skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think putting the burden of citizen safety 100% on police is like putting the burden of pedestrian safety 100% on cars. Yeah, the driver has greater responsibility and is held to a higher standard of caution... but this sort of thing really is a lot more practical if people know to stay on sidewalks.

This doesn't make any sense. Many pedestrians are drivers at other points in time. They have some idea of what to expect when they're on the other side of the coin. It's not a good analogy.

>don't understand this whole "I shouldn't need to know" perspective. Of course you need to know. Police are part of society, and so we need to understand how to be around them.

Of course one should know that it is a good idea to obey instructions from a police officer. Beyond that, it is difficult for the average person to figure out how to act appropriately in a stressful situation that could possibly end in death if some gesture is interpreted in an unexpected fashion by a trained officer. You cannot train the general populace to tackle something like this! At least not at any reasonable scale, especially when different police officers have different standards for what constitutes dangerous behavior. It is incumbent on authorities to make sure that they train their officers appropriately to behave in a way that deescalates interactions with the civilian population.
Uber’s rise triggers financial crisis at taxi lenders
>> Like many people being lifted out of poverty in the last decades? Like the
average person having a much easier life than the average person just a
hundred years ago?

Yes, the number of people living under the international poverty line has
halved since 2000, however:

a) The international poverty line is currently set to $1.25. This means that,
e.g. someone who makes $1.26 a day would be counted as "above the poverty
line"... which is very much not the same as "not poor".

b) And more importantly, there is no reason to assume that the fact that
people are marginally less poor today, than in 2000, is thanks to free market
capitalism, rather than despite it.

In fact, there is another metric of financial well-being, than wages, or
absolute or relative poverty: inequality. And that one is _rising_. And has
risen steadily throughout the last century. Only in this case we can be very
secure in the knowledge that it is the result of free market capitalism-
because that's exactly what leads to ever smaller minorities hoarding ever
larger portions of the world's wealth.
Why we are supporting VP9 (and AV1)
The TLDR version:

> In 2004, Stephen Joyce threatened legal action against the Irish government when the Rejoyce Dublin 2004 festival proposed public reading of excerpts of Ulysses on Bloomsday. In 1988 he destroyed a collection of letters written by Lucia Joyce, his aunt.

> After 1995 he announced no permissions would be granted to quote from his grandfather's work. Libraries holding letters by James Joyce were unable to show them without permission. Versions of his work online were disallowed. Stephen Joyce claimed to be protecting his grandfather's and his family's reputation, but would sometimes grant permission to use material in exchange for fees that were often "extortionate".

> When the Central Bank of Ireland issued a ten euro James Joyce commemorative coin on 10 April 2013, Stephen Joyce described the coin and the circumstances of its issue as "one of the greatest insults to the Joyce family that has ever been perpetrated in Ireland".

Sound like a fun person...
For Ruby I can’t recommend https://github.com/JoshCheek/ruby-kickstart high enough.

It’s a series of problems with tests and solutions. The problems will take you through a set of interesting CS problems which you’ll be solving using features of the language.

It’s addictively fun and will help you understand ruby before you dive into rails.

Also, you may find it useful to play with Sinatra a bit before diving into rails.
Gf and I play this on the switch. It's brilliant.
> As James Joyce's sole surviving descendant, Stephen Joyce may well have decided that squelching such academic and biographical speculation is preferable to seeing traumatic personal details of his family and his most renowned ancestor exposed for all the world to see.

The Streisand Effect strikes again.
There are literally thousands of more difficult climbs in the Himalaya...I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. For some (even world-class alpinists), summiting Everest faster and by "fair means" is an end game.
You seem to have a good handle on this subject. Im curious about your opinion on whole food plant based diets for inhibiting this progression through these layers you describe.
A high-school student won $250,000 for explaining relativity using Usain Bolt
By definition rich is relative, more inequity means more rich, and yes, lower inequality means less rich.
100% of people in a condo tower next to a cluster of office towers and a Muni stop should be very serious candidates for walking, bicycling, or taking Muni. This could create more transit riders and therefore require more transit (which we’d be happy to approve), but also take some existing longer-distance drivers or transit riders down to shorter and less resource-hungry commutes.
There are C++ mechanisms that do not work well in the kernel context. Like any implicit memory allocation or exceptions.

Linus is not entirely crazy. The Windows kernel SDK only supported C++ in the last decade and it has a lot of limitations.
Terrorism-as-object-lesson doesn't work and if anything is likely to have the opposite of the intended effect. Check out Erica Chenoweth's book on the subject (there's a link to the statistical data on this page): http://www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw/

Now I don't actually agree with her in terms of nonviolence-as-optimal-political method because I feel it fails to account for social cost and essentially encourages organizing around martyrdom which leads to the most vulnerable members of society being used as a punching bag to effect political changes whose primary benefits will flow elsewhere, but that's getting into the weeds. It's still an important work in this field that should be studied carefully.
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>Do you have any idea what the costs are

I've been pondering that and I don't think it would be much if you did a cheap and cheerful version. The cryonics institute charge about $30k/person for indefinite storage for whole body and only do about 4 a year. Chop the heads off and put them in a large refrigerated building and you could probably get it to a fraction of that. I figure you could get about 5 million in a WalMart sized building.

In the US lifetime healthcare costs were $316k in 2004. So now maybe 400k. Why spend 400k to die miserably when you could maybe spend 396k on that and 4k putting your head in the freezer and maybe beating the whole death thing for millions of years? Instead of the whole sad funeral thing it could be a more upbeat see you in the 22nd century party.

I'm assuming how this would play out is that post singularity there would be lots of resources for brain scanning and uploading and we'd probably have a largely virtual reality existence but with the ability to use robot bodies when wanted. But who knows...
I use an app that I made myself (http://write.itskrish.co), its defining features being:

1. you choose a fixed duration of time within which to journal (i choose 15 minutes even though it is initially tough to spend all of)

2. if you stop typing for more than a few seconds within the duration, you lose your writing

These constraints basically force me to dump anything and everything on my mind for the sake of continuous typing, and I've been successfully doing it at least 1-2 times a week for more than a year.
Except that because of the 'Blue Shield', police are rarely ever charged with any misdoing. A cop is never wrong, unless there is more than a mountain of evidence against them, and that makes me see all police as complicit.

Those 'very upstanding citizens' are the same ones who sit by silently as hundreds of unarmed Americans are shot each year by police.
I definitely needed this before my Computer Architecture Final. Sigh.
To make that worse, historically problematic movements like the Nazis, the Khmer Rouge and large parts of the Chinese communism found better support in rural areas. I strongly recommend Ian Buruma's "Occidentalism". It's short, packed with information, well researched and completely changed how I see the world. I would go so far to say that we need everything we can to have as few people live in rural areas as possible. Otherwise we will keep getting movements of rural people feeling left behind by the cold, calculating, greedy and immoral urban dwellers which will ultimately result in them yet again dragging everything down with them.
You banned the guy over the wang comment? How is that any less constructive than the other 50 posts here?
Also Chenzhen IO is wonderful
Also available on GOG: https://www.gog.com/game/tis100 if you don't like adding DRM to a DRM-free game by purchasing through Steam.

I bought TIS-100 through Steam years ago, only had it a few days before they decided to suspend my account for 2 weeks and take away all the games I purchased. They we're all on sale when I bought them originally but the sales were over by the time I got my account back. I finally got TIS-100 back last week through GOG because I happened to see it and it was half-off (would have bought it anyway). Can't wait to finish it.
CS doesn't really cover software design at the level of programming language idioms like callbacks. The closest it might get is lambda calculus and reasoning about code as graph reduction, where code is just a data structure.

Software engineering might cover design patterns, but even then it's a limited set of techniques with broad application - idioms in practice are tuned to their language and execution environment, because clumsy idioms don't propagate.
Oh, you have to pay for returns? That's not case (yet?) with Amazon.in.
When the body mass of an apex predator can grow exponentially you might have a point. Nature places limits on growth with physics.

Society does the same with revolutions and genocides. I'd would rather we don't have a WWIII as a way to address inequality, as nice as WWII was for wealth redistribution I'd rather no deal with a nuclear war when we can just use laws to deal with a bit of greed.
Kinda like how everyone leaves positive reviews on Airbnb because you don't want to look like a dick to future hosts. In fact, there really is no upside to leaving a negative review.

For example, "great place if you're a dog lover" = gang of intimidating street dogs on your doorstep. "Great eco-friendly washing machine" = one of those vibrating buckets. "Great place if you're a morning people" = loud train or church bells at 4am, or just next to a loud highway.

I've lived in some dumpy places in my life without issue so I'm not just some picky tourist expecting a Four Seasons experience in someone's guest house. But the reviews/ratings are pretty useless and Airbnb really has no reason to fix them.
You might have noticed if you observe them that nobody is in command of a group of cops. The notion of an officer in charge who is responsible for the actions of his subordinates is completely contrary to the attitudes of US police.
Indeed, I'd choose the "worst job in tech" over the "worst factory job" any day.
Be agile and keep lean.
Break things often so you can recover fast from failures and focus on the next test
Tech-driven transplants strike me as a related but slightly separate issue. Yes, they make up a large portion of the recent influx and gentrification needs to be addressed. I don't have a good solution for this and it deserves a lot of discussion, but ignoring the rising housing demand is certainly not the answer. If anything, that will force out even more tenants who can't afford tech-salary rents, right?

The Bay area is at the heart of the Third Industrial revolution and hopefully will continue to be a driving force in the Fourth. Not evolving city infrastructure and housing to match this strikes me as Luddism.
Hating white men is in vogue these days. Free points.
>> Middle-class kids in Jordan are playing Diabolo 3 on their computers despite the region having almost no natural resources, almost no water and despite it being troubled by Syrian refugees.

That's interesting, but what is the proportion of middle-class individuals to the rest of the population, in Jordan? If there's 100 kids able to play Diablo 3 in Jordan, while every other kid their age can't afford a computer, then Diablo 3 is not a very useful metric of anything.

Jordan is one of the richest countries in the region btw.
According to Wikipedia, he didn't remove that much:

> Delsalle used a virtually standard version of the Eurocopter AS350 Squirrel B3, only removing unnecessary elements, such as passenger seats, to reduce the standard weight by 120 kg (265 lb) and thus extend the 1-hour fuel range.

And in any case, I believe the user you responded to was talking about rescues, not removing corpses.
* NASA?

* Repairing infrastructure?

* Better public education (especially adult retraining)?

* Expanding public transportation?

* Medical R&D?

* Other tech R&D - like batteries, fusion, quantum computing, superconductors, etc

* Single payer healthcare?
As you may not be aware, the top 9 stories of the tower will be an LED art piece designed by Jim Cambell:

"The upper two-thirds of the [building] crown consists of perforated aluminum panels. [...] The exterior of the aluminum panels will be lit with 11,000 LED lights, which will display low-resolution moving color imagery. The images would be a combination of pre-recorded images and those taken from cameras surrounding the City. The crown of the tower also incorporates three internal lighting systems."

https://sf.curbed.com/2017/5/4/15551324/salesforce-tower-led...
I disagree- maths has always been an essential tool of all engineering disciplines. Software engineering is not an exception (algorithms, control systems, graphics, simulations).

Of course, a lot of people can and do write useful software knowing little to no maths, but then again, I suppose one can build a working bridge based on gut feeling as well.
! ‘The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent’
> Nobody actually needs order of magnitude either, so long as you can tell one thing is bigger than another which is about one day of learning after you cover polynomials.

If you're writing code that deals with list-shaped user data, you better believe you need this, because how the code scales with n is a constraint on the business.
Women in ancient China had their feet bound [1]. There were rules on how to walk properly as ladies. Court women had stricter walking rules; those in Qing Dynasty (the last in China) wore high-heel shoes, which made walking more difficult and painful so the women must take very small steps. Men back then had sexual fetish for small feet. I am so glad foot binding is illegal and no longer practiced in China.

Warning: "foot binding" on the Internet may contain disturbing images (including on Wikipedia). You may not like what you see, so I recommend just watch [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foot_binding

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOSmGBL33yk
I was visiting Taiwan a few years ago, and one of my friends busted open his lip. We went to the ER in Taipei (without insurance) and they saw him within an hour or so, prescribed some antibiotics, filled the prescription on site and sent him on his way. Total bill was under $20USD all in.
The electron’s wavefunction isn’t localized like the classical “billiard ball” and has a nonzero chance of being on the other side of a barrier. The truth is that it has a nonzero chance of being on the other side of the galaxy, albeit a much lower chance than tunneling across a microscopic barrier. In macroscopic terms, the only way you could pin the thing down is by stopping it cold (in microscopic terms, you’d detect it by interacting with it, a la a photon detector).

This isn’t just a matter of equipment you use to detect the electron, or photon, or anything with an apparent de Broglie wavelength. It really is a matter of the electron existing with some level of uncertainty regarding correlated variables like position and momentum. Mind you At high energy’s macroscopic objects will display characteristic wavelength, and be obviously subject to the same uncertainty. It’s just that in our universe, in our lives, we live at very large scales and low energies compared to an electron.
Ask what? I'm Greek. We fucked up with money and paid the price. It's not the fault of the Germans.
>Edit: Or just downvote and move on, that says something too.

I have 224 karma, I don't even have the ability to downvote [0]. I'm sorry I have shit I need to do and can't respond to you immediately.

[0]: https://imgur.com/a/5YnaY (ignore the hilarious typo in this)

EDIT: Funny how you claim I'm downvoting you, then when I say I'm not, you downvote and flag me. That's beyond petty and childish.
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As Taleb would say, debate the best possible version of your opponents argument, not the one most convenient to attack:

"Take for instance the great Karl Popper: he always started with an unerring representation of the opponents positions, often exhaustive, as if he were marketing them as his own ideas, before proceededing to systematically destroy them"

What I was saying was in the spirit of GP, which mentioned that he is sick of hearing people attack "science", and mentioned Nate Silver.

I was pointing out that Nate Silver himself admitted of not doing "science" with respect with Trump, at least in part.

Sure, Taleb has an ego, just like Wolfram. Taleb can also be a jerk, just like Linus. Everyone knows that. Dismissing him because of that is just an easy way out.
He intentionally created a situation where it was very possible and forseeable that innocent people could be be killed. I believe that's more serious than voluntary or involuntary manslaughter.
Given it was thought to be a multi person hostage situation, I think the worst case is every hostage gets killed and shootout ensues.

As bad as it was, it probably wasn’t the worst case.
"calling around" started in 1999? I assure you that's how it was for decades prior to 1999 ;-)

We just had to sit by the single rotary phone in the kitchen with a 8ft curly cord that was so tangled, it was really only 4ft. Had to deal with lots of busy signals because even once call-waiting was invented, it cost $3 per month and no parent raised during the Great Depression could imagine committing to that expense!
"goto considered harmful" is an old meme from 50 years ago, when control blocks like if and for were invented.
there is no end to that argument, if a spammer is good enough to be able to foresee anti-spam software then they are likely beyond the target audience. BUT the average and by large general spam crew are not technical experts, most of them have bought some software to advertise to a large audience by mass email / crawl / filter, and are just looking at monetizing some product (or get your infos / CCs).
By wasting time for the 95% of the spammers (ironically with techniques that are very similar to them) you can still weed out a big chunk of that sector and have a big impact.
This is probably vaguely off-topic. But I feel that the design of the newspaper's website helped somewhat with the article connecting with me. I don't think I would have paid as much attention if the website was as saturated with adverts as, say, the Washington Post or the New Yorker, or any other of the many websites with banners, popups, text-obscuring dialogues with crap like "click here to read more", "I see you're using an ad-blocker!", etc. (I actually turned off my ad-blocker to see if it was just me, but no, my ad-blocker only found one thing to block, and I still can't figure out what it was).

Not only the lack of adverts, but the framing of the photographs, the way that it centers the article (access to the rest of the site has been put in the background (You know, where it belongs)). All of this I feel helped me to focus on the article, which allowed me to connect better with it and remember it better.

I wonder if websites will eventually get better at this and become as classy as this one, or if things will just deteriorate further into a horrible mess.

Just my 2 pennies.
This project seems to only use the LAME encoder, but it would be interesting to see if other codecs give different creative results. And now that the patents have expired, someone could even write their own codecs from scratch with interesting artifacts in mind.
I loved this, thanks for sharing! I died at "niche numbers."
Happily! The sun lacks the necessary mass to burn using the nuclear reaction it uses (CNO), and quantum tunneling is the answer to how it burns.

For a brief discussion on the reasons why: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/quantum-tunneling-in-t...

For more depth: http://earthweb.ess.washington.edu/ess-102/FALL12/Lecture14_...

For the technical end of it: http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~gk/A403/fusion.pdf
I average between 30-40kmh riding without a motor. Ebikes should be limited to 50kmh
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Do you have data to back that up? From what I've seen, the top 0.1% pay a far larger share of taxes than the rest.

Based on federal gov't data on total taxes paid, the top 0.01% (even higher income than you 0.1%) pay over 20% of all taxes with an average rate of over 49%.[1]

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15573269
Jornet isn't just some random wahoo. He's won pretty much every major ultra trail race there is, has an unparalleled race ski mountaineering career, and FKTs on other major Seven Summits, including Denali. He's an outlier''s outlier. What then, does he need to prove? What would the reason be for him to lie?
Funny you should mention the industrial revolution, because resisting tech-industry-driven growth is done under the banner of progressivism, with the same pride and zeal of old-timey Peogressives fighting for better labor conditions in factories.
That looks so much better tbh.
>> Just like it wasn't a coincidence that Greece crashed on the tails of the 2008 recession.

That's a very good point that is completely overlooked in most analyses I've read (and, being Greek, I've read quite a few).

On the other hand, let's not forget that it was Greece that crashed after 2008. Not Spain, not Portugal, not Ireland or Cyprus. All these others, they swallowed the pill of austerity and their economies bounced back. Ours is still connected to the IMF and EU IV that's keeping it alive.

Not that I'm actually convinced that austerity would help us. And I do believe that the measures imposed on us ignored the reality of the Greek economy. But it was not the measures that brought us to our knees in the first place.
No argument there.

However it gets a bit iffy when you accuse a certain group of people of identity politics.
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The saga of the Los Angeles Rams and rams.com, a site about rams
z/os, oh how I remember interfacing with thee, and hating every minute of it.

From what I remember you're spot on, every "file" or "record name"/whatever (mainframes are not unix) was restricted to 8 characters and upper case, also EBCIDIC just because IBM. So many silly legacy things around those mainframes.

That said, they literally never had an outage on it the entire time I was there so +1 for reliability and availability. They even replaced the whole mainframe piece by piece.
Airbus confirms $50B jet order, one of the biggest deals in history
Jornet summited from the Chinese side, so this ban wouldn't have made much difference.
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