Kids need braces, your car may get dented, you might want to order tex-mex every once in a while, you want to build that retirement fund.

You're left with $120,000/year in cash, to spend on food and housing.

If you can't figure out how to live on that, I hate to break it, but you're mismanaging your money. The median SF household lives on $77,000/year - that is BEFORE taxes. Half of them manage to raise at least one child on that. $400,000/year is completely out of touch with what normal middle-class people can spend. You don't need two Model Ss, Junior doesn't need to go to a top 5% elementary school, and you can probably make due without a two-week trip to Spain and another to Hawaii.
The next logical step is to use everyone's home as an impromptu fulfillment center.

Let's say Amazon has a full list of every possession you own and the price you're willing to sell it for. Any time someone goes to buy a thing, they find a nearby place that has it for the cheapest price, including shipping.

If you happen to win that round, they sending a shipping person^H^H^H^H^H^Hdrone copter into your home to pick up the item and transfer it to the buyer. They automatically credit your account the appropriate amount.
Have you looked at RISC-V Vector proposal yet? Same person who did AVX-512 for Intel.
Drug sale and use is not victimless. The costs vary with the type of drug and the enforcement regime but the social costs never go to zero.

There can be huge negative externalities involved with drug use, as anyone with a family member who has a drug problem could tell you.

Even in the most enlightened societies one would have to acknowledge that support and rehabilitation for the small percentage of users who have problems creates a burden on society.

Since these costs are generally not borne by either party to the transaction there is a fairly straight-forward case for regulation here.

For this reason I do support banning some drugs and regulating most of them (including cigarettes and alcohol).

I don't think this is inconsistent with free market ideology at all. As far as I know, no one wants a totally free market for semtex, plutonium or nerve gas (I do admit those are perhaps overly emotive examples).
30 Rock also had good product placement, often times making jokes about how forced a product placement in the show was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36wUmJGzvA
So they've smartly circumvented the obvious privacy problem by only requiring first names, not full names. However, "real life" first names tend to be a lot less varied and unique than screen names. So how are people supposed to distinguish between dozens of Steves, Bobs and Annas?
Project Fi will take your Google Voice number
He told a room full of students that a French curve (that extremely curvy shape used in technical drawing) has the remarkable property that the tangent of the lowest point is always horizontal.. and they all believed him.
If the US federal government is well run, there is no reason to pay the debt off, as a liquid market for treasuries is beneficial, and the debt can grow forever with the economy...and if the government is poorly run, it would presumably default at some point.

So while I more or less agree it is at least 99.9% certain the debt will not be paid off, I feel like you are making some implicit point with your comment about "basic math" and "100% certainty" that I would not agree with. Why belabour the obvious?

If there was some reason the debt needed to be paid off, I don't see why in principle the US couldn't stop running deficits, as we have oscillated between trillion dollar deficits and much smaller ones.
Easy:

std::vector<P> people = { P{"jane", 47}, P{"mary", 71}, P{"john", 65} };

ranges::sort(people, [](auto& x, auto& y){ return x.weight > y.weight; });

Compile this gist with `c++ -std=c++1z -I range-v3/include`:

https://gist.github.com/cieplak/dcd587c67d989768900e4110e776...
On the flip side of that, how do you build an economy around a currency that front loads such massive wealth inequality out of the gate?
They’re called housesitters. Amazon probably isn’t in this market yet but could happen through some of their residential service-oriented catalog.
Sorry, but it sounds like bunk - out of top 10, I've said most myself and heard others to say it. Well, except the beer bash thing, I must admit - though I have had coworkers that did not drink alcohol (and nobody resented them for that), I didn't really hear anyone claiming beer bash can't be fun. So I guess 1 out of 10 is kinda plausible?
So just to check where we are:

If I’m a woman and you’re a man, and I break up with you, I have the right and the power to end your career.

I don’t even need to say anything specific. I don’t need to make any statements that can be verified by anyone. I just have to have been in a relationship with you, and describe that relationship as “controlling” and “abusive.” Without offering any details. And your life, as you knew it, will be over.

Ryszard Kapuscinski in _The Emperor_ describes a (perhaps apocryphal) traditional Ethiopian juridical system. If someone had put a hex on you, a small boy would be blindfolded and brought to the marketplace. The first person he managed to grab would be the witch, whom the crowd would beat to death.

That was a long time ago. Ethiopia has come a long way. Addis Ababa has great weather — maybe the next big startup hub? One can only hope.
100% agree with the fact that governments need limits, but I also disagree with the idea of removing all kind of monetary power from the hands of governments, it's just too helpful and achieving the same goals without it would be much more dramatic : if you think inflation is spoliation, what do you think about actually confiscating assets or properties ? In troubled times, a government will do anything necessary to keep its power and if he doesn't have access to monetary tools, things are going to be much worse, and the majority will be behind it.

People tend to think that the free market won against socialism, but it did not : welfare state won against socialism ! People being happier, they didn't want the revolution, but if a government can't buy social peace it's going to be replaced by someone who will do it. That's exactly the kind of mindset that made Trump president of the US (America first, no more globalization), and the fact that he is betraying his promises won't change the fact that a huge chunk of the population want some dramatic change (even at the expense of a lot of important things).
Upper class is a stretch. $200k is enough to live in a nice apartment and travel once or twice per year. It is not enough to pair a yacht with your condo (it is not even enough to afford most of the >1BR condos in Jersey City).

Maybe "upper middle class" but I don't see how anyone outside of the 1% can reasonably be called "very much upper class."
Years of radiation exposure and the poor guy dies of alcohol poisoning. 'Murica.
…really? "Nerd minstrel show?" Ah yes, we poor nerds, overcoming centuries of repressive awkwardness and desk jobs.
Ask HN: Have you seen a UFO?
Have you ever seen a UFO or something otherwise unidentifiable in the sky?

This is intended to be a fun discussion, based on recent news articles and links seen on Hacker News.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/pentagon-program-ufo-harry-reid.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15990480

I'll volunteer one of my experiences first:

A few years ago I saw what looked like a miniature brightly lit moon moving quickly in the daytime sky. It turned out to be a weather balloon reflecting the sunlight, which confirmed by news channels via National Weather Service after numerous other sightings and reports. So, for about 10 minutes many of us saw an unidentified flying object, and then it was an identified flying object.
Comparing the effectiveness of DNS-based porn filters: OpenDNS, Norton,
The article you're referring to[1] only talks about a single group of hunter-gatherers, the !Kung. And all things considered, they do not work less than we do.

. . . his original estimate of 12-19 hours worked per week did not include food processing, tool making, or general housework, and when such activities were included he estimated that the !Kung worked about 40-44 hours per week.

How many people do you know that spend 44 hours or less per week working, commuting, grocery shopping, cooking, doing housework, running errands, etc.?

[1] http://quillette.com/2017/12/16/romanticizing-hunter-gathere...
The corollary is that integrity is bad for your career.
I imagine Basecamp's iOS app could well be affected by this. A company which revolutionised web development fails to get the Apple seal of approval. Walled garden is too tame a label. I hate Apple's arrogance. In some ways they're worse than the Microsoft of 2000. Guess whose browser is the only one still not supporting progressive web apps?
> nobody is ever going to use a currency that costs you $50 to process every transaction regardless of whether it’s for $50k or 50 cents

That's pretty much how USD wires work. It's markedly worse if going outside the border.

Even at these fees, on friction, fees, and settlement time, Bitcoin still compares favorably.
So you're advising people who have (admittedly, in this case) engaged in sexual abuse for multiple years to compound the hurt by "fighting", i. e. continuing the emotional abuse, only in public?

How about owning up to your mistakes? Personally, I'd have less of a problem with working with this guy in the near future given his admission, than with someone in a similar situation engaging in public mudslinging or pleading the 5th.

You also have to consider that such behaviour usually follows a pattern, and one accusation is usually not the end of it. Plus, in small, tight-knit communities, you often know the people socially. And its incredibly difficult to completely hide such relationship dynamics. The people you'd need to believe you will be the ones best-positioned to know the truth anyway.
Insincerely Yours – The GOP and FCC
I'm actually glad Robert Scoble made such a self-destructive public non-apology-apology, because now we all know exactly what kind of unrepentant victim blaming monster he is, since it's all on the record (including screen captures of stuff he eventually deleted).

Max's apology was at the opposite end of the spectrum from Scoble's series of attacks on the victim and non-apologies. It may have taken Max two tries, but at least the second was better than the first (as opposed to Scoble, whose non-apology-apologies just kept getting exponentially worse each time, including an asinine plug for his own disreputable company, and he tried to white-wash the record by deleting the previous non-apology apologies on Facebook and the awkward discussions attached to them).
Dont end up like this unfortunate boy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Mohamed_clock_incident
The state took over the subway system when the city went broke. The MTA is a state agency.