skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow you have streets with names!? I can see why you're so deep in debt with such frivolties. (/s) Up here in Bulgaria, we did away with using street names for (some) addresses back in soviet times. Let me repost an example:

For whatever reason, we decided that naming streets and numbering the buildings on them is too passé, so lots of our cities use District + Number (where the numbers carry no geographic meaning), in parallel with Street + Number, but every building is addressable using only one scheme.

Concrete example with the city of Sofia, Bulgaria - consider these two buildings [1] [2]. They're both next to Vasil Kalchev street. One is a kindergarten, the other is a block of flats. Let's see what the address for each is, if you want to send a letter to them. The kindergarten is, obviously, St. Pimen Zografski street No. 5... well OK, that's the street on the other side of the building, nothing too strange; while the block of flats is zh.k. Dianabad bl. 54. The abbreviations mean literally "residential district Dianabad, residential building number 54". No, the building is not addressable via the street, you cannot send post to that building or locate it on a map via "Vasil Kalchev street, No. X" for any X. There are, in fact, no numbers on Vasil Kalchev street. And the residential building numbers aren't geographically meaningful - directly east of said building 54 is building 53, but directly west of it are buildings 42 and 43. There is no building 44. There are, however, 33, 33A, and 33B. They are just ad-hoc numbers (maybe with letters) that you need to have in a database, like you have the locations of streets and where the numbers on the street are geographically.

[1] https://www.google.bg/maps/place/Kindergarten+49+Radost/@42.....

[2] https://www.google.bg/maps/place/42%C2%B039'53.7%22N+23%C2%B....
Thought it was just a weird version of Focus.
It takes a specific type of person to enjoy parenthood. I, however, am not one of them. I love my children but being a parent fucking sucks. It has its moments of joy. But the day-in-day-out sucks. If I could do it over again I wouldn't.

Most people will research a car purchase more than they will parenthood before getting pregnant. I was one of them. You have that urge and you just go with it never questioning the reality and magnitude of the commitment you're getting into.

I didn't want a second child and my wife did. When she said she was pregnant I was not happy. I resented her for much of the first years of my second child's life because I never wanted another screaming baby in my house.

My wife used to talk about wanting a big family but on the second pregnancy she realized that was an idealization - not reality. She thought she would enjoy staying home with our son when he was a baby. The reality was she ended up job hunting after less than a year.

We're both happy I got a vasectomy after our second.
There are a lot of folks making this same argument. I studied evolutionary biology in University and can say confidently that you are on a lot shakier ground than you think.

There is not necessarily an innate drive to make a traditional family. Sex, sure. Most people have a sex drive but what happens afterword need not be familial bliss, or even sticking around to raise the child at all. In fact there a lot of very successful strategies in nature to offload that work to the other parent or even fool unrelated adoptive parents.
As in take the outstanding money supply and convert it, at prevailing rates, to U.S. dollars and look at that statistic over time. It’s a crappy metric, but it is useful in limited situations, e.g. when pricing rate or FX swaps.

Both market cap and money supply are metrics that sum across the set. In America we can just count dollars, because our unit of account is our currency. For countries with FX sensitivities, however, that sum is less meaningful in domestic currency than as a hard currency value.
https://what3words.com = 3 words that map to specific GPS location anywhere in the world is intended to solve for this.
Is the dark net really that  bad
I could have sworn I've heard this story before in Germany. It didn't work out:

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/linux-pioneer-munich-po...
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Would you like some coffee latte with milk and cappuccino with foam with your chai tea latte order :-P
The added strain to the arms will probably mess you up...
Interesting site!
Not an ideological drive, i.e. not driven primarily by ideology. Driven more by a primitive will for my physicality to survive beyond my physical lifetime.
Or "How do you pronounce 'scone'?"
The Stick Is an Unsung Hero of Human Evolution
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Was a fun chat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdANNc6sLI
Trek, Tome, and Ford – are B2V and C-V2X the future of safer cycling?
That argument could be made for any intellectual property and it would be wrong.
That's begging the question. The up/down ratios they choose determine what workloads are possible/typical. More upstream means there would be other workflows enabled.
I think it's quite obvious and doesn't require a "Harvard" study. Community broadband can offer customers something big telecom won't: Reliable, honest, responsive service.
They already "upgrade" web pages to https by default.
> if there's no proof of you taking them and no activity on the blockchain for the wallet, there's not much that can be done

This attitude is the principal reason Bitcoin, specifically, is probably fucked.
U.S. Navy Lasers Offer a Glimpse of the Future (2014)
Aren't there also some words in Kanji that don't have Chinese origins? Like 硝子 for example?
This argument is also true of any equity that doesn't pay out dividends.

Most people wouldn't consider the stock market to be a zero-sum game. Maybe in the ultimate long-term, but not within a time frame that's meaningful for anyone.
Honestly though, doesn't this also apply to a lot of people's choice of stocks?
>Marcus Aurelius and other Stoics did similar techniques ~2000 years ago.

And the Bodhisattvas, and the Hare Krishnas, and the Dalais, and the Sōtō...

It's all just a realization of the same truth.
The Google Brain Team – Looking Back on 2017 (Part 2)
Mental Math Strategies-Vedic Math for Homeschool
Dust Off Those AM Radios, There’s Something Good On
Github does not
Why?

DefinitelynotfakedmitrygrLOL@gmail.com password: fucktheDHS

Log in works. Chromebook shows apps. Emails. Etc.
It makes a reasonable assumption that everyone with access has similar usage profile, at the level of country averages
These are great points. My wife and I realized being isolated in the city we moved to for work was a big component of our unhappiness. The "go it alone" nature of American society is not how humans were built to live.
I really notice it on FF.
Would it be possible to shut out such community ISPs by not peering with them? Is that something that might cause concern?
The cities I listed definitely have a huge influence over the state as a whole, and if they didn't exist, they would red states. More rural areas tend to vote Republican and cities tend to vote Democrat. There's nothing really new in that statement. You can see it http://brilliantmaps.com/2016-county-election-map/
Is that ideological or biological?
> Also, I thought animals that reproduce sexually have a desire to have sex, and then kids end up happening as a result.

For animals where the young are independent from birth, a desire for sex is sufficient to have offspring that are not only born but survive to reproduce themselves.

Mammals are mostly much more high maintenance than that, and human young are unusually high maintenance even among mammals, because they are born relatively physically undeveloped, largely to accommodate giant brains. Humanity, therefore, would not have survived to be here today if humans weren't generally genetically programmed to seek not only to have sex but to want to engage in child rearing.
Great points! There's also something about the isolation most modern adults feel. Look around at all primitive humans and apes, not a lot of singles and couples raising children. Think it would be a lot easier if it was less "you vs the world, oh and raise these kids" feeling to it.
I've had two thoughts on having kids. Full disclosure: I had a vasectomy, which is important because I've come to learn this is a deal breaker for many women. That said, here they are: 1) I would love to have kids so I have someone to pass on the lessons and knowledge I have learned in life, and to contribute to a better tomorrow for the world. Not to mention someone to talk to in old age. However, 2) I really don't want kids. They're expensive, fraught with liability, uncertainty, costs, and there's zero assurance things will turn out well. Having children seems to be a tremendous leap of faith in yourself, and the future, and I just don't have that much faith in either.
Super fun article. I also like to see a "real" implementation of crazy ideas like this.

Can anyone confirm if the Microsoft DNS servers default to caching an unlimited amount of data? The article claims "Unlimited??" as the default for these systems. Eyeballing the pie chart looks like 20% of the servers are running Microsoft, which could provide quite a lot of storage.
In modern systems money can be created by banks lending money. That's an interesting property as money creation is tied to the course of the economy. However, this can lead to inflation if the amount of money created actually exceeds the growth in economic activity.

In the gold standard model where the amount of money is completely uncorrelated with economic activity, you have inherent deflation. Deflation is a serious threat, as it pushed people to hold onto their currency (as the real value automatically rises) instead of spending or investing it.

Bitcoin is really a digital gold standard. There is no way that a gold standard currency can support a growing economy efficiently.
Everyone can do better. It's impossible to research every story from first principles of physics.
> Who cares about fairness and compassion...

(Potential) immigrants care. Attracting skilled immigrants is not just US vs. China (which doesn't really play the game); it's US vs. China vs. Canada vs. Germany vs. ...
I don't mean to offend but what is the difference to you that the child is genetically yours? why not adopt?
Living in a border state, I always hated getting a Canadian quarter as change when I was younger. Plenty of vending machines and arcade games rejected them, so I was left with a useless coin.
I do not understand this. I get that for Meltdown, but Spectre affects almost all processors available. What grounds do they have for litigation?
2017 year in review – Gnome
To strengthen your point. This is ultimately my problem with any statistically based thing. If parenthood was deterministic, then it would be easy.

So, is it possible that some folks are "fully prepared" for parenthood? Almost certainly. I'd expect that the numbers work out such that people like this do exist. Parents that were fully ready for the children they got.

However, this is like expecting someone can know exactly how to play poker, following the rules on when to bet and when not to, and then getting shocked to see that you still don't win every game. Statistically, you will lose games. Best you can do is have the game setup so that the losses are small and the wins are leveraged.
Blaming this on shipping and billing forms, as the headline and the article text suggests, is missing the forest for the trees. The deeper issue at play is developer and business naïveté; trying to transplant knowledge and assumptions that work fine elsewhere into a particular market where different conditions exist.

It's sometimes easy to assume that if something works in sunny California, it will be applicable in Michigan, or Germany, or anywhere on the globe, and for large fractions of the globe this breaks down under scrutiny. After all, one of the attractions of doing stuff "online" is to not be bound by physical constraints, but activities like logistics clearly involves moving around physical goods, and commerce is all about markets, so what works on one market may fail miserably in a second. Even old-hat brick-and-mortar companies make these mistakes, even if they don't skimp on a local consultant.

Anyone who's actually engaged in post or logistics in areas with limited government-maintained addressing knows that communication is essential, delivery places tend to be negotiated on the fly, and knowing how to get to the destination is more important than where the destination is on a globe. Newfangled coordinate-encoding systems don't solve this: intelligence and know-how on the ground does.

Make no mistake, few of the companies with these problems value these markets. If they valued these markets, they would've figured this out.
My impression (as a heritage speaker) is that cha's usage has simply broadened a bit, in the same way that American English has herbal teas and fruit teas. These also don't contain any tea, and have a different term, tisane. But both cha and tea still primarily refer to, well, tea leaves.
> Knight, who favors the shouty, super-caffeinated tone of a spin-class instructor, calls herself a “bestselling anti-guru.” She is particularly proud of the best-selling part, and it’s easy to see why her approach appeals. The phrase there is nothing wrong with you takes up two full pages of her first chapter.

...

> Then the book became a best-selling sensation. Brinkmann now lives the life of a successful European public intellectual, appearing on TV and radio and travelling the world to lecture “on the big questions of modern life.”

...

I agree with the sentiment of the article. I find it interesting from a meta-analytical perspective, too. As the above quotations demonstrate, even when aware of the sinister, deep nature of the hamster wheel, the author perpetuates their own forebodings. The pattern is being unable to see value or usefulness without highlighting the material end; do we want to stoke the fires to encourage more of the same under a different brand?

There's some reference to the Stoics, aye. That's a good place to start. I'd suggest this book: The Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (https://www.amazon.ca/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic/dp/01953...)

One of the secrets the Stoics have uncovered, I believe, is to practice will-power so that we can identify and resist craving. Simply saying "stop it", or "re-think the system" undermines the reality that billions upon billions of dollars and our smartest minds are, at this very second, applying our most advanced technologies to further expand this soul-less, insatiable machine which we've created.
I agree that the would already should have had a lingua franca, but I must say that it English is far from the best candidate. The language is huge, and the grammar is full of irregularities. Pronunciation must be learnt case by case (why are "women" pronounced "wee-men"?).

(also recall this cute poem: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/english-lesson.htm... )
Having kids (a boy and a girl, 9- and 8-years old respectively, both adopted) changed my life in a profound way. I made me much more materialistic (as in providing for my family), more interested in day-to-day life than the myriad artistic and intellectual pursuits of my younger self.

Today I cannot imagine my life without my kids, but I also know that once they start their own adult lives and their own journeys, my life will stop revolving around them, and we will get back the freedom that we sometimes miss so dearly today. As much as I enjoy my kids, a part of me can't wait for this chapter to be over.
Does anyone here know if there is a way to opt-out of being in the Catalist dataset?
How South African music industry shut down an independent online music platform
256 representatives just voted to reauthorize and expand NSA spying
Depends on the specifics. What did you do?
I’m a native (simplified) Chinese speaker and I found it interesting to see the growth of meanings of tea, from originally a kind of bitter vegetable (荼, as 艹 for vegetable-related, 余 from 涂 for muds), to brewed drinks. For instance if you order a cup of 果茶 (lit. fruit tea), you will end up having a cup of hot water with sugar and cut apple pieces and more. The meaning of the “brewed drink” is IMO really pervasive.
If you have access to the battery then you have access to the flash chip as well.
Using a right clamp (sop8 usually) you can reflash the thing in a matter of seconds (I did).
Are Yorkshire puddings bread? I've never thought of them as such.
Complain about your job or management, but acknowledge each time that you have chosen it. Complain about Facebook, but acknowl edge each time you sign up voluntary ...

No one sane expect smokers sick with cancer to acknowledge they smoked each time they want talk about cancer. For christ sake, seriously.

And I don't even think that having children is like sharing needles. There we are getting into category where you imply that having children is somehow morally bad (or is it having children while not being 100% happy about every aspect of child raising? )
Reverse-engineered Mersenne Twister?
They would have to get permission from the launching country, and that launch country would be obligated by the Outer Space Treaty to impose limits on contamination.
There is a moral answer to that question and there is a primal answer to that question. Several, in fact.
We already use high voltage for power transmission. Step up transformers at the power plant bring the voltage up to 230kV for transmission and step down transformers within the city bring the voltage down to normal.

My guess for the frequency, is that it is a harder conversion to perform with acceptable loss. Compatibility reasons doesn't allow for just bumping it up. Also let's not forget that AC frequency actually comes from the revolutions per second the power generator does, so there may be some other physical limiting factors here.

Last, some underground high power transmission lines are actually emerged into oil, to keep them cool.
I saw my cousin and my aunt both go through fertility problems. My aunt was about your age when they adopted a little girl, it was a very happy story and the daughter just left home for college this year. My cousin and her husband fought hard to conceive, spending anguish and money to make it happen. Even the suggestion that they should adopt was hurtful to them. They were completely closed to the idea.
After years of pain they finally reversed their opinion on adoption and adopted a little boy 3 years ago and it has meant the world to them.

I haven't personally had to go through this luckily and I know adoption isn't the easiest either but if being a parent is something someone wants, it's worth fighting to make sure no child is left without a good home. I'm not to say you should do one thing or the other, just something to consider, much love.
The number negative-one rule in security is defense-in-depth. Even when you have a layer where a breach is considered catastrophic (physical access, behind the firewall...), you still add whatever measures you can to mitigate the potential impact.
Frisch–Waugh–Lovell theorem and intuition for multiple regression
"Involuntarily Childless" is a term I'd apply to people who can't have children for medical reasons and not people who arranged their lives such that they were unlikely to have children.
How Russia Says It Swatted Down a Drone Swarm in Syria
Most broadband providers work with overbooking / contention ratios, so if you sell 100/100mbit you buy 20:1 to 50:1 less from the upstream provider. Overbooking ratios for consumer internet can be between for example 20:1 to 50:1. That means for 20mbit of bandwith to consumers you buy 1 mbit of bandwidth from a upstream provider.

Buying one megabit of uplink at current market rate is typically less than a dollar from upstream providers.

Contention ratio of Uk broadband.
https://web.archive.org/web/20070930041720/http://www.ofcom....

You can buy commercial Internet uplink and link up your neighbours for cheaper than broadband ratios. Digging fibre in the ground is fairly expensive but gives more stable connection and most bandwidth. A cheaper route is to go Wifi mesh networking but on normal wifi access points one radio per access point you get halving of bandwidth for each mesh hop. If you go open source mesh with 3 radios per AP you can get better bandwidth.

Nasa study of Mesh networks. Mesh hops vs bandwith
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/201400...
Thanks. Hopefully for the arms at least, the sensors can be some moved around.

Even with "standard" sizes like that, I always need to get clothes tailored as the arms and legs are still too long. :)

Open Sourcing drivers/SDK wise: If you need someone to bounce ideas off of or just discuss things, you're welcome to ping me (justin@postgresql.org). Happy to sign reasonable NDA (etc) if needed.
> That's begging the question. The up/down ratios they choose determine what workloads are possible/typical. More upstream means there would be other workflows enabled.

Not really, because the options exist at different tiers. If you have 5/1, 10/3, 25/5, and 100/20 as options, and you notice that people choose 10/3 and saturate their download but only use a third of their upload capacity, then turning that into a symmetric system would result in them having to pay more for the same usage.

On the other hand, if you noticed that people were choosing the 100/20 but only peaking at 15 down and 15 up, then yes, it would be clear that customers would prefer a symmetric system.

As it stands, P2P is a pretty rare use case for residential broadband, even when the capacity exists. Access to symmetric speeds is unlikely to increase P2P usage, because those aren't the main blockers.
Keep in mind that 7 months (really, the first year) is a black hole. You're not going to get much sleep, you're going to get sick, and your social life is going to suffer. It's just how it is (at least, how it was for my wife and I). But, sometime around the one year mark, things get MUCH easier. I don't look back on the first year fondly, but I'm happy I put the work in then, because the payoff is incredible.

Before you make any judgments about more kids, wait a year. I think your opinion might change.
https://github.com/mikeanthonywild/hacker-news-for-x

https://github.com/mattzeunert/Hacker-News-For-X
Kimcoin Parody ICO
I wasn't a huge fan. It was more about his life and less about his ideas.

If you want a little bit of both, I highly recommend Seife's Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes or Gleick's The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood.
Spectroscopy.
Great points. We live 1000 miles from family and it has made it much more difficult on us
German Engineering Yields New Warship That Isn’t Fit for Sea
Interesting. Can anyone take this course or Stanford students only?
I want to play too! Here is my prediction for 2018:

Just as 2015 was the year of the altcoins, and 2017 was the year of the tokens (why mess with a software project when anyone can create an ERC-type token effortlessly, plus there's no mining so you can sell every last bit of it day one), 2018 will be the year of the forkcoins. Things like Ethereum Classic and Bitcoin Cash are just too lucrative to pass by.

Expect to see Ethereum Black, Bitcoin Plus and Litecoin Gold. Each with a subtle change from the parent in block times, hard caps or other parameters. More than one will also try to steal old unspent UTXOs (including Satoshi's) for the developers themselves.

Every improvement to the underlying protocol will see a lot of manufactured dissent to lay the groundwork for a fork, even regarding opt-in features (such as segwit and p2sh).

Eagerly awaiting being declared a fool in 2019!