skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how is it possible to be intelligent and not believe in climate change.

Ok, let me give it a try. A few years ago I knew nothing about climate science.

My scepticism (not denying) was grounded in the overwhelming focus on feelings, not numbers.

When someone started answer my questions with measurable numbers my scepticism waned.

So I might have been wrong about this but I think it is often a nice heuristic: when people refuse to give you data and insist on either playing your feelings (with pictures of sad animals), appeal to authority (2500 scientists...) or outright calling you a troll then it could be because there was no hard data.
This is the difference between “freedom from” and “freedom to” - two very different concepts of freedom which are disserved by sharing a name.
I agree that Elon's companies do have suspiciously many things to do with Mars habitats.

However, the reliability of the tech we have is severely lacking. To get off Mars, you are going to need a rocket. So then you need to land a rocket on Mars.

Fully fueled.

You also need a backup. We simply do not have that kind of reliability yet, and I don't think we're even close.

Fine, we'll fuel it on Mars. That means a remote robotic mining-facility and rocket-fuel-plant, in nearly no atmosphere, in cold temps, up to 16 light-minutes away (at worst, true). So it's gotta be totally autonomous. And not explode while people are in transit. And it's likely going be on a pole, so that you have easy access to fuelstuffs. Which is boring as all heck compared to Valles Marianas (not a big deal, admittedly)

If we have that tech on Mars, then the economy of Earth is going to look a LOT different. Self-driving cars aren't the half of it.

Mars, in a nutshell, is VERY Hard.
It's an extremely toxic, dangerous material overall. The fear is well-founded in a geopolitically chaotic, variable world.

Not to mention, in this case specifically, they're going to strap it to a rocket and send it to Mars.

Gonna be hard to sell people on the safety of the mission if we're potentially spewing nuclear material over thousands of square miles in the worst case scenario.
Trees grow back faster than you might think. Especially the species and grades that go into papermaking. Nobody is cutting down old-growth forest and putting it into pulp. Unless they are a complete idiot - there's no money in it; it's been a while since I was doing my father's logging invoices, but his margins on spruce and fir or hardwood pulp were razor thin, after accounting to stumpage to the landowner and operating expenses. It was largely a way to get rid of the stuff that needed to be cut, but that he couldn't convince anyone to scale out for veneer or saw logs. A huge part of the pulpwood was also blowdowns, storm damage, and disease or insect culls.
Belgians are one in top of the richest in the world, by averages.

So we just don't spend it as much, as we have excellent cheap health care and in America, it seems you can go broke if one thing happens due to extreme costs -> more spending. That's seems to be my current opinion of reading HN, feel free to correct me

I have this to back me up :https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_financi...

But I'm wondering what the averages would be if we exclude the top 2%. Which probably skew the numbers for the USA ( not sure)
Impact of KPTI on HPC storage performance
Yeah, it's a state... which is an island in the middle of the ocean. Be at least a little realistic with your expectations. Also, their terms do not guarantee 2-day shipping to Hawaii or Alaska.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
A couple of things to note:

1) is who is actually causing the congestion in NYC - its my understanding that the bulk of the congestion is caused by non-NYC residents

2) a large unaddressed component is parking - the large amount of free parking available, especially to non-residents, creates a distorting subsidy in favor of commuting in many areas.

If you want to read a great book on the broader subject, check out Traffic by Tom Vanderbilt http://tomvanderbilt.com/books/traffic/
Please don't post trollish generalizations like this here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Do you really trust Airbus and Boeing with your life when you don't have all the blueprints of their planes?
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Do a lot of people in poverty have $150 in venmo?

They know it is zero sum and they are investing with the expectation of profit, yet the only way they can profit is if someone else loses, so how much empathy should we exercise here? An amount equal to the amount they exercised sounds fair to me.

Had they lost money in a _deceptive_ ponzi I would have pity.
Funnily enough, my all-time favourite weissbier is the Kumulus from Airbrau, the only beer brewed in an airport terminal! It sounds like a gimmick, but it's actually really good.
This is not DevOps. This is more of Sysadmin territory. And Sysadmins have hard jobs. Most places don't require top-notch sysadmins because 80/20. But getting that last 20 as a sysadmin is incredibly difficult.
The problem is that most startups don't contribute anything useful to the world, they are either plays against venture capital or plays in an overflowing entertainment market, with the word "entertainment" defined very liberally. IOW, Google, Facebook, the whole lot are pretty incidental to the world.
> I think you might doubt the amount of true believers out there

If you've experienced a proper run on an illiquid asset, you'll remember that the true believers never stop believing. People just stop lending to them.
Yes, but I think people are getting better at finding ways of working around it. The locomotion problem in VR reminds me of the camera problem in the early days of 3D games. It's hard to imagine now, but when games became 3D nobody knew what was the best thing to do with the camera. Should it be in a corner of every room you walk into so you could watch yourself walk by? Should it follow you? If so, how does it follow you through a door, or when back into a corner. All the conventions that you take for granted in games took a couple years to figure out.
Not that I don't agree... but for a CPA, lawyer, engineer, and many other professions you have to go through years of education and rigorous testing to acquire the titles. We pull down some of the highest salaries in the US, we have incredible responsibility, and our profession requires zero formal education or testing to prove our abilities. It shouldn't be too far fetched to understand why some companies feel the need to vet their candidates.
Why investors and entrepreneurs get excited by managed marketplaces -CarDash YC S17
Why This Intercontinental Quantum-Encrypted Video Hangout Is a Big Deal
One Year After the EPA Removed “Climate Change”
Except that the OP was complaining that some items advertised aren't deliverable to Hawaii at all, not that they are deliverable with delays: "I couldn't get them to send me an xbox controller in Hawaii."

I don't really understand the instinct to jump on people complaining about receiving sub-par service compared to the promise given to them when they signed up. Amazon makes an absurd about of money, they could almost certainly do a better job here.
I think you have to live in big city and have taken public transportation on a daily basis, to understand the frustations, the dalays, the insecurity, the smell, the crowdness, and the freedom reducing of it.
I used to use IETF's network order (big-endian) for everything on disk or over the wire, but I switched to little-endian around 2008. If I ever have to port to a big-endian machine I'll deal with it then. I haven't regretted it yet.
These statements have no relationship to reality. In real New York, the only 3% of households in the lowest income quintile own a car. "The poor" are overwhelmingly reliant on walking, biking, buses, subways, and trains. Car ownership rates are strongly correlated with income. The only income bracket for which the bare majority of households own a car is $500000/year or higher, a group of people who can easily afford to pay a few bucks to drive over a bridge. And still, half of those people are sensible enough to see that they don't need a car in New York.
The problem I have with that is that the delivery time often goes past the week mark. If I'm going to wait over a week to receive the item I might as well just order from somewhere like banggood which also has free shipping and is usually a dollar or 2 cheaper. I don't really care about Amazon pantry or free digital downloads so that incentive doesn't provide any value to me.
The one thing I hate about OneNote is that the internal links are inexcusably weak in that if I change the name of a destination page all links to that page break. Seriously, wtf is with a boneheaded move like that? (Hopefully someone here can tell me they finally fixed that idiotic deal breaker, as OneNote is otherwise so close to perfect in my eyes)
Half the folks don't have a knack for methodical troubleshooting. Doesn't matter whether they are certified, experienced, or not. Some folks don't have the common sense to simply tell someone, "I'll find out later" AND put forth the effort in finding the answer themselves.
Sad. The saiga antelope is such a goofy and cute creature
> I guess what I'm saying is that by allowing a device to upgrade in software to more power-efficient designs, you might claw back some of the efficiency lost by using an FPGA when you consider the entire product's lifetime.

That presumes you put in a big enough FPGA/CPU or whatever fifteen(!) years in advance that has enough resources to handle the increased processing requirements for a future protocol (expensive and wasteful and there's no guarantee that you didn't guess wrong and it's still too small/slow) and that your RF signal path was designed well enough to handle the new signal requirements (expensive and wasteful even if you were prescient enough to guess what future requirements were). And that's on top of the fact that inexpensive electronic devices simply aren't built with components rated to last 15 years.

tl;dr software doesn't change the laws of physics
I suspect that's because pretty much every country/civilization in the past 2,000 years at some point or another has banned prostitution as a matter of law/force.
What? :) There isn't anywhere a keyword "sex" in the app. View the source and do a search.
There is a lot of scope in "almost". The lack of signalfds prevents a number of my programs from working, for example.
> The poor also can't afford to live near work & public transit.

Transit in New York City (and the tristate area as a whole) is very robust -- I seriously doubt most blue collar workers in Manhattan are driving in and parking for work.
Nice, it's always good to interact and exchange ideas!
Some items are much more prone to being counterfeit than others.

If you order a Lego set, you're going to get a Lego set.

But when it comes to industrial stuff, I can't even shop there anymore. Anything labeled as OEM (batteries, auto parts, etc) is a prime candidate for counterfeiting.
Weihenstephaner's hefeweizen is my favorite beer of all times. It's quite difficult to find here in Seattle, but I guess that makes it more special :)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption_in_ancient_Rome

interesting similarity between Japan and ancient Rome, there.
> pair programming with the engineer

This is probably the single best interview session I've ever had. Give-and-take is always good for easing the process, but in one case I had a programmer actually sit down with me at a laptop and pair program our way through an hour task. Still time pressure, I suppose, but it was vastly more natural and informative than any other interview I've done.
Iceland’s tourism boom – and backlash
Cool!

I suspect that this system exists and proliferates because the men with guns also generally enforce a fuzzy minimal standard of honesty and civility in society, leading to some degree of stability and general prosperity, which most people seem to desire.

It’s fascinating to watch what’s happening with digital currency, specifically the degree of market manipulation and social engineering driving people into outright scams.

I think that humans have a general tendency to exploit other humans, when they have the opportunity to do so. Of course, the degree of this exploitation varies widely, dependent on many factors.

One of the big factors affecting the degree of exploitation is how much social connection you have with a given individual — someone is unlikely to sustantially exploit their best friend, for example, (and this is why it’s so shocking and unsettling when it does happen) but clearly more likely to exploit a random internet stranger.

This applies to group identities as well — I’m more likely to treat members of my organization well than random strangers.

National cohesion has a similar effect, where it exists.

It might be interesting to promote social cohesion between economic classes, and pay close attention to the details of any difficulties encountered.
State of programming languages 2018
Clever looks to give teachers and students an easy-to-track progress report
Azure offers free Jupyter notebooks if that’s of interest
Owning stock in public corporations that generate immense value, profit, employment, etc. and hold vast income producing assets on which their valuation is based is not even slightly similar to a Ponzi, pyramid, or crypto scheme.
Pure water boils at 100 ºC, in an environment at standard temperature and pressure, with sufficient vapor bubble nucleation sites.

If you're a cook, you don't really need to know all that, because you either live up in the mountains (at lower pressure) or you don't. You either have hard water (with more dissolved ions) or you don't. And your pots are never scrubbed perfectly clean.

Suppose that in a few centuries, stairs will have to account for different numbers of legs, or wheels, or different foot types, or varying amounts of gravity, or track gauge, or crystal habit, or effect on convection and ventilation, or whether classical Earth-standard humans will ever be expected to use them.
OP here, I just realized the year slug was 2017 and it's clearly 2018. Updated link is here: https://thewebb.blog/thoughts/2018/why-the-job-search-sucks

Thanks for the insightful responses!
I’m unimpressed with the Weihenstephaner Hefeweizen beer.

That said, there is a company in Austin, TX - Live Oak - who makes an incredible Hefeweizen. Every time I go back to Austin, I hunt down this beer and enjoy it with a “Detroiter” pizza from the Via 313 food truck at a bar called Craft Pride.

Now that I live in San Diego, I have an incredible selection of local brew to choose from, but I have yet to find anything that tops that hef.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/383/1062/
Thanks for the reply.

I didn't know what 'core inflation' meant so had to look at the wikipedia page. Assuming that wikipedia is correct, it looks like the fed has used PCE since 2000. Apparently, CPI is mainly used for social security benefits. CPI weighs 'shelter' costs as 40% of total whereas PCE weighs it at 18%. To test out their values, I viewed the 2016 value for DC (where I have a home and mortgage), and it looked relatively accurate. However, my mortgage for that property is less than 18% of my total expenses.

I'm kind of ignorant about monetary policy, so had to google some things. But, I don't follow your statement about the relationship between M2 and inflation. Are you saying that M2 should be directly related to inflation? I would expect that M2 would only have a moderate influence over inflation because prices are based on supply and demand, not how much money there is.

For instance, let's say this year there are 200 coins distributed evenly to 10 people. You produce 10 widgets, and each of the 10 people are willing to pay 10. You make the exchange and get 100 coins, and they're left with 10 each.

The next year someone new shows up and has 20 coins making the total money supply 220. You produce another 10 widgets, but only the new guy wants a widget (the others already have one). He is not willing to pay 10 coins, but you and him agree that he can pay 1 coin. Money supply went up, but prices went down. Then the following year, all 11 people want widgets, but you're way more efficient and are now producing 20. I'd expect prices to stay less than 10 but probably higher than 1 even though the money supply didn't change.

I'm probably wrong about all of this stuff, of course. But, either way, it seems complex and data intensive enough to require a specialist.
I think sneak means Piknik doesn't.
The author forgot rule #0: the design should serve the content, not the other way around.
Regarding what people spend money on, I notice that with clothes. I saw a 1980s Mr. Roger's show yesterday and noticed that a middle-aged man wore a full suit to take his kids to a museum. Today most men don't spend that kind of money on clothes, but we all buy phones and telecom services. Most days I wear cheap jeans and t-shirts, but in another era I'd spend a lot more money on my clothes.

I suspect that advertising will get stronger and stronger pushback. With so many options for entertainment and news delivery, I just don't consume anything that mandates ads. (IE, if the BBC or CNN force me to watch a 30 second ad I just ignore the video, if a website blocks my ad blocker I don't read the site.)
It seems like it's regional, based on replies here. It seems everyone on the west coast gets pretty good delivery times. I'm in a major metro on the east coast, and my experience is shared by a lot of my friends.
Perhaps they mean riding schools as any MSF endorsed riders course will teach you to counter-steer to initiate a turn [0] at higher speeds. It is especially important on a motorcycle due to the forces/speeds involved.

[0]http://www.msf-usa.org/downloads/BRCHandbook.pdf (sec.4, pg.8)
> the site is almost impossible to use (at least on mobile)

> I am entirely unsure what I’m supposed to click on

As a tangent, I wonder if we'll be stuck with "click" being a very common word to use to refer to following links when it makes no sense when in the context of a touch screen. English is littered with words like that, so it's possible it's here to stay, but occasionally (rarely, I admit), it jumps out at me as oddly out of place as it did here, even through it's entirely obvious what was being communicated.
Not using qmail the way you are (incorrectly) assuming.

I am an end user not an email provider.

For example I use qmail to provide "inter-device email" on a local network of devices all belonging to the same user, and not connected to the internet. Not that I love email but these devices are sometimes "locked down" by default and email is one of the few ways to move files between devices without using the internet.

Another example is using qmail on a tap-based layer 2 overlay (not OpenVPN) to provide encrypted "peer-to-peer email". Each peer is running qmail-smtpd bound to a tap device. This was an experiment to prove encrypted email is easy.

qmail running under curvecpserver is another experiment.
Have a look at Risc V [1], in the meantime backed by quite a few biggish companies [2]

[1] https://riscv.org/

[2] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/big-tech-players-risc-v-arc...
I wish Amazon Prime would break itself up into packages instead of raising their rates every 6 months as they throw more and more crap under the umbrella

It annoys me greatly that I'm subsidizing Prime Video when I have zero interest in using it
Big-endian is the canonical form for storage and the wire because back when the Internet was designed most "pro" machines were big-endian: Sparc, old MIPS, old PPC, DEC Alpha, etc. All these are dead or dying now.

It's easy enough to deal with BE files and protocols by just swapping bytes. I'm referring to hardware architectures. Are there still any big-endian chips out there? Does it still make sense to support big-endian chips in new code as long as that code is never intended for embedded or very old systems?
Many evangelicals in the south DO NOT believe that Catholics are Christians
The NYC subway system is a great example of spending on infrastructure over it's history. NYC may not be efficient in terms of spending, but the results tend to be extremely valuable.

Further, it's vastly more expensive to build a road inside a city than in the middle of nowhere. NYC's infrastructure is so extensive it's makes adding more incredibly difficult. That is then compounded by bureaucracy, corruption, and entrenched interests but not more so than most other large city's.
In theory there is a $350 fine for needless honking in New York. In practice this is never enforced, and five years ago the city took down all the "no honking" signs.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/nyregion/new-york-removes-...
When the courier service has switched from Fedex to OnTrac, my previous experience of 2 days or less went to 3 days minimum with the occasional "Whoops we gave it to the wrong person" thrown in for good measure.
When you're more productive, you become more valuable and it requires less of your time to do something. This is pretty basic economics here.

If Mike wants to fund a Mythical Man Month play against efficient workers, I wish him the best of luck. I don't think it will work but I'm interested in the results.
Are you suggesting that we open up a government agency dedicated to the testing of CPU chips, and enforcing strict regulations?

The FAA and its set of safety regulations are written into US law. That's why airplanes are trustworthy and safe: more safe than other countries on the average.

https://www.faa.gov/aircraft/safety/
https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/a...

Or do you think the US just MAGICALLY gets high safety results through sheer determination? There are systems in place, and I think it is reasonable to suggest that we should start building a system for computer-chip processors.

Open Source is one possible proposal. I'm not sure what other proposals exist to ensure that the internals of chips aren't compromised.
Looks like a 2 vs 3 thing:

Python 2.7.14 (default, Jan 6 2018, 14:37:03)
[GCC 5.4.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> dict(**{1:2,3:4})
{1: 2, 3: 4}
>>>

vs

Python 3.4.5 (default, Jan 6 2018, 14:44:12)
[GCC 5.4.0] on linux
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> dict(**{1:2,3:4})
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: keyword arguments must be strings
>>>
I have a hunch that brothels are rarely a family business.. so that might be a reason why there is none. :)