skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but we're already seeing the ugly side of the capitalist choice already - machines making decisions that we proles can't argue with. Look at Google, Amazon, Microsoft. If their automated systems say X, it doesn't matter if X is true, neutral or false. X is a fact and that's that.

Oh and if you quit using their services and then try to later, they will collect. But yeah, this is the "bad" side of capitalism - you not only will be automated out of a job, but will have decisions automated. And seriously - of course they will be decided against your favor. The capitalists didn't get in their place by loosing money.

And yet, I get downmodded for talking communism. It's about time someone talks of different economic theory. We've gone down long enough of "trickle down", and it doesn't work - or it works beyond the elite's dreams.
Simak was a terrible predictor (if "prediction" is even what he was trying to do, vs just writing science fantasy), but his "pastoral scifi" is such a treat to read even today.

It's possible that he was predicting, and that those ideas were common at that time - Clarke's Childhood's End came out just one year after City (1953) and also features personal flying transport and lots of rural life (even though cities still exist).
Could this be Coase Theorem in effect? As transaction costs/restrictions go up, the market also becomes increasingly inefficient?
Yup.

ticalc.org was great too. Build your own serial transfer cable... Build external storage..
>> I can choose to leave my phone, or buy a wifi only device, or take the cell modem out.

In some countries perhaps. In China, you need your phone for everything. Paying for stuff, getting a taxi, food, etc. Everything tied to a phone.
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> Signal has built a simple, seamless, and beautiful messaging platform

I admire Signal for its security, and Mr. Marlinspike et al. have contributed much to the field but seamless and beautiful are not words I'd use to describe Signal.

- Their desktop "app" is but an Electron app that feels native nowhere and is built from their old Chrome plugin

- The app requires my phone to be on and connected (I am aware of why this is).

- Their iPad app is non-existent and if ever released (no indication I can find that it is even planned) it would likely have the same requirement to keep my phone on and connected.

- It doesn't appear possible to search conversations.

- If I transfer to a new device, all my messages are gone unless I restore from a backup.

To give an alternative secure messenger that has less of these problems, I've been investigating Wire. It has some of the same drawbacks vs Telegram but lacks the primary flaw of Signal's design: the dependence on my phone.

But both Wire and Signal have one problem that I can't easily work around: No one I know uses them. No one I know wants to use them, because the user experience and convenience of the less secure messengers outweigh the decreased security.
Fly on one of the new 747-8i planes (I think only Lufthansa and Korean fly them). They are incredible. Quiet, comfortable, modern. It's a shame that nobody is buying them.
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My wife wen't out first to shovel this morning and she's 54 :-).
Did you do warmups before shoveling snow?

I can't imagine going outside and doing that in cold weather with cold muscles.
Really well written article! And a lot of things I've never heard of.

While keto is mentioned, I do think that another diet deserves a mention here: WFPB (whole food plant based).

In the book, How Not To Die, Dr Greger bring together the science that underpins this diet. Some one switching to this from a standard american diet can expect to add some healthy years to their lives, based on sci evidence.
I got to agree with brabel. The Ukranian invasion did not come out of the blue. If you think that, then you simply have not paid attention to politics and history.

Crimea was Russian originally not Ukrainian. Of course they stole it from somebody else before that.

The Ukraine has a long history with Russia, and when the Soviet Union split up the west agreed to not try to get the Ukraine into NATO, EU or other western organizations. Russia sees the Ukraine as a buffer state and don't want the west on their doorstep.

The west broke all those promises it had given Russia. Naturally they are pissed from feeling ignored. Russia is a bit childish, but it is simple. They just want to feel respected. That is all we got to give them. When they don't feel respected. They start acting like dicks. Sure it is not fair or warranted, but we could totally avoided this if we had been smarter.
I wonder if there is data on this about snow sports, it seems like it should be common too. Skiing meets most of the same criteria - extreme cold, surprisingly exhausting, high altitude/low oxygen and often getting dehydrated. It is more of a sustained aerobic exercise vs. bursts of exertion though.
>And what currency should I get my salary in?

The same currency that you must use to keep away the taxman, and that can always be used to settle debts.
If I still lived in Indiana, for sure I'd buy a snow blower. But I'm not taking up space in my garage for something I'll use once a year at most in the Seattle area. So I keep a snow shovel around, make sure to stay in good shape, and remind myself that going all out versus shoveling at a sustainable rate will probably at most make ten minutes worth of difference.
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I'm with you! I'd love a smartphone that has a great camera, access to map & weather info and nothing more!
Agreed, time limits restricted to Guided Access is only a partial (and depending on the user - faulty) solution. User accounts with restrictions and general time limits/operating hours like Amazon Fire devices (but without the frustrating UX) would be awesome.
The alt right did not do him any favors as it probably made it harder for him to understand what he did wrong. Of course he had to be fired as how could you have him on a team trying to work together.

As a manager you have to think about everyone in the team.
Indeed /proc/cpuinfo is telling you only the capabilities of the hardware, that's what it's for.
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My understanding is that this is a very inaccurate portrayal of what happened, and that makes me doubt that you gave the memo a fair chance. He published an internal memo, but not necessarily a "secret" one. Someone else published it externally -- not him -- and he only went on a media "crusade" after being very publicly fired.
Um, guilt by association much?
Yeah, you're right. They mostly are a thing now, at least in bigger stores (as in chains). But I do have a feeling Germany is one of the last countries where there's loads of stores where cash is the only accepted option.
Despite being a techie, I never got a smartphone, never made a facebook account (or any other social media account). The downsides seemed just as abundant and clear to me all those years ago as they do today (despite the benefits). There is plenty of time to be "connected" while I sit in front of my computer - which is already the majority of my day. I relish having time to myself, with my thoughts, without being barraged by all sorts of (mostly useless) information. It just doesn't seem appealing at all to be constantly in contact with everyone, all the time. Read a book, write a letter, sit down with a newspaper.
So will the wealthy be disproportionately affected by issues with concentration? That seems to be the implication of your statement. However, I'm also unconvinced that the ability to concentrate (above an average level, at least) has historically been an important component of accumulating wealth.
This got me thinking that I don't really know what products Microsoft even sells anymore. I know they have Windows and Office of course, but do they even still sell Windows, or is it all ad-driven revenue now? And of course they have bing.com, which is ad-driven. And Xbox, though that itself has gone through a similiar series of confusing names (Xbox 360 is Xbox 2 and Xbox One is Xbox 3?!).

I found https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Live, which has a list of various online products that have been renamed or killed off. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_Shopping is the most ridiculous one, which has gone through every possible name except for "MSDOS Shopping". I had no idea it even existed.
The article at https://www.theverge.com/2018/1/8/16863912/senate-ed-markey-... has a more informative writeup but I linked to the source tweet from Senator Ed Markey.
There are a number of apps which provide a mode with features like that, including some first-party ones from handset manufacturers like Samsung's Kids Mode.
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It's starting to look like its the year silicon valley gets sued.
So if I move the phone up and down in front of my face it will count pushups?
Quite literally the first result in Google: http://www.dummies.com/education/math/pre-algebra/the-three-...
I know so many men over 50 through the crossfit community that are in killer shape. Age has absolutely nothing to do with it. The fact of the matter is that most individuals are completely out of shape. Maximum effort should not be a seasonal chore around the house.
Except the Big Five has been debunked as being too lexical for biological differentiation.

Basically its lexical nature introduces perceptual bias that skews any factor analysis for biological structures - i.e. behavior between genders, for example. The way Damore uses it to support his hypothesis wasn't correct.

>And that is what the Big Five represents: a consistent model of how humans reflect individuality using language, no more. There were no considerations of findings in neuroanatomy, neurochemistry, experimental psychology, observations of behavior of people or animals in real situations – none of this was used at the research stage leading to the development of the Big Five. In this sense we can say that the Big Five does not represent the structure of temperament or the structure of biologically based traits, even though lexical perception reflects some elements of it.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3903487/
I doubt nukes are a good idea for a small country, but you need a high threshold for the aggressor, I.e “we know you’ll defeat us in a week if you try, but it will always cost more than you are willing to pay”. A good second strike capability is key. Sadly both Finland and Sweden reduced that capability in the last 20 years (see e.g Sweden’s road airbase System). Defense is only a four now after Crimea - and a proper invasion defense might never exist again. A more reasonable defense than both nukes and a defense against a massive invasion would be a second strike ability through sub launched (conventional) cruise missiles or similar. Something that hurts and also is guaranteed to last a week.
Would you rather have rent control, or just lower rents overall? For the sake of argument. Because that's the thesis: rent control is partially responsible for the out of control rents.
From what I recall above a certain MTOW a type rating is required. So, certainly you need multi-engine category & class, the complex, high-performance, and pressurised-cabin endorsement, and a type rating, and then you could fly your 747, but only VFR :)

Here some related discussion:

https://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/266790-john-travolta-his-70...

https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091129142010A...
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WHO WE'RE LOOKING FOR:

The ideal candidate is an experienced and passionate writer who has lot's of experience writing long form content, product reviews and has an interest in researching topics in order to become a subject matter expert.

Perhaps you have an interest in interior design, art, or artists as this is one of your hobby's or already part of your job?

Here is a specific example of the wall art niche that we'd like to flesh out with additional content such as videos, reviews, infographics and more:

https://www.otomo.co.uk/blogs/news/how-wall-stickers-and-dec...
IMO, there should be automatic sunset provision in every law passed in this country, like the one existed for the Patriotic Act, and reviewed, renewed or expired every 5 or 10 years.
That was it, was too lazy to look it up but the Internet Gods have answered.
Or languages whose strength is in building other languages.
They are UK-headquartered and list on the NASDAQ. Not sure what proportion of employees are Australian and spiritually I would still claim them as Australian. They would also have comfortably been a unicorn-level company before the UK restructure and the listing, with substantial profits.
Just because your company is incorporated in Delaware does not mean its running the show there.
The Lufthansa 747s are likely the more recent 747-8 model
Oh, yes, sorry, I saw that.

But now I was thinking about a mobile app that you could run and get an URL, then your friend could share the image to your URL and you would get the image in your phone.

But I'm just throwing thoughts on the air.
You could also skip buying the "snow shovel" that holds too much snow at a time or is shaped badly for snow removal. You are not power lifting, just clearing an area. Be slow and steady.

Instead of the crap snow shovel buy a grain shovel[1], one of the snow pushers[2], or a Toro Power Shovel[3]. If you live in an area that gets a lot of snow then hire a service.

1) https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/stanley-fatmax-fib...

2) http://www.truevalue.com/product/Polar-Tuff-Snow-Plow-Pusher...

3) https://www.toro.com/en/homeowner/snow-blowers/power-shovel-... my dad had one an it worked well
So... in other words, what you're missing is a punitive tax on vacant property, as an incentive to rent asap - at any price.
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Any if statement could cause this, doesn't have to be feature flags.

An untrained branch predictor could still take the "wrong" path even if none of the code that calls that if statement takes the bad path. That's presumably what happened here, the calling program removed all instances of PREFETCH_EX but the CPU would still sometimes execute that branch, such as on the first run through that function.

This is a lot like the problem of "don't think of a pink elephant". The mere existence of the "evil opcode" in the library means the CPU might execute it under certain circumstances.
OpenStax: https://openstax.org/subjects/math
Somewhat related - when I was in college (2000-2004) a number of my peers applied for and received Food Stamps. We were attending a school that ran about $40,000/yr for room/board/all the necessaries. Very few of them came from familes other than middle/upper-middle/upper class families, but they felt bad asking their parents for even more assistance with school related costs, since most parents were already shelling out for tuition, rent, and other expenses. And since the Food Stamps were accessible, why not apply? The university food generally made every one sick anyway, and the food plans were stupid expensive compared to shopping at Walmart and other low-cost groceries.

It is disgusting how hobbled students are by crushing financial obligations related to, when it comes down to it, the passing on of knowledge from one generation to the next.

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I thought their mission statement was, "organise the world's information and make it accessible" or something like that. Didn't know there was an asterisk–but not Usenet…
Age has quite a bit to do with it. You rarely see acute myocardial infarction in 15 year olds, and you often see it in 80 year olds. There is a continuum of risk, and age plays a role.

Because there are risk factors that are uncorrelated or imperfectly correlated with physical fitness and its outward manifestations, even physically fit individuals cannot escape this.
We didn't breastfeed, so we're already outsiders.

But eye contact? That seems like a very new problem. At that age, all of my children just end up falling asleep while eating most of the time.

I feel like all those dirty looks from nurse and Lactation Consultants being refused could have at least been appended by "you know, you really should at least look at your kid all the time while they're eating".
> Simple reliance on a profit model for housing is never going to adequately meet housing needs.

Can you give something to justify that statement, something more than just a bare assertion? To me, it looks like reliance on something other than the profit motive (that is, rent control) is what's causing the problems here.
Nope, didn't even know this was a thing! That's why the passage I quoted rings so true to me. I lead a sedentary life all year and then one day, with no preparation whatsoever, dive headlong into strenuous exercise in adverse conditions for an hour plus.
This claim is, at best, highly contested: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/plato/#HisSocEarMidLatDia.
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Hence my "presumably." I'd be surprised if that wasn't true, however.
About $500 million profit, with ~$700 million revenue. Still kind of shy, but that profit is pretty astounding!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craigslist
A thing is worth what someone else will give you for it.

You're asking for the core mechanism of wealth creation in technology to be dispelled.

If enough people, over a credible amount of time, say that a company is increasing in value, and if they back each such assertion with a small percentage of that stated value, then eventually said company can be taken to the public who hopefully will agree and put up their money to validate the game.
Only above $250,000 though, right? Is FDIC insurance more or less risky than Treasury debt?
Some violent predatory thugs die. Some go to prison. Some get old and chill out. Some remain violent predatory thugs. They all run through cash pretty quick, though, so when American drug users start buying their drugs from normal nonviolent firms, the violent predatory thugs will be poor.

Since they don't know any reputable trades, some problems with protection rackets etc. will remain for years. No one will be perverse enough to blame those echos of The Drug War on the fact that we finally decided to end it. What, did you think that narcos are somehow representative of Mexican national character? They most certainly are not.
Oh, I felt much the same about a year ago - hence quitting Facebook and any other social media, and drastically cutting down the amount of time I spend using my phone. I think it's probably worse for children who've not had a life without it, but it's definitely a real thing, and takes a while to get anywhere near back where you were before.

I had to make a really conscious effort to not use my phone at times of low attention, and now actually revel in the time I get when I used to get my phone out and just browse stuff (stood in queues, while waiting for anything for any length of time, etc), and enjoy actually daydreaming or thinking about things. I find it a bit sad that this is a novelty!
In humans we have a similar problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_process_theory aka "don't think of a pink elephant"
I don't remember seeing this in the article, but overheating is a problem too. I know enough now to not bother bundling up, but I remember getting quickly overheated when I first moved to a snow area and started shoveling.
Worked at Canva two years ago - what an incredibly bright team! CEO Melanie Perkins is an inspiring visionary. Congratulations on the new valuation!
I’ve used writeroom in the past to get a similar distraction-free writing experience.
A high heart rate can be caused by lactate acid. Basically what happens is that you are using muscles beyond what they can sustain. In particular, beyond what the blood flow to those muscles can provide oxygen for.

You get into anaerobic exercise, even though you are not working particularly hard overall. This results in lactate acid reaching the blood stream.

For some reason, the human body confuses that with CO2 and makes both respiration and heart rate go up to get rid of it. Which doesn't work. But the heart can use lactate as fuel and the situation will soon be normal again.
After tax loss of 3.3 million while having a revenue of 23.5 million Australian Dollars and this company gets this crazy high valuation... Puh it worked for Facebook but they were attracting users like crazy. I don’t know much about canva so maybe someone that knows better can explain to me what makes their product so special?
On the other hand, women who do have heart attacks do not do as well, at least partly because people assume they aren't having one.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-42590013
> But still, it looks like Rust values screen real estate over readabilty, which is a misguided optimization IMHO.

If that were true, I suspect it would look a lot more like ML and a lot less like C.
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lots of folks are against that. Positive discrimination is a thing.
I don't agree that Damore has "openly sympathized" with white supremacist groups. Unless you consider admitting "Grand Wizard" is a pretty cool title to be... "sympathizing". (It's a pretty cool title. Reprehensible humans have that title, but it's a cool title.) The fact that he didn't anticipate how badly this post would be received by the public though... a clear symptom of his presence on the spectrum.

As a fellow member of the spectrum, I can fully see where Damore fits on it. In some ways I agree with his actual points (not what the media has claimed they are), but his presentation was poor, and insensitive to how it would be received. And a good chunk of his memo was just... not good. He never intended it to be public, and it certainly wasn't fit to be (I believe he considered it a work in progress, and was looking for constructive feedback), but someone angry at him decided to make him a public figure overnight by leaking it and ruined his career.

He obviously made some very poor choices on who to associate with afterwards, not realizing the political implications that came with them. He failed to see how free publicity provided by certain parties would associate him with them.
> they are most certainly not easily readable

They would have been easy to understand by folks who were alive at the time they were written when performed on stage. The only unfamiliar words would have been the ones he coined, but most of those were easy cognates from latin. If Shakespeare wrote the same works today then he'd be a terrible writer.
FWIW, my point isn't predicated on why women were able to enter the workforce. I was merely arguing against the claim that informal labor isn't reflected in nominal GDP. See my reply elsethread.

IIRC, I first came across the claim about women disrupting the labor economy in one of Francis Fukuyama's books, probably either "Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity" (1995) or "The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order" (1999). It's been awhile since I read it, however; but I've read many books since then and while I don't know if any other source I've personally read made such a straight-forward claim, I think the contention is largely accepted and, especially more recently, widely acknowledged that women entering the workforce (for w'ever reason) substantially suppressed the nominal wages of men.