skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No - My claim was narrower than that. In essence, that while we tend to think of the USA as very free market, in fact a huge fraction of the US economy is very much not free market. Enough so that any claim about free markets leading to strength in US economy is at least worth a second look.

At any rate I’m obviously not big articulate in the time I have for here, so I’ll leqve it at that.
Much appreciated. The trope of tabloids publishing more striking truth than "mainstream" from Men in Black is more true than you'd believe...
Hey there. Yes, of course, we love freelancers! Timely (with Memory AI) already works great for a freelancer and we have special pricing for exactly that.

Let me know if you have any questions.
People will “have to learn for the rest of their lives” says Coursera CEO
Oh boy. For supposed rationalists, there's a lot wrong with this sentiment. Biggest issues:

1. Confirmation bias. How many things were discussed on rationalist websites that people were sure were going to be yuge, petered out, and were forgotten? You can't claim victory for rationalists without factoring in the ratio of failed predictions.

2. You can make a strong argument that the fundamentals of bitcoin itself are irrational (power consumption, transaction throughput, etc). Is accurately forecasting the irrationality of others itself rational? Maybe. But given how unreliable people are, feels more like augury than rationality to claim you saw it coming, post facto. Especially when your actual chain of reasoning turned out to be incorrect, despite a correct conclusion.

3. I did mine myself 20 bitcoins in the early days. But then I cashed out when they were $20 a pop and bought and iPad, and was well pleased with myself at the time. Obviously not a great idea in hindsight, but the point is that in order to make a 10000x return requires a strong belief that Bitcoin will actually go that high. Because to reach 10000x you have to resist the strong temptation to cash out at 10x, 100x and 1000x. I would argue that cashing out at 100x IS more rational in most scenarios than holding out for the moon shot (even if that eventually happened.) It could have just as easily crashed back down to zero.
"at this point you'd have to pay me a lot more to come to an office"

So then you're saying that you will work for less to work remote, because you value it as a perk.
Americans Are Staying Home More. That’s Saving Energy
The medical applications are obvious and compelling. On the other hand, let's hope this doesn't usher in a new era of eugenics...

* Edit your genes to be less risky, or face higher insurance premiums!

* Anyone with genes that tend toward criminality must report for genetic "repair."

* All childhood vaccines will come with DNA editing to provide extra resistance to the flu! And as a bonus, genes shown to improve attention and obedience...

So many possible dystopian futures here. This tech will inevitably be abused in some ways, as all are, but let's hope that society can keep it to a minimum.
Some of the technology*. Not all.

As a matter of fact only a few were made in AV1 because the two codec were so different.
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Amtrak is a bit of a special beast. It's a Frankenstein's monster that the government assembled from the corpses of the many independent rail companies that were failing in the mid 20th century.

As for why Amtrak's service is so poor, my personal sense is that Amtrak made a bunch of bad decisions that maximized their bottom line, such as using excessively cushy (and heavy, and low-capacity) rolling stock for the kinds of routes that would be covered by something more like IC service in Europe. In essence, they made a gamble that what rail travelers want is luxury, which translated into 250lb seats with half an acre of leg room and 3" of foam padding, when what they really want is frequent, regular service.

Commuter train systems like Chicago's Metra are much better, but they're unable to extend themselves out to full-fledged intercity service, no matter how successful they might be at it, because Amtrak enjoys a statutory monopoly.
I interpreted his message more as the onus is on us as the adults, together society, to help children (also ourselves) to cope, deal with, face, and process life's many challenges.
This guy is clearly not conservative or liberal, he just seems crazy. However to escort him out seems astonishing and I am OK with discussing it
Libraries frequently have dedicated local history collections, or work with local historical societies, although not always. Generally the mission of public libraries is to provide an actively used collection of resources to serve their community, not to act as a book repository to preserve human knowledge (particularly knowledge that doesn’t circulate).

In our local system, there is one branch that is a designated book repository, and frequently keeps one copy a book that has been culled by all the other branches (and sometimes it is stored offsite, and takes a day or two to retrieve). People generally just have romantic notions about libraries (especially if they don’t really use them, but have strong opinions about what the collections should contain) that aren’t really compatible with serving the local community well.
Not so long ago a high percentage of the Top500 were running SUSE Enterprise Linux.

I'm sure this was because at one point CRAY built one for the US DoD/DoE leveraging AMD Opertons & SUSE, and of course CRAY used to be the big name in supercomputers so I'm sure that influenced other builders choices. Then I recall the US DoD/DoE mandating a Linux OS engineered closer to home, so Red Hat got the nod.

So I wonder what the prevalence of the various distros in supercomputing is now?
What’s the Difference Between Level 2, Level 3, Level 4, and Level 5 Autonomy?
"Abandoned Books" - that actually sounds like a pretty clever book-keeping algorithm for a GC.
We should also be remembering that large number of Russians suffered in the Holocaust, by some accounts more Soviet citizens were killed in the Holocaust than Jews.
California, Colorado governors target electric vehicle sticking point–charging
> It's dangerous to criminalise political tier decisions and actions

Politicians should not be above the law.

On the contrary, the public figures are supposed to be more transparent and held accountable more readily than private citizens.
I feel Buffet and Bezos have the technical capacity and certainly the capital to tackle this issue.

They can't fix the entire HC market, but they can have a great start.
It sounds like the old programming interview questions: "Why are sewer covers round?", etc. They sound like they promote critical thinking, but really they just confuse the applicants. If you want to know how someone thinks, ask them to solve a problem step by step.
I think this year we will see more therapeutic apps that deal with mental illness. I also think, that this is just a simple beginning and that we'll see bigger and better apps, maybe even this one will greatly improve with time.
I think most people who follow Apple already know this and those who don't could obtain sources easily - when sources are provided they're simply downvoted.

The whole thread has developed into Apple fans downvoting everyone who criticises the new approach to MacOS.
My understanding was that Samsung (Exynos) and Huawei (Kirin) do release global models of their phones based on their own SoC for GSM markets.

But they can't overlook the Nth American market where Snapdragon dominates the US with CDMA2000 support.
For those who can't watch. Some games were scored in increments of 5 and he somehow got a score finishing with an 8. Many scores were ridiculous like 650000 for a game that goes in increments of 100 and the second highest video verified score was in the 90k range. Then the fact that all his records were referee verified instead of video verified. The referee is serving a sentence for child rape. Then there is the lie about the videos being taken by the police department and never returned which was proven false by a call to the police department. Then the fact that the record holder had direct access to the Twin Galaxies database and ent3ered his own records though he says he only did it once.
Thanks! Blog post corrected.
I have far more faith that these three companies, more than the government, can improve the catastrophe that is our healthcare system.
So what happens when one of these cars runs over someone?

Tough luck, 5 million dollars to the family?
Ironically I find Ruby code one of the hardest languages to read when I see a random snippet.
That's fair but the only complicit European country in the Five Eyes is the UK (and, well, not for long anymore I suppose). I don't think I'm willing to jump to the conclusion that "if the UK does it then certainly the other european countries must do the same". The UK<->USA relationship is rather unique.

At this point you need to look on a country-by-country basis, I doubt there's a secret EU-level agreement to let the USA spy on EU citizens. For instance I could believe that the Germans might consider it, if only because they have a bit of a blind spot when it comes to international intelligence and diplomacy. That being said industrial espionage would be an obvious drawback.

On the other hand I really don't expect French intelligence to accept such a scheme. French has its own network for international intelligence and is perfectly capable of spying on its own citizens if it wants to. There's simply too much to lose letting the USA in unchecked.

As for the rest of Europe it's also hard to make a simple guess. Some countries like Poland are historically very USA-friendly and might accept something like that. Others on the other hand align much more with Russia nowadays and might be more willing to collaborate with the FSB than the CIA.

So I still don't buy the "european countries let the USA spy on their citizens". It's too much of a leap considered the evidence we have.
I recently learned something interesting - the gas van was apparently invented in the Soviet Union in the late 30s, shortly before the Nazis started using similar execution methods.

Google Translate says "...he was following the instructions of the NKVD Ministry of Defense and that without them it would be impossible to perform so much the number of executions to which the arrested were sentenced by three threes at a time"

See: https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1265324
There is no historic evidence for the jews ever being in egypt.
I think Google implemented one of the recommendations from Innovator’s dilemma. Where you want new ventures to be as independent from the parent company as possible. E.g. earnings of 1mm for parent company might be insignificant, but very desirable for a new product.
CPU Profiling in Production Node.js Applications
Terrorists would quickly know about other cell failures if no attacks ever succeed, so they would already be changing their game. Constantly thwarting attacks would also increase confidence in the effectiveness of these measures, not decrease them. If there was evidence to speak of, we would have seen it by now. The arguments in favour of surveillance are smoke and mirrors.
I think you may be thinking about Effective Altruism conceptually but from a corporate rather than individual angle.
Just do not forget they joined Germany in the invasion of Poland in September 1939. Only because of the termination of Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact by Nazies Soviets were forced to fight them.
Growing up in the US, we used to have questions like this on math exams. The correct answer is something to the effect of "Not enough information to solve this problem". Of course we had practice questions where that was the case before the exam, so it wasn't a surprise or anything... but it was standard practice.
I could be wrong, but if I understand correctly this healthcare company is for their employees only? (At least at first).
The Engineering of the Drinking Bird
Imagined tragically; I miss being young.
Ask HN: Managed Hosting providers in 2018?
We've been using virtual servers to run our WP blog, but i'm looking for a company that specilaizes in wordpress hosting and provides extra elements like, SSL, DNS, CDN etc. Anything to improve the speed worldwide? Any recommendations for solid companies?
Show HN: Server implementation of RTMP 1.0 protocol in Golang #LiveStreaming
Promise theoretical analysis of money
Humint is always more effective than sigint at these efforts. Far too much noise in the former case.
Do you prefer when there is someone to punish? What good does it bring?
Bye bye Material Design
You jealous?

Also, picking a right tool for the job can be a real advantage, which makes it easier to deliver features.

Getting so close to C implementation (in terms of speed) with Pony is actually insane if you look at the number of guarantees Pony gives you. Next time you dereference a NULL pointer please remember that it's impossible in Pony. Oh, and next time you spend a week debugging some hairy locking issue, consider that issue wouldn't happen in Pony at all. EDIT3: removed EDIT1 from here.

Currently, Pony is in direct competition with Go (but uses the other concurrency model) and Erlang/Elixir (but is natively compiled). People and companies frequently choose Go or Erlang, so I don't really understand why they shouldn't choose Pony if their use-case fits.

EDIT2: And here I am getting downvoted... I wonder, is anything I wrote not true?
How's the old scam go? Mail 500 people your promotional flyer claiming Stock A will jump and 500 people a version that says Stock A will plummet. Split the 500 people who got the correct prediction into two groups and repeat with Stock B. Then sell 250 people your third, 100% accurate prediction. You'll have 125 loyal followers to evangelize you.

Sounds awfully familiar.
> Isn't this just for the 900k employees and isn't it just focusing on wearable tech?

I believe it's initially for the employees of those companies. If they can make it work for them, they have a great team (ecommerce, finance, insurance) to back a larger rollout. The announcement says it's about providing healthcare at lower cost with better results, which sounds like a lot more than wearables.
10% seems like a pretty large share for a single locale. Are there any geographic regions that are of a similar size with as large a HN viewership?

Also, the original question seems broad enough to be applicable to people outside of the Bay Area. In essence the OP was asking how to soften the stigma of an adult business background to future investors.
Increase of atmospheric CO2 during deglaciation: coral reef hypothesis
It's a Kobayashi Maru. They're supposed to demonstrate their hacking skills and change the exam score.
> [...] one bitcoin purchased today (for 90 cents, last time I checked) [...] My financial advice is to not buy more than ten [...]

That's a really strange proposition. "It might be worth a lot more than now but don't spend more than 10 bucks on it"?

I imagine, back then buying bitcoin wasn't easy (it's still not) so going through all that hassle for 10 bucks is odd.

I would have expected a recommendation of maybe $100 or even $1000 if one was adventurous.
FWIW we have advice on crossing borders in Umbrella App: https://secfirst.org

or the raw content here
https://github.com/securityfirst/Umbrella_content
Serious question then is, how do we resist? How do we act in the interests of people who often don’t see the need for help, and resent it when offered?
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When Americans arrived in Berlin they were quite horrified. Over 100,000 women in Berlin were systemically raped by Russian soliders [i]. As an American/Englishmen witnessing this and ordered not to intervene created hate and disdain for the Russian forces. The American forces had no concept of what the Russian forces endured -- still not an excuse for rape.
Eventually generals on the western side began forming plans to unite with pow German soldiers and start attacking the Russians -- it was such a secret plan it wasn't even disclosed until 1998. [ii] It is hard to visualize the attitude of the American top brass towards Russia in 1945 but I feel this is a fair representation of Patton: [iii].

[i] http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32529679

[ii]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Unthinkable

[iii] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxAIE9TbGyk
In theory, wouldn't it require someone challenging the government in a court of law?

It sounds like this kind of thing is very common, but because there's no challenge to these crimes the government just carry on as normal.

I know no more about the law than the average person, but surely a large-enough group of people, backed by someone with legal/political pull, could challenge the government?
>"The total weight of 26 sheep and 10 goat is 7,700kg, based on the average weight of each animal," said one Weibo commenter.

Well that's just not true.
> It’s amazing how quickly our Russian allies turned into our Cold War enemies at the end of WWII.

Why? The US were were the last major country to recognise the USSR (in late 1933, just before the USSR joined the LoN), and the USSR's various stated purposes (collectivisation, state atheism, …) were very much polar opposites to the US's.

The alliance was against Nazi Germany, not for anything.
Rolling their own health care company might solve only part of the issue. I think the largest driver of healthcare costs right now is price gouging by providers with their charge masters, needless exams and procedures.
Three large employers, realising that for-profit healthcare is expensive and inefficient, create a non-profit that pools healthcare and is driven by its member's interests.

This is terrible if it works.

Imagine if other employers want to join it. And then even more employers... and what if the scheme becomes so large and covering so much of the population that it ... gasp... looks almost like a government-run non-profit health insurance scheme! You know, like what those Marxists in Europe have.

And where it would it end - soon people would be demanding cheaper drug prices and being able to negotiate prices for drugs! Insane

(In case its not clear, the above is written ironicly. I am all for a well funded government-run health service)
In addition to this, chimps have 48 chromozomes and humans 46.
Any one who is arguing that this is the free market at work doesn't believe that healthcare is a right. You can have access to healthcare, but that doesn't guarantee that you will.
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> Right now Apple is several years ahead of other high end phone manufacturers in CPUs.

I hear this statement a lot... how is this determined?
Facebook also has a search-engine (with a search-bar), and for all we know, 95% of the population may be using it.
I think it's consistent with the rest of the post. The claim is that long-term bitcoin is either going to be worth a shitton, in which case having 10 is enough, or 0, in which case having more than 10 is pointless.

Buying more makes sense if you're planning to sell somewhere between, like if it gets to $10k.
>The other thing is, as a developer there is a strong urge to try to use new tech because 'hot tech' = 'higher pay'.

That's a great point. We developers do often engage in "resume driven development" – often not intentionally, just subconsciously observing that some tech is hot and there's a lot of demand for it. So we look for excuses to use it, which is of course backwards.
Yes sure, an internet free of control and censorship is a nice fantasy. But look at today's internet. It's a giant surveillance machine. And that's not going away on its own, because collecting user data is such good business. So the market will not solve this, quite the opposite, it will only do more of the same if it gets the chance. Regulation is the only thing that can save the internet from itself now.
From what I understand of librdkafka, there's no easy way to disable the internal thread pool it uses.

I'd imagine that the internal thread pool for sending/receiving data from Kafka is as core to librdkafka as the internal thread pool for running actors is to Pony and trying to remove or disable either of them would be a large undertaking.
Each time someone has a "this one book" story I wonder if it wouldn't make sense for libraries to allow people to put a purge alert on books. If it gets removed, you get X days to come fetch it for a small fee.

That of course does not help if the book got transferred somewhere else/stolen/lost/destroyed instead of being intentionally purged, so people nevertheless should create and keep copies. With an 1800s book, even publishing the copy would be legal!
There aren't that many predictions being made on LW though. If you expect this has only come true by chance, there should be a large amount of similar predictions that haven't come true in the LW archives. Are there?
This is also the approach PX4/Ardupilot folks use. It's actually even more elaborate in their case: position loop -> velocity loop -> acceleration/angle loop -> angular rate loop -> motor outputs.
Wasn't he talking about PayPal? (Also money service)
Also talk to your doctor because mood disruptions can be symptoms of non-psychiatric disorders that call for their own specific treatments. If you're depressed because of something like hypothyroidism, hypogonadism, or sleep apnea, skipping the diagnostic process and going straight to psychotherapy is just going to mask the underlying issue.
That last example reminds me of "scalar context" vs "list context" in Perl - especially the note about it being hard to tell exactly what code will run. :)
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When they were first spun off I wondered the same thing until I realised it was Google.
Wow so much negativity in this thread and sarcasm. I for one welcome our self driving overlords!
Think my point is more what would Tim Cook say if he didn't care about the Mac Mini at all going forward? I feel it would be similar to that statement.

It hasn't been updated in 3 years and the phrasing he used didn't mention "future" just "an important part of our product line going forward." which is pretty non-committal IMHO
> How many things were discussed on rationalist websites that people were sure were going to be yuge, petered out, and were forgotten?

This is addressed in the article. The potential upside with Bitcoin was enormous, and so many people had predicted it amongst the rationalist community, that it made sense to make a tiny bet on it. The fact that other tiny bets might not have paid out doesn't really matter.
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Judging by the ads I get on Facebook: a lot.
I was impressed to discover that on macOS, asking it to speak '¯\_(ツ)_/¯' results in it saying "shrug". The exact form from the article without the backslash for the left arm, though, results in it saying "comma" for some (very) strange reason. For example:

say '¯_(ツ)_/¯'
say '¯\_(ツ)_/¯'
I still believe that Facebook could take the niche "garage sale" market from Ebay. My wife used to sell on Craig's List quite a bit but the majority of the activity has moved to Facebook. Facebook could take and process payments, if they can for garage sale items I am not aware of it, quite easily and from there move into third party sales to provide Amazon with some heavy competition. As it stands friends I know are migrating from facebook to instagram to get away from political and weird/shock meme content. It could be something that kept the 35-45 demographic from decaying.

...all anecdotal.
I find it hilarious that this guy outlines his cloak-and-dagger tactics to avoid people tracking down his bike via Strava, and then as an aside he mentions the time his bike actually got nicked was when a drug addict accessed it through an unlocked door. That never happened to Jason Bourne.