skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for asking. I can't say for sure what I hate about it. The grinding ride? It's not fast enough for my desires? The shoulder and sometimes wrist discomfort? The wind slowing me down? (Tail winds are fanTAStic! That really makes it fun.)

Yes I am careful with tire inflation and chain. (However, this morning I had a chain snap for the first time ever, so mayhaps I'm not as careful as I thought... hehe. Only about six months/300 miles on this chain. Had many chains with years and years of use, no problems.)

I have had road bikes but the handlebars were too low so I got sore shoulders. Had a couple old, beautiful Schwinns that had expensive parts with odd sizes, so I never bothered to upgrade the handlebars on those road rides for a better fit.

Current steed is almost decent. I'm probably going to drop some cash soon on taller handlebars. It's an old Walmart "mountain" bike (without shocks) and as parts wore out I've replaced them. By now I could have bought a nice new ride, but this is the first time I've had a bike where so many parts wore out, so I didn't anticipate that.

It is heavier than many rides, but because I'm not climbing hills that's not an issue. I've had heavier, and I've had lighter, with no noticeable difference in enjoyment.

And carrying around a heavy backpack, while it doesn't help, I don't notice much improvement in enjoyment when I am out on a joy ride without the pack.

But as you said I think I really would have a better experience on a $500+ commuter ride? Especially one that's a better fit. I'm 5'11"/155 cm and most everything seems to be made for people just /slightly/ smaller. The frame height seems to be alright, it's the shoulders.

Maybe I'm just fat and lazy. IDK. If I had a tail wind everywhere I'd love it.

Once had an electric motor, and /that/ was pretty fun. Perhaps I ought to get another one.

Am thinking that should my new business take off it'll be time to get a delta trike with a 1000W electric motor. Still requires pedaling, but would be like having a permanent tail wind :-)

Thanks again for asking.
But college costs the same for everyone.

On average, I see more expensive cars in the Bay Area than I do in my home state. I suspect that's because they're proportionally cheaper to someone who can afford to live there.
The blog post is good. I like the focus on listening well and using silence to extract the bits you don't know how to extract.

"If they don’t trust you, they aren’t going to say shit." is great too.

I feel like the blog post is geared towards 1 on 1's. I like 1 on 1's but I feel they're only one part of how feedback can be given.

My original thoughts, which I didn't describe clearly, are more geared towards creating a culture/environment where feedback is given and received in a respectful, mature, productive, and continuous way.
Where could I find your articles?
Managing Director at Hedge Funds. They just show up to collect the money.
It's almost as if growing cities are economic growth multipliers and perhaps even a key part of that whole civilization thing.

Meanwhile over here it's taken as assumed that cities cannot and/or should not grow ever again.
Ancient DNA field reaches 1,000-genome milestone
It's nice that they take a positive approach to management and regulation, but it's too bad they're so strict about who they let in. I believe if you're an EU citizen you have a path to get in and start a business, but if you're American it seems you're not welcome (unless you start with a lot of funding and basically buy your way in).

The Netherlands will let an American come start a business with only (about) 5,000 € and a bit of paperwork, plus another 1,400 in fees. NL isn't making a great effort to attract blockchain businesses, but they do benefit from the generally calm EU regulatory approach to the new technologies.
With passthrough entities they do now...
I participate on HN but only lurk on reddit due to so many upvoted garbage-comments on the latter. I don't much care if reddit posts/comments in futurology are always "woo! yay technology! future!!" and everyone in babyelephantgifs is just celebrating baby elephants all the time, with no dissent.

I do care about endlessly repeated/upvoted noise in comments. Puns instead of topically relevant comments, political sniping completely unrelated to the story, catchphrases from the poster's favorite movies/TV series/games, and basically everything from reddit site:knowyourmeme.com. Yes, I know, smaller subs and content that never makes it to the front page don't suffer in the same way. I do enjoy reading the rust, programming, and AskHistorians subreddits.
I was under the impression that IKEA began as a Swedish company, right? Why would they be owned by Germany?
Sure, we use it in a battery powered device ourselves. Consumption really depends on how you use it, but roughly it will be around 1W for average use. You can limit frequency if you need to.
Between this link and the other one currently on the front page about malicious AI (https://blog.openai.com/preparing-for-malicious-uses-of-ai/), some days it really feels like we're converging on Stross's Accelerando. ;-)

Now we just need to transmit some lobster connectomes into deep space... ;-) [closer than you might think! https://github.com/openworm exists...]
Modern C++ isn't memory safe, either
I'm as much as a copyright hawk as anyone else, because content creators need to eat in order to keep creating great content. However even I see no problem here. There is no contract being signed on the sale which says only the person buying the movie can use all the discs and copies included (I haven't bought one, but I saw a comment here about sometimes DVD/BluRay are in the same package.) The fact that multiple CDs are in the package as well as digital download codes means that Disney is essentially selling you multiple copies for the price of one, and it's up to your discretion what you do with those, whether you are an individual or a company.

The line would be crossed if Redbox was copying the CDs to new media that was not sold to them in the original sale. That's obviously infringement. Also, I assume that if Disney tried to make you sign an agreement when you download the digital version that you do in fact also own and possess the physical copy would violate the first sale doctrine. (I am not a lawyer)

So I see no problem with what they're doing.
>It sounds ridiculous to us

Not sure if calling your own example ridiculous is a good argumentative tactic in short-form debates like this...

>because our murders are by guns

Sure, but a cleavers' main manufactured purpose isn't killing other human beings. The guns involved in mass shootings are made specifically for shooting people en mass.

>If people in china are killing each other with knives, doesn't "smart" knives or knife registry make sense just like a gun registry?

No. Even though the barrier for entry for making guns is getting lower and lower, they'll never ever approach the barrier for entry for making an edged weapon.
On a meta-note, this seems to apply to every aspect of Chinese surveillance/repression. Every time someone here reports that a website is blocked in China, someone else will reply that it works for them.
Is there a calculation to determine a max spin speed of an object? Can an object spin infinitely faster and faster if it had unlimited energy and force spinning it? Is there a name for where centrifugal force is so high that an object rips itself apart? Picturing hand tossing pizza dough as a simple example, but what about massive structures?
Few typos due to using my phone:
venerable should be vulnerable.
5-7g seems very high. What else do you eat?
> Fascinating. It's a shame that it's so hard to get people to pay for quality journalism.

Maybe because it isn't quality journalism. Ultimately, something is worth what people are willing to pay for.

> The world will be a dark place if the only news sources left are blogs by self-proclaimed journalists.

It's just as dark a place with "quality journalism".
> However, there is in fact a strong financial incentive for the young, working generation to switch to a new currency, thereby devaluing all the nominal savings of the old, retired generation.

Huh? They could switch too. I don't see the advantage.

Also, block chain is the perfect tool for governments to track their citizens' spendings.
I think the more telling statistic was a bit further into the article:

"Forty-two percent of people ages 18 to 24 are enrolled in all of higher education, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, but only 29 percent of rural people in that age group are enrolled, compared with nearly 48 percent from cities."
It would be pretty cool if Musk was using Hyperloop as a proving ground for technologies to build Hyperlaunch.
Kinda of a pointless comparison when one of the vehicles compared isn't and never will be commercially available...
Well, that's one way to do it lol. Hurry up Musk!
Certainly is, however you have to look at outgoings too. It's entirely possible a retiree on $50k who owns a 3 bed house in SF is better off than someone on $150k who pays $60k a year in rent for the exact same house.
You are right, I could have done that and probably should have done that.

I have a certain amount of frustration that resulted in me venting rather than contributing. The misuse of the official US poverty stat is not something new. It has been floating around for a while and has been criticized quite a bit -- yet it is still used to put forth misleading arguments out of ignorance most often but not always. Here is a link on this very issue from 2011:

https://www.heritage.org/poverty-and-inequality/report/under...

It is one thing for a misleading statistic to be repeated in tweets, online discussions, comment streams and so on. It is a completely different thing for the misleading stat to be coming from an "authority". They should know better.
I would happily contribute through taxes.
If you aren't going to move it then that probably is a much cheaper option, but moving a pontoon boat with either a trailer or disassembling it will take a lot more work than letting the air out of this floating tent.
I've experienced that kind of shenanigans in Vietnam, but never in Taiwan. What did you buy?
I think the rural aspect is more important than the broad generational aspect. Rural areas have seen a great decline over the last several decades. City people of the same generation have had a different experience.
Yeah but the problem is that in Taiwan, a very popular drink is 珍珠奶茶, bubble milk tea... And you cannot sip the bubbles without a straw!
I'm sure there is more to the story than that.
Not necessarily. College X costs the same for everyone (modulo scholarships and grants), but Chadron State College (in Nebraska), say, probably doesn't cost as much as Stanford.
> Meanwhile over here it's taken as assumed that cities cannot and/or should not grow ever again.

How do you mean?
Hawaii giving away tax payer money is not funding.
Presumably the idea that when a nuclear war happens, only CockroachDB will withstand the failure cases involved.
They give only 'hypersonic speeds' as a metric. That's 4000-8000mph approximately. So not there yet. But don't knock a free 1000mph! Launching to the west means you have to add 1000mph to be standing still, orbit-wise.
It's a great feel good article by Evan Bush, in a publication that usually talks about growing pains more than benefits of growth. I hope this article makes recent transplants feel a little more welcome during the dark cloudy winter.
> Can an object spin infinitely faster and faster if it had unlimited energy and force spinning it?

Nope. Eventually the centrifugal force exceeds inter-molecular forces.

Not quite what you were asking, but related https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Roche_limit
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If it matches your style, https://novoresume.com has good looking templates.
For example, see [1].

At least as practiced at Google, a "blameless postmortem" doesn't mean nobody learns that something they did was partially responsible for an outage. But the focus is on finding out all the things that should have prevented the outage and fixing them. There's no point in blaming anyone, since they probably feel bad enough about it already.

For open source work: you file a bug. You don't call people names. The person who wrote the code is often consulted and may volunteer to fix it, but the focus is on fixing the bug, not blaming people.

[1] https://codeascraft.com/2012/05/22/blameless-postmortems/
Its because the bags are thin useless bags. I was also shocked to see in the UK, US and Australia those useless bags that you use ten (double bag to 20) of to carry a weeks groceries.

When you get proper bags that you pay for they are much better. 25lbs in one bag is no problem even with sharp corners on some items.
sounds like the minority report story, they detained people before doing crimes
Those are two different things. Why are you linking them together?
Informed decisions require evidence-supported proof, if we're ever to move forward.

"Everybody already knows this" is perfectly applicable but ultimately useless. Common sense is a myth.
Sounds heavy
Sure they do. Retiree dividends are mostly taxed at a lower rate than W-2 income. A business sale may be a capital gain instead of income (I'm not sure).

For better or worse, taxes are applied differently to different kinds of income in the US.
> The Crux of the legal argument lies in equating Redbox to a regular end-consumer

No, the crux of the legal argument lies in the doctrine of first sale, which applied to any purchaser of physical goods, not just an “end consumer”.

In fact, the doctrine of first sale serves to prevent restraint of trade through trade practices which reduce purchasers to the role of “end consumer.”
Well since January 1st, they cannot give you a plastic bag for free anymore. That's already a push in the good direction!
I call it 'T-C-L' despite being a programmer, because calling it 'tickle' just sounds stupid to me. 'Sequel' for 'SQL' similarly sounds weird so I just say 'S-Q-L'.

Maybe that's just me.
I would also like to read your articles. Would you be able to link me to them or edit your post and include links to them?
Not only animals, but insects (ants in particular) are in question too:
"Personality in social insects: How does worker personality
determine colony personality?"
http://www.actazool.org/downloadpdf.asp?filetype=pdf&id=1207...
There's so much friction in the payments system. I've gotta stop what I've doing, jump through all these hoops to sign up, and then do it again if I want to cancel. Times every single source I might want to subscribe to.

That's before I even get into the dollars involved.

I subscribe to the Economist print edition (with free digital), and the digital-only NYT and Washington Post. I just don't see myself signing up to the WSJ and the LA Times just to get rid of the paywall the once a month I hit it.

Similarly, I'm not going to subscribe to the Seattle Times (I don't live there anymore, but I like occasionally reading 'local' news from my hometown).

Again, micropayments. If it was 5 cents per article and zero friction, I'd be all over it.
Sure! It is ATECC508A from Microchip and it does a whole lot of things. Please check out the chip description from Microchip for full list of capabilities.
Select parts of Reddit are fine. The frontpage is a shitshow. I avoid it. But some of the quiet out of the way subforums contain a lot of good stuff.
Victor Davis Hanson of Stanford's Hoover Institute has been the leading writer on this topic for years; this is his latest: https://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/california-21st-centur...
> How exactly can a thread correctly die in such a way that frame of method that allocated the reply box on-stack is not cleaned up from it first?

The thread could die incorrectly in that way.

> Why the method even allocated shared data structure on its own stack

Done for efficiency or when it's not desirable to have to check and recover from a failure to allocate such a structure. E.g. DECLARE_WAITQUEUE macro in Linux kernel:

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v4.3/source/include/linux/w...

How blocking is implemented in Linux is that tasks declare wait queue nodes on the stack, register these into a queue, then change themselves to a sleep state and call the scheduler.

> why would anyone consider thread which is actively waiting for something dead and try to reclaim its stack?

What reclaims the stack isn't that "anyone"; it's garbage collection. It's plausible like this. Suppose the messaging API is responsible for dequeuing the waiter. The messaging API walks the queue, depositing replies into the reply boxes and dequeueing (without caring whether the associated threads are alive or dead).

When it dequeues the dead thread's reply box, that stack then becomes unreachable. Now it is eligible for reclamation.
a strong financial incentive for the young, working
generation to switch to a new currency, thereby devaluing
all the nominal savings of the old, retired generation.

That's not how economics works.

First, who is producing the new supply? How is the new supply being produced? Hopefully by them, and not a 3rd party that exploits the production and sale of this new medium...

The reason proof of work coins have no inherent value, is because there's zero economic demand except from speculators. Coins are generated though software which has a measurable cost, and why would a vendor or nation state expose their real world assets to be traded for a database token produced though this software method?

You can't just tell all the kids to start using seashells or cryptocoins for their money because it would have to equate or surpass the abilities of normal cash.. for both client and vendor.

If anything, one can imagine a nation state issuing a protocol tied to their centralized treasury but that's not too different than using a debit card.
This is a nice project, and very interesting to see how demographics differ in different niches within a profession.

I know that hiring for increased diversity in certain professions is very difficult. In particular this is difficult in professions where the education-to-profession pipeline for qualified individuals is "bottlenecked" from earlier points in peoples' lives. Company initiatives may not be nipping the problem in the bud, but rather are counteracting a problem that has already started earlier.

That is, not only are certain groups underrepresented in some profession, but they are also underrepresented in the population of students and self-learners that are interested in that profession. It is indeed a complex problem which may require "uprooting" of trends that penetrate deep in family traditions, ethnic economic niches, or improving social networks from people that have an educational or an income disadvantage.
I can imagine scenarios where it might. Maybe that area is in a different service region (so they don't dispatch from the city) with a much lower ambulance density. If all the ambulances are busy and have long travel times, it's possible it could take more than an hour for one to free up for a new call.
Not true.

One example of a service that probably _could_ have a web version is Spotify, but they only offer their service via their Electron app.

Apps I care about are VSCode, Atom, Spotify, Slack.
Here's a map of critical access hospitals, which are a pretty good proxy for rural emergency hospitals:

http://www.flexmonitoring.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/CAH...

It doesn't show larger hospitals, so it is hard to directly answer the question about access to emergency care, but it shows that there is quite wide geographic coverage. The map in this article shows that the gaps are just where you would expect, in the extraordinarily rural west:

https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/03/health/hospital-deserts/index...
Yes, that's exactly the feature that I'm thinking of. It's one of the main reasons I don't use Gitlab right now.
dist-tags/release channels are far superior to classic semver pre-releases.

What is the difference between an unstable and a stable version? Testing by users. So as soon as enough users have tested / enough time has passed without issues, an unstable release becomes stable. In the best case nothing about the code needs to change, the release just needs to be promoted to the stable channel / dist-tag. That is pretty common practice for a lot of software and especially packages on npm.

With dist-tags, you can still make the versions meaningful. Between unstable versions, you can still express in semver terms what type of release it is (patch/minor/major). In classic prereleases, that is not possible. There is no semantic relationship expressed between a -alpha.1 and -alpha.2. Was it a bugfix? Does it add a feature? You don't know.

The issue is that npm did not mention in their blog post that 5.7 was released on the unstable `next` channel. The issue is not release channels in general.
What does this mean for the future of OpenAI and what was his motivation for leaving?
It's not that fewer muni bonds are being bought, but that fewer individuals are buying muni bonds:

> What’s disturbing about the data is that the number of investors claiming tax-exempt interest -- the municipal market’s constituency, if you will, is falling, after reaching a peak of almost 6.5 million in 2008.

The likely reason is that muni bonds aren't competitive with ordinary treasury bonds for people in lower tax brackets due to market pressure from investors in high tax brackets. So they make sense for fewer people and rational lower income investors move away from them.
Hmm. So if only 10% of people go to college, you'd expect that the best 10% go, and you'd expect the best 10% to do better than the other 90%. But if 70% of people go to college, well, we don't have 70% "winner" positions available in society, so a bunch of those who go to college have to accept not-so-good outcomes. That makes some sense.
Does it? That's good, I haven't used it recently and it used to be pretty basic.
If the ambulance is ran by the county and there is only one or two and you are 4th in line for pickup it could happen.
I think the idea is that rural high school grads are way more likely to drop out.
Flamewars aren't welcome here. We ban accounts that post like this, so we'd appreciate it if you'd read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and abide by the rules from now on.
I've been reading stories about a corruption case and apparently there's a lot of easy money to be had doing that.
dat true!
ico the video game, uh?
I have no numbers but I suspect that's already happening. I saw several people carry these reusable cups for drinks around last year (it seemed almost like a fad, but I hope it lasts):

https://www.rakuten.com.tw/search/冰霸杯/

Buying a reusable straw seems like the obvious next step.

Many shops also give a 3% or so discount to people who bring their own cup.
Can LLC ownership contain cycles? E.g. A is 50% owned by B which is 25% owned by A? Would a US state or the IRS notice if this happened on a longer obfuscated chain?

I thought that's what the article was going to imply based on the title, but it wasn't : )
Some of it is just screwy. Like...

The average tax rate for the top 2% is higher than for the top 3%. That is as it should be, if you believe in progressive taxation.

It's higher again for the top 1%, and higher again for the top 0.1%.

But then it's lower for the top 0.01%, and lower again for the top 0.001%.

In fact, the average tax rate is lower for the top 0.001% than it is for the top 3%.

In 2015.
People in rural areas have less options to live with their parents while attending a college.

People that live with their parents while going to college save a significant amount of money compared to people that live on their own.

College costs are actually not the same for everyone. It's hard to find two people that have the same degree and paid exactly the same for it. It's easy to find two people eating the same burrito that paid exactly the same for it.